June 14th Family Outing

On June 12th Ben bought a Canoe from his boss for $60 bucks. He just couldn't pass up that good of a deal! Of course he wanted to try it out that night but it ended up raining the rest of that day and the next so we took it out on the 14th, TWO WHOLE DAYS LATER (as Ben would say).  We had a great time and I think Ky's favorite part was the fish that Ben cought!

                             Ky LOVED Rowing!                              

            

Ben Turned the fish loose in the canoe after he cought it and it jumped around a bit.

 Ky thought it was Hilarious!

A little Canning

This is my first attempt at canning anything by myself. I am proud to say that I made 3 batches of Wild Rose-Petal Jelly and they all turned out!
It's super easy and they are so pretty! AND, i am adding to our food storage, GO ME!!!

Fort Knox Family Day 6/5/10

Fort Knox has a Family Day a couple times a year, and we finally got the chance to go to one this year. It was a lot of fun! They had several different tours of the mine, lots of little goodies for people to take, games, gold panning (which we ended up not doing, bummer), and they even hired a catering company to come cook a huge lunch for everyone and it was so good! Kyzer absolutely LOVED the Hall Truck! He wanted to go back and play on it several times. They also had the girl scouts there for a day care service because kids under the age of 9 couldn't go on the mill tour, so Ky got to play in day care for about 3 hours.  Man was that great! A little free time to just run around and look at things by ourselves for a bit, plus it was rainy the whole time and we got pretty chilled so it was nice that he didn't have to be out in it the whole time. And he loved it! Anyways, we had a great time and will definitely be going next time if Ben has it off!
Here are a few of the pictures of the day, Enjoy!

He Loved the Hall Truck!

So high up

He really didn't want to go back down

Enjoying some yummy lunch with Daddies work buddies and their Families

So many buttons and such, this isn't even the half of them in the hall truck.

Yeah, Ben made me pose at the top.

These Hall Trucks are huge! This is only the medium sized one. 

Those tires cost between 80 and $90,000 a piece. 

I'm rich! NOT! But yes, it is real Gold.

Fort Knox Family Day 6/5/10

Here is a little video of a part of our Mill tour. It is a little damp inside because of the water they have to run thru the crushers so after a little bit my camera fogs up making it a bit hard to see what is going on, but if you look hard you can see the rocks on the belts. It was pretty neat! While we were in there Ben asked about how much Electricity is running thru the mill and they said it's always running between 30 to 32mw, where the entire city of Fairbanks runs right about 30mw, so there is a LOT of power running that place, and thats just the mill! They say it gets pretty crazy when the power goes out, and i can only imagine!

CUCUMBERS!!!

I got to looking at all my plants tonight and realized that my cucumber plants are loaded with itty bitty cucumbers. That makes me so happy! They may not be the healthiest looking plants around, but hey, WE HAVE CUCUMBERS!

Settling for what is left

I have been trying to get Kyzer off the bottle for quite a while now, but that little bugger depends on the thing. He only has it at nap time and bedtime and has for a long time. I tried only letting him have it at bedtime to go to sleep with and cut out the nap time bottle and that seemed to work for about a week. then i tried only letting him have it right before nap time and bedtime and then he would lay down and go to sleep without it and that worked for about a week. Now nothing seems to be working. He will NOT take milk in a cup, so thats that helping either. Usually, if he doesn't quite fall asleep with one bottle I will let him have another half, but only if he asks for it. So now what I am trying is he only gets the one bottle and then he just has to go to sleep on his own, OH BOY HAS THAT BEEN FUN! Anyways, he didn't fall asleep with the one bottle the other day for nap time but I was NOT going to get him out this time! This is how i found him about and hour after i put him down for his nap. Finally asleep right on top his little bear that his Aunt Aulora got him when he was born. I guess he finally decided that the bear would just have to do.

COLOR!!!

We spent 3 hours outside yesterday afternoon trying to soak up some sun and fresh air.  It was nice to be outside in the nice warm weather and the beautiful color starting to come out. We are really enjoying all the green in OUR yard! :-]

note: please ignore the immodest clothing in some of the pictures. I am trying to get a little tan before we go to Idaho next month so i don't fry in my swimsuit.

He's such a goofball.

                                      

He loves to have his picture taken.

                                      

We have lot's of nice tall trees. i love it!

Partners in crime

Cheese!

He was pretending it was a gun.

Lots and lots of green.

A little Video to go with the last post

May 1st

Ben bought me a bike and a bike trailer with part of his bonus that he got last month. We took them out for a try when we got home with them and then stopped at the little park by our house on the way back to let Ky play for a bit. 

It started sprinkling a little while we were there so it made it hard for Kyzer to slide down the slide but he still enjoyed himself quite well.

He had to push himself down a lot because of the rain.

I have no idea what i was doing but it's a pretty funny picture.

My new Bike and Kyzer's trailer

After we got home. He was being goofy and bouncing all over the place.

The Most Precious Things

So our nightly routine usually goes like this...
We have dinner, Kyzer has his bath and gets ready for bed, we try to read scriptures and say prayers(but lately that seems to hardly happen), I make Kyzer his bottle and he runs to his room and tries to climb into his bed, we put him in and hand him his bottle and when he's finished it he goes to sleep.
Well, yesterday I tried to put him down for a nap around his usual nap time but for some reason he was not tired AT ALL, so after being in his bed for 2 hours 50 minutes and still being extremely hyper, I got him out. we went outside and he ran and played with the dog for 3 hours, after about two hours his tiredness started to kick in, he was so tired and dirty after playing outside that i just put him strait in the tub. After his bath he had a little bowl of oatmeal and then i made him a bottle. When he saw that i had made him a bottle he turned around and ran strait to his room and sat down on the floor right in front of his bed and folded his arms for prayer.
It just blows my mind that he already knows we have prayer before bed, especially because we have been so busy lately that we hardly remember to ever do it before he goes to bed. The little guy is only 20 months and he already knows to have prayer before bed.
These are the things that make me feel like I am doing something good in raising my child right.  He just melts my heart!