As "just" a mom, I have a front row seat to my children's growth and learning, daily little miracles, and the funny things that happen in a marriage. I feel so very blessed to be "just" a mom.
Oliver is 5! Rylee is such a fun, happy girl to be around. She loves her friends and hanging out with them, and loves meeting new people. Rylee loves to ride her bike, play pickleball (she has her own special paddle she bought), draw, read, dance, and play Minecraft. Rylee loves her siblings and her cousins. She is always looking on the bright side of things and always up for a having a good time. We love having Rylee in our family!
What is your favorite thing to do?
Play games, like robots with magnet blocks and games on the Switch like Boomerang Fu.
What are you best at?
Making robots out of magnet blocks, and playing games that I made up
What is your favorite color?
White
What do you love to eat?
Tacos
Who is your best friend?
Ashtyn, or Parker
What do you love to learn about?
Gymnastics
What is your favorite book?
Go of Boomerang Fu that I made, or one I didn't make is The Pokey Little Puppy
What is the best movie or show to watch?
Avatar the Last Airbender and Bluey
What is your favorite animal?
Dog, no monkey
What do you love to play with?
Magnet blocks
If you found a genie, what would you wish for?
For me to be an actual robot
What do you want to be when you grow up?
A game player
What was your favorite thing that you did while you were four?
Rylee is 8! Rylee is such a fun, happy girl to be around. She loves her friends and hanging out with them, and loves meeting new people. Rylee loves to ride her bike, play pickleball (she has her own special paddle she bought), draw, read, dance, and play Minecraft. Rylee loves her siblings and her cousins. She is always looking on the bright side of things and always up for a having a good time. We love having Rylee in our family!
What is your favorite thing to do?
Read, or probably movie night.
What are you best at?
Drawing robots
What is your favorite color?
Purple
What do you love to eat?
Cookies, cake, ice cream, and apples too
Who is your best friend?
Lela
What do you love to learn about?
New things and different types of stories
What is your favorite book?
Another Kind, Barb the Last Berzerker, Wings of Fire
What is the best movie or show to watch?
Avatar the Last Airbender
What is your favorite animal?
A snake
What do you love to play with?
My dolls
If you found a genie, what would you wish for?
Probably skill for drawing
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I want to be a teacher, not for school, for church.
What was your favorite thing that you did while you were seven?
Played games with Thomas and Grace, swim in the pool, play with friends, play pickleball, and watch Avatar
What do you want to do while you're eight?
A lot of things like swimming, get baptized, reading, learning more in piano, drawing more pictures
Time feels like it is flying by! I can't believe June is already over and we're already almost halfway through July. We had a great month in June, just enjoying friends and family and summer. We also got to celebrate Parker's 10th birthday and Ashtyn and I got to do a little date to Lagoon together.
The story behind this is a funny one. For one of Parker's no screens activities before her birthday, I painted the litte dragon in this picture but I am definitely not an artist and struggled with the head. Ben and the girls teased me about it, but Oliver loved it and traced it a whole bunch. For one of his no screens in June, he wanted to paint and he decided to copy my dragon. It's so funny to me how much he likes it.
We did some more field trips in June, including going to Vernal's local history museum. It's a cute little museum and I was surprised at how much the kids loved it. They all liked it more than the Dinosuar museum.
We hadn't had the chance on Memorial Day to go visit Grandma Leah and Grandpa Gary's gravestones, but the kids really wanted to this year, so we headed over in June. We sat and read some stories from their life out of a book Grandma Leah had given us one year for Christmas. It was really nice.
Ashtyn and two of her friends XD
We also did a cousin Bluey party to watch some new minisodes. It was fun!
Even Leah liked watching!
Leah loved the rice krispie treats and would dance like this every time the music came on.
She was also showing off and being silly for the boys, who kept laughing at Bluey and she thought they were laughing at her.
We've had a crazy hot summer and we've had some crazy storms.
This was when it started hailing in the afternoon one day.
Ashtyn saved up and bought a 3D printer. She (and all the kids and Ben) have had a lot of fun with it. One of their favorite parts is when it "poops".
The first thing they made, with the sample filament.
Then Rylee bought some black and they made a lot with it while Ashtyn was waiting for hers to come.
I guess I don't have any pictures of the others, but Oliver bought blue and Ashtyn bought pink.
They've loved making all sorts of creations and Ben has had fun with it too.
We had a wonderful month of June that I was able to survive despite not feeling the greatest for some of it. The kids have had a blast making new summer memories with family and friends and we're just enjoying the stage of life we're in with our growing family.
