Thursday, September 29, 2011

Homework

Max doesn't really have "homework" but his teacher has given us packets that we can work on at home. He loves doing them.
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I love every new thing he learns on his own.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

An Apple a Day

Will it keep the doctor away if it's loaded with caramel?
It's that time of year...we had crockpot Taco Soup and caramel apples today. It seemed to fit with the first gloomy, rainy day we've had in while - probably the first of 100 ; )
The bite out of the front of Ryan's apple actually happened yesterday when we were at Safeway. I thought I'd better buy the apple after those cute chompers got into it. And then he gets to have it again.
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Happy faces--soon to be sad faces when BYU lost dismally to U of U.

Friday, September 16, 2011

And so it begins...

Max told me in the car (out of the blue) that he is going to marry "C". This is the bride-to-be.
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She's pretty much the only friend who is a girl that he has, lol. I asked him what he needs to do before he gets married and he said, "be a grown up". Yep, and I added go on a mission and go to college. So this is another one of those reasons blogs are so great. It will be fun to tease him him about this later in life!

Painting Escapades!

There is a website that I've fallen deeply in love with. Pinterest.com is a fun way to get ideas, share ideas and store ideas. I save ideas of fun things to do with the boys along with other things. So, we tried something from that site out the other day. Here we have shaving cream painting. So easy to make (shaving cream and food coloring in a muffin tin). I mixed colors so they had variety and it took me about 2 minutes. The clean up was easy too!
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My boys also love finger paints and water colors. It's fun to see their imaginations at work.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

B is for Backwards

This week was letter "B" at Max's preschool. He took a bumble bee book for show and tell (show and tell corresponds with the letter of the week) and he dressed up for backwards day.

When I told him it was backwards day, he didn't want to dress that way. I tried to tell him it would be fun, funny, etc., but he didn't want to. So I tried another method. I had daddy come in with his clothes on backwards. That's all it took. And of course little brother wanted to join in the fun.

Check out those letter B glasses. And the new backpack that didn't come in time for the first day of school pictures. Does that not scream Epperson boy?
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Kris Kross will make you jump, jump!
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Me too, me too!
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Bwahahahahaha!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Last Camping Trip of the Summer--Westport Beach

We camped at Twin Harbors State Park in Westport and we loved it!
Even when the beach was a bit windy, we enjoyed the warm sand!
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Ryan wasn't too keen on being buried!
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It was beautiful. I love the beach! And it's even more enjoyable with great company!
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Robin and Kara
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Jennie
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We even saw a mermaid!
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The kids boogie boarded and then there was one lone adult who took the plunge (my husband, of course! Coo coo ca choo)
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What beautiful beach bums
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These small ones were hilarious playing together.
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Heather and I took some of the kids out later to look for "treasures". We gathered fun rocks and lots of sand dollars.
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The kids played really well together.
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We went to the beach at night and it was gorgeous of course!
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The moon over the dune grass.
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We celebrated Caiden's birthday!
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I really liked this camp ground. The sites were roomier than some and it was a short walk to the beach. I would definitely go back.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Do the Puyallup!

When I first moved to Washington, I had no idea how to pronounce Puyallup, and now it's no biggie. It's a great town with a great fair every year. We went on opening day to see the Western Rodeo parade. Then we got into the fair free by donating food at the gate. I love free! Here the boys are waiting to see cows, horses and instruments!
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Apparently, one or two years the cows got away from the cowboys. This year, there was no running of the bulls.
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And my camera battery died, so here's a cell phone photo of one of the exhibits inside the fair.
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We loved looking at all the handmade items and then the collections. Here somebody collected frog stuff. Ryan and this person would get along.
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And Max REALLY wanted a cowboy hat. So cute! Sorry, son, not this time.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Max's First Day of School--2011

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Max is attending a 3 day a week preschool program. We were happy to get him into the morning program where he has a little friend already. His teacher seems wonderful, the school awesome and there are only 12 kids in his class.
Getting started.
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The classroom
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His friend!
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They have fun field trips planned and he's excited to do show and tell this week because it's going to be about the letter A. Guess what he's going to pick?

I had a moment where my eyes started welling up with tears when I was taking pictures of him in his classroom but I didn't let them come. He was excited to be there. I'm excited for him. I did cry on the way home, but not because I'm worried about him. It's just one of the steps to my baby growing up and becoming more independent. Wahhhhhhhh! Okay, tears came but they were short-lived.

He returned and reported that he had fun, learned a lot, the kids were nice and his favorite things were the "worker toys" (tools, sockets and wrenches that work--go figure!)

Labor Day Weekend

Great Grandpa Bob fell at his assisted living facility and spent some time in the hospital. We wanted to drive down nad spend some time with him and Grandma so we loaded up the car and drove down with Grandpa J. We stopped by Roake's hot dogs on the way down and ate on the lawn at the Oregon City library. Grandma and Grandpa Epperson had been married at the church across the street.
The boys got to play in the creek of course.
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Ryan wanted a picture. This is before he got bitten by mosquitoes.
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Grandma and Grandpa.
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The boys and I picked lots of blackberries and had blackberries and milk like I used to when I'd pick blackberries at my Grandparents' house.
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They loved having purple tongues.
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I should have taken more pictures of course I can never get enough, but it was fun talking with Grandma, learning more about when she worked for the welcome wagon and seeing Grandpa is always wonderful.