EATON FAMILY JOURNAL

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Cousins in the summer = the best memories ever...

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

1st Day of Last Year of 1st Decade of 21st Century

Clever title right? Not even sure if it is correct. Anyway, this morning we were thrown back into schedules, crowds and alarm clocks. Good and bad in a way. We have Mrs. Christenson, Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Hadlock for teachers, (all the ones we "picked"... yea!) and were up bright and early to make sure we were right on time. (Even 10 minutes early.) On the way over I received my rules from the older kids pertaining to my actions on the first day of school:

1) No singing.
2) No dancing.
3) No meeting the teacher as I was in my gym clothes with no makeup. (Tyler's rule)
4) No kissing, although one "I love you" was allowed.
5) Not too many pictures.
6) No crying.

I followed them ALL to a tee, although I did feel emotional as usual. :)

Hailey 4th grade

Tyler 5th grade

We are anxiously awaiting morning kindergarten next week, as Emma's best friend is in her class and her teacher is wonderful. (Neighbor and ward member so I know her well.) My To Do list today? Spend one on one time with the younger kids as that hasn't happened all summer, and make sure there are warm homemade chocolate chip cookies on the counter today. Life as a mom is awesome. :)

Monday, August 09, 2010

Ditzy Mom @ Football Practise

Tonight was Tyler's first football practise of the 5th grade year. They started doing some very cutthroat-looking drills. The couch was tough and I thought, "What is with football? Why are males so fanatical with it?" The other boys were hardcore and they did not stop for nothin. I could tell Tyler was really struggling. The coach had them run around the field and by the time they got back Tyler was red-faced, holding back tears, breathing extremely harshly and said he was going to throw up. I looked around and then noticed that the other boys were kind of man-ish and Tyler was one of the smaller boys there. (That's a first!) So I went over to the coach and asked a few questions.

I found out we were on the 8th grade team.

Duh.

When we found the right 5th grade team Tyler was by far the tallest and much more comfortable. Afterwards I asked him how it felt to go from the 8th to 5th grade team. He said it was like "sitting down watching TV and eating chips." Hmmm, maybe we should head back to the 8th grader Man Team...

Sunday, July 25, 2010

24th of July parade. (T, H and E are in it). I made Nathan go squirt the kids...

3 No-No's

Our kids jump on the couch...onto mattresses on the floor...which they sleep on at night instead of their beds.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

River Yummy Rafting

Living in a rural country town definitely has some advantages. We floated down the Green River yesterday and had probably the best time doing it out of everything we have done so far this summer. It is the PERFECT family activity. It took a total of 4 hours and Mason did great. He keeps asking for "more boat" and "rapids!" today. We have decided to make it a yearly tradition right before the 24th of July, but we "have to have Cream Soda, too!" (According to Tyler. This was part of our picnic-on-the-side-of-the-river).

In honor of Nathan's mother-in-law (Momma Linda, who was trying to get here to visit this weekend but had cancelled flights), we took this picture:

Tyler and Hailey at the staring point in front of Flaming Gorge Dam...

Hailey VERY proud that she was the first child to jump in...

Emma the first child "forced" in...

Mason's "spot". He rarely left the protection of Mom, and had to almost always be facing towards me. A little rough for me trying to paddle...

Although he was very happy to get a new "toy". A squirt bottle...

Lunch on the side of the river. (Not sure what Hailey is doing.)

Getting up the nerve...

Emma pointing to the Devil's Diving Board...(Which they now think Nate has jumped off of...)

Being pulled on a rope...

Wierd little Littles

My children can be so odd. I took Emma to a pioneer museum down the street and she wanted to get a pioneer hat as a souvenir. She hasn't taken the dang thing off. Here she is at the movies the next day. :)

Band-aids, Band-aids and more Band-aids. Here he is sneaking up on the counter for more. (See behind his head). You can imagine the questions we get from everyone. :)