FHE at Grandma and Grandpa Scoresby's

The first of April we decided to power rake my parents lawn while they were in Georgia visiting Becky.  It turned out to be out FHE that night.  We had a lot of fun working together and as a result, the lawn has already turned so green this spring!

The kids loved it!  They had lots of grass fights, jumped in grass piles and even did a little bit of work.  This is the stuff memories are made of!

Ethan thought he was so sneaky!

Even Katelyn got bold and joined the fight.

It was as fun as leaves in the fall

Cameron helped out too

Emily tried so hard to work that broom

Working beauties

So pregnant and working hard

The end of the day

If anything we taught the kids about service, doing things for others, and how fun working together can be.  I know we made that grass so happy!

Christmas Activities

December was full of so many fun activities!  I thought the best way to put them all up, was just to combine them.  We enjoyed all the fun things before Christmas!



Best buds!  I hope it lasts!



Christmas art projects.  We let our creative juices flow!

We celebrated my dad's birthday, along with many others this month as well!

My little cookie makers.  Great helpers that day with very few mishaps!

Snow bunnies...no matter how little snow there is!

"How do I use that shovel with these mittens?"

Santa statue at the Museum

Where Santa vacations after Christmas day.

Gingerbread replica of the Idaho Falls Temple. 

Playtime at the museum

The biggest Santa statue ever!

Such a good daddy!

This is Hallie's version of our Snowman family.  We're all there...even our soon to come new addition.



We can't forget frosting the Christmas cookies! 

I love all the activities for the month!  The kids were totally in the spirit of the month.  They put the change in the salvation Army canisters, sang Christmas songs while walking through the stores, and pulled off a paper chain each day from their Christmas countdown.  It was a fun month!

Corn Syrup Painting

A couple of weeks ago we did a painting activity for Faith In God/Activity Days with our primary girls and I thought it would be something fun and easy for Hallie to do. I'm always looking for an expensive and fun project to do with her, and she loved it! You just put some corn syrup in a bowl and add your choice of food coloring and you've got paint! The result after drying, which takes some time, is a glossy, shiny picture. Hallie's pictures are now hanging in her room. You can buy heavy duty painting paper, but we just used coloring pages lightly taped to construction paper.

For a brief moment, I felt like a creative mother!

After Gavin's 30 min nap, (AHHH) he got in on the action too!

Our final products! It's hard to tell from this picture, but the colors are really shiny and glossy, I promise!

Success! It was fun, with very little mishap, thankfully! Hallie painted later again that night and wanted to do it again this morning. It always makes you feel good when you find something they enjoy, and that last for more than a minute!