Turner turns 8

Turner's actual birthday we spent the evening traveling half-way to San Diego. The boy got his first taste of birthday week! We celebrated a day early with family and friends. My adorable Science nerd wanted a solar system cake. 

 I was actually super impressed with him that day. We had planned on going to the local pool because they had $1 Wednesday. When we got there we learned that was only during the school year and now it closed early for parties. We would have had 45 minutes to swim and party. Turner in the past has had MAJOR melt downs when things don't happen the way the thinks they are suppose to.We brainstormed with everyone there and gave him the choice of going to a splash pad or going to his grandparents and doing a giant slip n' slide. He said, "I don't care as long as I get to play in the water." And honestly he was so cool and calm about the whole thing! We ended up going to GiGi and Crapas. We ate pizza, cake, ice cream, slipped and slided, and opened presents. I didn't take very many pictures but we had a GREAT time. 

 It was a great night. He thoroughly enjoyed himself so goal met. 

Temple photo Shoot

When we got back from San Diego, it was time to get ready for his baptism. I blogged his amazing day here. 

 Before the big day though, we took him to the Salt Lake Temple one night to do a little photo shoot. He isn't one that likes to do a lot of posing, but he had fun and we got some great photos. 

His pants were a little long so we had to keep rolling them up! Good thing my mom fixed them in time for his baptism day. 

My favorite thing in life is watching my kids grow-up into amazing people! Love theme so much!

Turner then got to go to cub scouts! He was so excited. We really love his leaders and are thankful for this program.

 Turner also raised all the money he needed for scout camp by selling cherries from our tree. He made enough to go, pay tithing, buy a souvineer at camp and pay half of a ticket to go see Peter Pan with Mom and Dad. So proud of this little guy!

 I am also so proud of my husband who is a known scout HATER. He didn't like scouts and didn't do it as a kid. He has since though become the most amazing scout dad. He even went to camp with Turner! 

May was a great month (summer catch up part 2)

In the month of 

May

we used Little House in the Big Woods for our book club that month. Part of our science curriculum was to make butter and corn bread. (Oh thinking of how much more energy I had back then makes me excited to have this baby even more!

 My grandma once taught me a rhyme that they use to say when they were churning butter. We learned it and chanted it while we made our cream into butter! 

 Come butter come butter come

Max (insert name of churnner in here) is waiting by the gate

waiting for a butter cake so 

come butter come butter come

 We all got LOTS of turns. Making butter always seems to take longer than you think it is going to. 

 We also ground corn for cornbread and made spiced apples. It was a great day in the Big Woods!

Amelia and Cooper being silly!

Our gender reveal was in May also! I really hope the tech was right since I gave away all my boy clothes and currently have baby girl clothes in the wash!

One of the things we loved the most in May was the Bird Festival! We went to that owl class at the Ogden Nature Center. There were like four families there. We got a lot of quality time with the owls. It was dusk as it was over and the kids explored and ran through the meadow with deer. I am not exaggerating how amazingly perfect it was. It was a night that my kids still talk about months later. 

I was in LOVE with all of the bird houses. I want a yard full of them! 

 The next day we went to a class at the fair grounds on identifying birds. It was pretty neat. I learned that birds change their coloring from mating season to winter. I knew male and female birds had different coloring, but I didn't know that even withing sexes, they change during the year. There wasn't much to take pictures of, except this adorable llama. 

 After the bird festival, we headed to the chalk festival in Bountiful. This is one of my favorite festivals! It is so inspiring to my children. It is a great way to kick off sidewalk chalk season :)

May was a fantastic month!