More Pretend camping - April 8, 2016

Friday - April 8th

I was pretty exhausted after our last day of pretend camping, so I didn't plan to do this again for a while.  But, yesterday, when the kids and I were going through and unpacking our books (the last of the boxes to unpack from our move), we found a bunch of my bear attack books!  So, naturally, we had to play pretend camping again, so I could sit around the campfire and read my books.  It was a lot of work, but it was worth it.  This is the mess I have in my living room from unpacking.

The kids did their school work in the tent.

Alissa stayed home, because she got sick in the night.  She woke up feeling better though.

After lunch, it got really hot.  All the kids were begging me to set up a little swimming pool.  I told them to ask their parents.  All the parents agreed, so we set up the pools.

Roger came out and sat with us for a while.  He brought his sunflower seeds.  Alissa, Roger, and I sat around the fire pit eating sunflower seeds.  The neighbor girls, noticed us when they took a break from swimming and they all wanted to try some.  It was kid of fun sitting around the pretend fire, eating our sunflower seeds, all of us trying to spit the shell into the pretend fire.  It was nice.

I put the pools away around 4:00pm, so I could go in and make dinner for Roger.  As I was bent down emptying one of the pools, I heard Roger giggle.  I looked up and was face to face with him.  He was bent down and standing in the pool.  He made this mischievous face, then started splashing all the water on me.  The water was really cold!  It was funny how he laughed at himself before he did it.  Even then, I didn't see it coming.  We all had a good laugh over that.
Alissa's friend Erin came over to hang out for a while.  Alissa is always happy when Erin comes.  She really wishes that we lived closer to Erin.  They liked it best when they were next door neighbors.

After Roger left to work, we went back outside to sit by the pretend fire.  I taught the kids a fun craft.  They worked on their crafts, while I read them bear attack stories.

It was a big job cleaning it all up when we were done, but it was worth it.  We had a good day.

Brinley and Parker went across the street to our neighbor's house to sit around their real fire and play ghost in the grave yard with their friends, before they came in to go to bed.  Erin was able to come for a little while and they came inside to play Minecraft.

Water Fight - April 7, 2016

Thursday - April 7th

Brinley and her friends were bored, so they decided to have a water fight.  We got a bunch of little squirt guns from Linda at the last family get together.  So, that's what they used for their fight.  They had a lot of fun.  I was super comfy sitting on the bench seat by the window.  I love sitting there and relaxing in the warm sun.  It is so nice!  Anyway, I was too comfy to go outside and take pictures of them, that's why all of the pictures I took, were taken through the window.

Playing Camping in the Backyard - April 5, 2016

Tuesday - April 5th

All the kids were feeling bored in the afternoon after Alissa got home from school.  Alissa came outside to hang out and I really didn't want her to go back in.  She doesn't hang out with us very much anymore.  So, I had to think of something fun, to keep her outside.  I decided that we should play pretend camping.  We set up camp.  Autumn (our neighbor) helped me get everything set up.  She was a big help.  Alissa didn't stay outside for too long before she was bored and wanted to go in.  I think I teased her a little too much.  I just miss her hanging out with us.

Roger came out and we had a fire and roasted marshmallows.

Our 'Fight Song' Music Video - April 4, 2016

Monday - April 4th

We worked in the yard a lot today.  While I was doing schooling with Parker and Brinley, Roger got a lot of the tree pruning done.  The trees are looking nice!  After school and lunch, Parker and I went out to help with the yard work.  Brinley went downstairs to play the computer for a little while.  We got a lot done.  The yard is looking nice.  But our yard is really big, so we still got a lot left to do.  I'm thinking for our homeschooling tomorrow, we will spend our time learning about gardening, so we can get things nice and how we want it out there.

After I picked Alissa up from school, Parker and Brinley came out to play with their friends.  Roger and I went out and visited for a while with our next door neighbors.  It was fun visiting with them.  We are really enjoying our new house and our neighborhood.  We love it here!

Yesterday, I prayed and asked Heavenly Father to help me find a way to make some money.  I don't want to go and get a job outside of the home.  I just need something that will give us a little extra income.  I've been trying to figure something out for a while now, and nothing is working.  I've been working on my crocheted hats, but nobody wants to buy a hat in the summer time.  I decided that I will just keep crocheting and build up my inventory for November and December (that's when my hat business is booming).  Anyway, back to my prayer.  I might have gotten an answer to my prayer today.  When I was talking to our next door neighbor, she said that she knew of someone in the ward who knew another person who is looking for a babysitter.  She told them that she would ask me if I was still planning to do daycare.  I'm not planning to do daycare, because the licensing process and having a big daycare seems like it will be too much too handle and will be too stressful and not good for me.  But babysitting 1 or 2 children for someone would be perfect for me!  It's like a tiny daycare with out all the hassles of licensing.  Plus, one of the children is a little baby.  Who doesn't want to snuggle a cute little baby all day?  Anyway, so I called the lady who had talked to my neighbor.  She said that it is a couple in our ward.  It sounds like they might have moved in to the ward around the same time we did, but I don't think I've met them.  She said that she would give them my information.  That would be awesome if it works out, but if not, I guess it was not the answer to my prayers like I thought and hopefully something else will come a long soon.

Back to the kids.  Eventually the kids got bored, so I pulled out my list of what to do when we're bored.  I started giving them ideas.  The idea they liked the most was to make a music video.  So, that's what we did.

These are the girls that live next door to us.  They were so cute and funny while we made the video.  Here are the few pictures I took during filming.

