Sweet "sand"

Sammy and Ryan love sand and love to play in the sand box every chance they get. Sammy caries a set of his sand toys around with him, he takes a bath with them sleeps with them, puts his other most favorite toys in his bucket so it can all go were ever he goes. Well on Wednesday Alex needed to make cookies for YW. We keep our Sugar and flour in 5 gallon buckets. She was in a hurry so she did not get the lid on tight. Well Sammy and Ryan started playing around the buckets and discovered the lid was loose.... When I walked down to the kitchen there was a pile of sugar on the floor. They knocked over the bucket and had Sammy's sand toys out digging and playing in the sweetest sand ever. They were having a wonderful time and were very sad tat mommy came and ruined all the fun. They stood there with big crocodile tears as I sweep up and threw away their "sand". This sand tasted yummy if you accidentally got any in your mouth. I have to admit it was funny to see. At least the bucket was less ten a quarter full. By te way sugar sticks to little boys more ten sand.

Hair, Hair, Hair!

Here is two of Alex's I don't think you can see how cute it was for the play both girls love this style. I will have to take another one of it soon.

Alex did a great job in her play she was the main narrator. She had several lines and even a solo. I was so proud of her. The play sold out every night, we even turned people away. Next year the play will be 4 days. We are going to do Charlie and the Chocolate factory I am hoping Emily makes it and has as wonderful of a year as Alex has had. I can hardly believe in three weeks she will have come to an end of her elementary year.

Hair, Hair, Hair!

We have been having a lot of fun with Hair lately. So we thought we would share some pictures.

This is Emily's hair as we weaved ribbon through two inside out French braids (Dutch braids). Then we joined the two braids and curled the ribbon adding a few extra ribbons. I think it turned out beautiful.

Next we did Katie's Hair. We have done several different ways but here is pictures of two. I really need to take some of some of our other ways we have been doing it.

8 little monkeys

This is Ryan's favorite song. He loves to sing this and as you can see he does all the actions.

8 little monkey's swinging in the tree.

Teasing Mr. Alligator "Can't catch me!"

Along comes the alligator quiet as can be and snaps a monkey right out of that tree.

Mothers Day 2010

Mothers day is a day filled with hugs and loves from all your children. A day when they each make you their special gifts. I revived a painted flower pot from one. Lets hope I remember to water it and not let it die. I always have a tough time with that. If it does die I think I will fill it with green plant foam spray painted black, and fill it with silk flowers. I received a picture drawn Brandon in a pop cycle stick frame. He had glued paper harts to the frame. but then he deiced that they covered to much of his picture so he ripped them off before given them to me. David made a heart picture out of string sewn on paper. Alex and Emily wrote me poems that made me laugh. I will share them with you.

MOM ~ by Emily
My mom is spectacular!
She is as beautiful as a rose,
Loving as a cat
and as busy as a bee.
Though sometimes I make her grumpy like a bear.
She is as brilliant as Enstien,
She is as kind as a kitten,
and a humble as a bee.

MY MOM ~ BY ALEX
You're as sweet as chocolate,
You're as kind as a rose,
You're as loving as a chocolate cake,
You're as pretty as a diamond,
You're as beautiful as a sunset,
You're as brave as a knight,
You're as fun as going on vacation,
You're as creative as an artist,
You're as extraordinary space,
You're as caring as a new baby,
You're as patient as a piece of paper,
You're as neat as a brand new house.

I have to say it was a wonderful day. Then the kids got together and made dinner. Everyone got to help cooking something Even if there part was "cooking peaches by opening the bottle and putting them on the table. The best part of being a Mom is the way your children love you and those little moments together. I love being a mom, it gets crazy with 8 kids but oh so worth it. We have had a great weekend working in the yard and getting everything ready for summer. Summer will quickly be here. We have 17 Days left of school.

Easter 2010

We had a wonderful Easter. we spent the day watching General Conference. Then at dinner we talked all about things we learned in conference. Then we had a wonderful Family Home Evening on Jesus and the End of his life. We discussed Thursday night, with the last supper and the atonement. Then his betrayal and mock trial. The Crucifixion of Christ and then on Sunday his Resurrection. The children did the entire lesson. We just keep asking questions and they taught the whole thing. I gave them the scriptures to look up earlier in the day. It was a wonderful lesson and we could feel the spirit of the Lord so strongly.

The Easter bunny did not come on Sunday. We want to keep the spiritual reason for Easter separate from the secular fun. On Monday, the Easter Bunny came. The baskets were hidden throughout the house. The kids had allot of fun looking for them. We wanted to have ad Easter egg hunt out side but it was so cold that we decided to wait a few days. We also got busy with our spring cleaning. We cleaned out the playroom and took a trip to the dumps. I got the carpet cleaned in 4 of the rooms. We have been doing a little bit each day. It will probably take the whole month to get it all done our list has 400 things on it.

I got a new carpet cleaner for my anniversary, it is a Rug Doctor. and it does a wonderful job. I use a little goop on stubborn stains and the carpet looks practically new. The kids go back to school on Monday and I think they will be so glad they hate that it is "SPRING CLEANING BREAK" but I want the whole house to be clean. Tomorrow we tackle the girl's carpet.

At the end if the month we will have Alex's school play. She is one of the narrators in 101 DALMATIANS. She is so excited because this is the first time she has had a leading role. She has done a great job. We are going to give her flowers for doing it she has memorized so many lines and worked real hard. I am glad she got this opportunity.

I keep thinking that in two months we will be having a 6Th grade and kindergarten Graduation. Next year I will have 6 in school. I hope they build a high school I think it would make it very nice to have all my kids at the same school then they would never have to really be alone.

So I have the CUTEST kids.

Ryan has found a new favorite food. Peanut Butter. He will do anything for Peanut Butter. He knows what cupboard it is keep in and will go over to the cupboard take out the jar and bang it on the shelf until he can get the lid to pop off.Then he can eat a handful or two of peanut butter. He even goes around and says "meanut mutter".

Sammy and Katie, Katie asked Sammy "what is your favorite color?" Sammy looked at Katie and asked. "What is your favorite color?" Katie answered, "Pink" So Sammy answered "My favorite color is pink too."

He loves his sister and loves to be like her and do anything for her. He will be very sad come fall when my Katie goes off to school. I guess that will be a day the two of us will cry together.

Katie tries to pick up Sammy so he can reach things on the counter. Brandon and Jason use each other for a step stool. Ryan loves to be Daddy's alarm clock. When daddy is a sleep in bed Ryan will climb on him and began to jump up and down calling "Daddy"

Jason recently got his Daddy's scriptures from when his Daddy turned 8, he absolutely loves them and can't wait to read them.

Sammy can't weight to go to the zoo. He asks us all the time if we can go, we hope to go on Monday. The kids have the day off of school and Eric will take it off of work. We thought it would be a great way to celebrate our anniversary. After all an anniversary is the celebration of the day you became a family. I hope to put up some pics of the kids being cute very soon.