Garrett's Poems

 Color Poem
What is Yellow?
Yellow is the sun shining on me
Yellow is the sweetness of the candy corn
Yellow is the nice hot fire
Yellow is the bee chasing me
Yellow is the power block that Mario hits
Yellow is the inside the flower that is very pretty.


 Acrostic
Great
Awesome
Reading
Rockin
Expert
Terrific
Talented


 Cinquain
Garrett B.
hike, swim
I love Mario
Video Games
Mario
Awesome Cool
I love Mario
He is not real
Fantastic


Couplet
Today is Tuesday
That's the day I play

It was night time so It was time to dream
I was dreaming about Ice cream

I was going to play with my toy
My toy is a cowboy

The was was tunes of fun
I read the book in the sun.

When I wuz done
I was ready to run

I can in a crowd
Where it is loud

I was so tired, so had to wait
I waited intell I got to the gate.

Fact Poem
Jupiter
Jupiter
I like it
Ask me why.

Because it is the King Planet
Because it has a storm that is twice as big as Earth
Because Jupiter is the fifth planet
Because Jupiter got it's name after the king of the Roman Gods.
Because Jupiter is a gas planet
Because Jupiter also has rings to.
Because Jupiter has color stripes
Because Jupiter is a planet

I  like Jupiter.

Go, Go on An Adventure in Utah

Here is my video from my digital storytelling class.   It was a fun class and it was fun to make the video.
http://youtu.be/nbfeU9aOWpE

Mother's Day Tickets

Garrett gave me three tickets for Mother's Day.  They have sat on my dresser since Mother's Day.  I was thinking what do I want Garrett to do.  Well, I finally came up with the perfect thing for him to do.  I gave him the ticket and he looks at me with alarm on his face.  He is wondering what I am going to ask him to do.  I tell him it is an easy thing.  I then go on to tell him that I want a hug every single day for a whole month.  A real hug every day!  He looked at me totally shocked like I was asking him to commit some horrible crime.  And if you know Garrett, he isn't the affectionate type. But he gave me a hug yesterday and he gave me a hug today.    I am looking forward to a month of hugs from my son.  Maybe by the end of the month he will like them too.

Magica

Olivia and her friend Jenna from school had to create a video in Spanish.  They wrote the script.  Check it out.

Silly Jokes

Garrett really loves silly jokes. So I started writing down a joke for him and putting it in his lunch box. I don't know very many jokes so I went on a search for jokes. Silly crazy jokes that a 2nd grade boy would like and get. I have found some fun ones.

Here are a few that I have found and like because they have a "love note" that goes with them too.

Garrett loves getting them so much that he has started to open his lunch before lunch and sometimes before he even leaves home to read his jokes. He likes to share them with the kids he sits with at lunch. Garrett has a hard time making friends so I hope this gives him something to talk to them about.  After school he writes down the jokes into his journal.

He likes the jokes so much he even asked if I would keep giving him a joke at lunch even when school lets out. So I am still on the look out for jokes. If you have any good ones let me know.

Recliner

Our old rocking reclining chair that I got when I was pregnant with Devin broke.  So for my birthday Jeremy got me a new chair.  It is so soft and comfy.  It is everyone's favorite place to sit.

Up to the top

Garrett is so proud of himself.  He climbed to the top of the pyramid at Neptune Park.

Goodybe, Dad!

This is what I see every morning when I leave for work. It makes my day.

15th Anniversary

To Celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary, Jere and I decided that we wanted to do something special, something memorable. So we decided to go on a hot air balloon ride over Park City. It was fun, fantastic, magnificent,  breath-taking, exciting, awe-inspiring, and yes, definitely memorable.

They used two big fans to inflate the balloon.

And a little fire!

In the basket, getting ready for take off.

These two balloons were taking off right after us.

I love the shadows! Our balloon is the one that is just a little higher.

I thought that the sunglasses and smiley face was really cool.  The dirt bike trails look really amazing.

There was some kind of balloon festival going on because there were tons of balloon out today.  We counted at least 10 while we were in the air.

We went down pretty low and were pretty close to these neighborhoods. We were trying to find a place to land and the wind kept pushing us in different directions.

We finally were able to land in a parking lot and this guy had to pull us in.

The balloon deflating.

Afterward they gave a celebratory toast.  Because we are now official "Balloon-a-tics"

Jeremy used his phone to track our GPS data during the trip. This chart shows the elevation over time.

