Marina Channeling the French. She only knows a couple of words, but walks around in her hat with her small dog, saying "oui, oui."
Making Apple Cider at Iron Mission Days at Frontier Homestead Museum.
Making Apple Cider at Iron Mission Days at Frontier Homestead Museum.
Iron Mission Days at Frontier Homestead Museum
Iron Mission Days at Frontier Homestead Museum
Lincoln got a citizenship award at school for being a peacemaker
Marina got a citizenship award at school for having a good attitude
Lincoln and Marina with their citizenship awards
Marina made an Indian outfit at school for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving dinner at the kids table. Lincoln got to sit with the grown ups!
After Thanksgiving dinner, the kids put on a play. This is Lincoln's costume for the play.
Here is the play in its entirety. The actors are all over the place, the plot is difficult to follow, but there is certainly a lot of enthusiasm. Not unlike other plays I have seen.
Marina and her cousin Ella playing
Sassy Cousins
Lincoln feeding his cousin Jax. Lincoln was the best at getting him to laugh too.
Christmas Light parade in Ogden. Cold but fun!
Christmas at the Homestead
Marina has been very good
Lincoln has been very good too!
Merry Christmas to All!
Lincoln after his Christmas program at school
Lincoln's school choir performed at the hospital's festival of lights. Lincoln is on the second row a little right of center. His head appears and disappears throughout the videos. Of course it does.
What a month! Ryan and I are a little road weary after several trips this month. The kids got to have Joseph and Britannia stay with them (their favorite babysitters), so they did not really mind. I visited Capitol Reef National Park during one of my trips - here are a couple of shots of Cathedral Valley.
We attended the Halloween carnival at church, and Lincoln and Marina loved it. They got to wear their Halloween costumes a little early, and they played games with sweets!
After bobbing for powdered doughnuts. . .
We also carved a couple of pumpkins for the holiday. Marina's is a cat with the full moon.
Lincoln's is the Headless Horseman, and he was so excited for Halloween, he could not stand it!
Happy Halloween!
A closeup of fairy makeup. Her hair is also full of glitter.
A beautiful, powerful fairy on Halloween night.
Boba Fet is in the house (or rather the yard).
The Force vs. Fairy Magic.
Just before Halloween, we went to the Cedar Livestock Heritage Festival. The weather was a little chilly for the parade, so the kids bundled up.
The parade was mostly tractors, farm equipment and sheep camps. Some of the farm equipment would turn around and show off for the crowd. It was pretty fun!
The finale of the parade was a herd of 1,000+ sheep headed trotting down the street. The kids loved it!
We were so happy to see the kids when they got back from Maine in August! We had a few days of fun before they started back to school.
Marina had a surprise when she got home - a new bed! It is the perfect bed for a little princess. Some nights she likes to close the curtains and cuddle in with a book.
For the Festival's 50th anniversary, Ryan did an exhibit at Frontier Homestead Museum. There were also some new things that the kids needed to check out.
Lincoln and Marina on a wagon at Frontier Homestead Museum
. August 2011
Panning for gold at Frontier Homestead (they even found some!)
There were costumes and a stage so the kids could try out their thespian skills.
Lady Marina
Sir Lincoln
Lincoln trying out a costume from the Festival's "The 39 Steps"
Queen Marina
Armed with very cute back-to-school haircuts, Lincoln and Marina head off to the first day of school.
First day of first grade and fourth grade
We just had our first meeting with the kids' teachers (sorry it has been so long since I posted!), and both kids are doing great. Lincoln is reading beyond a sixth grade level, and Marina has exceeded every benchmark for her grade. She is even reading chapter books now, even if it takes us a while to get through them.
We also celebrated both birthdays - a couple of times. In Cedar City, we all went to Ninja - Japanese Hibachi. The kids love that, especially the towers of flames.
We also celebrated in Mountain Green with the Pauls, and with all the cousins in Layton.
We also went hiking with the Terry cousins. It was hot, but cold treats at the end made it all OK.
Ryan is serving as president of the Utah Museums Association, and he is trying to visit all the museums in Utah while he is president. We made one of the visits as a family - to the Hill Air Force Base airplane museum. We could not believe how many planes there are there!
Ryan's sister Melissa has started painting faces, and we all volunteered to be practiced on. She is amazing!
