A few very stressful things stand out about this week, but looking back through pictures, there were a lot of good things happening, too. In an effort to overcome Rachel's feelings of animosity towards family history work, and several of the kids' similar feelings about writing in their journals, I decided we would do some positive associations in the hopes of improving their attitudes about them. So we started "Journals and Jolly Ranchers", and "Apples with Ancestors" last week. They can suck on Jolly Ranchers any time they're writing in their journals, and they can suck on a candy apple lollipop as long as they're doing family history. Rachel went through maybe 3 suckers last week finding names she can take to the temple when they're open again. She eventually found a very confusing set of people, so I tried to help her sort it out for a little while.
After a while we gave up and passed the problem along to Jacob, the sorter of all family history conundrums.
Annie and Ryan made a pretty cool bunch of trees (some even connected with walkways) and dragons last Sunday. This seems to be their preferred Sunday morning activity.
We pulled out P is for Pterodactyl last week for family story time. It's a hilarious alphabet book.
Peyton and McKenzie joined us for school at our house this past week. It was tricky figuring out their schedule and what is expected of them, but after a couple of days we got it figured out pretty well. And the kids were so happy to have their cousins around for more fun time during breaks.
We set up work stations for them with some TV trays we had waiting for just such a need.
Megan made herself some new glasses.
Ryan was having a rough morning one day last week, but our mid-day break turned the day around for him as he used his karate skills to teach Sammy how to do a corkscrew punch and a roundhouse kick.
Friday and Saturday we needed a break from the stresses of life and we went up to La Paloma. The kids did school from the hotel rooms, then had a blast on the water slide and in the pools.
Saturday Peyton and McKenzie joined in the fun.
Mask man on the way to the pools:
I got some new puzzles at the dollar store last week and they've been a big hit.
I just noticed this is the same puzzle, but they've worked on 3-4 in the last few days, most of them 100 piece puzzles.
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