First Half of August

One of the last things on our Summer bucket list was to go to the BYU art museum. I knew they were having a Patrick Doherty exhibit, an artist my Mom really likes. He makes these amazing sculptures out of sticks! The kids thought it was pretty magical. art museums, and places like that, are always a little challenging with small kids, but always worth it.


Richie has been working on an awesome stache. He's grown one here and there for a month or so, throughout our marriage. But he recently grew one out and kept it for quite some time! I think he can pull it off, but I'm not fond of mustache kisses. :) His uncle Chuck (pictured here) has always had a mustache, so we had to snap a picture.


We finished another book! "James and the Giant Peach"Rhode Dahl. Such a fun, quick read. The kids loved it. We had a quick celebration the night before we left to CA by watching the movie and eating all things peach (which turned out to be better in theory than in execution). We had a peach smoothie, peach salsa with chips, and cheesecake peaches for dessert.



Here's documentation of Davy's first taste of solid foods! We started him on slippery elm bark powder, since it's supposed to be easy on the gut. I think he may have handled it the best out of any of the kids! Not really any gagging. He seemed to really like it. Since then he's tried zucchini, blueberries and avocado. :)



You know you're a homeschool mom when you turn wrapping a birthday present into a math lesson. :) We checked out a tessellation kit from Canyon Grove and put it to good use by using some scratch paper and wrapping Ethan's birthday present in it. :) He had an outer space birthday party, and I got a kick out og Gwen dressing up in the astronaut costume with her high heels. :)


Great Grandma Garner was in town for weddings and missionary homecomings. So we were able to see her briefly at dinner at Keith and Ada's. :)



We had our first official first day of homeschool! We decided to celebrate by staying in our pajama's all day. :) I also tried to make breakfast a little festive. They each got to pick out whatever cereal they wanted! big deal since usually I monitor that pretty closely. And of course they picked the most sugary ones. Ha! I wrapped some books I had for them to open that morning and we had a nice, easing into our school year. :)