Shiloh's preschool field trip to greenbluff

Sorry for the lacking amount of pictures. I am pretty lame when it comes to remembering. Jeff is much better and I wish he could always be home so we could get lots of pictures of our fun outings.

 Shiloh and Claire.

 Mom and Kinley.

On our tractor ride through the orchard.

First Day of School

 Shiloh has a preschool open house on September 2nd to meet her teacher (Mrs. Sunnie) and see her classroom.

 

School started on September  8th for Mason and Cooper

 Mason is in 5th grade this year and has Mrs. Layton for his teacher.

 Cooper is in third grade and has Mrs. Nendel for his teacher.

 Two cute girls needed in on the picture taking action as well.

 

 Shiloh's first day of preschool was on September 9th.

I took this picture just before leaving the room. The look on her face was like, really mom! Get outa here so I can be with my friends, I don't need you anymore.

Shiloh's preschool graduation

Yesterday we had a small graduation ceremony for Shiloh and her friends that she did preschool with this year. Before handing them their certificates they got to hear "all about me" for each of the girls. They were all so cute and funny. Here is Shiloh's: 

This person is 4 years old. Her favorite thing to do at preschool is eat snacks. At home she loves to play with her dollies. In 20 years she will probably be like 5 years old. She does not ever want to get married but she wants to have 4 kids. They will live in her family's house forever. They will eat snacks everyday. Like lots of chex mix. When she grows up she will be a ballerina. She will make $15 doing this. In her free time she will dance, dance, and dance.

March Happenings

 On the 21st Jeff and his dad took the kids to Cabelas. This really isn't a retailer, it's really a tourist attraction, right?

They spent something crazy like $35 on 3 kids meals and one adult meal in the cafe there. Lame.

 Caught Kinley pushing Shiloh this time, only on our neighbors swing.

 How much taller is Mason than Cooper? And Cooper than Shiloh? And Shiloh than Kinley?

 We went on a field trip to the fire station with a bunch of other kids doing co-ops on the 25th.

November Happenings

 On November 9th our ward had their annual Primary program. Mason, Cooper, and Shiloh all participated this year and had a small speaking part. Mason decided this would be a good day to have his tie tied in a trinity knot and Cooper wore his studly pink bow tie.

 

 That same night, we had Family Home Evening. For those of you who may not know what Family Home Evening is, it is a night we set aside to be together as a family. We have a lesson, an activity, a treat, opening and closing prayers, and sing a few songs. Our lessons can vary depending on what we feel our family needs to learn. Sometimes we have lessons on being respectful, responsible, kind, loving, following Jesus, keeping the commandments, etc. This week, our lesson was on Choosing the Right by obeying our parents. Our activity was to color this sheet below and tell one way we were going to obey our parents during the next week. Our kids really go into coloring these papers. I love having time set aside to be together as a family and I know this nights help to build our family unity.

 

 

 

 

 

Shiloh had been asking to go see the temple since we came back from the Odgen Utah  temple open house in August. So, Friday, November 14 we took a trip out to the temple here in Spokane. It was a really cold night, but we had fun walking around the temple, taking pictures. The best part was seeing how excited Shiloh was that we were doing what SHE wanted to do. It warms my heart to know that the one thing she wanted to do most was to go she the Lord's house, even though she is not old enough to go in.

 

 

 

 

 

Shiloh had a Thanksgiving feast at preschool and made cute little hats out of her hand prints.

The other day, Kinley was not happy about something. Don't really know what. I tried to comfort her, snuggle her, etc. Then she said, "I want yo' gasses (glasses), mom". So as a desperate attempt to calm her down, I gave them to her. As soon as I did, she calmed down, put them on, and watched tv with them on for several minutes. Silly girl!

 Last night, we were blessed to go to on of our former young men, Shane Lee's wedding reception. He married our sister-in-law Michelle's little sister Heather. Crazy small world. Shiloh really wanted to dance with her daddy, so he did what any good daddy would do.

 Jeff got a new firefighting helmet, so he HAD to bring it home for everyone to try on. Dang, that thing is HEAVY!