Little Friends

Working with Lorna is a fun, challenging task during school.  She is smart, yet needs more fun in her life.  I found these little finger puppets and knew they would be a fun thing for school.  We use the shark when we read and the parakeet when we work on grammar.  Sometimes having a friend makes learning just a little easier!  She was funny to watch when she filled every finger with a puppet! 

Silly Bug!

Mom's Night Out!

We try to plan a monthly hang out for the mom's from co-op to get together and hang out.  It's nice to have a little break from teaching the kids and to get to spend time with friends!  We hung out with Torchy's Tacos.  The food was yummy and the conversation fun!  Yay for nights with friends!

Me, Jennifer, Sarah, Tiffany, Crystal, and Brandy!

Mall fun

Lily and Preston Eldredge invited Talmage, Grant, and Ella to meet at the mall to ice skate and walk around... hang out.  I took them and dropped them off.  It was fun to watch them figure out ice skating.  I will say that it was strange to drop off teenagers at the mall, but I guess we have hit that point of life.  

Grant

Talmage and Ella

First Day!

Another year... another first day of co-op!  The kids were so ready to be back with their friends and start their new classes!  Lorna is in 1st grade this year and so she gets to have more classes, like the big kids!  We sure love co-op!

Activities

Clark finally got to go to his first Cub Scout meeting!  He's been waiting all summer for these weekly meetings.  Time to say good-by to Clark.  Mhari is off to Activity Girls and the older kids at mutual.  It is so weird to have 5 kids gone Wednesday nights!  

That leaves me with some one on one time with Lorna!  Since this was the first week, I took her to Braums for some ice cream.  I just hope she doesn't think this will be our new weekly tradition!  It was great to share some time together!

Permitted

Talmage finished his requirements for his learner's permit.  He put it off a little, but he was so ready  that we got it all done before school started up again.  After we got the permit we went to the church parking lot to get a feel for driving.  We took about an hour learning how to accelerate, brake, turn, signal, and parking.  It was a good firs practice.  

Here comes 40 more hours and 6 months of practice before he's a licenced driver!

Ceiling Fun!

The ceiling is finally done!  Jeff's dad helped install the last of the vent covers!  Sandra also helped fix all of the new pot lights so that they fit well too.  I never thought I would be so happy about the ceiling... oh, what a house remodel will help you appreciate.  It's really the small things in life!

Sandra learning how to put a vent cover on an air return :)

School Friends

Clark is taking math online this year.  We started a little bit early to see how he liked the math.  He brought his bear, Ted, and helped him do his math.  Such a sweet boy!

Blast Off!

We had a stake cub scout mother and son water bottle rocket activity!  My counselor, Sandi, was in charge, so of course everything was wonderful.  Everyone had a great time.  It was fun to be there for Clark and also see all of the kids have fun!  

Getting ready to launch his rocket!

Water balloon toss!  Clark had so much fun with Britton Myers!

Redo!

It was time to print the photos for the family wall.  I asked Talmage which one he liked and he wasn't thrilled about any of them.  Grant really didn't like his pictures because he had his glasses on, so he was really interested in a redo!  We were able to get some fun shots, and even something good enough for the wall!

Oh, Talmage will not be happy about these photos, but I love that I got some real pictures!

Ready for the wall!

 Love!

Oh, silly silly Grant!

Handsome!

Filled

Clark and Lorna had to have some teeth filled so we went to the dentist.  They both did so good for their first fillings.  We stopped by McDonald's for some ice cream as a reward on our way home. Yay for filled teeth and tummies!

Family Friends

We had the Sagnimeni family and Nathan and Tiffany and family over to swim.  It was fun to see the kids all playing together.  The Sagnimeni's are so fun!  It was great to hang out as adults too!