Happenings

It was a beautiful day on Sunday a couple weeks ago (back in April, I've been horrible about blogging) and the kids went outside in our tiny backyard to spend some time reading. I thought this picture of Kate reading with Lindsey was cute. We don't let the kids go play out in the front where the play area is on Sunday because we try to make the Sabbath day a family day. If we were at my parent's house then we let them go outside, but since we live in a neighborhood it's hard to not let Sunday be just like every other day where they play with their friends. So to avoid that we had to just say no playing outside on Sunday. The kids are pretty good about it. We go for drives, go on walks, visit family or friends or chill at home. Then I attempted to get a picture of the kids and that was pretty unsuccessful. ha!

Chelsea likes to pull the baskets out and dump everything out. It's pretty cute. 

Kate had crazy hair or hat day a few weeks ago. She went with the crazy hair look. She even went with me to Walmart with this hairdo later that night. She was concerned that people would laugh at her funny hair. Good thing it's just Walmart and she'd fit in.

The kids love it when Kyle wrestles with them or throws them on the couches. Here they were all getting on top of him and giggling. I was in the other room and had to hurry and get a picture. 

Maddie, our niece on Kyle's side, stopped by for a visit on her way to watch a friends baseball game in Everett. She's going to college in Utah and plays soccer for UVU. She played with the kids and they loved having her around. Preston showed her how he knows where all the states go in the U.S. In this game called "Stack the States" on the iPad you have to put all the states where they go and he can do it. He's really good at puzzles so he just memorized where they go and can do it. He knows most of the names too. When we were eating dinner with Maddie, we had chili over chips, Preston bit off part of a chip then said, "this is the shape of Idaho!" It was hilarious. And it did look like Idaho!

And so it begins! The stage of getting into all my cupboards and drawers. I've already put in a request for kid locks on the cupboards. She keeps getting into the one under the sink and that's where all my cleaning stuff is. Not good. She has fun doing it though.