Day by Day...

I love these moments when the kids are in the kitchen together.  Kalen is baking and Gwyneth is crafting on our island.  Kalen always says, "mom can I please bake?...I promise I'll clean it up just the way you do."  And I always say yes, and I'm always cleaning way more than I thought I would be.  :)  But, that's ok because there is nothing better than seeing your kids love life. 
 

He usually gets to about this point with the batter, gets lazy, wants Gwyneth to finish the baking but she was clearly crafting...so he made the batter into one big cookie cake.  Which is fine.  Small cookies or one huge cookie, it gets eaten either way.
 

Making Masquerade Masks was the craft of choice on Monday.
 

 

Of course Georgia was in on this too.  Later on a neighborhood friend came over and Georgia helped her friend make one too.
 

This is Shane's made all by himself.  So cute!
 

I love doing science and history with the kids.  This year we are studying Biological Sciences.  We are ending the year with the Human Body. 
 

I just found this picture, I think Shane got a hold of the camera.  Which is funny because sometimes kids get the most real pictures.  This is my life.  I am a teacher, a mother, a crafter, a baker, a cook, a mentor, a wife, a friend, and the list goes on.  In this picture I am teaching a history lesson and the baby is chewing on a glue stick...with the cap on of course.  :)
 

This cracks me up.  In the way of crafting, Georgia, with permission cut an old pair of jeans to make a "jeans purse."  Instead of using a needle and thread she used tape and a stapler.  It's so classic.  And by the way she calls stapling, "stamping."
 

Precious baby boy is eating from a big boy chair and he loves it.  He has been "chomping at the bit" to eat solid food.  I've held off for as long as I could and there is no more holding him back. 
 

I love you too Gwyenth...
 

Summer looooves the ipad.  It's the kids ipad and it has cute apps that tell stories and the like.  She'd be on it all day if I let her.
 

Georgia loves to surprise me.  The latest surprise was her organizing and folding all of her clothing in her drawers.  So cute. 
 

Kids are too much.  Have you ever felt like the blog helps you to stay sane?  I come upstairs only to find my framed Family Proclamation hung up with tacks along with the "My Gospel Standards" for the young women also hung up by tacks.  At first I'm annoyed but then I think, "it'll be good blog material."  :)
 

My husband is a ward missionary so he goes on "splits" (helping share the gospel) with the full time missionaries every Wednesday nights.  Tonight after they were done they all came back and the Elders showed us a video on the ipad about Fathers.  It was so great.

Day by day I am so busy.  And it's the best busy ever.