F-A-M-I-L-Y!

We spent the last few days with some of our family! My niece was baptized on Saturday and we were so happy that we could be there to be a part of that day! Since we had Wednesday off due to Veteran's day and N8 had Friday of for Flex, we took Bud out of school Thursday and Friday and took off on our trip Wednesday morning. On Thursday morning we got some new family pictures taken!! I love having a current family picture!

On Friday we drove over to San Francisco and went to the zoo. The kids of course loved it and the animals cooperated by being visible in the cages!

After the zoo we stopped at the Golden Gate Bridge to take a few pictures. While we were there my brother in law convinced N8 he should run across the bridge and we would drive over and meet him on the other side! N8 was up for the challenge and did a great job!

On Saturday we got to go to my nephews robotics competition. Their team built a lego robot and it completes different tasks by following a computer program the kids write. Bud loved watching it. I hope that he can be involved in something like that when he gets older!

Then we had my nieces baptism. There were 3 children getting baptized. Everything went smoothly and she is now a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!!

We love visiting family and had a great time. We're looking forward to seeing them again this next week at the Happiest Place on Earth (aka: Disneyland!!!)

My craft for this week...

So getting Emma through sacrament meeting isn't too much of a struggle for me but sometimes it is for Ricky and Kim. They are kind enough to sit by me each week and Emma keeps her eye out and occasionally kicks people off our pew to save them a spot! Especially with N8 up on the stand now, it helps out a lot!!! Thanks Ricky and Kim!! Emma seems to getting board with my usual church bag items. The small plastic animals still keep her busy, but she gets done with them quicker. So, I came up with a "Family Picture Puzzle" idea.

So, here's the gist of it. I used Picasa to create a collage of pictures. Make sure you you use the grid spacing to give your self a little bit of room in between the pictures. After it's printed (I printed mine as 5x7's at Walmart) I laminated the picture. Then cut out the pictures. Place on a file folder (I actually use 1/2 a file folder for each one) and trace around each picure. place a magnet on the back of each picture and in each spot in the puzzle! To keep all the pieces together I stapled a ziploc baggie on the opposite side. I made one with pictures of each of the kids. I think they turned out pretty fun.





Tomorrow is the 100th day of school for Bud. He got to create an art project using 100 items. He used 100 buttons and turned them into crayons. They can be counted by 2's, 5's and 10's! He was pretty proud!

Happy 100th day of school!!