Doing finances at home just got better. It is always nice to have a fresh pair of eyes to push the numbers around.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Personal Coach
Doing finances at home just got better. It is always nice to have a fresh pair of eyes to push the numbers around.
Family Canning or Canning Family
Faith's idea of canning pears. Eventually I suppose the pears will shrivel and fall into the bottles and then it might make a new type of wine?
Danny's idea of canning food! Okay, no. This is just what he got to do while mommy was canning food so that he was happy, and no, that is not all brown buggers, he was just storing some of the chocolate cake batter in his nose for later.
One week of bottling fruit. So it is no fair display, I know. But I got 72 quarts of pears put away and 13 of peaches. Notice the lovely shelves put together by my oh so handy hubby! Walla! Kids' closet turned food storage.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Mesa Temple
Okay, Faith looks kinda funny in this one, but Danny is just too cute to disregard.
Okay, his turn to look funny.
While the Museum sleeps
It wasn't exactly a night with Ben Stiller and the T-Rex chasing a bone around the museum, but the Mesa Natural History Museum was dino-mite!
Dino mountain.
Big T checking out Danny, Danny training Big T.
Perfect scale for maximum enjoyment.
Panning for gold, not so successful.
The late closing shadows on the Mastadon.
Dino mountain.
Big T checking out Danny, Danny training Big T.
Perfect scale for maximum enjoyment.
Panning for gold, not so successful.
The late closing shadows on the Mastadon.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Moments of Faith: child of light
Two instances this week gave me a glimpse into the tender, yet very mature, spirit that lives within my child of bright eyes:
Sunday as we walked into the foyer of the Church, Faith immediately pointed to the picture ahead of her, "Jesus! Jesus! Mommy, it's Jesus!" Yes, I confirmed for it was a picture of Christ. She took another moment to look about and saw the next picture. "Mommy, another Jesus! Jesus is here." Yes, I affirmed, Jesus is here.
Wednesday evening as we were doing our family scripture study, Faith was being her normal restless self. Josh has already given the 'picture lesson' as he does so he feels the kids are getting something from the Book of Mormon, and then he continued to read from Enos, upon my insistence that the children need to hear the words of the scriptures. As Josh began reading the account of Enos praying to the Lord to know if he was heard, Faith bridged herself from her bed to the arm of the rocking chair in which Josh was reading. She casually put her chin cupped in hands and glanced at the pages, looking more like the Ceshire cat than interested in the words Josh was reading. Then, out of the blue, just as Josh was reading in vs 11 'and after I, Enos, had heard these words...." Faith interjected "He speaks to me." Both Josh and I paused to look at her. She sweetly looked at us and said "I hear His words, He speaks to me." We prompted a little, 'Heavenly Father answers your prayers.?" "Yes." Faith replied in full confidence, "He speaks to me." That was the best sciptural lesson we could hope for.
Sunday as we walked into the foyer of the Church, Faith immediately pointed to the picture ahead of her, "Jesus! Jesus! Mommy, it's Jesus!" Yes, I confirmed for it was a picture of Christ. She took another moment to look about and saw the next picture. "Mommy, another Jesus! Jesus is here." Yes, I affirmed, Jesus is here.
Wednesday evening as we were doing our family scripture study, Faith was being her normal restless self. Josh has already given the 'picture lesson' as he does so he feels the kids are getting something from the Book of Mormon, and then he continued to read from Enos, upon my insistence that the children need to hear the words of the scriptures. As Josh began reading the account of Enos praying to the Lord to know if he was heard, Faith bridged herself from her bed to the arm of the rocking chair in which Josh was reading. She casually put her chin cupped in hands and glanced at the pages, looking more like the Ceshire cat than interested in the words Josh was reading. Then, out of the blue, just as Josh was reading in vs 11 'and after I, Enos, had heard these words...." Faith interjected "He speaks to me." Both Josh and I paused to look at her. She sweetly looked at us and said "I hear His words, He speaks to me." We prompted a little, 'Heavenly Father answers your prayers.?" "Yes." Faith replied in full confidence, "He speaks to me." That was the best sciptural lesson we could hope for.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Phoenix Children's Museum; the un-labored day
Danny looking up in the middle of a jungle of noodles. There was an entire room with noodles strung from the ceiling and free at the bottom that you could bang on through without getting hurt at all. Danny was funny as he walked through, you had to keep a barrier around him so when others came banging through he didn't get run over. He would pop out at one side, stop, giggle, then turn around and go back in.
Kiddo car wash. Unfortunately it did not have real water, that would have been fun! Faith took Danny for a ride after a bit of persuasion.
Puffy yarn balls, which Faith is actually sharing with Danny. You put them in tubes with vacuum air power and they blew out the top, shooting at people randomly walking by in the hall!
Our budding florist. They had all sorts of pots that you could arrange the flowers in and then you could plant the flowers back in the garden (board with holes). They also had a pizzaria, grocery store, tiny tot play land, art room, ultimate derby car race track, and a room full of balls you could push through pvc pipe. A child's (and Josh's) dream. It was so nice to have coordinated with family to get the free culture passes to enjoy it on Monday.
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