A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
I decided to try and see if I could get Chloe’s hair into pigtails, and after spraying her hair with some water and putting some gel on to help it hold I’m happy to say that I did it!
How cute is that? And this is a great picture to show how different her eyes are from each other. 🙂
One of the cub scout belt loops is for photography. And one of the requirements for earning it is to take at least 10 pictures. So I figured since we were at the zoo, and Ethan like dinosaurs that I could let him take some of the pictures so that he could work towards earning the photography belt loop. So here are some of the pictures from our zoo trip taken by Ethan:
This past summer our local zoo was doing something they called Zoorassic Park, and this was the last weekend they were going to be doing it, so we felt that a trip to the zoo was in order. We didn’t tell the kids where we were going or why, when we got in the car. Ethan was initially mad that we had plans, because he had plans of his own that he wanted to do. But after he saw where we were going and I told him why we had wanted to go there he wasn’t quite so mad any more.
Jeremy didn’t want to get anywhere near the big dino though:
He didn’t care if it was a robotic dino, and not real. He still wouldn’t go anywhere near it.
There was also this cute dinosaur photo-op so we tried to get a picture of all the kids sitting on the dinosaur:
I don’t know why that other little girl is standing there. I guess her dad just saw that even though I was trying to take a picture that there were still a whole bunch of kids on the dinosaur and decided it was ok for her to be standing in my picture. He obviously didn’t realize that all of the other kids on the dinosaur at the time were ALL MINE! 😛
We walked around the zoo and got to see most of the dinosaurs they had scattered throughout. As soon as we mention the zoo the kids always ask if we can get cotton candy. It’s like they think we are going to the zoo just for cotton candy, and seeing the animals doesn’t matter. So when we were about ready to wrap up our visit at the zoo we got some cotton candy to share as we worked our way back to where we had parked the car. And I’m very happy to say that we didn’t lose any of the kids even for a moment. 🙂
Well summer vacation is over and today is the first day of the 2011-2012 school year!!! Kyle took the day off so he could help walk the kids to school, and be here when they got back from their first day. I got up early to make cinnamon rolls for breakfast, unfortunately they took too long to rise and weren’t ready before we had to leave to take Ethan and Tyra to school. Kyle made the kids protein shakes for breakfast while we were waiting for the cinnamon rolls and that ended up being their entire breakfast. Oh well they got to eat the cinnamon rolls as a snack later.
Ethan’s teacher this year is Mrs Quist, and Tyra has Mrs Gustafson. Here they are all ready for their first day back:
Here’s Tyra by her classroom door:
Ethan had been really excited for school to start back up, but as soon as the bell rang, and he had to line up, reality set in and he started being rather sulky:
While the kids were at school, we came home and played for a bit. The little kids ate their cinnamon rolls and Kyle started taking pictures of them since they were being so cute:
Then we went to Costco to get some staples that we had been running low on, and since we had a bit of time after that before the kids got out of school, we decided to stop by the ward garden and check it out.
Remember that picture that I posted back in July when the corn was only a few inches high? Now it’s taller than Jeremy! Check that out. We got to harvest some potatoes and green beans then it was time to get home and go get the big kids from school.
Look at that! He went in sulking and came out with a smile. 🙂 I knew he would have a good day. (Actually I didn’t KNOW I just REALLY hoped he would).
Tyra came out of school with her backpack on her front and this new one on her back. I guess Costco provided new backpacks with some supplies in them for all the kids in 1st through 5th grades. Ethan got one too but his new one was on his back under his old backpack. All in all it was a good day, and the kids seem to like their new classes.
We decided to go shopping for school clothes today. We really didn’t need much, but the boys were both running out of pants that didn’t have holes in them, and Tyra was in need of new shoes. Since the boys are so rough on their pants, and jeans are so stinking expensive we decided to start the trip off by going to Deseret Industries. I’ve NEVER shopped there before so I had no idea what to expect, but we were able to get each of the boys a pair of hole free pants in their size, Tyra got a nice play dress. I love this dress that we found for Dinah:
Cute little Polynesian dress that appears to have been hand made. She just loves it. 🙂
We got something for everybody, including some little jelly sandals for Lydia to grow into. 😉 But the kids were going crazy in that store, wanting everything they laid their eyes or hands on, so Kyle decided to take them out to the car. Since I was alone I decided to check out the clothes in the women’s section and decided to try on a couple of dresses.
I got that dress for $8! Of course, then I had to find an undershirt because the dress alone is really low cut. But I really like it. Kyle likes my hot new dress too, and I really do look better than that, but for some reason my husband makes me feel silly when he is taking pictures of me.
Anyways the rest of our shopping trip was a success, and we got all the things the kids were in need of. We probably also got a few things we didn’t need, but that’s a different story.