My brother Dan and his kids were in town visiting Grandma & Grandpa Price on their way to Idaho. We were able to reacquaint cousins, eat mom’s famous & delicious BIG Cinnamon Rolls, and visit for a little bit. It was fun to see them! There certainly was plenty of energy going around with all the active boys and dramatic girls (aka … Liza). The kids practiced their hulla-hooping skills and we were able to see Grandma perform with her heavy hulla-hoop. So cool!
The Lehi Jordan Willows Stake sponsored the Father-Daughter activity days yearly event. It was a Princess Ball. They had refreshments and a 2-hour dance. Hannah had fun seeing her friends from school that she hasn’t seen this summer. Jimmy and Hannah danced a few slow dances. They stayed for most of it and then ran to Walmart to gather some groceries. Sure are cute people, aren’t they!
We had rain all afternoon. I loved it (despite the kids being cooped up in the house all day). Listening to rain falling during quiet time was a ‘keeper’ moment. When the clouds cleared, we saw how much it had snowed in the mountains. 42 degrees down here… in mid-June. It has definitely been a cooler June (and I’m not complaining!)
Went through Eliza’s clothes to sell/give away. This is what we kept. Sweet tiny hats and blessing dress! Girl clothes were hard to consider getting rid of.
But with these cute boy options, we’ll delight in the arrival of tiny boy coming in 9 1/2 weeks. I love the brightly-colored minky blankets I found on zulily. … oh and the free chevron/minky carseat cover!
I entered the bathroom to find this dirty pile… waiting for Tru to sort. This was the result of leaving laundry 1 1/2 weeks undone. I’m trying to imagine adding oodles of baby burp rags and clothes to this. Wait – don’t think about that!
Randomness…
Abe made this leather cuff at Webelos. Cool! For the other 30 minutes a man in our ward told the gruesome story of his car accident 16 years ago.
Liza sporting her ‘Elsa Braid’ with the queen-bee crown that Hannah made.
Ants on a log… we’ve been loving peanut butter and celery for snacks lately. This counts as 0 carbs for me. Eat away! Even Truman and Abe love this snack!
Can you believe Liza really sleeps like that? So precious and perfect. She was starting to stir even though I snuck in to take this picture.
I love this picture of Abe laughing. He checked out an origami book from the library and was teaching Hannah to make ninja stars.
Last one… good grief … computer games. After quiet time yesterday of the boys playing club penguin (free trial), frozen, etc, I deleted all game bookmarks from the computer and changed my log in password. Summer is for playing outside and exploring… not for playing ipad, wii, computer games. Bleh… kills the brain, I say… Plus, if you’ve ever met Truman after he’s played on ‘screens’ for an hour …
Mr. Maxwell (6 1/2) finally caught on to tying his shoes on Sunday Morning. I was wrestling Liza to get her hair done and Max had to wait for me to help. He was able to practice and get the loop in the right hole. Slowly but surely he did it! The interesting thing is that I remember learning to tie my shoes while my mom was doing my sister’s hair. Ah-ha – practicing over and over out of necessity is the key!
Tru has a love of Roly Poly’s. He has no fear of having them on his finger. He no longer tries to bring them inside – thankfully. There is just something fascinating about that bug that curls up in a ball. Yesterday, this was what we found. Tru had moved most of the rock border to find roly poly’s underneath the rocks. His little bike (handle bars backwards!) with rocks scattered. This is actually a great hobby to entertain little Tru (though Jimmy may wonder since he had to put all the rocks back!).
A favorite activity of the day for Liza & Tru is to water the garden with mom or dad.
I love watching the kids water the garden, especially tonight
when Tru positioned himself like this to water the peppers and cucumbers.
The kids had school today for 1 1/2 hours… enough time to say hi, good-bye,
love ya, see ya later, HAGS (Have a Great Summer!) to teacher & friends.
So we headed to Provo to get some summer posters laminated at BYU
(and of course a quickie visit to the Bookstore Candy counter for $1 worth of gummy worms & sour patch kiddos!)
Drove by the Temple … actually both of the Provo temples!
I used to go and sit on that hill and ponder life… and dream about my future.
Lastly… waited in a forever line at Krispy Kreme to get 1/2 dozen donuts per report card for A grades!
Go Hannah, Abe, and Max! Way to work hard in school!
p.s. friend Josh P. was with us as we were watching him for a few hours.
Hopefully he survived hanging with the Smiths for a time.
Today was the last day of school for the year.
Max with Mrs. Mower (teacher of the year @ the school).
Abe with Mr. Ottesen (the teacher who supposedly told the students NOT to put an egg in the microwave for 2 minutes)
Hannah with her friend Tea (since she was at lunch and not with Mrs. Hill, her teacher)
The kids were happy/sad about school ending. The sadness doesn’t usually last too long though I know they miss the routine, teacher, and friends during the summer. This is a good assortment of feelings. Maybe a little confusion about what was supposed to happen – jump, look sad, look happy, look relieved?!
And as not to leave Mr. Truman out … here are beginning and end of preschool pictures with the Condie’s.
Personally, I’m relieved that the pressures of projects and homework are over for a season.
I’m super relieved that some of the friend drama might subside… moving onward hopefully.
A little freaked out at how the summer will go. I’ve been planning for weeks to have a good schedule/routine for the kiddos.
We’ll mostly focus on getting along (no poking eyes out Max!! … no whapping on the head Truman!! No pushing Liza!) and getting the house in order.
And of course, family fun!
Wish us well!
1. Max’s fantastic flower sign posted in front of our house for Mother’s Day
2. Tru meticulously arranging felted dryer balls by color. Truman loves to sort. It’s one of his talents. One day we sorted the dirty laundry by color… and then once washed sorted it by person.
3. Hannah & Abe both had very, very flat tires. Jimmy bought new tubes and fixed them.
4. Tru decided he needed a hammer to fix one of the rivets on the floor. So – he went out to the garage and got a hammer. Not something I would ever encourage, but it was so cute that he was trying to hammer the rivets flat. One time he went into the garage and got a screwdriver to try and fix his dresser drawer. He realized he had the wrong size screwdriver so he ran back downstairs and got the smaller phillips head. He takes after his dad of diy fix-it-up jobs.
5. Surprise! A bunch of dirt from the front flower bed redo was put in between the shed and the fence. They were late bloomers because of the lack of sunlight, but what a delightful surprise to still have tulips after the ones in the front were dead.
6. Liza lets us cut her nails if we paint them after. This week it was sparkly gold. Aren’t her eyes gorgeous!
This girlie is so creative, silly, a little sassy, oh-so-2, the best good-morning hugger, sincere, and believing.
Lately she picks up a pretend cat from the floor (with her hands curved so gently and careful).
She walks to us and puts the cat in our hand. Then we pet the kitty. Meow!
Today when she was playing outside, it was amazing that she would remember about this pretend kitty.
Walking up to the door waiting for someone to open it for her.
Nobody came quick enough so she put her kitty down.
Opened the door. Carefully got kitty from the steps and walked inside.
Kitty needed something to eat.
I love her creative play!
Plus, who needs a pet, when you have a pretend kitty to care for!
Oh – and Liza loves hair bows.
loves them more than hair flowers.
So I made her some bows.
This sparkly pink one was her favorite.
This one was also part of the reason I scorched my finger and got a monstrous blister.
But if bows delight, then we can do bows!
As for green fingernails… she will let us clip her nails if we will paint them.
The other day – green was the desired color!
love our 2 1/2 year old Liza.