Creating

One of my favorite and most rewarding parts of being a mom is the variety of things I get to be constantly creating: Homemade meals, memorable moments, fun parties, and as of late...

....I have been surprised at how much I've gotten in to and enjoyed all the School Projects around here... Ashlin and Kendell had to do this 'Summertime Tundra Biome". They let me help, and afterwards Ashlin and I stared at it forever telling eachother how cool it was.... so fun!



Then the week after we finished the Tundra Biome, Dallin came home from school with the project list he had to choose from for their Egypt Unit.... we were so excited!

He chose to make a mummy, pyramid and travel brochure.

Dallin LOVES science and projects. He was so cute with this. He made a man out of playdough. Before he wrapped it like a mummy he wanted to cut slits in it to represent that ancient Egyptians cut out the organs before mummifying the bodies, then he really poured salt in each of the incisions of his mummy man to "preserve the body".

He spray painted a box and animals gold to represent that their kings were buried in gold and the ancient Egyptians buried in the tomb with them animals of gold.

I LOVE that Dallin is just soaking it all up at school and has been constantly informing us of new Egyptian facts he's learning!

We searched the internet to see if there were any pyramid next to water. (It was so fun making water for Ashlin's project, he wanted to also)

And, yeah, we found that the first pyramids of Giza were built on the West bank of the Nile river. Did you know that the features of the pyramid can be seen from the moon, they're so large?! The interior stones fit together so well, you can't even fit a card between them. And they are the oldest structures on earth, wow.

Way to go Dallin!

Then look at my newest toy!! Yeah, I am just dreamin of all the fun memories to create...

We actually bought this because I was dreamin about putting it out front halloween night, blaring my loud halloween music, dressing up like a witch and passing out popcorn all night...
can't wait!!!

But then we decided we wanted to use it right away, so Ashlin invited her seminary class over for movie night in our backyard. We had a movie, popcorn, homemade rootbeer, a fire pit and roasted marshmallows...
Here's just some of the kids...
Such a fun night!

Then look at the cute gigantic "card" Logan made Aunt Chrissy for her Birthday:


Logan spent so much time on it, and it was all his idea to tape together multiple pages. (It is him standing next to her) And we cracked up at what he wrote on the shirts...


On her shirt she's saying: "I love you"

On his shirt he's saying "you love me"

Clearly, he feels loved!


So many fun things to create!! If only there were more time in a day. Thats okay... its worth losing sleep on occassion to make something cool!

(Pyramid picture by Logan)