Aurora’s Birthday

“Oh, Do You Do in the Summertime?”

While writing this, I was listening to "Oh, What Do You Do in the Summertime" by Dorothy S. Andersen

Chore Charts

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Sudden Impact

On Friday Night of last week, our truck was involved in a Hit and Run accident. We were getting ready for bed when a neighbor came knocking. They informed us that our vehicle had been "jacked up". Our pick-up had been pushed 40ft into another vehicle and then went another 10ft. So the vehicle, a Chevy Suburban, slammed into the back of our truck and pushed it 50ft down the street into another vehicle and up on the sidewalk infront of the neightbors home. You can see the damage in the pictures. Poilce located the Chevy Suburban who had fled the scene, with the help of two eyewitnesses, parked in a gated driveway around the corner. The Chevy Suburban was impounded although the driver had dissappeared and the vehicle was parked at a different address than the one the vehicle was registered at. The incident is still under investigation. However the suspect has come to our home and appologized and claimed responibility, but we'll see what really happens. We are glad that no one was hurt, however we are sad that Matt's truck has been temporaily out of commission. It's a pian in the butt to have to tow three children into the minivan at 3am to drive Matt to work and then tow them back to bed.
What a pain. Matt also has to wait for us to pick him up from work and because we don't have cell phones and I'm a busy mom he ends up doing a lot of waiting on outside the plant in the HOT desert sun. Poor baby. It's amazing to me how one person's choice affects so many. Way to go reckless driver-YOU SUCK!

Sleepover

Who wants to sleep in their own bed when they can share?

This is pretty normal scene here in the Spencer abode. You might wonder: Don't they all have their own beds? Why Yes, they do!

However slumber parties are so much more fun! It makes me think of the Parent Trap song "Let's get together Yeah yeah yeah"!

So community sleeping is in this season, so don't miss out of all the fun of stinky foot face or butt view, and many more fun shared sleeping perks.

The Bloggers Friend!

An ode to Windows Live Writer!

Windows Live writer has made blogging faster and easier! I was looking for a way to copy and paste to Blogger and discovered Windows Live Writer. It is a free download and is very user friendly! I love it! Thank You Live Writer! Click here to download: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-writer?os=other

Teeth and Fairies

   

The Tooth Fairy came to visit our house twice in the last week.

First it came to Aurora who has been anxiously awaiting her first tooth to fall out.

When her tooth finally was able to be pulled by SUPER Dad, she place her little pearly tooth

under her pillow and the Tooth Fairy brought her one whole dollar!!

Then last night the tooth fairy visited Gracie. She had to have Oral surgery yesterday, and

had one tooth extracted and had had several root canals done and some gum surgery, so

she’s resting and drinking plenty of fluids, she also got a dollar for her big decaying molar.

Easter Adventures

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Click on the above link to see 43 pics from our Easter Adventures. You can view the pictures as thumbnails or even as a slide show! (This is the first option at the top right)

We had many Easter adventures over the last couple of weeks. It started off with Grandma Peterson coming down on the Jerauld Spring Break Van-O-Fun! We then had a fun filled weekend of eating out, free babysitting (by grandma), and a Easter Egg hunt to remember.  We went to a community Easter EGG Hunt Sponsored by Grace Point Church, it was lots of fun with free ice cream, free kids crafts, free bounce houses, and a HUGE huge egg hunt where 25,000 eggs where dropped from a helicopter! Sounds great huh…. well its all fun and games until your child gets lost in a crowd of THOUSANDS!!!! In the 4-6 age area parents were supposed to stay behind the lines while the kids gathered eggs, unfortunately no one got the memo, so when Gracie ran out to get her eggs we lost her in the huge crowd. I was in a panic!!! My mom stayed with the other girls while Matt and I searched fro Gracie. It was horrendous, people everywhere. We split up can were calling for Gracie, while several other parents were shouting for their kids too. I got a feeling to stop and pray, so that’s just what I did. I stopped in the middle of the field with thousands of people passing by and prayed. Then I saw Matt with Gracie! He had found her with another little girl about her age and her mother. They were just about to take her to the kids lost and found tent. I was so relieved- but because of this we will never go to this big even again- It scared us to death. My girlfriend Alisha had also come to this activity with their family and their youngest got lost too.. after searching a good deal they were able to find her in the Lost Child Tent crying and worried. both mother and child cried that day. It was insane- i was so embarrassed to have taken my friend to such a big out of control event.

