I was working at the desk one day and when I turned around our silly James had decorated little Henry's face with stickers!  Henry is such a good sport to put up with his crazy brothers!

More Conference Prep

I've blogged about our General Conference prep before (here and here).  It seems that every year we do things slightly different.  This year we had fun prepping for conference.  One night, since President Uchtdorf was a pilot, we made paper airplanes and flew them from our stairs.  It was a fun, easy night.

Another night, because President Monson loves to fish, we went fishing for General Authorities.  I hooked paper clips to cards of the Apostles and First Presidency.  When we caught each one we would name them and state a fact about that man.  It was a lot of fun!

And as always, when listening to conference, when the boys recognize a speaker they hang the picture up on the wall.

What fun things do you do to prep for conference or to keep your kids busy during the meetings?

James: Mo-om!  I got you some flowers!  I'm going to set them right here.
Me: Thanks James!  I love them!
James: I'm a good boy.


James is always picking flowers for me.  It is so sweet!  I love it.

superhero

 This little boy loves superheroes more than anyone I know.  He always is sporting superhero jammies, shirts, and costumes.  It's hard to get him dressed in anything else!

School Carnival

A few weeks ago we went to the annual school carnival.  The boys had a great time!  We jumped on the bouncy houses,

played games (although James didn't really want to play for some reason),

won prizes,

got orange polka-dotted hair,

and ran into friends.  These boys have been friends since preK.  It's always fun to run into them!

It was a fun way to spend a Friday evening with the family!

Wonderful Weekend

There was no school on Friday so I decided to take the boys to the zoo.  I was a little nervous about taking all 4 of them by myself but they were all so good.  The weather was perfect and the crowds were not bad at all.

checking out the fish and turtles

we love the spider monkeys

being little monkeys

this lorakeet was on William's arm... but I didn't grab my camera before he hopped off

aren't these boys super cute?

 Saturday and Sunday we enjoyed listening to General Conference... when we weren't breaking up fights :)  The boys did as well as could be expected both days.  Too bad this scene didn't last longer than 5 minutes.

My many distractions didn't work quite as well as I had hoped but overall it went well and the boys even payed attention to what was being said for a little while... but mostly I think they love the treats we have during conference weekend!

Dance!

Alexander loves to dance.  Whenever he hears music he can't help but moving his body.  Tonight while Rich was gone to the Priesthood session of General Conference we were watching Phineas and Ferb (while eating Phineas and Ferb mac & cheese).  Alex started dancing and I was lucky enough to catch some of it on video.  Enjoy!