Look Who's One!

I can't believe it. Moroni is one! He really enjoyed the birthday cake, but mostly the candle part. He kept trying to grab it! Poor Moroni, though. Since he's number eight, we really didn't need more toys and such lying around. He even has a lot of clothes from Grandma KK. As a result he only had one birthday present to unwrap (not that he'll remember anyway). He got a little toy remote with lots of buttons to push. However, this doesn't deter him from the real thing. His favorite thing to do on my bed is to drop remotes and phones behind the headboard. Thank goodness Robert got on of those long arm claw things to grab all of his fun from behind the bed and dresser.

The Same Mold

Here's Ruth holding a picture of... Rebekah. I guess we just don't have a lot of different looks in our family. We have a picture somewhere of Mary in the same dress with the same pigtails holding the picture of Rebekah as well. We don't know where it is. It's probably digital. Robert wanted to get a picture of Ruth holding the picture of Mary holding the picture of Rebekah. Maybe he'll have to doctor one later.

Silly Sam

Today we were getting ready to go to church. So we told Sam to go get dressed. When he was all done he came out to show us how he got dressed all by himself. But he didn't know that his shirt was upside-down. This is a picture of Sam with his shirt on upside-down.
~Rachel

My Friends

We were looking at posts of our cousins and Ruth said, "I'm looking at my friends."

Surfing the Web

Sam was surfing the web and was surprised that he could get onto one of his favorite games from a different computer. Ben tried to explain that since it was the web, anyone could play that game at any time, "even Rudolph Hitler."

Happy Birthday Ben

Sunday, the 21st was Ben's 7th birthday. He said it was his "best birthday ever." Ben got U.B. Funkeys and they have even been seen on commercials. He really likes to play them and his favorite thing to do on U.B. Funkeys is discovering new worlds and purchasing pets.

Cousins

Orion got to come over and play today. Moroni (and Ruth too) had so much fun playing. They were just loads of grins and giggles.

Sun and Moon and Stars

Sam: Oooh! Look! The moon's all the way up!
Ruth: Huh? Where'd the sun go?

Allergies

Today I went to the doctor's office because of Rebekah's and my allergies. They told me that Rebekah and I both had allergies to the medicine we were taking for are strep throat. Our allergic reaction gave us both red bumps. The bumps itched like crazy! I woke my mom up at 5:55 this morning because it itched so much. It itched so much at night I couldn't go to sleep. I itched it so much that when I didn't itch it, it would burn. But now Rebekah and I are on medicine. So now we're getting better.

-Rachel

Camping

We went camping this weekend and the kids all had a really good time. Ben and Mary were looking for sticks to throw in the fire, Joseph was planning games of capture the flag and joined games of Frisbee while we discovered Rebekah and Rachel both have allergies to the medicine we have been taking for strep and Sam made a little club in the hiking area and Ruth was watching the fire very amused and Moroni can't really do anything yet. But wow was it exhausting!
-Rebekah

Weekend! Yeah!

I'm still trying to get everything together for school. I know that I should have done it weeks ago, but I had other things to do. I'm just trying to be patient with myself.

It's been frustrating to blog and do email on our old laptop. I can't type a w,x or q. While the latter two letters aren't bad, I'm learning how much we use the letter 'w' in our everyday type. I usually have to cut and paste whatever letter I'm missing from somewhere else. As a result I never use a capital for my name.

We've got everything cleaned up and we're getting ready to go camping with our ward. Time to shut the computers down.

Sleeping In

Robert is gone until Sunday. Since we had nothing else to get up for (with Daddy being gone) we totally slept in today. I never sleep well with him gone anyway. The kids rolled out of bed between 8 and 8:30 and were surprised that the bus had already come for the other kids. Hmmmm... I sure do like the freedom that we're provided.

Ben and Mary finished school by noon (and Ben even did some bonus classes) and Joseph, Rebekah and Rachel completed their assignments in time to play with friends. I'll count today as a success. Just three more days until daddy comes home.

School

School has started. Things are full here, but I'm loving the time with my children.

Labor Day

hat an aesome day. (Currently I can't type the letter that begins my name, so I'll go back and fi my post later) This morning e headed off to the ard primary activity here the kids participated in olympic events. Benjamin's favorite as the hurdles. You should have seen him flying through. Unfortunately I forgot my camera. Boo hoo.

After the olympics, our ard had a picnic. It as almost 90 degrees today, and e could really feel the heat. After the picnic, e decided to spend the last day of Summer at the pool. Some of the kids didn't ant to go to the pool, so I stayed home ith them and Robert took everyone else.

For family home evening, e talked about school starting and everyone got their father's blessing. hat a onderful blessing to have the priesthood in our home. e also did some planning for the schoolyear and brainstormed ideas of ho to stay on track. ill they ork? e'll see.