Year: 2014

I accidentally tried to kill our Maggie cat twice in one week.  The weather turned colder and she decided to start burrowing into blankets.  I then stepped on said blankets and was treated to a great big, “MEEEOOOOOOW!” We had a few dozen apples left on our tree that we wanted to harvest.  Once Kevin […]

The boys have wanted to fly kites all summer long but there always seemed to be a reason why we couldn’t. Last week, Kevin dropped everything and finally said, “Yes!” The wind was perfect.  The temperature was perfect.  The kites flew perfectly. They flew two different kites – a box kite and a shark kite. […]

Ricky studied volcanoes in science this last month and the culmination of that study was to build and erupt a volcano.  This was new to me, so I helped as best I could. Ricky built his volcano out of salt water dough.  That sucker was heavy!  But it looked cool.  We were going to paint […]

So, Kevin had a birthday. We had pie and presents and only a few jokes about him turning old. He video taped the boys singing Happy Birthday to him and then kept taping himself as he blew out the candles.  He’s cool like that! The boys all piled on the couch with Grandmama to watch […]

We really wanted to take the boys to a football game this year.  It was on our Wanna Do List.  I really wanted to take them to a BYU game because there is really nothing like it. However, when the BYU schedule came out – the games were all so late at night.  I just […]