Neil and Isaac love to help me cook. We were making pie to take to our pre-Thanksgiving dinner with the Albertson’s. Pumpkin pie filling isn’t my first choice when it comes to snitching, but they didn’t seem to mind.
The BYU star show for this week was all about how the Harry Potter books related to the stars. We took Jessie, Mark, Abbie and Spencer and Rachel meet us there. Poor Spencer wasn’t heavy enough to keep his seat tipped back to watch the ceiling so we had to hold to down for him. I think Jessie enjoyed it the most because she’s a Harry Potter crazy, but Mark loved how so many of the characters in the book were named after stars that are from Roman and Greek myths.
Abbie’s birthday party was also one month late….and had the same outcome as Spencer’s with only one friend coming. But the treasure hunt was still a ton of fun.
For Abbie’s party we collected the stuff to make cloths pins magnets that we decorated with flowers. We got to use the big shot to emboss the paper before we punch it and that’s everyone’s favorite toy to play with. Since there were only two girls they both got to make 4 magnets – one of each color instead of only one. I think they were happy about that. 
And for dessert we had rainbow cup cakes. Abbie just loves rainbows.
It was a chicken costume day…..
The boys and I stopped by Ken’s work for lunch with him. Neil loves to help post photos on Instagram. And Neil wanted the gray filter because "gray is my favorite color!"
Playing with the mango and gingerbread play dough we made.
An indoor hotdog roast and dessert. Spencer and Abbie had coupons for ice cream cones from Burger King and Neil and Isaac didn’t want to be left so they got cones too. But who can tell me why they are in the living room and not the kitchen – not cool.
Since we got the flower bed all cleaned out we added a load of compost to it and planted the bulbs for the spring. We read online that if you dig up your tulips and replant them you’ll get more flowers because the bulbs will have room to grow. So we did. Most of the bulbs had a baby bulb growing on them so we got bags and bags of bulbs. Planting them took longer than we planned – go figure :-). But this time instead of digging a hole for each bulb we excavated an area of the flower garden about 4 inches down. Spread out the bulbs and then covered them with dirt. It was a bit faster and then you weren’t trying to remember where you had already planted. We’ll see this spring how well we did…I’m so excited! Here’s Mark helping Ken finish up the planting.
While they planted the girls and I made a bike rack out of PVC pipe. All the bikes have just been in a jumble in the garage and it was driving me crazy!! So I found the instructions online…tweeaked them a bit for us and ta-da! I was so happy how it turned out!! It holds eight bikes, four on each side. And cost about 20-25 bucks!
Neil and Isaac love to take baths together. Isaac's favorite animal right now is turtles. He was so excited when Jessie brought in a turtle bath toy to play with. Listening to him say “turtle” was so stinking cute. He’s learning so many words.
Ken took the kids to a women’s volleyball game at BYU. Fun times.
Reading with dad in between Sunday meetings.
Neil loves to help plop the cookies on the sheet with the cookie scoop. Today we tried oatmeal cookies with ginger instead of cinnamon. Neil can't stop snitching so I'm thinking we're good. And they were good….fabulous in fact!
An evening at home.
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