September 2015
I was dreading September coming because I didn't want the summer to end - lazy days of sleeping in & just playing all day long. I must admit I kind of dread the more rigid schedule we have during the school year. But I think it's mostly just adjusting to the routine that is hard & once we're adjusted it's fine. It takes NO adjusting to our summer schedule! I couldn't believe September came so fast & now it's over already.
Snuggle time
Here we were all prepped & ready to go to meet the teacher night. So many school supplies for four kids! Holy moly! Dallen got the leftovers & he carried it in his backpack too. This kid doesn't like feeling left out.
2nd grade with Mrs. Downes & 4th grade with Mrs. Simonsen
Handsome boys! I like to volunteer but was nervous about trying to schedule it so I could help in 3 different classes & find somewhere for Dallen to go. I'm able to help in the library with Hyrum's class on Mondays & right afterwards do math in Hunter's class. We found a friend to swap babysitting with Dallen that's working out perfectly and we're volunteering with the twins on Friday mornings when Jeremy is off. So it's all working out!
A picture with all the kids on the first day of Kindergarten!
Emma & Justin started school a few days after Hyrum & Hunter. They were beyond excited to start! They love pretty much everything about it. We have been working hard all summer long on reading & they both are doing awesome & reading so well. They just finished Hop on Pop & The Cat in the Hat. It took a while to get through them but they did it! I can't believe we have 4 readers in the house :)
Dallen has wanted to get in on the action of school so we started his preschool workbook & he has learned to write his name! Every day when we drop the kids off he says 'It's just you & me Mommy!' He misses the older kids but I think he also really likes having me all to himself. The house is so extremely quiet these days! It's quite the adjustment.
A week after school started Dallen started his Mommy preschool starting at his friend Tommy's house. We are doing it once a week through December & then switching to twice a week after that.
There are only 3 kids instead of the 6 kids we've had the last two years. That means more teaching but less chaos hopefully ;-) I feel so grateful to have been able to do a preschool with each of my kids & to have always had friends to do it with. Such a blessing!!
First attempt at name writing. An N, backwards D, A, two L's, backwards E & another D just for fun!
Ready for chemistry....or maybe just cutting onions with Mommy
I learned a trick for shredding chicken. Meat prep is probably my least favorite part of cooking. I just don't like touching it, cutting it, getting the fat off of it etc. EWWWW! Shredding chicken takes me like 20 minutes or more by hand. It's so annoying. This bad boy not only worked but it took me maybe 1 minute. Hooray!
I know I'm a little prejudiced but I think Dallen is an amazing little artist for his age! He can draw things that you actually know what they are & he can stay in the lines as well as me basically.
Nana sent the coolest gift in the world - a Darth Vader shaped toaster that burns an imprint of the words STAR WARS into your bread. May the toast be with you!
We had lots of elk visits in September. They just really like our dead grass or something.
Hunter was pretty nervous to start piano for the first time but after that initial lesson he has taken to it really well. Look at the emotion he puts into his pieces already!! :)
Pork chop- one of the kids favorite games introduced to us by Uncle Zac. Kick a soccer ball & try to knock all the kids down with it.
We borrowed all 6 Star Wars DVDs from Brigg & watched them in the evenings over about 2.5 weeks. Wow! It was so much fun! I haven't watched these movies myself in years & years. I grew up on the old ones & tolerate the new ones. We did skip the end of the 3rd episode - a little too intense. I think we'll have to watch them again before we give them back! It makes me happy to hear the kids running around playing & quoting 'I have a bad feeling about this!' & 'It's not my fault!'
My last companion on my mission Tammy came to visit one evening. (This was the best picture I got somehow) It's always wonderful to see her & catch up. She is a good friend & she is so good with my kids they just love her.
