Author: Rebecca

The last day of school 2009

Well we have made it through the very first year of school. Ethan has had a great time in kindergarten, and is excited to be a first grader in the fall. Tyra thinks that she gets to start kindergarten next week. And I am wondering where the time has gone. School has never flown by so fast. I always remember the school year lasting forever, and here it is and Ethan’s done with his very first year. I can hardly believe it.

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Here is Ethan with his teacher, Mrs Davis. He really enjoyed having her for a teacher, so he had a good school year. 😉

Dinah’s in a booster seat.

Well we upgraded Dinah from the high chair to the booster seat yesterday. Jeremy has been out of the booster seat for awhile, and Dinah REALLY wanted to sit in a big person chair yesterday. But she couldn’t reach her food, so I whipped out the booster seat. She loves coming to the table for meals now, and she’s just so cute. She’s growing up so fast! We couldn’t talk Jeremy out of ‘his’ chair (which happens to be the chair designated for the booster seat) so we temporarilly set the booster on another chair (I will feel better when it’s on a sturdier chair). And he was mad today when I scooted his chair to the side of the table, since the booster seat needs to be on the end of the table because it can’t be pushed under the sides. But he’ll get used to the new arrangements. 😉

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Storm Door :)

We have talked about buying a storm door for years! We have been to the stores and checked them out and talked about them, and have always just wanted to get one. But we never had the $300 to spend on one. But now that we’ve paid off the credit cards and the mini-van, and now that we have been putting the second income in an account for home improvements we FINALLY had enough money to go buy a storm door! 😀 I’m so excited. It’s so nice to have the front door open to let the sunshine in, but to have the storm door there to keep the kids in the house. And the storm door has a retractable screen. So we can open the window and let some air in, but when we close the window the screen just rolls up at the top so you can’t see it. I love it! Kyle finished installing it last weekend, but he just finished putting the doorbell back on today, so now I consider the project finished. 😉

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FHE #18

Family Temple Trip

Today our family took a trip to visit the Provo Temple. I don’t think I’ve been there since they put Moroni on top (and they did that awhile ago). Jeremy and Dinah have never been to that temple that I can recall. So I thought that we would take a family field trip and go see the temple. We took a picnic dinner, which the kids have been excited about all week. We have been deciding what foods we would take, and we bought some special treats, that we don’t normally buy to include in the picnic feast. I was really excited that we would finally get to use a picnic basket that had belonged to my grandparents that I had inherited, to carry our food to the picnic spot. We had an enjoyable walk around the temple first, and then picked a spot under some trees at a little park across the street from the temple to eat our picnic dinner.

The kids really enjoyed being at the temple, and just loved the idea of a picnic. Jeremy STILL isn’t feeling very well though so he was somewhat clingy, and complaining of his belly hurting. But everyone had a good time.

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