Other Things that Happened in June

We didn't just celebrate holidays in June. Here are some of the other things we did.

There was a neighborhood breakfast with games and food.

Lucky learned a new skill- making roses out of napkins. He made a whole lot, which I didn't mind because we had a huge package of napkins from the store so we weren't running out. And they looked cute.

 

There was lots of chess playing.

Annual Jugglers' Barbecue. It was so good to be around performers again.

Jr. Jr. and another boy got to give a lesson in Young Men. They worked on their lesson in our house. I appreciated seeing the time and effort they put into it.

We went to visit friends we hadn't seen in a few years. The kids had no problem playing with each other again. We, adults, had a great conversations.

 

The boys got some well needed haircuts. He are some before and after shots.

Lucky wanted me to cut off a huge chunk of the front of his hair. So I did. Then he wanted me to leave it that way. So I did. For several days. He wanted to go out in public like that. So we did.

The things I do for my kids.

Eventually I was able to give him a decent haircut.

I think Lucky's going through a grumpy face stage. He's not unhappy, he just wants to look that way for pictures. Sigh.

I took him and Jet to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point while the older kids were at Youth Camp and he looked grumpy again while riding a horse.

Besides riding a real horse, Jet wanted to ride every fake animal he could find. Lucky got involved with that with him.

Later Jet got to milk a real cow and Lucky got a squished penny.

And of course, Jet got to slide on the slide again.

 

I got a picture of all three of the older kids before they went off to Youth Camp but only a picture of Jr. when he got back. They all came back in different vehicles. Two of them got dropped off at home and one I picked up from the church.

Nichole crocheted a cat for her secret sister. She just sat down and crocheted it. No pattern. Just created it. That's talent.

Other things:

Jr. is learning to drive.

We had some fun with balloons. Jeremy had several sculptures to build so I delivered some so he could keep building.

Lucky got to use leftover balloons to make his own creations.

We got some of those balloon perks again. Jeremy brought home Chick-fil-a sandwiches for us after one event.

Another night he "crashed" Marcus's neighborhood barbecue to make balloon animals for the kids. It was a pleasant surprise. His wife sent Jeremy home with hamburgers. Yummmm.

Lots going on but I'm glad I'm finally getting around to catching up.

If You Give Nichole a Medium...

She will crochet her friend a "korok." Her friend is also a fan of The Legend of Zelda. Nichole was working on this when we celebrated the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda.

If You Give Nichole a Medium...

Crocheted knight and a girl Nichole decided to contribute to a seminary auction. The knight's sword comes out of the belt and can be attached to the knight's hand.

December 25th- Christmas!

I mentioned before that Jeremy wasn't able to finish the project he was working on with the flannel, so instead Jeremy built some balloon sculptures for the kids to go along with the presents that Santa brought them. From Santa, Nichole got a little Polly Pocket-sized set of Beauty and the Beast figurines with interchangeable outfits for Belle. To go with that, Jeremy built her a Lumiere candlestick with electric tealights attached to his candles.

Jr. got some little plastic animal figurines (Northwest animals and marine animals) from Santa, and Jeremy built him a balloon lighthouse. He put an electric tealight inside a round balloon but it wouldn't work Christmas morning. The lighthouse is still neat, though.

It was nice to have more time to get ready for Christmas this year. I was even able to crochet a little ball with a face and hair for Jr. and a little purse for Nichole. Jr. immediately started throwing his little guy around. Hurray for softness.

It was a nice day. We all had lots of presents to open and even when we thought we were all done, a few anonymous gifts came to the door.

We had a pretty laid back day yesterday, but it looks like we've got plenty of cleanup ahead of us this weekend. I think we'll slowly get around to figuring out where to put all the new stuff, but it will be nice to have the stack of wrapped presents out of Jeremy's office again.

I am glad that we focused on what Christmas is really about. We had a lot of reminders through the month of the love our Savior has for us and the love we can show for Him. I didn't feel guilty about having a day of opening and playing with presents. We are very blessed and we had a good Christmas!

Merry Christmas. Happy Boxing Day. Now to get ready for New Year's. Phew.