Chocolate Popcorn

A few weeks ago I wanted to make some chocolate popcorn for a movie night treat. As I was carefully making the chocolate sauce I ran into a stool in our kitchen (thanks to Preston pushing it into my direct path as I was hurrying across the kitchen!) Which then led to me forgetting about my sauce because my foot was numb, which led to my chocolate sauce burning, which led to me getting more upset because I just wasted an entire bag of chocolate chips, which led to Steve taking over and him making chocolate sauce, which led to me getting even more upset because his sauce looked WAY better than my sauce
The sad truth though, is that my sauce looked somewhat like that BEFORE I stubbed my toe. Good thing Steve can melt chocolate chips in a pan!

Preston!

A few weeks ago I told the boys to clean up their room. Braden likes to divide the room and have each of them clean a side. Well a little while later Preston came down and said he was done (this has NEVER happened before). I went upstairs to check the room and Preston's side was all clean and Braden's side was a mess. Here is what the conversation sounded like between me and Preston.

Me: Did you really clean your side or did you just throw everything onto Braden's side?
Pog: I cleaned it!
Me: Really? Are you telling the truth?
Pog: Yes mom! (in an exasperated voice)
Me: Really? I may not know if you are telling the truth but Heavenly Father knows.
Pog: Mom, (very matter-of-factly) I lie to you all the time, but this time I'm really telling the truth!

Hmm, do I believe him or not??

Family Scriptures

The other morning as we were reading scriptures as a family we were reading in Mosiah 16:3. Steve started reading, "For they are carnal and devilish, and the devil has power over them... " After he finished reading the verse, Braden started laughing and said he thought Steven read, "For they were carmel and delicious."

Braden

Today I got a letter in the mail about Braden. It says "he has been identified as a high ability learner." Apparently he did very well on some testing done at school. He was very excited and we were all a bit surprised!

New Carpet!!

We finally got around to putting carpet into our living room. Cold, hard, uncomfortable laminate floor just wasn't cutting it for me (or my knees during family prayer). I LOVE the carpet. The room feels much more homey now and it doesn't echo anymore when I shout. :) These are just some pictures of the progress the room has gone through in the last year.

Cloudy with a chance of ???

I just had to post these pictures that Kari took because I thought the clouds were so cool. They moved very swiftly over our house with a little bit of wind, but that was all! I thought for sure some ultra-dangerous storm was upon us...as we're out taking pictures and picking veggies from the garden.

Soccer

Preston was able to play soccer this year! It took a few days for him to really enjoy it, but by the end he was a little pro. This picture is on the last day. You can tell by looking at him that he did a lot of running that day. He was actually told to STOP kicking the ball so that someone else could have a turn...even though half team was picking bugs out of the grass. j/k

Preston is the one kicking the ball in the back. My camera battery was dying or else I could've gotten the goal he scored.

Before each game the times grouped up and shouted a little chant across the fields to the other teams. Once again, I waited until the last day to bring my camera...with the dead battery...so I couldn't film this either. :(