We LOVE playing at Grandma and Grandpa's House!!!

Lazy Summer Days

I miss being able to relax outside in the evenings and sitting in a backyard full of grass, trees, and other green things!! This is why I took the kids and escaped Las Vegas to spend a few weeks at my parents house!

Ninja

While cleaning the toy room, Josh found these foreign objects...He decided they must be Ninja Gloves!

Little People City

Best Investment Ever

The kids love playing with Legos now!

Goodnight

Today was a rough day. Ben was a little off today which means I am a little off which means the family is a little off. I think it is a combination of teething and learning something new. With my babies it seems that when they learn something new they fall a little backward in another area. Ben is learning to crawl and we finally have him scooting backward. Ben's development has been more closely following his adjusted age rather than is actual age. When a baby is born early, the adjusted age is their age from the due date not the birth date. At times I freak out and worry because Ben is 10 1/2 months and not crawling but at the same time I have to remember Ben is his own person and he has done everything in his own time. He is completely different from his brother and sisters and has done all the milestones at different times, even when you factor in his adjusted age. I love Ben and am so thankful that my Heavenly Father trusted me with raising him here on earth.

Friday!

We made it through our first week of daily jobs! Yes, I started it last summer too but I was too tired to keep up with it and be strict about it. The kids have done great at the jobs and try to get through them quickly. The trick is that we have job dots everyday that are different. Each of us have a jar so if we do a job we get the dot in our jar...more dots equals more allowance so there is motivation to do your stuff and not let your sibling get your dots! So far it is working. Today was bathroom day!

Josh LOVES to clean the mirrors.  He kept wiping his hands on the mirror so he could do it again!

Sammy is almost done cleaning the kids bathroom.

While the Girls are Away

Sammy and Andrea went to their friends house today so the boys did a little swimming. Ben loved it as long as he was standing because the water was so cold!! Josh just loves to swim!

Having the pool to himself has some advantages!

Ben was just trying to figure out how to get back in the pool.

Splash!

Homework Joshua Style

Josh has been practicing his name along with his favorite Rescue Bots.

Josh traced his name for school work today.

We also had to trace Boulder, Chase, Heatwave, and Blades.  In case you don't know, those are the name of the Transformers Rescue Bots.

Cleaning

Every morning before the playing begins we have to finish all the jobs on our chart.

Josh was very proud of his bed that he made!

Toy Room Cleaned...check

Ben supervised all the cleaning from the truck.  He loves to sit in this truck and try to drive it!

5K

Our ward (church group) sponsored a 5K today to collect shoes for project sole.  The fee to enter was a pair of tennis shoes.  Sammy did the most as she completed about a 4K, Josh did 1.5K and Andrea did 1K!!!  Andrea probably would have kept going but she got ahead of Ben and me so she stopped at the start/finish line after the first lap and didn't want to keep going.  Sammy loved it so I have a feeling we will be doing the 5K on Pioneer Days that our church sponsors!

Getting ready to head to the school for our 5K!!

First Day of Summer

We spent out first day of summer vacation playing and enjoying freedom from the car!!!