A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Lydia loves her little brother. 🙂
He was crying, and she knew what he wanted and decided that she would give it to him.
Of course, if I wasn’t sitting there watching her there’s a good chance that she would have tried to just run off with the bottle and keep it for herself. 😛
In the past couple of years the school has been sending home stuff for a fundraiser called “Art to Remember” where you child can draw a picture, and you can send it in and have it turned into a whole bunch of things like put the picture on a mug or a t-shirt or something else like that. Well I don’t ever order anything. My kids always beg me to let them do it, but I’m a big meany and don’t.
Today Ethan came home with a drawing that he had made of a dragon, in the form of a magnet. He explained that his teacher had an art contest and his drawing won so she got him the magnet of his picture as his prize.
In case you can’t tell, that is a picture of the magnet on my fridge. 🙂
Every morning I deal with the struggle of finding something for my kids to take to school for lunch. I’m always looking for new ideas because having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich EVERY day, gets old fast. I mean, that’s what my mom used to send me to school with and I NEVER want to eat another peanut butter and jelly sandwich again. But I am getting really sick of sending my kids with a lunch, only to find that they didn’t eat it. Sometimes I don’t find it until much later and it’s a really nasty old lunch in a baggie at the bottom of their backpack or under a pile of their backpacks and jackets on the floor of the entry way. That is just extremely nasty. But here is another problem, if I don’t send my kids to school with a lunch, the school feeds them and then sends me a bill! Now we really can’t afford to be doing school lunch every day. A school lunch costs $1.75, and I’ve got three kids in school during lunch time. That’s $5.25 to get them all a school lunch for a day. $26.25 for a week. $105 per month. That’s a lot of money! But it’s just wasteful to send them with food that they are just going to try to hide from me because they didn’t eat it. So I’ve had some people suggest that I have my kids make their own lunches. I do like that idea. However, I think I need to go grocery shopping before I can start that so they actually have something to put in their lunches. 🙂 Then we will give it a try and see how it goes.
Somehow I completely missed blogging about our family photos that we had done back in October. We have kind of lost confidence in professional pictures as time has passed. I remember when we used to go to Sears portrait studio regularly, and then we had a couple of negative experiences in a row and decided it was time to go somewhere else. We tried Wal Mart’s portrait studio once and the pictures didn’t turn out very good. We have been going to JC Penny’s portrait studio for some years now, but they are changing again. The ‘photographers’ aren’t professionals. They are usually just young girls that get hired, and the the portrait studio seems to have a history of firing them and hiring new girls so that nobody works there for long. We used to just order all of our photos on a cd for $100 (about 30 photos max). Last time we were there, they had upped the price to $150 for the cd but only allowed 20 pictures. 🙁 Not to mention that after getting them on my computer we found that the resolution is less than our own personal camera produces. I have not been happy with school pictures either. I remember when I was a kid, waiting in line to have my school picture taken, as I got close to the front of the line seeing a big box of combs. There was always someone standing there to comb down stray hairs, and make sure you looked good before the photographer actually snapped the picture. They don’t do that anymore. I will send my kids out the door looking good, but then get the pictures and find their collar or hair messed up. So as time for school photos approached this year, I was feeling less than enthusiastic about buying them, and didn’t really want to just go to the mall for photos like we have in the past. So we decided to let one of our neighbors take pictures for us. She does photography for a hobby and I’ve seen some of the pictures that she has taken for other people in the ward and they look nice. The only thing is she doesn’t have a studio so she only does outdoor photography, that is something completely new for us.
She also took some individual pictures of the kids to take the place of school photos this year.
As always there is a shot of Jeremy just being goofy:
Every year, Santa comes around the city of Eagle Mountain on a fire truck, and throws candy out to the children in the neighborhoods. And every year most of our kids miss it because there always seems to be a primary Christmas activity scheduled for the same time. This year, though, there was no primary activity and we had the date of Santa’s tour of the city on the calendar so we were waiting to hear the sirens. When we heard them and they sounded like they were close we got all the kids into shoes and coats, and after instructing them to not go past the side walk (and definitely not into the street) we let them outside.
