Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving in Bluewater again. All I can say in Brrrr! The day before was 70 degrees then it dropped to 40. What a shock. We had a great time with great food. It was a small gathering this year only 20 people. When you come from a family with 31 grandkids 20 people for Thanksgiving is a small crowd. DeeAnne made many wonderful pies ( so much for eating healthy). We played cards (hand and foot) and rode ATVs. And of course I don't have a single photo to back it up, sorry I'm so bad at taking pictures. Anyway just trying to keep up on the blog thing.

Tag Done

I will do the best I can with this but I'll be lucky to get up to six with out cheating and telling stories about my kids.

1) I love ASL. I've been taking lessons for over five years now (on and off). I hope one day to become a certitfied interpreter. I went into fits of jealousy when I found out Heather belonged to the Deaf ward. Oh I could learn so much there.
2) I love to read and I have trouble seperating my real life from what I am reading. I have to be careful not to get mad at my husband for the mistakes that other men make in books.
3) I love to organize things. I'm not bad enough to need therapy for it but I'll find myself organizing the clothes on the rack at Target while I'm shopping.

I can't think of anything else right now, deal with it. Maybe I'll finish this up later.

Happy Halloween

I don't know about anyone else but I'm glad Halloween is finally over. Between school carnivals, church partys, and regular trick-or-treating I have had enough. I wasn't the only one though. When I got Josh up the morning of Halloween he asked for candy for breakfast. I said "No, but you will get plenty of candy tonight, it's Halloween." His reply, "Not Again!"
Someone at the truck-or-treat gave this to Ethan, he was very excited.

The family at the ward trunk-or-treat and carnival.

Here they are about to leave for the school carnival. "I see you behind that camera mom." points Ethan. Notice the perfect cat pose from Sarah and the fierce Spiderman from Josh.

Come on lets go.

Joshua thought this was sooooooo cool.

I had to do Sarah's makeup four times for different events. That's a lot of MaryKay samples.

Ethan is a dragon, or maybe a dinosaur, or perhaps Barny?

The kids carvning the pumkins. Sarah just kept saying, "Ewww, this is so gross."

The kids came up with designs, we just carved. Sarahs' star pumpkin also has little tiny holes all over it which had a neat effect in the dark. Joshua came up with the idea to put the bat glasses on his. He named it "NERD".

Ethan likes to crawl under the bar stools but then he gets stuck. It's the perfect little baby jail.

It was picture day at school. This year I'm not buying any so this is all you get, sorry. Pictures at school are becoming an expensive waste of money.

This is how Ethan tells me he's hungry. He just climbs on in the high chair himself.

Just tuck in that foot and he's ready for a snack.

After three years in this house I finally got the porch I've always wanted. Hurray for shade.

Ethan likes to take a ride on the mower when Daddy is all done with the lawn. And NO I don't let him ride it when in is running. Give me a little credit here. HA - HA!

Mommy is washing the car and the kids are "helping" Notice that we only have one pair of boots but Joshua was nice enough to share with Ethan. They are each wearing one.

This is what Ethan got for his first birthday. It's a mini bounce castle. He's screaming because he wants everyone out. He doesn't like the big kids in with him, it knocks him down.

Here is a better picture of it. That is Josh laying on the bottom.

Yummy birthay cake and icecream.

We had a small pary with two other families. It was a great day. I wish I already had the porch that day. It was hot and sunny.

We had out the pool, sandbox, and the bouncy castle. It was a super fun day.

All the kids in the sand box.

This was his cake. It is a swimming pool. Heather sent us the idea from a magazine and the kids begged for me to make it. I think it came out pretty good.

The morning of Ethan party I was filling up the pool. He ran outside and jumped in before I could stop him.

Aries Family Reunion JUNE 2007

We discovered that Ethan LOVES watermelon. I'm thankful it is healthy because he ate a ton of it over the weekend.

There are always lots of kittens at Bluewater. This is the one Sarah begged to take home.

All the kids doing the sing-along-songs. Grandpa on the left, Shaun on the right with the hat on.

This is kitty that Josh claimed.

Ethan is always right in the center of all the action.

One of the evenings was a big dinner at Aunt Darlas house. They have a huge porch where Grandpa set up his band equipment. Some of the cousins sang songs. We had a sing along and a slideshow on the big white wall. One slideshow was Great Grandma June life. She just turned 90 that day. They also did a slide show of last years reunion. All the kids got a kick out of seeing themsleves in a "movie." It was a great fun weekend. I just wish I was better at remembering the camera. We did many other great activites that I have no pictures of.

We went to the Aquarium this week. There are lots of fish behind us but you can't see them. Last week we went to the zoo but our mom and dad forgot the camera.
Mom keeps trying to get me to look at the camera but I have to keep an eye on these weird fish things behind me. They swim right up to the side and I talk to them and laugh.

Here we all are in front of the big tank.

That's our Ethan inside the giant carrot.

Please let me out mom I want to go swimming in the fountain.

Joshua and Sarah. Hurray and take the picture I have lots of exploring to do.

This is Sarah holding her new doll and all the doll's toys behind her. She did lots of chores for this doll and paid for it with her own money.

Today we decided to finish planting the garden. As you can see behind Joshua are the snow peas.

First we dig some holes and eat some dirt to check the quality.

Joshua checks the depth of the holes by standing in them.

Nope not deep enough, more digging.

Then before mom knew what was happening they decieded to add "a little" water to the garden.

Then "a little" more water. Notice how dirty the pool became.

That's about the time mom gave up gardening. It turned into a mud bath. But they sure did have fun. About 10 minutes after this picture was taken you couldn't even tell which kid was which becuase they were so covered in mud. The best part was mom hosing them down after they were done. So cold!

The next day the peas did get planted along with some strawberries. Now we have peas, beans, carrots, and strawberries. We might be getting the hang of this.

Summer Time Fun

Oh what do you do in the summer time, when all the world is green?We swim in the pool to keep ourselfs cool!

We all the love the water.

Look what we grew in our garden this year. It was a very good crop. Here are the instructions if you would like to grow one too.

First, plant the baby seed.

Shower with love and "taa daa" free baby to eat.

Ethan enjoys eating sand, we can't break him of the habit.

The kids love to dig and play in the wet sand.

Oh boy, he is trouble.

You said it Mom!