Detroit Z00 2010

This is how we spent the last Saturday of our summer(the rest are consumed with soccer tournaments have to love High School sports)......




I must admit I had so much fun with the kids this is the ONLY picture I took that day!!!!

A Baptism

There was a such a sweet spirit at his baptism it defineately matched the spirit of the boy who was baptized!!!

LAKE MICHIGAN 2010

I love Lake Michigan! I have some of my happiest memories as a child and an adult on its shores and this day was no different but so different. This was one of the highlights of the year and in thinking more about it a lifetime. It was a perfect day...one of those days you hold onto in your hearts for a lifetime the feeling of a celestial family was had on this day and it makes you realize it is possible!!!


We started off by going to a new children's museum called Sandcastles and the kids had so much fun there and then we headed off to the lake.







David buried up to his neck!!!

and Christian too!!!!

A Pretty Princess!!!

The waves this day were in between 3-5 ft and the lake was warm which is unusual. We spent hours dodging the waves jumping over them, diving under, swimmming to shore with them lapping over you head, sitting there and letting them take you away and we did this until your body literally was so exhausted you had to take a break and then we would go out again...here they are waiting for a big one!


Brotherly Love(he is going to be a fabulous daddy someday)!!!!


Running from a BIG one!!! This is actually not a big one at all the bigger ones were out further just before a sand bar so the kids could stand knee deep and have these waves crash right over their heads...FUN!!!!






The kids including the husband had so much fun trying to figure out how to get to the lighthouse via the "rocks" instead of using the convenient pier provided. I was a bit terrified at times but they all made good choices along the way and I was so proud to see their little minds working their way to the lighthouse(there is a lesson there I might share another day).







I took these without him knowing and I was so wondering what he was thinking.




Up in the dunes....

Ultrasound for....

In response to my last post is the following:

I wish I could say I was having an ultrasound to see a cute little baby because those ultrasounds are fun and you look forward to them and drinking all the water is well worth it. I have something else growing in there and they need to see if it is getting bigger or smaller or if it is still there!

OOPS!!!

I had an ultrasound scheduled for today and I decided to drink all my water required(32 oz) then take a shower after so that I could be distracted for the one hour preceding the appointment. As many know it is quite uncomfortable after drinking all that water in such a short period of time. I go about doing just that I drink all my water and then started my shower and in my routine of starting the shower I brushed my teeth, went to the bathroom, and then showered. It is after I shower I realize the second thing I did which was go to the BATHROOM!!!!!! UGH so I quickly drink another 32 oz of water which as you can imagine is not making me feel great and run out the door to my appointment and luckily for me they see me right away and they ask if I drank all my water I say yes but and explain what happend and they check my bladder and it is EMPTY...needless to say I had to be rescheduled!!!

A Staycation

(by a cancellation ends up being the best)!!! We had planned on going to see the space shuttle launch and with its sudden cancellation we started weighing out our options and decided to try our hand at a staycation. First we decided to stay in the county we lived in but then decided on surrounding area within 30 miles simply because we wanted to go to the nearby zoo:




We also went to the local museum which had a special exhibit that my kiddos loved:


LEGOS!!!






We went to the lakeX3, pool, farmer's market, and ate at fun local resturaunts (Daddy Os, Pizza Sams, and the local Country Club).

Some of my favorite things about staying home on vacation was NO PACKING or UNPACKING..no days of laundry and trying to get back onto a schedule, no pre vacation shopping, finding subs for paper routes, primary, and young mens. The other thing I loved is we were able to get some projects done. I was told that I would not have the time to paint a room while I was the Primary President, that I might as well put all house projects on hold. I am here to say I did it, well I supervised the painting of the teens room by the teen himself and a helper. Plus we cleaned out the whole house 25 boxes to friends and the Salvation Army not to mention the bags of clothes that left the house.

All in all the Staycation was a success and I am thinking we will be doing this every year!!!

A Science Birthday

When I asked my soon to be turning 8 year old what kind of birthday party he would want he without hesitation(and I knew it would be) SCIENCE!!!! This made my heart stop because what on earth was I going to do...it isn't like you can go out and buy science birthday plates and napkins so the research began and honestly not until about 2 days before the party did I think it was going to all work out.

We started out by putting on these and making these:

*on the inside was a science scavenger hunt which helped get their energy out

It was a hot hot humid day, we had everyone quickly use these plus H2O:


to make this:


Remember my dilemma with science plates I came up with this:

I found the science bulletin board cutouts at our local school store and glued them onto a white plate placing a clear plate over top:

For the napkins I found some cute stamps at oriental trading and stamped the napkins:

David helped with the making of these 2 things and he loved helping get ready for his party!!!!

The Cake and Ice Cream

This it our "molecule" cake and after talking to the scientist in the family we decided to do and it seemed quite fitting the molecule of glucose.


and what else would you serve a molecule cake in a petri dish!!!


I found these great test tubes and I knew I wanted to do something with them and I think I found the perfec thing ice cream toppings.


The children loved putting the toppings on the ice cream served in beakers!!!

The Experiments

What happens when you add 7 mentos into a 2 liter of Diet Coke?


Take the now emptied and rinsed 2 liter and fill half full of vinegar. Take a cheap paper towel and place 1TB of baking soda in the center and make a little bundle. Shove the bundle down into the bottle and then quickly add a ballon and TADA...



We took these items:

(a white file canister, construction paper cut itno a circle with a slit cut half way through it, a rectangle, and 3 triangels, and a alka seltzer)

and we made these:

You fill the film canister about 1/3 full of water add an alka seltzer and quickly put the lid on it "blasts off" in between 10-25 ft!!!

The Conversation This Morning

Dad: Your room is 5 minutes away from being perfectly clean go finish it up

Julianna: I am tired(whinning)(might I add she has been up for over an hour after sleeping for 10 and has done nothing but eat and snuggle, up to this point)

Dad: There is nothing in the gospel that says I have to give you a room of your own, that's an American thing. I can set you up with a cot in the hallway right now.

Julianna stunned goes and spends 3 minutes cleaning up her room and by the time I am done typing this is off playing with her brothers..I thought she was tired!

The Week of the Fourth Happenings:

SPARKLERS




FACE PAINTING



BIG GLASSES



MAKING US GLOW



ON THE WAY TO SEE THE FIREWORKS LAKE STYLE



FISHING CONTEST

*Christian won with a total of 47 inches caught(this is my only picture of him the whole week...he ws there golfing and playing at the sports court or as you can see here kayaking to catch a BIG one!)


JET SKIING


THE COUSINS



(Christian is golfing)

I know what happens at the cove is supposed to stay there but I thought I would share some of the moments!!!!!