House Full of Boys!

Lately we have had a lot of name calling and fighting in our house. I know 'boys will be boys', but I have had enough. Today alone, Aidan received a new bruise to his nose (courtesy of a remote control from Adley) and many bites, and Aidan did his fair share of lying. So tonight for Family Home Evening I decided to focus on doing better in this area. I searched the internet and came to sugardoodle.net , a website that I use frequently and found a lesson titled 'Brotherly Love' - Perfect!!!! It talked about the difference between treasure chests and trash cans. The print outs that go with the lesson are here . I filled in the message circles with things good and bad that my children say and do. We went through each one and had the kids take turns deciding whether it was a good thing or a bad thing and placing it on the appropriate picture. The kids had a good time and definitely know right from wrong. We crumbled up the trash can picture with all of the bads th...

We finally arrived home from our vacation last night and I am still exhausted!!! We have been in Tennessee for about 6 days. We arrived on Friday afternoon and checked into our cabin which is on the Pigeon River. Saturday we stayed at the cabin and let the kids play in the river. Sunday we went to church - I am sure we gave the Primary President a scare as she saw 10 extra children in Sacrament mtg - lucky for her we only stayed for the first hr of church. We then drove to Clingman's Dome and hiked up hill 1/2 mile to see the view and then hiked back down, total of 1 mile. The kids did so good. Monday we took our kids to Dollywood and surprisingly they did very well. We arrived and made a plan for the day. We had packed swimsuits for the water rides and Dreamland Forest water play place. The kids hardly complained the whole day. We had such a great time that we decided to get Jared and Aidan season passes (I already had mine from a previous visit, and the little boys were...

1) Adley : 'I'm Indy Indy Jones' or as the rest of us say 'Indiana Jones' 2) Adley : "I'm mad with you' 3) The other day Adley was putting on his sandals and they were on the wrong feet, Jared told him to change his sandals but Adley didn't want to now, he wanted to do it later. Jared told him to change them now and he helped him do it, Adley's response "You never follow my rules, I'm mad with you." 4) We went to the post office yesterday and there was a long line, I had all 3 boys with me and they were being pretty good - one man started talking to the boys. Man : "How old are you?" (talking to Adley) Adley : "I am 3" - holding up 3 fingers Man : "You are 3?" Aidan : "Yeah, you know the number that follows 2 ; 1, 2, 3" Man : "Wow - why aren't you in school" Aidan : "Because its summer break!" **I couldn't help but to laugh - but boy do I have a smart alec child....

As many of you know I love to quilt. Last weekend (23rd/24th) I went with my mother/sister-in-laws to Tennessee for a girls weekend. For Christmas my mother-in-law gave each of us girls some money for fabric and said we would go on a girls weekend trip to Tennessee to look at some of the shops there. We left Friday afternoon, had a wonderful dinner and played cards in our hotel until 1am. Then next day we went to 2 quilt shops. One of which was in Jonesborough, TN, called Tennessee Quilts. This was an amazing store and had a huge variety of fabrics and patterns. We ate a great lunch at The Bistro. We are thinking that we must do this at least once a year. We had such a great time. We arrived home around dinner time. The drive to/from Tennessee was gorgeous. My husband survived yet another weekend with the boys. This is the 3rd time in 2 months that he has given me a kids free night. He has always been very willing and such a good sport about it. Since we both watch the ...