What do you see?

My oldest son loves... no wait not loves... obsesses over football!  We gave him some magnet toys to give him  variety to his free time.  Can you see the shape he made?

My Gorgeous Kids

I'm pretty sure most every mother is biased towards how beautiful her own children are.... but I'm also pretty sure that my children are BEAUTIFUL and that's NOT just because I'm biased.

Snow to Go

We haven't had much snow on the valley floor this year so I took the kids up into the canyons to one of our sledding spots. We'll have to spend more Saturdays like this, it was so much fun!

 

Snowman

This is a snowman my kids built all by themselves. I love what they did with his hair!

Cute and Cuddly

Burrow (that's what my son named his snake) is now six months old. He has a few more feet to grow before he's fully grown. He'll stay skinny and won't ever be as thick as a ball python but he'll get to about 5ft long. I must admit that corn snakes make very great pets! We only have to feed him once a week, he hardly ever poops and he is very, very tame.

Football Season

My oldest is really into football this season. I found some cheap tickets for him and my husband on the classifieds. So cheap... and as you can see it was the furthest row back. But he didn't care, he was just glad to be at the game! That's my boy!

After all these Friday night games of course, the boys want to practice their tackling skills.... My younger son decided to make a "helmet" out of a milk jug. It kept falling off ... just like the BYU player's helmets XD

Show and Tell

My oldest got to show off his new pet today at school. It made his day! Oh ya... and he named his corn snake Burrow, because he likes to burrow of course.

Pet Snake!

My oldest has been saving all his money to buy a pet corn snake. He was so excited the day we set out to purchase his long anticipated pet. The entire morning he sat outside playing with a toy snake to pass the time faster.

$25 handed over and the snake was his!!!

We had the terrarium waiting in the truck of our car for the 45 min. drive home. C* was bubbling over with excitement! I'm proud of him! All his hard work has paid off. Great job buddy!

First day of school.... two out of three are happy.

After home schooling for these past two years, I've finally decided to do a little something of a mix between home school and public school. My kids are doing a charter school that has a multiple age program, smaller classrooms, elective days and one day off a week for home school. I think this will be a better mix for me.

Although, from the pictures you can see that my oldest wasn't happy about his first day but the younger two were thrilled!

Scales and Tails Show

Here... my kids got to pet a bunny. You can't see it because it's INSIDE the SNAKE!!!

This is a 16ft long Python from Southeast Asia.

Of course, my oldest boy was in absolute HEAVEN! To say he loves snakes is an understatement. He's obsessed with them!!

Even my daughter joined in on the fun!

Next thing on my list to do is buy a snake. At least that's what my son keeps telling me.

Bear Scout

Give a big shout out to my oldest! He got his Bear Badge in Scouts!

He loves being a part of the scouting program...

He also loves trains.

He asked me to make him one out of some old Capri Sun boxes.

So I did... and he painted it the colors of Union Pacific.

9yr. old humor...

I thought this was clever. My son made up this joke... or at least he said he made it up. It does sound like something off the wrapper of a laffy-taffy but I wouldn't put it past him to make up a joke like this. Either way, it was cute to see how much fun he had telling it. "Why did the blue butter punch the red butter?"......

......"Because he unsalted him."

YeeowZah!

My oldest boy really, really, really, really likes snakes. He could tell you anything and everything there is to know about snakes, REALLY! I have no idea what got him so interested in them? He checks out 6 different books about snakes every week from the library and reads them all cover to cover.

His favorite snake is the green anaconda (the largest of the boa constrictors.) He saved his own money to buy this 72 inch stuffed anaconda... His dream is that someday he will own a real anaconda for a pet. HA! Over my dead body!... or over his. Maybe I'm speaking literally... ever seen that show, "Fatal Attractions" on Animal Planet?..... moving along....

One day he set up this tennis ball to be attacked and eaten by a slithering rubber snake and caught it all on camera! Amazing footage!

He likes to include his "pets" in everything. He makes sure to bring them out each morning and carefully prop them up at the edge of the hallway. He wants to make sure they have a good seat so they can "watch" us having our family prayer and scripture study each day.

We went to a reptile show for a family night and he got to hold the skin of a snake. Anxiously he shouted out to the instructor, "This looks like a python of some sort... is it a python, maybe a Burmese Python?" The instructor said he was close... it was an African Rock Python.

The best part of the reptile show was touching a real live snake! Yippeee!

I don't remember what kind this was but he could tell ya I'm sure.

... well I was right... I asked him if he remembered the name of this snake

and he said, "it's a rosy boa".

Backyard Safari

My oldest son got a matching "Backyard Safari" vest so he and his good friend could go on "adventures" together. Perfect gift for a boy!
Not sure about the shorts with winter boots... but? I guess that's also a boy for ya! ;)

Security Cameras

My oldest son was really into security cameras a couple of months ago.... And for a while there he had them mounted all over our house... man! we were under some serious surveillance!

What are boys made of ?...

I never believed that old poem, "What are Little Boys Made of"... you know the one that says, "snakes and snails and puppy dog tails"... But now after I've had a couple of boys of my own... I think there might actually be some truth to that old poem.

And NO, this was not taken anywhere near Halloween!

So Refined!

I thought putting my 3 older kids in a children's choir would help to make them more refined and dignified... hmmm I guess old habits are hard to break. :P

Scouts

My oldest loves being a scout. This is him with one of his best friends. They get along great together. I'm very pleased because his friend comes from a wonderful family and is a really good kid.

Halloween

We had a trunk-or-treat at our church where the kids dressed up and got candy as they went door to door in a little cardboard village made by the Elder's Quorum.

Child #1 was dressed up as a newsboy.

Child #2 was dressed as a mummy.

#3 wanted to be a ghost.

...and #4 of course wanted to be a princess.

Fun pumkin carving.

Wild West

It's always wild at my house!... Yes she's holding a gun but I don't think this girl could ever look threatening.