Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Let's hear it for Brandon and Baylee!

Congrats to Brandon for earning the "Perserverance Award" for his 3rd grade class! Baylee earned the "Integrity Award" and "Gold Panther Award" (golden rule) for her 1st grade class!
Two more days of school this year.........After our long ONE WEEK break, they begin the new school year on July 7th! (we love year-round school)

Tooty Frooty!


The more I hear about pesticides, I wonder if I should buy organic? I read that our favorite fruits and veggies contain the highest amounts of pesticides.........should I be nervous? Do you buy organic, is it worth it? Everyone used to laugh at me for washing our produce with soap, maybe that isn't such a bad idea? Is it better to use a veggie-wash, if so, which one? Thanks for enlightening me!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

King Benjamin!

Benjamin turned 11 mos yesterday and still will NOT hold his own bottle! Most babies want to hold their own bottles, but not our Benjamin. He INSISTS that someone else feed him........that is why he is the king!

Brock Infomercial

This is our new found friend! The Swivel Sweeper! I heard about this from Caroline and we love it! Its a 2 lb battery charged mini-vacuum! It is so easy and fun, the kids ASK to use it! No more sweeping after dinner, its way quicker and works on hardwood, tile or carpet. It can be found at Bed, Bath & Beyond for $35, but you can use a 20% off coupon. Apparently, this is scene on an infomercial, but we saved shipping by getting it at the store. Now, that our house is on the market, this makes for easy clean up!

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Our Baby Girl is 7 years old!

Baylee chose devil's food cake with cream cheese icing--yummy!
It was one of the last "cool" days to play in the "bouncey"--what fun!
Baylee has always loved the Tinker Toys at Grandma's, so now she has a set of her own!
This is our attempt at building the ferris wheel, we peetered out 1/2 way thru!

All Tracked-Out!

Baylee and Brandon are in year-round school, but tracked out here and happy!
Benjamin is happy to have his favorite friends home with him!

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Remember the log flume?


Don't get wet!




Fun at King's Dominion!


Even Benjamin enjoyed a few rides!
Baylee became very brave this trip and began riding "level 4" rides! woo hoo!
Benjamin pooped out about 4pm.............We all had to leave the wave machine beach due to a severe thunderstorm, but we returned later that night for a few more hours!

Brocks visit King's Dominion!





We had a great time and it was only 3 1/2 hours away! Ammon and Brandon liked the "big" rides better than Disney! The park has lots of water rides, which were so fun on such a hot day!

Mama's new kitchen help!


Benjamin has discovered a whole new world in the kitchen with fun places to explore! What a great little helper for Mom!

Brandon receives his Panda award!

After several weeks of diligent effort, Brandon completed his Soil and Water Conservation achievement! Way to go Brandon!