Grandma Lou

My sweet Grandma passed away last month. That was a hard time. A couple of months before the doctors had said with her declining health she probably had 6 months to a year left. But then she had a stroke and was left paralyzed on one side and was unable to swallow. That was so hard to hear, and I hated not being able to be there with her. Two days later she was gone. I was able to attend the funeral and speak at it. As hard as it was to do, I'm glad I was able to honor her in that way. She was the sweetest woman, filled with more love than anyone I've ever known. The world lost a beautiful soul. I miss her lots.

 

Betty Lou Robinson

September 2, 1926-August 6, 2015

At age 21.

Cousins.

Grandma's children.

Mom with Sylvia, I love this photo.

We needed a break from the stresses of the week so a few of us drove up a canyon that Grandma loved and had lunch. She loved the outdoors, and sure did have a deep love for Utah. 

 

Summer Swimming

Lots of time at the pool this summer! Such fun memories. Sidney learned to swim on her own. Tanner is a crazy little fish. He jumps in by himself with no fear. He would also lay inside an inner tube on his stomach, close his eyes, and spin in circles for a long time. Then he would peek at me and see if I was watching, then close his eyes again. He was so happy to just float around and kick his little feet all day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Planet Week

For Planet Week we went to a museum with a special solar system exhibit. It also had an ice cream exhibit that would have been perfect for Ice Cream Week. I can't remember what else we did. It's been too long.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Discover Week

The kids came up with the theme this week because they wanted to go to Discovery Place. Our fail of the week was making a new treat. When I saw it on Pinterest I thought it was a science experiment treat, but once we started making it I realized it was just a gross mixture of a few simple ingredients. No one really liked it, and it wasn't even worth taking pictures of.

 

To make our trip to Discovery Place a little extra fun we took the train uptown. Quick tip: when you buy tickets using cash, it doesn't give change in bills. So I walked around all day with $12 in quarters in my purse.

 

Tanner's face when we were taking off. 

We had lots of fun exploring. 

The special exhibit right now is all about guitars. It was really cool, we loved it. 

Biggest guitar we've ever seen. 

Rock Star Tanner 

 

 

 

We met Josh for lunch. 

Josh and I made our own discovery this week as well. I had planned a date for our anniversary to a baseball game, but we decided not to go because it was raining and thundering, and you never know how bad it's going to get. I was so bummed because I had surprised him with this date. Every other idea I had involved being outside, so since we're super boring, we ended up going to a movie. Oh well, there's always next year. Anyway, Josh has a co-worker up in Princeton who lives by a Lindt chocolate outlet. She was always telling Josh about all these good deals she was getting, so when we found out one opened here, we had to go. Happy Anniversary to us!



Tannerisms

Poop stories:

1. Tanner picked up a poopy diaper and ran to Sidney with it. He held it up to her and started laughing and making fart sounds. She didn't really appreciate that.

2. There was a dirty diaper in a sack and he was flinging it around the room, almost hitting people with it.

3. He was running around naked, laughing hysterically, facing his rear at everyone (especially Sidney) and pointing at his rear, making fart sounds. I have a really funny video of it, he's absolutely nuts!

 

 

Tanner is a busy, busy, busy boy. He is always doing something hyper and crazy. One morning before church he was riding Jayden around like a horse. Lots of laughter and always getting hurt, hitting his head on something.

Now that we have 1:00 church Tanner doesn't get a nap, so he comes home exhausted. He fell asleep and it was really hard to wake him up.

 

 

He likes to copy his brother and sister. 

 

 Tanner loves to beat up on Jayden.

 

Sidneyims

Her little phrases of what she's hotter than keep coming out of her mouth. "I'm hotter than a hippopotamus with a sunburn!"

We went to a birthday party for a two year old. A couple days later she asked me, "What kind of birthday party were we at?" I told her SpongeBob. She got the most disgusted look on her face, and shrieked, horrified, "I was at a SpongeBob party?!?!?"

She put this on her head during craft time and said she was a pioneer.

Ice Cream Week

Yummy week! One fun thing we did was make our own ice cream in a Ziploc bag.

We made ice cream play dough. It looked and smelled just like ice cream.

 

I found a recipe for magic shell sauce that worked out great.

It was free meal day at Chick-fil-a so we dressed up like cows and we were going to trade in the toy for ice cream, but the kids wanted to keep the toy. We ended up getting free cookies because we had to wait a few minutes for our food, so we were happy with that. Plus they gave Tanner a free meal too even though he didn't dress up because he screamed when I tried. Can you blame him, it is pretty embarrassing.

 

Sidney wore all white and was dressed like this, she's our little fashionista. 

We hit up Steak-n-Shake for happy hour and got some delicious shakes on a hot afternoon.

Another art project was to make puffy paint ice cream pictures, which turned into playing in shaving cream. Their pictures turned out really cute.

 

 

We ate a lot of ice cream during the week. We had to. 

 

 

Another little craft. They also played a game where they caught balloons in cones made out of paper.

I made them reading bingo sheets so when they got a bingo they earned a trip to Bruster's. I think this week was definitely kid approved. One of the things on their Bingo chart was to read in the bathtub.