Sunday, May 22, 2016
Jenny's Example
A little while ago we were home with my sister and I couldn't stop taking pictures of her with my kids.
She is leaving next month to go on an lds mission, and we are really going to miss her.
The other day I read Daphney a story in the Friend magazine. In this story a small boy told about his uncle who went on a mission and how because of his uncle's example he now wants to serve a mission too. Needless to say I bawled through the whole thing and Daphney was worried about me.
She already prays that Jenny will come home safely from her mission- that she hasn't left for.. But yes we look forward to that day already!
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Flamingo Painting
So my husband made a comment like, "Hey Woman, with your busy crazy life you are never going to chisel out enough time to paint anything again."
It was true, but it motivated me to prove him wrong... Three kids down for a nap at the same time. SCORE!!- Time to PAINT!!
Fun Step by Step painting changes. - thank goodness for picture texts and my sister who never gets tired of helping me critique during the process.
This is part of my animal parenthood paintings. The paintings are based off my experiences as a mother and also connect me to my father since we worked in his shop making the frames together. In the painted scenes I love thinking about myself as the parent but also inversely as the child to both my Earthly Parents and my Heavenly Parents.
This is what baby flamingos look like when they are born and it is not til they have eaten enough pink fish that they begin to get their more common pink color.
Earth Day
My kids love flowers so we celebrated earth day at the nearby botanical gardens.
Color Matching
Watching the Koi Fish
Luckily they love that happy little head.
See guys the botanical garden was free and I was in a free mood I guess because I heard that there were bike taxis outside and I made a big deal about NEEDING to ride on them as if my life wouldn't be complete without that. Turns out they have ears and totally agreed that I should throw away my money getting a bike ride to where ever I needed to be next. To which I responded, "No, I don't need to go anywhere our car is here; can't we just ride around the block or something?" Needless to say I stuck my foot in my mouth and swallowed the sole before realizing this was not part of the free botanical gardens. However, my husband was gracious and didn't complain and we had a joyous time doing something extravagant. #Des Bike Pedicab
Yes that is a giant bag of diaper wipes. #Mom of three. #Too old to know why people hashtag!
Eggstravagansa
Easter Egg Hunt at a nearby community center.- Yes we brought Daphney, but when approached with the option of standing by the Easter Bunny she threw her basket and ran towards the road. I chose to lose that battle...
They had firetrucks that the kids were able to drive/play on.
Tons of baby animals at this event. -The cheek test does not lie!
Family Easter Egg Hunt on Easter after church and naps because we are that kind of parents....
General Conference 2016
This conference we made it all about the kids. I figured I can listen to conference whenever and I wanted to make sure the kids had an opportunity to realize what a great blessing it is to have prophets and apostles.
Here are snack bags for the speakers. I think what helped the most is having the kids help in preparation so they were excited for the big "party". Daphney cut out the pictures from a past ensign magazine and that gave us a chance to talk about the speakers. Holland is Shane's favorite apostle (if we have to choose favorites) and No bake cookies Shane loves, so I did let the kids know that those cookies were in Elder Holland's bag. Now the kids always connect the idea of cookies to Holland's name. This is sure to be a continued conference tradition!
The other idea I tried is using these topic pictures (idea is taken from a more elaborate idea on this website but simplifying it worked better for toddlers). While listening Daphney was able to find the picture of the person speaking and several topic pictures to hang up on the wall. She didn't always understand the whole talk, but at least she now knows what a prophet might talk about.
We have left the pictures of the apostles hanging up and Daphney now knows them all with a preference towards Rasband (kind of like head band) and Christofferson (just like Kristoff on Frozen). Demitri is trying to learn them too. His favorites are Cook and Thomas S. Monson.
Life is so different with kids!
Just Like Dad
Fishing with dad, but using sticks.
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