Bison Day 2022

Sadly we broke tradition and didn't go to Antelope Island for National Bison Day this year even though it was on the calendar for months. Jeremy had to work and I didn't know how a couple of us would do on the trip as we were trying to get over our colds so we didn't go. Sigh.

Instead, "Otter the Bison" joined in some of our daily activities:

 

Attempting "sliced baked potato loaded nachos" from shelfcooking.com but I think I need to cut them thicker next time and not layer them on the cookie sheet. They still tasted good.

Slicing bread.

Snuggling... quite a bit.

Joining us in watching a Friend to Friend broadcast from churchofjesuschrist.org for Primary age children and their families.

Guarding treats brought over from a friend. Unfortunately Otter the Bison didn't do the best job as Jet got hold of the last of the Butterfinger like treats and Jeremy didn't get any when he got home from work. Sigh.

I would have liked to have gone to Antelope Island to celebrate by seeing the bison there but you celebrate how you can, right?

November Began

And then November began. As you already know I was sick at the beginning of November. Blah. So not such great celebrating.

November 3 was Men Make Dinner Day and National Sandwich Day so I already had on the menu plan "Men make sandwiches," meaning the boys. Jr. made me a sandwich. Thanks, Jr.

He also made chocolate chip cookies substituting peanut butter for the eggs. Yum.

Baby Cuteness

The rinse water was full before Jet got to it.

 

He found a box and put it around his waist so one of the kids handed him a steering wheel and told him to walk around like that.

How can you be so cool and so cute at the same time?

 

Jr. is Jet's favorite.

 

Mom: What is that you're holding?

Jet: Pteranofork.

 

What do you mean I can't go to camp with my brothers?

We got a new salad spinner. Jet loved pumping it. His dinosaurs loved it, too. Of course he had them sticking their heads in it to eat the lettuce. Hey, stygimoloch is an herbivore after all.

 

First long day after the kids went back to school: Played with toys, read books, sang songs, had snacks, snuggled.

Another day we played at the park when it started raining. How exciting.

Big helper cleaning the door. Of course he wrote on it with a dry erase marker in the first place. Yay for Magic Erasers.

Big helper cleaning the table. He didn't spill anything on it. He was just a big helper.

The elk has your nose.

Jet wanted to help me mix up the Tang. I showed him how to pump it up and down and told him what drink it was. So he started saying, "Up and down orangutan."

When you're sick and miss church, you color finger puppets and tell the story of Daniel and the Lions' Den at home. 

Mom: Do you want to color some pictures? What should we color?

Jet: Pumpkins!

Selfies

Baking Buddy

 What is wrong with this picture?

All tuckered out

Halloween While Sick... Again

Then I got sick... again. I didn't feel up to doing anything except be sick for a couple days. Then I did just what was absolutely necessary the next couple days. Missed the Halloween parade at the elementary school again. Managed to get kids to and from school. Some of the kids took pictures of each other because I wasn't up to it.

When Jeremy came home from work, he took the elementary schoolers out trick or treating because Jet and I didn't feel up to going and the older kids decided not to go.

We didn't get a picture of Jeremy but he was dressed up as Waldo again.

Jet and I were sick people for Halloween. Although a different day, Jet decided to wear this Jedi robe to pick up kids from school. He looked good.

Nichole was a dragon tamer and her dragon, Ernest, was a pirate but he wasn't wearing his eyepatch by the time we got the picture.

Jr. was a magician and actually showed friends magic tricks at school.

Jr. Jr. was an alchemist. Remember when I got together for ladies' night and made some Halloween decorations- potions and elixirs? Jr. Jr. had plenty to say about what I made at the time. He took it farther and came up with his own concoctions which he put in a box to carry around- his box of alchemy supplies.

He was very creative with what he collected around the house and put together. He even got a contribution from "Dr. McCoy," (remember Halloween 2020?), a skeleton arm that had previously fallen off. And the creepy doll's head made an appearance in his box as well.

Lucky was the Eleventh Doctor because he wasn't able to do that costume last year, even though his teacher last year had a Doctor Who themed classroom. He was able to show his former teacher on Hallowen this year.

That's how Halloween went this year.

Unlike last year, I didn't get the chance to go one last time to Bridal Veil Falls to say goodbye until May. I didn't get a chance to do several things I wanted to do because of sickness. Oh well. That's life.

We did finally get the Fall colors down here in the valley, though. I love Fall colors.