Baking and Learning

We have been learning a bit about some of the Jewish Holidays in history lessons.  I knew the girls would love trying out some Jewish Challah bread.  It was hard for them to let it sit and rise a couple times.  :-)  Who wants to wait???

Usually Jaylyn gives up quickly because the dough gets too hard and her arms get tired.  But, this time, she was motivated to go all the way!

They each braided their own loaf.

It turned out delicious!

Bible Time

I thought it was so sweet one day when Jaylyn was having her “quiet time”, she decided Leighton needed to read with her.  They had a sweet time reading the Bible together.  Too cute!

My Grandma

I was so excited that my grandma came up with my mom and dad one day.  It was a surprise visit.  I don’t get to visit down their way that often, so we spend a lot of time missing Great Grandma Foster.  :-)  The girls were SUPER excited that she came.  We had a blast!  I even snagged a picture of us girls.  She and Leighton almost shared the same birthday, but she was late by three days.  Although, those two do share a love of shoes and purses.  That is for sure.  :-)  We love you Grandma!  Thanks for the special day!

Some Fun With Daddy

I recently went to a conference for a few days and the girls got to have some fun “mommy’s away” adventures.  :-)  They spent some time one day with my parents and then TJ took off work to go have fun with the girls.  He is an awesome daddy and received many comments by others at how brave he was to take all three girls out.  That is certainly no problem for a great dad like him.  They covered Chuck E. Cheese, Magic House, Ice cream, and even the bank customer appreciation barbecue.  AND he even managed to bring the camera along one day and took some pictures.  Here are a few of them. . .

Yummy pizza!  And a bib!  I rarely even put a bib on!  :-)

You gotta love Chuck E Cheese!  (At least now that we don’t have to worry about children freaking out when seeing Chuck E. Hee hee!)

I know what she is thinking. . . “I have the best dad ever!”  :-)

Looks like Leighton is thoroughly excited about this carousel ride.  

I’m not sure I am excited to allow this picture me to think into the future.  Hmmmm. . . Hopefully she will be taller by then.  

Bubble!

A little shopping time.

Serving up some yummy ice cream

Adley’s turn!

Fun at the water table.  Leighton was looking too big here!

Here I come! 

And here too!

This was one of my favorite pics.  TJ thought I would appreciate it.  :-)

Too cute!

Ready to work!

“me too!. . . maybe after I suck my thumb. . .” 

Spiky bangs!

Well, I guess they were fine without me.  I think I will be heading out again next week.  :-)

Cute Kid Prayers

I just thought I would share some of Adley's cute prayers. These are things you want to remember and can always make you chuckle. Well, first of all, everyone HAS to say these EXACT words, "I pray that Adley will have sweet, sweet dreams." No other wording will do! Although, her own personal wording is, "Thank You God for me to have sweet, sweet dreams." A family from our church is in Peru serving as missionaries now. She insists on praying for them to get to Peru safely even though we all tell her that they are already there. It doesn't matter! She says she is praying that anyway. Another funny one is ". . . for Poppy's job and for him to fish and eat the fish." I'm sure one of the reasons God created prayer was so He could hear these sweet prayers. :-)

Another tooth . . .

Tooth number three has bit the dust, or I guess I should say, bites no more! 

Apple Pickin’

We made it out to do our annual apple picking a couple weeks ago.  The girls couldn’t wait another day to get out there!  Here are pictures of our crunchy apple-icious fun. . . Fill ‘er up!

Thank You, God, for these apples.  :-)    

Hard to take a bite out of these apples with a tooth super loose! 

I told you picking apples was fun! 

Life Walk/Run 2010

As I have shared already, this year I decided to go for my first run instead of just walking.  I really never thought I would even utter those words.  I am really NOT a fan of running.  I have never really done any distance running.  I ran all the time for basketball in high school, but that was mostly just sprinting and lets just say it has been a while since those athletic days.  So, the day finally came to give it a whirl.  Let’s just say that I was already breathing really loudly fairly quickly and I was not hearing any loud breathing from anyone running by me.  :-0  But, I was able to run for a little bit past the first mile and then I alternated running and walking until the end.  WAY too many hills.  That was the killer.  It was at least half hills.  Ugh!  But, I made it and it was a great turn out for many others there to take a stand for LIFE!  It definitely didn’t come close to any medals except the “I love you anyway” medal my sweet mother-in-law gave me.  :-)  TJ won third in his age bracket.  Of course, he didn’t really do much training.  I know he could win the whole thing if he actually ran more than 5 times to prepare for the next race.  :-)  I have a hard time not being annoyed by that.  Ha!  I had two friends who I talked into coming.  They both beat me and Rachel won second in our age bracket.  I believe it was her first time doing a 5K!  Hooray!  TJ says I will have to do it next year.  I think this might be a little like the whole child birth thing.  It might be too close to the torture to think about doing it all over again.  Heh!

 Here is me and Rachel after the race.  We did it!  I didn’t get a picture with Nicole.   And, I did receive a picture from my mother-in-law that they took of me finishing the race, but I am NOT posting that one.  :-)