A good mommy day

Today was a good Mommy Day. This means that I actually stuck to my new schedule and planned and carried out "school" and the "activity of the day". Because I am not enrolling Sarah in preschool this year I have prepared a more structured lesson time and activity time with each day having a different curriculum for the activity. The lesson portion always follows the same basic outline. For example today's activity was under the "art" theme. I decided to teach Sarah about the primary and secondary colors. We used water in plastic see-through cups and food coloring. Thankfully, though I hadn't tried it out beforehand, the primary colors dutifully changed into the secondary colors when poured together into new cups. Sarah was so amazed and impressed. Emmie thought the most amazing thing was seeing the food coloring change into colored water. Then she colored a simple color wheel and we made a book on some cardstock by cutting out pictures from my Country Magazines (thanks Mom) and going for a walk around the neighborhood to take pictures to print at home. (Hooray for color printers!)She also collected flowers and green stuff to tape/glue in the book. Another day we will lable all the pictures. As if that wasn't impressive enough I made zuccini cassarole (thanks again Mom for the zuccini) for dinner. If anyone has any ideas for me feel free to post them. Thanks.

Help I'm an idiot

I've been reading some headlines lately and occationally come across one that makes me think "Help, I'm an idiot!" Just now I read one where this 16 year old girl takes off from a hit and run and decides to avoid police by jumping into a 12' canal. Of course she drowned. Duh. It's sad but I still think she could have just avoided dieing by not being stupid. Then yesterday I read about drivers still going 80 miles an hour on that stretch of highway 6 that was blown up by the semi. "Help, I'm an idiot! I can't learn from other's mistakes. I must first die."

My princesses. 

The pirates have found a new form of transportation. Although if you ask Sarah she will tell you that "the mommy is driving and the brother and sister are in the back. The daddy is at work and this isn't a jeep, it's a van." 

Last one. 

Isn't this cute? 

Another view of the meadows of flowers. 

Some of the flowers up at Alta. You all should go. It's stunning!! 

Emmie in some flowers at Alta. Emmie wasn't feeling well and threw up on the way home. Poor baby. 

Sarah in the meadow up at Alta.