I love our new learning corner we made in our home! It will bring lots of hours of fun. Angela gets home from school and goes straight to the Learning Corner and begins to teach her class. I love being Angela's student. I get to see what she learns about in school and see her be the amazing teacher she is. I love this girl! Carolyn also teaches just about every day. She teaches Emily and gives her homework to do. I love it. I also love that I have a fun environment to do learning time with my Emy when the older girls are in school.

 (I love that the Learning Corner allows room for all the girls to teach at the same time. Here are two of three teaching after school today).

On Saturday, I took Carolyn to play practice and left the younger cuties with Andrew. Andrew took pictures of the girls on the swings at the park and sent it to me. They were cute. Since then, Emily likes me to take pictures and send them to Andrew. Seriously, can you get any cuter than this girl?!

JUSTSERVE

Our family used the JUSTSERVE website for the first time to find a family project. It didn't really turn out like we wanted. The lady coordinating it wasn't around and it looked pretty clean. We found a park and cleaned it. We mostly played. Hopefully the next one will bring us more to do. But it was a start.

After that, we went to Chris' house (for the second weekend in a row) and watched the BYU/Texas game. BYU crushed them - which was a huge surprise. Great game and great company.

"Insanity" (exercise video) with my Emily. Oh boy :)

Angela came up with the most genius idea on August 31st. She said that every month we should get a new secret santa! I love it. At the beginning of each month, we pick a new name. Can I just say that I got Angela. It warms my heart that girl loves to serve. Money on my bed. Sweet notes on my bed. My bed being made. I could live like this forever. Thank you Angela for being so sweet to me and thank you for your amazing idea!

  Angela pointed out to me when I found this on my bed that she couldn't possibly be my secret santa! She always forgets the "e" on the end of "love." - which is true!!! :)

 Whoever has Emily (Carolyn?) made her bed this morning. I love this Secret Santa business :)

I love so excited because Angela came home telling me about this beautiful jewel her friend had. It made me think about how I had one just like it. Perfect gift for Angela, my secret person. Excited that it all played in so well. ;) I love this!

I love learning with my girls. Two experiments today! First, Blubber! Whales are Angela's favorite animal. We've been learning all about them. We wanted to experience  blubber so we we made our own "ocean" (a bucket full of ice water). We felt how cold the ocean was with bare hands. Then we put on "blubber" and to feel the contrast (Blubber - shortening in a zip-lock bag. Then put another clean zip-lock bag inside of it to keep your hand clean). It was fun to do and fun to discuss how our Heavenly Father created whales in a way they could stay warm in the ocean.

Why have I never thought of a volcanoe in the sandbox?! What easy simple frugal fun! SOOO fun making a volcano in the sand!!!! Today we were based a lot on what Angela is learning about with me. We are reading a book about volcanoes so it was so fun it went with that learning!

Labor Day 2014

Family Days are awesome. Loved this one. Hike in the Red Rocks. Lar the Bear. Angela and Carolyn liked going off and exploring off the path.

Look at this beautiful girl.

 Daddy is my 2 year old. He even admits that Emily has surpassed his maturity level. He taught the girls how to collect pebbles and throw them at people when they weren't looking....or in this case when Carolyn is giving a huge big beautiful crazy smile.

 This girl was out of control on the hike ;) She wanted to explore every where!

 Beautiful girl!

 As we were hiking, I began singing about the beautiful world He created for us. As I was singing a big gray snake slithered across the path. Carolyn almost stepped on it. To some, snakes probably are beautiful :) We also saw some of these amongst the beauty.

We love hiking! Beautiful! Fun! Great time talking and being silly.