Year: 2009

Dinah’s in a booster seat.

Well we upgraded Dinah from the high chair to the booster seat yesterday. Jeremy has been out of the booster seat for awhile, and Dinah REALLY wanted to sit in a big person chair yesterday. But she couldn’t reach her food, so I whipped out the booster seat. She loves coming to the table for meals now, and she’s just so cute. She’s growing up so fast! We couldn’t talk Jeremy out of ‘his’ chair (which happens to be the chair designated for the booster seat) so we temporarilly set the booster on another chair (I will feel better when it’s on a sturdier chair). And he was mad today when I scooted his chair to the side of the table, since the booster seat needs to be on the end of the table because it can’t be pushed under the sides. But he’ll get used to the new arrangements. 😉

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Storm Door :)

We have talked about buying a storm door for years! We have been to the stores and checked them out and talked about them, and have always just wanted to get one. But we never had the $300 to spend on one. But now that we’ve paid off the credit cards and the mini-van, and now that we have been putting the second income in an account for home improvements we FINALLY had enough money to go buy a storm door! 😀 I’m so excited. It’s so nice to have the front door open to let the sunshine in, but to have the storm door there to keep the kids in the house. And the storm door has a retractable screen. So we can open the window and let some air in, but when we close the window the screen just rolls up at the top so you can’t see it. I love it! Kyle finished installing it last weekend, but he just finished putting the doorbell back on today, so now I consider the project finished. 😉

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FHE #18

Family Temple Trip

Today our family took a trip to visit the Provo Temple. I don’t think I’ve been there since they put Moroni on top (and they did that awhile ago). Jeremy and Dinah have never been to that temple that I can recall. So I thought that we would take a family field trip and go see the temple. We took a picnic dinner, which the kids have been excited about all week. We have been deciding what foods we would take, and we bought some special treats, that we don’t normally buy to include in the picnic feast. I was really excited that we would finally get to use a picnic basket that had belonged to my grandparents that I had inherited, to carry our food to the picnic spot. We had an enjoyable walk around the temple first, and then picked a spot under some trees at a little park across the street from the temple to eat our picnic dinner.

The kids really enjoyed being at the temple, and just loved the idea of a picnic. Jeremy STILL isn’t feeling very well though so he was somewhat clingy, and complaining of his belly hurting. But everyone had a good time.

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Ward Swap Meet

Yay! Another opportunity to get rid of some of this stuff that is just taking up space in our house. I was able to unload a couple of boxes of random stuff and clothing and Kyle’s grandmother’s dining table that has just been sitting in the garage since she moved in with us back in 2005. It was too small for our family to sit at and we had nowhere else to put it, so we really don’t need it. It feels so good to be able to pass on the stuff that we just can’t use. Hopefully I’ll eventually be able to get rid of enough stuff that I’ll be able to feel like I can breathe (yes our house is REALLY bad).

The kids were excited when I told them there was another ‘treasure hunt’ at the church today, and so getting them out the door was no problem. Ethan, Tyra and Jeremy rode their bikes to the church since the table was in the van. Dinah’s seat in the van was still available so she went in the van with Kyle. Jeremy was really slow on his trike and eventually gave up riding and wanted me to carry him for awhile, then he was ok walking (he walks faster than he rides the trike and that’s not saying much).

While we were at the church the kids enjoyed checking out the table of donated toys, while Kyle unloaded the van and I just sat down to rest after all that exercise walking to the church (and carrying Jeremy 😛 ). Ethan’s school teacher Mrs Davis actually showed up which was a big surprise. She doesn’t live in this area, but a sister from our ward who has kind of been in charge of making these swap meets work is the secretary at the school and thought she would call Mrs Davis so she could come pick out some baby clothes. She is expecting twins (a boy and a girl) in the fall. I think she kind of felt out of place, or just didn’t know what to expect. She seemed to be afraid to look at anything at first and asked, “so how much is this stuff” we told her “it’s all free, take as much as you want”. She was just shocked. And I made the comment that this is all just stuff that we don’t need or want anymore. To which she thought everything there had come from my house, and I had to explain I brought some and the other people there brought other stuff too. But she seemed really greatful to be getting some nice gently used things for her babies to use when they arrive.