Total distance: 8.37 km (5.2 mi)
Total time: 1:29:18
Moving time: 1:05:58
Average speed: 5.63 km/h (3.5 mi/h)
Average moving speed: 7.62 km/h (4.7 mi/h)
Max speed: 30.65 km/h (19.0 mi/h)
Max elevation: 3447 m (11309 ft)
Min elevation: 1988 m (6523 ft)
Elevation gain: 3167 m (10389 ft)
Recorded: 05/19/2012 7:13 AM

Old Balloon Story: When the first started flying balloons in France in 1793 people didn't know what they were so when they went to land, they were often met with angry mobs of people carrying torches and pitchforks. So to appease the farmers they started carrying wine to give to people when they landed and that is why they a celebratory toast today. Though he had Sparkling Apple Cider for non-drinkers.

Balloon Jokes: Where does a balloon land?
                          On the Ground!

Activity Days

Silly Olympics

Toss the hula hoop over the balloon.

Who could hold the book the longest.

Cup stacking game with rubber bands and string.

Catapult Marshmallow game. 

Going to Home Depot to make planters for their moms.

Ella, Daphney, Marina, Isabell, Olivia, Maddy, Rebecca, Celestine, Sara. 

It is fun being in activity days and planning fun activities and doing them with the girls. 

Soccer Team

This is her Soccer team:  Top Row: Celestine, Olivia, Hannah, Tallie, Anne Bottom Row: Hannah, Paige, Bridget, Maddy, Marrissa.  Coach Jr and his Wife.    They call themselves the Brazilians because their coach is from Brazil.   We like the coach and think he is teaching the girls a lot.

Olivia plays both defense and offense.

Here she is giving her friend a high five after she scored another goal.

She is aggressive and goes after the ball.  After one game she said, "Mom, I knocked that girl down and didn't even feel bad about it."

What are the boys doing why she is playing?  They go and play at Neptune Park right across from the soccer field.  They love going to her games.

Being Spoiled

Jeremy and the kids go out of their way on Mother's Day special for me and show me that I am appreciated. 

This was my breakfast in bed:  Cinnamon rolls, strawberry shortcake, and Oreos with a large glass of milk.

Olivia made me a poster, wrote me a letter, made me a "handmade" cake, and made me a picture frame and even had a planter box from activity days for me.

Olivia's letter to me:
Dear mom,
    I think you are the best mom in the world. Even when you have a broken leg you are still the best mom ever. You make the best meals ever. I hope you will enjoy the ,“I love you cake.” I made it by my self with extra love inside. I love you. You are so smart and I am glad because you are always helping me with my homework. You are very nice too, you took us to disney land you are so nice to let Jennifer to move in with us. You are also very funny singing, dancing and like you say it is your job to embrace me. You make up pretty funny jocks in my lunch you are the best mom ever you are also awesome you are the best mom with love, Olivia  

Garrett picked out my flowers.  He picked them because my favorite color in purple.  He also gave me three tickets that I could turn in: 1: Do the dishes, 2: Clean the front room. 3: Do anything I want him to.

Devin gave me lots of hugs and kisses.  Jere got me a book, a movie, and a light that I could use with my kindle.   So yes, I was spoiled all day long.  I loved that my kids and husband are so thoughtful! I also really liked that they tried really hard to get a long all day.

Dry Ice Bath

Jeremy for the ward talent show put on his lab coat and did his dry ice bubble, and some other dry ice experiments.  We had some left over dry ice.   So Devin was taking a bath (yes with his clothes on) and we decided to throw in a small piece of dry ice.  He was in heaven.  He was having a blast playing in the vapors.  Afterward the other kids wanted a dry ice bath too.  No pictures of them though.

Train Table

The train table is gone!  My friend bought it and came and got it today.  We are cleaning out the pink room so that we can move Olivia back upstairs into the pink room.  Then Jenn will be able to move back in and take that room.   We got the train table a couple of years ago for the kids for Christmas and at first they loved it a lot and played with it a lot.  Then the train stuff got taken off the table and it became a lego table.  Then the kids pretty much turned it into a pile all of our junk there table.  So we packed it all up and it is gone.  Not one of the kids acted sad that I was getting rid of it.  

I guess I am the only one who is sad.  Not because the train table is gone but that the kids are growing up so fast and this is just another way that shows that they are getting big and no longer play with things like trains tables.

But as I am sitting here writing this, the two boys are playing with cars and action figures.  So I guess they are still like playing with toys and can be little for a while longer.

Getting Ready for West Virginia

We bought plane tickets to WV!!! We will leave from Vegas on June 27th and come back July 24th.  We are so excited!  So in honor of WV we did s'mores in our backyard.   Making S'mores is one of their favorite things to do.  We don't use the fire pit that often but we sure like having one.