East Coast 2016

 Our PA, NJ, NY Trip was such a great time. 

Thanks so much to Jake and Mel and kids for accommodating us and always be willing to go do things. We had the best of times, mostly because the company but a little because of the things we were able to see :)

Their location is perfect as there is soooo much to see within a 2 hour car drive in any directions. 

I am too lazy to sort all of the photos and add descriptions so here all the photos, plus a video I made at the end to sum it all up.

 Cool local 9/11 Memorial for the individuals that dies in their county.

Now thats the way to plow a field.  Two Horsepower.

Here you melt a crayon and spin your paper to make neat designs.

Happy MOthers Day Boo Boo

HERE IS A VIDEO I MADE TO SUM IT ALL UP.

this HTML class. Value is http://youtu.be/38u7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38u7d7X1fFk

Talk Time

Aves gave her first "talk" in primary this past Sunday. I practiced with her at home beforehand and She was looking forward to it, she did a great job. Brit basically told her what to say but she was a real trooper getting up in front of everyone. Love her.

Joyschool

This year I joined four other moms from our neighborhood and did a rotation for Joyschool. This past Wednesday was my last day of teaching. I really enjoyed doing it and Avery has loved it. It was fun to come up with fun activities and crafts for the kids to do. Some days were easier than others.

 I had the first day of school and we did the letter A. I also did F, K, P, V, Y, 1, and 4.

A is for Apple and Ants

We made apple trees by tracing their arms and hands then cut out some green for the leaves and then they used their finger tips and red paint to make apples on the trees. We sang The Ants Go Marching, Sorted apples that had A's and a's  on them and put them into piles and snacked on apples and ants on a log (celery with peanut butter and raisins).

F is for Frogs and Fish.

We made frogs out of two paper plates and red party blowers for their tongues. The kids put speckles on them and glued on eyes, arms, and legs. Then we sang Five Little Speckled Frogs.

We read the Rainbow Fish book then the kids glued on colorful scales and eyes with a capital F fish.

 

We also had fruit bowls for a snack. And went fishing for letter f fish.

K is for King 

We made crowns for a King

We had fruit Kabobs and Kool-aid for snack time.

I also made them rice krispie treat kisses to take home.

P I had a lot of fun with. There are so many things that start with the letter P!

P is for puppet, playdoh, picnic, and popcorn.

I put on a little puppet show about being polite for the kids which they all loved and were laughing pretty hard. Then I had them make their own puppet and put on a show (a much smaller one :)) It was a lot of fun.

Then for snack time we prepared a picnic. We popped some popcorn and put that and pretzels into our basket then layed out a blanket for a picnic inside since it was too cold outside.

  

I also had them say "please" to get their snack or when they wanted more.

Then we made some Kool-aid playdoh for them to play with and take home.

It was a fun day!

Letter V just happened to be right around Valentine's day. So that was perfect.

We made Valentine bags for the Valentine's the kids brought to share.

 

I made some heart molds with baking soda and then gave them Vinegar to pour on to it to see what would happen.

I was also going to make a Volcano, but ran out of time to make it. So I just used a plastic cup instead. They loved it.

Then we had veggies and veggie straws for snack time.

Y is for Yogurt, Yawn, Yeast, and Yard

I taught them how yeast works. Then made soft pretzel dough and had the kid roll theirs out and make a letter Y. We then baked them and ate them for snack time as well as some yogurt pops I made them.

The made a letter Y into a person yawning. :o  with Yarn for hair.

Then we played in the yard and with water balloon yo-yo's.

#1 was the day before St. Patrick's day so I did Lucky one!

We did a scavenger hunt to find the colors of the rainbow and to find their pot of gold. The pot didn't have any gold in it so we played a game to earn gold to glue on. They threw pennies into a pot and got a piece of gold for each penny they made in.

They also made leprechaun hats.

It was a fun day.

And #4 was my last turn.

