BECAUSE LIFE SHOULD NEVER BE ORDINARY

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Daffodills and Sunbeams

Our church ward is lucky to have one of the sweetest "Sunbeam" teachers imaginable. She has been teaching sunbeams for about 30 years (there were some years she didn't teach, but for the most part, she has). She's been teaching sunbeams the whole 5 years we've lived in Renton and is now teaching Jase after teaching Ryan and Max. Her birthday is this month and I've been feeling like it was important to do something to show her how much we appreciate her. We got 70 daffodills and passed them out to the children while she was distracted in the hallway, hee hee, we're tricky. The children sang "Happy Birthday" and "Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam". The adults were in tears. I'm so glad she felt appreciated and loved. She certainly has done so much for children and families with her love and dependability.

Cub Scout Time is Family Time

Max loves cub scouts and we love being able to help him pass off some of his requirements. This was Max directing us in a campfire program. He earned his Call of the Wild requirement after doing this.

Here are some of the boys at the pack meeting showing off their recyclable creations because scouts are thrifty.

Solidarity Bro!

Evelyn wanted to be just like brother and go through what he is.

(15 minutes later) But not really! ; )

Glowing Eyes and Patient Cat

I took this picture of Max and Jet and the boys thought Jet's glowing eyes were hilarious. They hoped to get more pictures like this but Jet didn't like the flash in the dark.

Jet is a REALLY good cat. He has a weird thing about getting in boxes though. Bags too. Here he is getting the box that we're mailing off to the insurance. We're appealing their decision and hoping they will pay for Tony's brace. I'm sure that now Jet has gotten up close and personal with this box of paperwork, they will choose to pay.

The End of the Rainbow!

We feel pretty blessed to be the parents of these four little people. We love celebrating holidays with them including St. Patrick's Day. This is the one day of the year they get Lucky Charms, haha. They set up a leprechaun trap the night before. It's not very sophisticated because they remembered just 2 minutes before bedtime. They were hoping the leprechaun would be so excited for the nickel (bwahaha) that they would bump into the pencil and the dish would drop and trap them.

Jet was a very curious cat. I let him stay on the counter only because I wanted to take a quick picture.

Unfortunately, in the middle of the night, we woke up to Jase crying and gasping for breath. Tony took him to the hospital where he was diagnosed with Croup and administered a steroid and apple juice. All he could talk about was the apple juice. ; )

Well, I sure couldn't sleep while they were gone so I prayed, read scriptures and waited for the leprechaun's visit. I heard Evelyn coughing like a seal. She never woke up but she didn't sound good. Somehow I missed the leprechaun but he colored the milk and toilet water green. He is so crazy. He also left gold-wrapped chocolate coins for all of the kids.

Jase and Evelyn had a mellow day after the excitement of the morning. We are glad that nothing more was wrong with Jase and that he could get the help he needed.

Friday, March 18, 2016

Waking Up From a Sunday Nap

This is what happens after daddy has a boy scout campout, and we have a sunny Saturday to play.

It was a good weekend! Stay silly!

Open House

The school held an open house/science fair. The kids got to show off their science fair projects and things they've worked on in the classroom. There was also the Book Fair going on which we love.

First we went to Ryan's classroom.

And then Max's classroom.

And then the Book Fair. The theme this year is, "Reading is Groovy" so there are all kinds of 60's themed decorations all over the school. One of the reading marathon prizes is making a tie-dyed shirt. The littles loved this "disco ball" outside of the book fair.