Around the House

The other night we had the missionaries over for dinner (they usually eat over about once a week), as part of a causal conversation they asked what we usually did for fun around the house.

At the moment, having not really thought about it, it didn't seem like we did very much - we answered, "just normal stuff like: watch movies, read books, play games, you know nothing too exciting". Thinking back, our kids are pretty good at keeping themselves entertained. I thought I would post a bunch of "around the house photos" that otherwise probably won't get posted in a blog, just to share some of the things that we have done.

Obstacle course on Noah's bike - surprisingly Lexi was the fastest, I came in last.

 

At dinner the other night Lexi said, "Let's have a contest! Whoever has the cleanest area around there place at the table wins." Things did not go quite how I think she had imagined, after teaming up and sabotaging each other, I think Noah won.

Noah loves to find places to hide.

 Noah loves to stack stuff

 Sleep over in Myra's bed

 I have no idea what is going on in this picture

 Wrestling or tickle fight (they look so similar)

 Twister (much harder than I remember)

 Noah loves jumping on our bed, a lot of times he just goes in there by himself for a little jumping time.

He also enjoys jumping over people.

 One of Myra's favorite things to do is take self portraits...it is a good thing we have a large SD card, we often find it full of her pictures

Noah (and the girls) love to sing and pretend they are on American Idol. Noah has gotten quite good at dancing and making up songs.

Shannon has done a lot of cooking since we got here, she makes all of our bread  (we go through about 4 loafs a week), and she has created a lot of the ingredients we are used to having pre-made for meals from scratch, including: enchilada sauce, cream of chicken soup, cakes, brownies, taco and guacamole seasoning, pancake batter, corn bread and many more. Since she is spending so much time in the kitchen she has also learned to read and cook at the same time.

And we'll end with Noah trying his new underwear on. He really enjoyed the freedom for about 5 minutes and then proceeded to empty his bladder on our floor.  Too bad we didn't keep the video rolling. The girls are really jealous that his "panties" have a "pocket".