Blankets

My little buddy has been gone visting grandma and Grandpa with his Aunt this past week so I was put on blanket duty while the little guy was sleeping. Here they are:

Long Week

It's only Tuesday and it feels like it should be much closer to Friday. My little buddy is really really sick and his little brother is teething. Needless to say our days our full of fussy boys and parents that are running on little sleep.

But on the plus side I had a really fun weekend hiking and just hanging out with some people from the ward and it's Conference weekend this week, which is always something to look forward too!

Making Ice-cream!

Will and Sara have an Ice-Cream Ball that I borrowed because what kid doesn't like making Ice-cream? It was a total success! He absolutely loved putting all the ingredients together, adding the ice and salt, and rolling all around.

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(He had to finish every last piece)

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(Happy just to watch all the fun)

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(Checking to see if it's done)

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(We rolled it back and forth to each other)

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(We took turns pushing it up the hill)

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(And racing it down)

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Thanks Will and Sara for letting us barrow it our grasshopper ice-cream was delicious!

Playing

We have been having lots of fun here mostly the same things everyday with a little variation every once in awhile.

I like to report that I can now color with him for longer than 10 minutes! But only if he is coloring Letters, how funny is that! I tell him a color and a letter and he goes around coloring all the letters a specific color.

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Still lots of Trains

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Here he is playing a game that I thought up while drawing with chalk. I mixed letters of his name with shapes all different colors and then I would sit and tell him to find the orange circle or Blue B. We now have added to the game and he will trace the letters with chalk when he finds it. He enjoys this game a lot.

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Here is a caterpillar we found that he was first afraid of but soon thought is was so cool to hold and try to feed it things.

My Ward

I haven't been in a ward like this since I was growing up. It's been great! I think a lot has to do with the fact that I didn't know anyone and I've gotten to know so many in just a few weeks. I can't wait for ward activities probable because I'm able to leave and go do something but I always loved going to mutual growing up and thats what FHE reminds me of.

Whats more entertaining is that every time I go to church or any other activity Jen is telling me to come back with stories but now she has been giving me assignments. Tonight I received a B+ an A is a Date if that helps. All in all it was a good night.

The Carts

Here in Portland there are these areas known as The Carts. Tonight I went with a girl in my ward, named Cathrine. She has been wanting to try these Carts which happen to be known as Good Food Here on Belmont. Sad thing is The Sugar Cube is not open on Tuesday which was the one she really wanted to try but we still managed to find some pretty delicious ones! We ended up at Creme de la Creme a cute little French Cart where I had delicious French onion soup and Cathrine enjoyed a Cucumber, Brie and Butter Baguette which looked good. We then headed over to 50 licks for some ice cream! Cathrine enjoyed her Coconut Lemon Safron Sorbet much more then my Blackberry ice cream but it was still pretty good. Altogether it was a pretty fun night.

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Train Ride

We went to the Zoo today but mostly we went for the train ride we probable only saw something like 8 animals but we have plenty more visits to see all the animals. On the ride you only really see the elephants and the farm animals. Mostly you wined through what is called Washington Park.

(Waiting for the Train)

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(This is how he spent most of the ride)

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(Showing me that we were finally moving)

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(Some proof that we were on the train too)

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The Boys

Okay so here is a bit of what we have been doing these past couple of weeks: First we play lots and lots of trains. I am slowly learning all the names to the different engines, it is a good thing they all have their names on the bottom of the engines, second we have been slowly trying to become interested into coloring and anything art but this 3 year old shows little to no interest to coloring but today we did for about 10 mins! It was great. Anyway, here are some pictures:

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We love when friends come over to play! These boys played in the sprinklers and water for over an hour it was great! (I nanny the little boy on the right.)

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Here we are playing with what looks like to real ducks but are really fake hunting ducks that his dad had purchased for some object lesson. We had an excellent time playing with them. As you can see he insisted that he needed to get into the water with them so of course the swimming suit went on.

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Here we are wearing our Alien masks. He insisted that we make his have a scary face but mine could have a smiley face.

(Not to easy taking a picture with a paper bag on your head)

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Here it is! We, parents included, couldn't be prouder of the coloring job done on this picture. Great Harvest is owned by members in the ward and gave him a cookie with a promise that he would color the picture and give it back this is more then we could have asked him to do.

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Most of the coloring was down by myself trying to get him interested in coloring but no luck he did do a little and did an excellent job lying down to trace him, all except the head which is much larger then his actual head.

We have also gone to three different parks, one of them multipul times, go on a little hikes, went to the Library, found a toy shop that rents games for FREE! And all together have had lots of fun and by the end of the day we are all exhausted.

I'm Alive in Portland!

I'm sitting here tonight watching The Parent Trap with my big friend whose name I believe is Buster the Bear.

Anyway, I just thought I would do a quick update about just a few random things. First off I'll tell you that for the first time in my life I feel a little embarrassed about being tanner then most. Shown below is my tan line around my foot from my shoes.

Second, life is always a little more interesting when you get punched in the face. A left hook right in the jaw can be a good story especially when it happens at your first FHE in a new ward. One thing is for sure the boy that accidentally hit me while playing water volleyball sure felt bad. But as Jen (The mom that I nanny for) said, "A numb and slightly swollen face is worth having a cute boy feel he needs to make it up to you." ha ha Jen is constantly making me laugh. Well, both Scott and Jen, they always want me to come back with stories from the singles ward but since being hit I haven't had really any other then I already have a calling, Reliefsociety Activities Committee.

Last, tonight Jen took me to get a pedicure. My vary first if you don't count the ones Claire used to give me. I new I would love it and it didn't let me down it felt great it was the perfect ending to a pretty good day.

Maybe next post I'll tell you a little bit more about nannying but for now just know that it's been pretty good. It's nice to be with a family that just already feels like family. There is something to say about growing up in Kaysville Utah that you already feel like family.