The kids were very spoiled and able to go to another Easter Egg hunt at their Uncle Phillips. Phillip has a 5acre farm in Hiko, Nv and the kids got to search for eggs in his park. They rode a pony and 4 wheelers, and play with their cousins. The Easter Bunny found them in Hiko, and left them a fun Bug Egg filled basket and they even got to go to Grandma Spencer’s church on Easter Sunday in their new dresses. We had a great time!!

Guardiansof Ga’hoole Cake

 

I made this cake and these cupcakes for the Young Women Fundraiser. In Family Fun Magazine they had the idea- click here to see. http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/night-owls-cupcakes-984215/ 

They were fun to make and sold well at the silent auction.

Aurora’s Robot

Aurora’s class has been reading “My Robot by Eve Bunting” This book is about different things a robot can do.

Aurora had a family homework assignment this week, to design and build a robot. The first thing Aurora asked for was blue construction paper. I asked her why and she said “I need it for my blueprint.” She wrote a design on blue construction paper with a white crayon. (sorry there is no image it didn’t show up well in the picture) She was also instructed to write a short paragraph describing her Robot and it’s special skills. She wrote “ My robot can do my homework for me. It plays games with me. It is very funny. It reads with me before bedtime. I like it that way. It goes to sleep with me. It guards me while I’m sleeping. It’s name is CooCoo Head.” We had a really fun time going to Lowes to look for parts on Family Night, PVC pipes for legs and feet, springs for arms (and yes they will wave at you), #10 cans for the body, a peach can for the neck, a lamp visor for the head and a head lamp for it’s brain. Aurora and her Dad are the engineers who put CooCoo together. You can’t tell very well from these pictures but a special feature of Aurora’s robot it that in the center of the funnel (lamp visor) is a light that turns on and off and also can blink. This is Aurora’s idea of it’s brain. And of course it’s a girl!! Aurora points out that while it’s wearing it’s necklace and tutu it is from a robot planet called “Hawaii”. (She thinks with these accessories it looks at though CooCoo Head will hula) You may also be wondering about the name CooCoo Head, no it does not imply crazy, it’s part of Aurora’s unique language of CooCoo. She has invented it herself and uses it often, most words in the CooCoo language include CooCoo and CooCoo-minga. Well CooCoo Head will be making her appearance at school tomorrow and we are anxious to see how she’ll be received. We are sure it will be to immense applause. Way to go Aurora!

 

Outfits I got for my Birthday

Here are a few new outfits I got for my birthday.
Most are Good Will finds. I got a skirt, a dress, four tops, and two jackets for only $24. The shimmery tops (green and blue) and black skirt I got on sale at Kohls.

Sewing Pioneer Wear

Little House on the Prairie Garb...

Aurora was invited to a Little House Birthday party, so my sewing skills needed to be dusted off and employed in Prairie Wear! I found an awesome blog: Buns and Baskets www.howtodresslikeapioneer.blogspot.com

It had a great tutorial on bonnets. So a sewing I did go... Gracie's bonnet brim is larger than Aurora's. We had a little more fabric left over from her skirt than from Aurora's; so it's closer to the pattern. I used a yard of fabric for both the skirt and bonnet but would have liked about a half more for the bonnet ties to be completed correctly, we improvised with satin ribbon covered with the little left over fabric on the ends to prevent fraying. All in all it was a fun project and I think I could do it again a lot faster. I'm thinking perhaps for Halloween we'll all be the Ingalls Family. We have a Charles (Matt), Caroline (Me), Mary (Aurora), Laura (Gracie), and Baby Keri (Ehlana). Could be cute!

Wild for Parties

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