Camping Trip

I took Harrison and Jackson camping with my parents and Dylan and Victoria last week. We all had some days off school so my parents planned the trip. Damon had to stay home and work, we missed him but that didn't stop us from having fun. The boys loved it, especially drinking hot chocolate and roasting marshmellows. Jackson said the other day, "go camping?" I asked if he wanted to camp again. He said, "roast marmellow!"
We played in the creek, went to Montazuma's Well and the fish hatchery and just played. We went at the perfect time because the weather was warm but not hot and at night it got cool enough to sit in front of the fire and drink hot chocolate. The day we left the wind was blowing and it was cold.
We will probably go camping a lot more because the boys love it so much, but next time I go I am bringing an air mattress.

Big Boys in Bunk Beds

When Rebecca moved she gave us Dylan and Victoria's old bunk bed. In between sessions of Saturday's General Conference we set the bunk bed up in Harrison's room and moved Jackson in there also. Harrison is sleeping on the top and Jackson is on the bottom. They are doing really well with it, except for the second day when Harrison got stuck. We put the boys down for a nap and shortly after Harrison started crying. Our first reaction was to ignore him because we thought he just didn't want to nap. Right away his cry got harder and louder. We found him dangling from his new bunk bed from his arm that was stuck in the slats of his foot board. He has been very cautious ever since!

Fire Station

My preschool and Harrison's preschool went on our first field trip to the Fire Station on October 2. The kids enjoyed going and I think the firefighters enjoyed showing off to the kids. They got to see and climb in a fire truck and they came home with hats and coloring books. I got some great pictures of each of my preschool students standing in the fire truck with a fireman and later realized my memory card wasn't in my camera!!! Luckily most of the parents had cameras, but still...
I am loving my preschool. I have six students, including Jackson. I really enjoy my little school and it's nice to have that affirmation and compliments from the parents. It's also exciting when my students repeat something that I taught them weeks before.
Our class today was a lot of fun. We planted carrots in my garden for our farm unit and made icecream to learn about the letter I.

Lake Powell

Damon and I went on an adults only trip to Lake Powell in September. We had a great time visiting with friends, swimming, water skiing, fishing and exploring the lake. My favorite part was when we would go on a boat ride and find inlets in the rocks and take our boat as far into them as we could. We would turn the motor off and move the boat further in by guiding it with our hands on the rock wall. If our boat was "stuck" but the inlet went further we would get out and swim until it ended. There was one time when it felt like we were swimming in a cave it was so dark because the rock walls were so high and so close around us. We came to a part were the mountain seperated and we could see a patch of the sky. It was beautiful looking up from the water at these red rocks that spiraled up with the bright blue sky in the center. If only I had a water proof camera! Here are some of the pictures I did take.

Happy Birthday Jacksy-boy

My Jackson turned the big 2 on Monday!!! I love that boy. Jackson is very special to me, I feel like he "saved" me. I was not ready to get pregnant with him when I did. Harrison was only 9 months old when I got pregnant and I was struggling to keep my sanity. But Jackson changed my way of thinking. I realized I could do things I didn't think I could. I must say Jackson can be a handful (like when he cried for almost 2 hours because he wanted juice) but he is such a happy, sweet boy. I love that kid, my Jacksy.

Creating WALL-E

First the body.

Then the feet.

Add a head.

Finally the arms and hands.

Another poop story.....

Harrison has been "potty trained" for over a year but is just starting to do everything himself. The other day he went to the bathroom, I went to check on him and he had locked the door. He asked me to leave and give him his privacy. I went to check on him again just as he was coming out of the bathroom. I noticed that his shorts were soaking wet. I asked why his shorts were wet. He was very proud to say that he washed them. I was a little nervous to ask if he washed them in the toilet. No, he washed them in the bathtub. He took me in the bathroom to show me where he washed his shorts and I was able to piece everything together. Harrison was in pull ups ready to take a nap when he needed to use the bathroom. He didn't make it to the toilet so he took off his clothes by himself, dumped the poop out of his pull up into the toilet, threw the pull up in the garbage then cleaned his shorts in the bathtub. He was so proud of himself for cleaning everything up. I guess he didn't notice the mess he made on the bathmat or the toilet!