Playing with Bubbles - April 3, 2016

Sunday - April 3rd

In between sessions of conference, we went outside to enjoy the nice weather.  I pulled out our old bubbles and the big sticks from last year.  The sticks were all tangled, so it took me a while to get them ready.  When we finally had them ready and we tried them out, we were so excited about how well our bubble solution worked.  It made the best bubbles.  I remember when I made the solution last year, that I read that the solution gets better the longer it sits.  Our bubble solution has been sitting for almost a year and it works awesome now.  Alissa told me I better make more and put it away for next year.  We usually run out, so I'm sure I'll have to make it a few times before next year, but I'll remember before we put the bubble stuff away for winter, to make more, so it will be extra fun next spring.

Conference - April 2, 2016

Saturday - April 2nd

Today was conference.  We had a nice relaxing day, except for the part where we had to walk around collecting donations for the scouting program.  I really don't like doing stuff like that.  I'm just terrible at saying no.  Before we did that, we took a little time to chill outside.  These are the Snap Chat pictures that Alissa and Brinley took today.

April Fools Day Fun - April 1, 2016

Friday - April 1st

The kids are older now and I knew they wouldn't enjoy any of my old silly pranks, so I had to come up with some new ones.  I also talked to the kids and encouraged them to come up with some of their own.  Here's my list of ideas.

My favorite one was the picture of me in the toilet.  I kept laughing as I was putting it together.  I knew Roger would be so surprised.  These are the pictures I had Brinley take.

This is my in the toilet creation.  Roger thought it was pretty funny.  I started laughing so hard when he came downstairs.  He was seeing all my funny pranks and he didn't fall for any of them, but something just struck my funny bone and I couldn't stop laughing.  It was a good time.  I love laughing like that.  Where you are laughing so hard, you have tears in your eyes and you just can't stop.

 Alissa played a prank on me.  She kept begging me to come and help her search on google for some good ideas for April Fool's Day pranks.  I was busy working on my own pranks, so I was getting fussy with her for not doing it herself.  I finally came down to the office to help her and she backed her chair out of the way so I could use the mouse.  I tried to search, but I couldn't find the arrow on the screen.  I was so frustrated, trying to figure it out.  Then I picked up the mouse to look at the bottom of it and see if something looked wrong.  That's when I saw the sign she used to cover the mouse and create the prank.  I totally fell for it!  The funny thing was that I had planned to play that prank on somebody else.  Being fooled by a prank I had planned to do and the way Alissa managed to pull it off, cracked me up.  I started laughing so hard.  It was hilarious!  I laughed a lot today.  I loved it!

I thought this was so funny.  Nobody fell for it, but every time I thought of it and imagined someone coming to the door and seeing it, I started to laugh.

 I wrote "find the Toenail" on the cupcakes we made to give to Sydney.  Sydney wanted to come and enjoy some of our April Fool's goofiness with us.

 Alissa playing with Snap chat again.  I love the funny faces you can make on Snap Chat.

Today is the day Malaiyah and Teirnynn's mom, Melissa, married Chaz. I thought it was funny to get married on April Fool's day.  I kept wondering if there was going to be some kind of funny prank.  The wedding was held at a fitness center and we were told to wear our gym clothes, but match their colors by wearing red, white, or black.  The only people invited were their family and a few friends.  We felt very honored to be invited and to be considered close friends.

Snapchat Fun - March 30, 2016

Wednesday - March 30th

I love the funny pictures I find on my phone because of Snap chat.  It's funny!

Snow - March 28, 2016

Monday - March 28th

It's Alissa's spring break this week, so we got to sleep in.  That was nice.  We woke up to lots of snow outside.



We have a stray cat that sleeps in the shed on the side of the house.  The neighbors feed it and it sleeps over here.  Parker was showing me the cat paw prints in the snow.

It was cold and snowy all day.  Since Roger didn't have to work and Alissa was home, we wanted to do something fun together, but it was too cold.  All the fun stuff we wanted to do would take us out in the cold and it wouldn't work, so we decided to just rent a movie.  We rented 'The Minions'.  It was a fun movie.  We all loved it.

During the movie, Roger said that he wishes the luv sac was down here (in the family room).  I agreed.  I had been thinking about it.  Since Roger turned the pilot light off on the fireplace, there is no need for it up in the living room, so we went up to get it.  It is fun to try and move it.  It is just so big and bulky and awkward.  Moving it is always an adventure.  We got in the family room and put it in front of the couch.  Roger and I watched the rest of the movie, sitting on it.  When the movie was over, we all went and di our own thing.  Roger stayed in the family room to play a video game.  While he was playing, he was thinking that he likes the luv sac down here, but he wishes it wasn't so close to the TV.  So, he yelled for me and said that he has kind of a crazy idea about where to put the luv sac.  He suggested that we separate the couch in the middle (It's a sectional) and put the luv sac there.  I couldn't quite picture it, but I liked that idea.  So, that's what we did.  I like it.  It is a little different, but it gives us more places to sit and it spreads the couch out over more of the family room, which is nice.  We have really only been using half of the family room, because the couch doesn't reach that far and we don't have any other seats to put in there.  So, this makes the family room feel better and feel like we are using all of it.

Brian and Delaney came over to play for a while tonight.  That was nice.  I set up the Selfie Booth that we got from Linda.  Brinley and Delaney had fun playing with it.  Brinley had hoped to play in it with her friend Ashley, but Ashley had to leave before I got it all set up and working, so Brinley was really happy when Delaney came.

I put together a compilation of all the musically videos Alissa has made.  I love the musically app.  I think it looks so cool and there are some really fun things you can do on it.  Alissa uses my phone a lot and the musically app is something she uses a lot.