science fun.

Me and the boys went to "Science Saturday" at Weber State. It was a lot of fun. Who knew learning could be so cool?

We went in a classroom for a demonstration on static electricity and Spencer sat in the desk and leaned over to me and said, "this looks like a desk at a school". I said, "this is a school!"They both thought it was fun to sit in the desks. They got to make "cells". It was a little plastic container filled with Play dough and they used candy to represent all the things that make up a cell. It was really cool! I think they were secretly hoping they would get to eat the candy later, but soon realized it wouldn't taste good covered in salty dough.

warmth.

Dear Winter,

We are all done here, right?! See you in November!

Love, a mom who's sanity is saved by warm days filled with bikes, scooters, and trampolines

how 'bout them jazz.

Spencer got to enjoy a Jazz game with Cory on Wednesday night. I would be smiling like that too if I got to sit in the 10th row enjoying a churro and a soda:)

vintage swimwear

After Parker's swim lesson last night we all stayed and went swimming. It was Mataya's first time and she liked it for the most part, but I think she got a little cold. Plus she doesn't recognize Cory without his glasses and when I would hand her off to him she would cry, and he dunked her under the water. Those dad's are a little mean sometimes:)

I wanted to get a pic of her in this swimsuit. I've looked at a couple places and haven't seen the kids swim wear available yet so I had to use this standby.

She wore this vintage swim suit that I wore as a baby. I promise I will buy you a new one Mataya:)

cheese toast vs. smoothie

Over the weekend I had a hot date with Cory at Sizzler....jealous?! Okay, we had an annual adult, family dinner. We were packed in a banquet room that was loud and hot, but it's always good to see the fam. So, I really love their cheese toast and I ate almost 3 pieces, that crunchy, cheesy topping is so good. So on the drive home I was playing with Cory's phone and he has this app. on there that is a calorie counter that you can look up different restaurants and see the nutritional value. So I look up Sizzler and discover my cheese toast and baked potato I ate totaled 1,000 calories. Plus I ate chicken and a salad. My eating priority has always been with bread so the love of cheese toast comes as no surprise.

So with that said, I had to balance out the weekend with some power smoothies.

I made some Sunday morning and everyone said they liked them. I made one this morning and it contained the following: frozen blueberries, frozen strawberries, skim milk, protein powder, milled flax seed, fresh spinach, and a little bit of honey. I figured out the nutritional value of my 16 oz smoothie and it had 251 calories, 38 grams of protein, and 8 grams of fiber....plus a lot of other great vitamins and nutrients. I'm trying to get buff so I think this is a step in the right direction.

Now I feel just a little better about my cheese toast rendezvous.

napping and dental work.

So here we were yesterday at the dentist. Parker had to have a double root canal on his two front top teeth.....sad face:( He fell in the bathtub a few years back and banged his teeth really hard. So both of them are "dead" and one of them was abscessed so both teeth were done because the other one would eventually become infected. They gave us the option of removing the teeth, but I didn't want a toothless little boy for waiting 2 years for his permanent teeth to come it.

And Spencer in true form got cozy on the waiting room chair with Mataya's blanket. The office manager came out and saw him and said, "move him to the couch and I'll get blanket." So I moved him over and he continued to sleep for another 45 minutes.

And the little girl was just being cute sitting on the floor playing and eating snacks.

I have to brag for just a second about my boys. Spencer had a small cavity filled last week and then Parker had his root canals and the dental assistants kept telling me that they were so good getting their work done. One gal came out and said she had never seen a 6 year old have that kind of procedure done and be so good about it! I am so happy that they don't spaz out, so to speak. I once saw a little boy about 5 spit in a dental assistants face and he was just getting his teeth cleaned! Parker was very nervous about it, but he did great!

Parker came out and acted just like his self and asked if we could go get a smoothie. I told him we could and was it okay if we went to McDonald's because I had a coupon. To which, he replied in a whiny voice, "I really want Jamba Juice." Spoiled! I thought that would be okay because of the whole root canal thing he just went through:)

my protector.

Do you ever see little kids at the store wearing pajamas or Halloween costumes? Well, I've got one of those kids that lives at my house. A couple of weeks ago he would not leave the house without all this stuff. He is wearing a paper crown he made in Sunbeams, the shield is a lid to a plastic container (that he put a bunch of stickers on), and a sword! Nothing embarrasses me anymore....except when my hubby smacks my butt while dressed like Santa in front of 40 people, but other than that I'm good.