I decided since they all turn/turned 4 this year to do a Birthday theme.

So we made cupcakes.

 

I gave them 4 birthday candles and they made the number 4 with them.

We played musical chairs starting with 4 then took out a chair and counted the number of chairs each time someone got out.  They loved this and played it a lot.

They also made hand print birthday cakes with their four fingers as the birthday candles. Then they frosted their four cupcakes they got to take home.

I am so glad I was able to do this and watch Avery learn and grow.

K$

Kennas is really getting a little personality and it's so fun to see the different things she will do and say.  She gets her feeings hurt pretty easy and will open her mouth wide open like she is crying but no sound is coming out. She loves to play with her big sister Avery even though they don't always get a log. Avery has also been more interested in playing with her the last few months which wasn't the case when Kennas was a baby.

Whenever she is in her chair to eat she always crosses her legs. Funny Girl.

I will play a game with the girls called "Tossy's" where I will throw them into the air and onto the bed or couch.
The other day Mckenna grabbed her little doll and started to play, funny girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO5UgEVI6rs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO5UgEVI6rs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnJaG1Bwz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnJaG1Bwz8

Mex, Guad.

My mission President from Columbia recently contacted me asking if I could share some mission photos and info with him. I dug up my storage bin with all of my mission stuff. Pretty fun to go through. I wanted to share some photos from my mission to Guadalajara, Mexico from 1999-2001. What a great place and time. I loved my mission. It is a huge city with a population of about 5 million.

The Family Anguiano Ochoa. From Colima Mexico. VERY poor but what a fun family to teach. Thanks to FB I have been able to keep in touch with the kids.

                                  Our Weekly Agenda Sheets where we kept track of Apts.

The sight of the Guadalajara Temple. They broke ground While I was serving so it was cool to be a part of.

In one of my areas about 1 Hr outside of Guadaljara called Estipac. VERY small village, I would compare it to Morgan, UT. Every year when the sugar cane was ripe they would burn all of the leaves, etc off.

Zone activity at "Sirloin Stockade" One of the only American style Buffet type restaurants in Guad.

The mission offices we right next to "El Estadio Jalisco" where the Chivas and Atlas play soccer. While walking by one day we got to go inside to snap a few pics.

                    Groundbreaking of the Guad Temple. Me and Elder De Lima from Tijuana, Mex.

One of the coolest families we taught. The Family Mendoza Ochoa from Guad. I have also kept in touch with them. I returned to my mission 3x after serving and every time I stayed with them.
One time My mom and I went back and stayed with them.  One night at about 10 PM they planned a Mariachi Band to come by the house and play some music. We all danced and had a good time. Something I will never forget.

My first Baptisms. I was only in the mission for a bout a month or two. they had been speaking to the missionaries for a time and for some reason when I arrived with my Comp (Elder Myers) they started to progress (fulfilling something it says in my PB.)  Later during my mission I had heard he was made an EQP in his ward. But MAN, I wish I could remember more about them to try and contact them. This is actually going to motivate me to contact the mission office and see if they can help me out.

                                                      A great family, La Familia Lizardi

                      We built a stand in a big fair to try and share the gospel with the passerby's.

Something that is very big in Mexico are "Los Teaguis" Basically just a ceertain area of the city every day of the week where they put up these stands and sell items. They sell all day then take them down at days end. Kind of like our Farmers Markets but bigger and better. Here again we put up a stand to talk to shoppers. You can see us in the back.

                                Zone Leaders Conference at the Mission presidents House.

Another stand we put up at a big fair on Colima. Colima is a different state next to Jalisco. It was probably my favorite area. It's so tropical and beautiful there.

We were invited to teach the first discussion to a class at this Catholic College. It was a good experience.

While living in the small pueblo of Estipac we (Elder Goodale and I) lived next to a butcher. Almost every morning around 6:30 we would hear a Pig squealing for his life (literally). We because friends with the family and one day we decided to help out a little.