What's New?

Well for starters, I was correcting my children's home school work and came across this.  My heart skipped a beat.  I will never, ever get rid of this.  I am not a sentimental person when it comes to most things, but this kind of thing I live for.  I love you Reece. 
 

When I was in Utah I made a special trip to the church bookstore, Deseret.  I got this scripture guide for the Book of Mormon.  We are currently reading in 3rd Nephi and we just decided to start using the book in 3rd Nephi, as opposed to starting over.  We've been reading scriptures with the kids for years, but this is exactly what we needed to step it up a notch.  We have loved this so much!!!!  It has great activities for each chapter,  great discussion questions and it's short.  We can use it each evening when we read and it only takes about 25 minutes.  (This is with older children.) 
 

So far we have discussed in depth what the gathering of Israel really means.  Who are the lost tribes?  Who are the Gentiles?  Are they lost in the Saviors eyes?  And what does this say about how the Savior feels about us?  And below I cut out characters from a bible coloring book and spread them all over the room and the children slowly gathered them over the course of the study guides direction.  I love it, and the kids do to. 
 

What's new is Watermelon.  I tried buying one a few months back and it was awful.  So I finally came around to getting one again, and it was soooo good.  :)
 

This is the first time they've played with the hose on the tramp.  They were at it forever.
 

Bearnsy B is reading!!!!!!  The sentences on the page to the left she can read so well!!  She is doing great!  I love teaching the kids to read.  It's so fun when it comes together.  To quote her, "I'm really getting the hang of this blending thing, aren't I!"  Yes, Georgia, and you are so dang cute too. :)
 

What's new is that baby girl is able to pull chairs and climb and get into gum.  Naughty.  But, also so cute.
 

Shane can play Chutes and Ladders without having to be told where to move and so it's really fun to play now.  At one point I said, "darn I got a slide!"  And Shane responded, "no mom, it's a chute, not a slide."  Yes, I stand corrected.  He's three. 
 

What's new is the boys' room.  Reece really needed a desk, Kalen already had one, and then we saw these at Ikea.  It's a loft bed, built in book shelf and desk.  I don't love the medal but it's so efficient and functional.  They both use it very well to do school work.
 

I picked Kalen's bedding for him.  He wasn't there, but when I saw it I knew it had his name written all over it.  His favorite color is purple and this screams 1985, which he loves....the eighties. 
 

My Vita Mix is new!!!!!!!!  For Mother's Day my husband graced me with this awesome blender!  I've had it for about four days and we've probably used it about twenty times.  My favorite smoothie right now is Spinach, Flax Seed, frozen Blueberries, Banana, and unsweetened Almond Milk. 
 

Swim team has started.  Right now we have evening team swim until public school is officially out.  And then we  move to mornings.  We eat dinner at four and then we are a go, go, go.  I love watching you kids swim.  You were born to swim!!!!  Gwyneth and Reece are the number one spots in their age groups and Kalen was bumped up to swim with the 13-15 year olds and he holds the number 2 spot for those ages. 

And that is what's new!!!!!!!!!!