Faces for Jib Jab Videos - August 31, 2013

Sleeping Parker - August 30, 2013

The First Day of School - August 27, 2013

Parker and Brinley are going to North Park Elementary School this year.  Parker is in 3rd grade and Brinley is in 2nd grade.  They are so excited to be starting the school year.  We are all feeling a little unsure about going to North Park.  Brinley has a lot of friends at Mckinley Elementary.  She wishes that they were going there.  Parker really loves Garland Elementary.  He wants to go there again.  Of all of the schools, Garland is my favorite.  I was tempted to enroll them in Garland, since I plan to move to the Garland area when our lease is up here.  The reason I didn't is that I didn't want to have to drive the kids to school everyday.

Alissa is in 6th grade this year, which means she gets to go to the intermediate school.  She goes to Alice C. Harris Intermediate School.  I learned that the reason they have an intermediate and a middle school, instead of one junior high school is for money.  The only way they can charge school fees in 6th grade is if they are in a school with grades 7 and older.  It was a terrible surprise.  I had no idea about all the school fees and how expensive it would be.

Our Fun Tent - August 21, 2013

Babysitting Fun - August 20, 2013

Alissa's Happy Birthday!

We spent Alissa's birthday at Bear Lake.  Since that was not the original plan, we came home and celebrated her birthday the way we had planned the next day.  Alissa had planned for her friend Erin to come over and have a Cake Boss party.  I made a lot of cake and a lot of icing so we could be as creative as we want.

We had a lot of fun decorating our cakes. 

Bear Lake - Monday, August 12, 2013

We planned to go to Bear Lake last weekend, but we ended up not being able to go.  We knew we still wanted to go, we just weren't sure when we were going to be able to make it.  We decided on Sunday, before Roger left to work (He had to work overtime) that we would go to Bear Lake after Roger woke up.  I didn't realize that Roger had wanted me to wake him up early.  I figured he wanted to get as much sleep as he could before we went out playing.  So I let him sleep.  He woke up around 2:00pm.  He was bummed that I hadn't woke him up earlier.  We questioned whether or not we should still go because we wouldn't have as much time.  I wanted to go no matter what.  I thought it would be fun to be there later in the day and just stay until it got dark.  So we got ready and headed out the door.  It was really sunny and hot when we left our house, but as we drove and got closer and closer the weather turned cloudy and got colder and colder.  It warmed up as we came out of Logan canyon, but it was still cloudy.

 I love when you can see the sun rays shining down through the clouds.

 Roger posed for me to take his picture, so I took a few.

 We had fun with the birds.  They swarmed us when they realized that we had food.  It was exciting, funny, and a little scary.  Then Alissa and Roger chased them away and that was really funny.

 We decided that we were having too much fun, so we wanted to stay the night somewhere and play again tomorrow.  Here's what we saw on our drive to Montpelier, Idaho.

 At the Park Motel.

 Walking around Montpelier, Idaho.

 It freaked us out a little when we were walking down the street and looked up to see people sitting in a pool and looking at us.

 Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - Alissa's 11th birthday.  On the way to Montpelier last night, we drove past a playground that looked like a lot of fun, since it had a merry-go-round.  We decided that would be the perfect place to eat breakfast.  That way we could eat and the kids could play for a little while.  It was funny that it is named Dingle Park.  But we were disappointed that we didn't get to play on the playground, because somebody was working on it, fixing up the playground equipment.

 When we got to the lake there were just a few cars there.  It was fun to get there way before all of the crowds of people came.  We drove a long ways down the beach, so even when it did get busy we would still be far enough away and out of the crowd.

 Roger had the brilliant idea to put our chairs out in the lake to sit and relax.  It was so nice sitting in the lake and relaxing all day.  The only bummer was that in the morning, while I was helping everybody get their sunblock on, I forgot to put sunblock on my face.  I thought I had sunblock on my face, so I didn't worry about it all day.  I laid out and just soaked up the sun, knowing that I was protected and I wouldn't burn.  about an hour or two before we left, it clicked in my brain, that I hadn't put sunblock on my face.  I was about to get my face, when Parker came over and needed help.  I helped him then I forgot to finish what I had been doing.  so at the end of our long day out in the sun, my face was really red.

