Moby Dick

This is me today in my giganticness. I don't blog a terrible lot about being pregnant, but here it is, I still am! I have been measuring full term for awhile now and I feel like a whale. Especially today, where I felt bad for all the parents and grandparents that came to church to see their kids in the primary program and instead could only see my backside as I led the singing. (sorry people!)

I am enjoying the fruits of my "nesting phase" that are mostly produced by my husband, the poor thing. Tonight I bathed in a freshly scrubbed/caulked bathtub (husband) listening to a nice itunes playlist all put together on my stereo (husband) I have a bedroom full of birthing supplies/baby necessities waiting for the birth (husband) and a full storage room of food from all the case lot sales (gotta love Utah!)

So now that the primary program is over, baby N can come out, right? Oh wait, I have to still have a birthday party for M.

I know, I know, he'll come when he's good and ready, which will probably fall somewhere near my due date, if past history is the indicator. In the meantime, wish me luck on attempting to put on pants, reach the bottom of the washing machine, tie little boys' shoes, and sweep my muck into the dustpan myself.

The "State Capital Fair"

This is what E keeps calling where we went on Monday night. (It was the Utah State Fair.) He says he wants to go there on his birthday. Good luck with that in April. They remembered how much fun it was last year and were so excited to go again. They of course LOVED the little hands on the farm. It is seriously the cutest thing ever. The baby pigs were a highlight as well, even though M says the goats were his favorite. I liked the yummy dinner I didn't have to cook (thanks mom and dad!) and the fact that it was not hot. (Although it was pouring rain most of the time) It was fun to have Grandma and Grandpa there and was a fun family night!








This is from today during school, we were learning how to read a recipe and made edible playdough. This week has been about: Tall Tales continued, Cooperation, Recipes and abbreviations, and story time today was about clocks and watches. They got to look at broken watches to see what was inside, which they really enjoyed.

School so far...

A few people have asked what we have been doing for school beyond the first day, so I’ll summarize so far. If you don’t care, just skip this post. I’m not trying to be all obnoxious like “look at me!”

First Day- Names and such (see previous post)

Day 2- Shapes, played with tangrams, had fun w/stations, library time

Last week

Tue- Feelings, puppet show, made feeling faces and came up with situations, stations, made cookies.

Wed- Vegetables- examples, memory game, potato stamp paintings

Thurs- Homophones & Riddles, read squirrel nutkin, examples of homophones, illustrated riddles, attended Library story time.

This week

Mon- Visited Utah Museum of Natural History, saw frog exhibit, had picnic

Tue- Tall Tales, Read about Paul Bunyan, discussed exaggeration, made their own tall tale. I have included it below.

Today- “The Force”- Gravity and Newton, did experiments with gravity, inertia, and magnetism. Had new stations set up. Ate Newtons apple when we were done. Going to story time as well.

We also work on either number, letter, cutting, or other various workbooks every day before the lesson but after songs, etc… It lasts from 1-4 hrs. usually two.

Their stockings were hung.....

Well, they're not hung yet, but I'm ready to go when the time comes. After M was born, I decided to make him a stocking and bought enough of this blue felt and the coordinating flannel for the back to make 3 stockings. I made E's after he was born and I just didn't think I'd want to be stressed with N's after he was born, so I used up the last of the fabric & felt and finished his today.

Either I can't have any more kids, or kid #4 will have to have a different color scheme. Maybe if it was a girl it wouldn't be weird to be different. Anyways, you blog readers will have to have the blurred out version of the names, sorry.

First Day of School

Today was our first official day of school. Here we are on the porch before getting started.


This is the schoolroom our mom set up in the basement for us.

After some name-game songs and opening up our schoolhouses to start the day, we practiced tracing our full names.

After that, we had 2 minutes to find 3 things in the basement that start with the same letter as our names.


For our lesson, we learned about the origins of names, family crests, and looked up the meanings of all 3 of our names! We got to make our own crest where we drew pictures of each of the meanings of the names.

I drew a soldier, a deer lover, and a bright sun.
E drew himself helping rake the yard, a knight's shield and helmet, and a bright sun. Then it was time for us to pick something from one of the "stations" set up in the school to do. I worked on a collage, and E played with dominoes.


For snack time, we got to make our letters out of strips of cheese. Yum!


Recess at the park ended our school day. I can't wait until tomorrow's school!

Random august

We've done a bunch of stuff this month. We had our 8th anniversary, we have camped (some of us twice) Grandma had a birthday (Happy Birthday Mom!) and done stuff around the yard and home. I am busy getting ready to start home school on Wednesday and I have about finished baby N's christmas stocking and will post a picture when it's done. Here are some random pictures of our month:

M and I made a peach pie today. Here he is pointing out my mistakes in weaving the top.

And I let him trim, he had so much fun! (don't mind the peach I have all over my belly and didn't even know it until I saw the pictures.)

Putting together mom's birthday present

Mom and some of her gifts
E being who knows what complied from many different dressups

E being a chicken. He was hilarious
1 week ago, my sister came to babysit while we enjoyed some of DH's birthday gift certificates for our 8 year anniversary. Happy anniversary honey!

Some Quilts for my Baby

I finally have some quilts finished for baby N. I'm sure he really cares about that ;)

Blue/Yellow scrap-user quilt, done all on machine.Detail of edge/back fabric
Square and Circles quilt I designed and made using Lizzy House's "Red Letter Day" collection. This is much larger than the blue & yellow one and done by hand using different colors of thread & different sizes of circles.
Circle hand-quilting detail


Back of Circles Quilt