My Mommy Blog: 2016

Friday, September 9, 2016

Grant's Prayer

Grant just said his bedtime prayer:

I love my family so much. I don't always like them but I do always love them.

😂😂😂😂💗💗💗😂😂😂😂😆💗

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Eliza's 12th birthday is pretty special! The youth of the stake went to the Philadelphia Temple Open House today. What a special opportunity to tour the temple on her 12th birthday! I packed her a fun lunch for the bus ride up, with Happy Birthday stickers on her food. We celebrated yesterday since she was going to be gone all day today. I am so proud of who she is becoming!

Friday, July 1, 2016

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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Trip to The Broce's in NC

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Last week Eliza went to her first YW camp. She had a great time, by the way.

Sadie, Levi, Grant, and I went to Boone, NC to visit my very dear friend, Alisha Broce. She lives in the mountains. The kids loved running around her country yard till late at night with the kids. We stayed two nights. Alisha took us tubing down the river. It was nice with temps in the 80s and a cool, slow moving river to float down. We tied 6 tubes together and floated as a group down the river. It was super fun. I am glad my kids could benefit from Alisha's adventurous nature!

The kids were sad to leave and tried to make plans for more sleepovers with their new friends.

While in Boone, Alisha and I went to lunch at Indian lunch buffet. Then we went to a touristy general store. I did not expect to spend any money. But nostalgia took over when I saw Melody Pops. 😆 I loved them as a kid and I had told my kids about them before. I bought them each one and gave it to them after Family Home Evening tonight.

https://youtu.be/ML7woa5DwJg

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Eliza is in the middle with the turquoise bandana. 😍

Eliza is on the right with the turquoise bandana again in these two. 💕

Ward Time with Bishop Ferguson.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Our Young Trees

We are all pretty excited that the fruit trees I planted last fall are sprouting leaves.

The Granny Smith Apple

Fuji Apple

The Apricot was planted in March and it has a little green sprouting!

We are concerned about the Cherry tree. It was a gift from Raven and it was dug up from her yard and relocated to ours when it was not dormant. I don't know what I am doing so hopefully it survives the trauma.😃 Liezee loves cherries so she is going to try to love it back to health. 😍

Last Day of Preschool

Grant has learned sooo much this year on preschool! Mrs. Jill is amazing! She is moving to UT and we will miss her. Grant learned some sight words and learned how to sound out short words. He memorized nursery rhymes and recited them to the class. He learned math concepts and did lots of cute crafts. It it that is just the beginning! I was able to help out in the preschool this year too. I took care of Mrs. Jill's toddlers, Brinley and Presley. I really love those little ones and will miss them too. Grant made lots of friends! It was a great year!

One of my favorite things...

At the beginning of the year, there were two Grants in the class. Grant learned that he was not the only Grant. They called him "Grant B." He resisted it at first and would tell the teachers that he is just Grant. He soon embraced it. Then he would say that his name is "Grant B dot."

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Pancake Love

This morning Eliza woke up extra early to make pancakes for Sadie so that she could have a good breakfast on the day of her SOL testing. 💗❤️💗❤️😍

Sadie feels so touched by the love Liezee has shown her. She seems more optimistic about the testing. I am so proud of Eliza for being so thoughtful and serving her sister. 💗💕

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Mother's Day 2016

Grant painted a flower pot at preschool. It is decorated with butterflies made from his fingerprints. 🌺🌸

Sadie used her birthday money from Grammy to buy a Fondue set that the neighbor's were selling at their garage sale. She made me chocolate dipped strawberries and bananas! 😋🍓🍌💗🍓

Levi was so excited to give me this coupon book! Right after I looked through it, he said, "I know what you want me to do, Mom! Clean my room!"

I quickly responded, "Yes! That

is right!" He ran upstairs and cleaned his room enthusiastically! It was a Mother's Day miracle! And the best part... Levi insists that I can use each coupon an unlimited number of times!