.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Last Day of Learning Garden

We had our last day of the Learning Garden on Nov. 23. It was an outdoor party filled with cookies and activities. We decorated birdhouses that they took home and terracotta pots filled with tomato seeds that they could take home and start growing right before next spring. And of course we played a few outdoor games as well. Have I mentioned how great these kids are? They are.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

KIrtland Temple Sacrament Meeting

We had a really amazing sacrament meeting at the Kirtland Temple in November. Our stake Patriarch spoke and the spirit was really strong. It was so neat to sing "The Spirit of God" for the closing hymn.

FHE

We did a fun Brother of Jared FHE. We made a tower out of all of our couch cushions. We taught the kids how to build the tower and in the middle of explaining it we started speaking different languages. Dave used his "go to" language--Bislama (which I love to hear!) and I used "dig" language. Try to decipher this: "Idiguy lidigkike thidigis stordigorydigy." Then we explained the story of the tower of babel. We had the kids then pack their back packs full of essentials to take in the wilderness. Dave became the cloud that the Lord spoke to them from and they followed it into the wilderness (around the house) until we came to the table to make barges out of play dough and crystals. The kids loved it! This idea was totally borrowed...and we loved it!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Coloring the snow

Corbin had his friend Parker over and they had a fun time coloring the snow with colored water. Try it. The kids will love it! Just fill up a water bottle (I use cake decorating bottles) with water and food coloring.

Our one day of snow

Yes, it only snowed for one day so we took advantage. First snowman of the year...

Yearly Leaf pile

Every year we rake our leaves into a big pile and the kids, of course, love to jump in it. Here are a few shots.... (it snowed the next day)

Halloween Day

For breakfast I made the kids pumpkin flavored and pumpkin shaped pancakes (chocolate chips for eyes and mouth) with orange milk. Good stuff!

We usually "boo" a few families every year (door bell ditch families with Halloween goodies) but this year we decided to bring home made bread and candy to a few widows in our Ward. The kids had a fun time making deliveries.

We went to a friends house for a game night instead of trick-or-treating. Ashlyn was kind of upset we didn't do the "real trick-or-treating" but we all had a great time playing games. I also made the kids dress up in their costumes again the next day to take one last round of pictures. :)
Here are a few....

Being silly...

This picture cracks me up! Love that Corbin's nose and mouth are squished onto his mask.

NUMBER ONE SPEECH

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

"There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

"Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

"Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization - an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win - to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

"It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there - to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win.

"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

"I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

--Vince Lombardi

In the Faith of Christ