Gotta Dance
Monday, May 09, 2011 - Posted by Sunny - 2 comments
Hyrum woke up with this song in his head. As we sang it this morning he could not be restrained from dancing. ( I had to move as well truth be told ) Then his moves became a full on jig as he got off the couch. I asked if I could get a video, he consented. Don't know if you think it's as awesome as I do but I love it!



Afterward he said "I'm so proud of myself". So am I bud. You are soo cool.


What do you do?
Saturday, April 30, 2011 - Posted by Sunny - 4 comments
What do you do when you wake up April 30th to this...


Make a snowman of course!

I'm telling you...late spring snowmen are underrated.

You're not freezing cold as you make them but you still get to eat snow.


The snow is PERFECT snowman making snow ( unlike the powder we usually get all winter here in Utah which does not stick together) and when you roll the ball along you uncover beautiful green lush grass instead of brown dead grass.


It goes super fast because of the perfect snow conditions and again no one is complaining about the cold. It goes so fast that you can make a snowman for everyone.


I mean everyone


And the more snowmen you make the more grass is uncovered. All the more reason to make a family!

No one has pink noses in the after pictures



And no one is left without cold weather wear when you dress the snowmen because the cold doesn't stay very long so you don't need them. But of course neither do the snowmen. As soon as we began to put faces on the snowmen they began to lean and melt.


At least we got some pictures


About two minutes after we took this picture they looked like this. Good thing Hyrum wasn't sitting where he was.


The others had a little help


And you still get a little hot chocolate. YUM! Hyrum requires a straw to drink hot chocolate.


Happy Spring!!


Easter weekend
Sunday, April 24, 2011 - Posted by Sunny - 2 comments
We stayed up way too late Friday night watching a movie we never should have rented because Derek got home so late. So when Hyrum burst into our room Saturday morning at 7:30 saying "EASTER IS HERE!" we had a tough time waking up. Hyrum's excitement of course woke up Noah quite unwelcomely as well. We dragged ourselves out of bed to join the excitement. I sat Noah with Derek and ran to get the camera to get pictures...Noah was not happy about that.


Hyrum, being a pro at all this, got right down to business picking up the jellybeans in his trail and finding eggs along his way.


Noah, still shakey from his rude awakening, sat on my lap and chewed on a single jelly bean. Then he'd grab another jelly bean and bite that in half and chew on it...then eat the other half and then grab another one....all of this seated on my lap.


In time I persuaded him to put them in his basket.


The wise Easter bunny put smaller candies in small plastic eggs for Noah and larger candies in larger plastic eggs for Hyrum. Also that wise Easter bunny made a smaller trail for Noah than Hyrum. He must have been at this for awhile, I tell ya. To the boys they were fabulous maracas though.


Noah also thought the little plastic eggs made great projectiles ( or maybe he figured out a fun way to get the eggs open )


The plastic eggs were almost more fun than the candy inside for Noah


The boys also got Book of Mormon characters for Easter and Hyrum has managed to loose his "Brother of Jared" already. Poor "brother of Jared" has gone the way of the "Lamanite warrior". Hopefully we find you soon!

Despite the constant drizzle that day we couldn't be kept from going outside.We decided to give Hyrum a taste of organized baseball. He's hit the ball before but never run the bases. Most of the time he'd forget to run and would often miss bases. It was fun to teach him the game a bit.


He's an addict now. I'm impressed that he can hit the ball. The boy's already better than me.

All the excitement was just too much for Noah...and daddy.


Easter Sunday was quiet with just us four together but we took the opportunity, as we've done the last three or four years to take a family picture. It's always an adventure.

Have you ever wondered what you look like when you are lecturing...uh giving your kids instruction?

Lovely.

Hyrum could hardly breathe and I had tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard at this one.


Hyrun's smile is priceless. A bit too much sugar perhaps?

We did end up with a pretty good one though

Happy Easter!



Super sprout!
Friday, April 22, 2011 - Posted by Sunny - 2 comments
My in laws got me a seedling heat mat for my birthday. It's something that I've wanted for awhile. I learned in my classes at school that to sprout seeds and root cuttings you needed cool tops and warm bottoms. So I decided to set up the heat mat in my cool basement with artificial lighting. The ideal lighting is a full spectrum light bulb but I'd heard that using a cool florescent and a warm florescent light bulb in the same fixture works just as well which made sense so that's what I'd planned to do. I didn't set it all up immediately because I didn't have the different light bulbs and I kept forgetting to look for light bulbs when I went to the store. After two days I couldn't wait any more and just used what I had, regular old florescent light bulbs. I had planted a few things the week before but planted the rest of my vegetables and put them downstairs in my makeshift growing area.


The light should probably be closer to the plants (it's probably an inch or so high)but in just 3 days so many had sprouted (including some tomatoes that said it would take 15-20 days to germinate!)


By four days nearly everything had sprouted and by the fifth day they were outgrowing the humidity cover.

(This is the fourth day)

So now my plan is to work some of them out of the humidity and in to the cooler air adjusting them to real life. I'm so excited about this new way of starting my plants. It's soo fun to see the things I learned in school working and being able to use the knowledge I thought I'd forgotten.

Stay tuned in coming years I'm going to tweak this and have it down to a science. Who knows what will move into our basement!