  On our way home from Bear Lake, we passed 2 roll over car accidents.  The first accident was on our way into Logan canyon.  It looked like someone driving in the passing lane crossed the line a little and crashed into oncoming traffic.  It looked really bad and scary.  The police were just getting there as we were passing, so it had just happened.  When we got in Logan Canyon, we came upon a guy driving his motorcycle really slowly on the side of the road.  He was wobbling a lot as he went.  We were wondering what the heck that guy was doing.  All the cars had to slow down and watch for oncoming traffic as they tried to pass him.  As we passed him, Roger noticed the guy had a flat tire.  So we pulled off the road as soon as there was a shoulder.  We waited for the guy and Roger waved him over.  The guy said, he had tried to get help for a while, but nobody would stop for him.  So he decided his only option was to risk it and try to make it out of the canyon on his own.  So he was pretty happy that Roger stopped for him.  We loaded his bike into the back of the truck and drove the guy to his house in Logan.  The guy was very thankful for our help and he gave us $10.00 to help pay for gas.

After leaving Logan, we passed another roll over car accident on the pass between Logan and Tremonton.

Water Fight - Sunday, August 4, 2013

The kids and I like to watch this show called "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo".  It is a reality show that follows a redneck family. They are pretty funny!  In one of their last episodes, they made up a game.  The game goes like this: Whenever somebody farts, they have to hold their hand up to their forehead and yell, "Safety!", before somebody else yells, "Doorknob!"  If the farter says "safety" before someone yells "doorknob", then nothing happens.  If someone yells "doorknob" before the farter says "safety", then everybody gets to attack the farter until the farter is able to reach a doorknob.  Once the doorknob is touched, the farter is safe.
I still haven't watched that episode, but the kids and roger told me all about it.  I thought that it sounded like a really funny game to play.  So, I know it is embarrassing, but we have been playing that game.  It has been soo fun and hilarious! It's my new favorite game right now.  It makes boring times way more ecxiting and fun.  For example: Roger farted while he was getting out of bed, after taking a nap.  I yelled, "doorknob!" and tackled him, trying to keep him from reaching the doorknob.  He wasn't expecting it, which made it even funnier.  We were laughing so hard by the time he reached the doorknob!  Another example:Roger's friend was visiting.  We were sitting in the living room just talking.  There was a lull in the conversation, then Roger farted.  I jumped on him and yelled "doorknob!"  The kids heard and quickly came running, to help me keep him from reaching the doorknob.  It was so funny!  His friend was a little confused by what was happening all of the sudden.  we explained the game as soon as Roger reached the doorknob and we all stopped laughing.  Good times!

Goofy Kids - Friday, August 2, 2013

At the Splash Pad Again - Thursday, August 1, 2013

We had our weekly play date with the Dukes at the splash Pad this week.  The kids had a ton of fun.  There were some people there that brought some water balloons and gloves.  They filled them up with water for the kids to play with.  They loved it!  We babysit Samantha on Thursdays, so she was here also.  She found a friend when we first got there, but she was playing too rough with her.  I heard the girl crying to mom about not knowing what to do, because she wanted to play in the water but she was scared of Samantha.  I felt bad about having to talk with Samantha about being nicer with her friends.  Samantha sat next to Tiffiny and I for most of the time we were there.  She kept complaining that the other kids wouldn't play with her.  Alissa and Riley came over a few times and invited her to play a game with them, but every time they came over, she'd say, "Okay, but first turn around." Then she'd hold her balloon and give them a creepy look indicating that she was going to throw it at them as soon as they turned around.  They'd refuse to turn around.  She'd continue to look at them all creepy like and keep telling them to turn around.  They'd get annoyed and then walk away and go play the game with out her.  It was getting quite annoying.  I felt bad for feeling that way.  I just was having a hard time dealing with her.
Besides the difficulty of babysitting, we had a lot of fun.  shortly before we were all going to head home, we walked over to the sno shack down the street and got some snow cones.  They were really yummy and surprisingly filling.  We got the small ones and they were a lot to handle.  Next time we will get the extra small ones.