Lots of Randomness

It's about time for another post of random pics from my phone.  Every time I try to figure out what to post next, I find a slew of pictures I don't know what to do with.  So they are going in here.  I may or may not explain each picture so bear with my crazy thought process.  

We went to Morgan's parent teacher conference and they had a book fair going on at the same time (smart school, get parents to buy stuff while they are there).  Anyway, we found this poster and thought of Uncle James and his fetish for cats.  We almost bought it for him and mailed it to him.  We had a good laugh.

 Malia is at it again.  She woke up one night right after Randy left for business trip crying.  She came up to my bed and I being too tired to figure out what was wrong made her snuggle with me till she fell asleep.  In the morning she was complaining her arm hurt like it did when she broke it in Orem and after a lot of prying of information we figured out she must have fallen out of her bed in the middle of her night and probably landed on her arm like she did on the teeter totter.  So after I got the kids off to school, I took her in and they couldn't find a break but said she may have re injured her previous break from falling out of bed.  So she was splinted and slinged again.  Since it wasn't "broken" they ended up giving her a brace to wear for a couple of weeks.  I give up with this girl!

Another awesome elder.  Elder Knaphus or "Napkin"  He was pretty cool!

 Out here in MN they have a program run by a church called "Feed my Starving Children."  This group makes meal packs for 3rd world countries and through their missionary work provide meals for starving people.  These packs have lots of nutrition and lots of calories to help these underdeveloped areas.  We were able to go help pack some of these meals.  It's a pretty neat experience.  They tell/show stories of some of the children they have helped.

Saw him doing this on the way to drop off kids at school while the song "Hello" was on the radio. It was perfect timing.

New Beginnings for the Young Women.

Remember those ginormous sweats?  We finally found a home for them.  The elders took them off our hands and gave them to someone in our area who could use them.  But we had to take one more picture of them.

After dinner/breakfast one night, Micah's syrup looked like and egg had hatched.

We went with some friends to their gun club and with 5 couples, we had 500 rounds to shoot.  So we had some fun with these shotguns. I had to document this cuz I traded Randy's earphones for mine cuz I thought he needed to wear pink.

We were told we had a pretty mild winter.  We had plenty of bitterly cold temperatures but not an excess of snow this year.  We had enough snow, but it wasn't out of control.

We visited an art museum during spring break.

and also the zoo.

What boy doesn't need a newsies hat?

We had our fair share of the sickies this year, mostly in ear infections, but there was one time Masie thought she was going to barf or "bark" she thinks so she slept with her head in a bucket.  I'm pretty sure had she puked, it would have come right back in her face.

More concerts

We've been to a lot of them lately, you can tell by how excited Kaders is.

Randmoness

As I'm making these posts I'm finding more and more random pics from my phone that don't really have a  home but I thought they were either cute or funny so I decided to make a post all of its own of random shots.  Kaders was nervous about swings for a while.  Every time he'd swing, he'd grunt on the forward motion till he got use to it.  It was pretty cute.

 He sure loved playing in the sandbox.

Everyone did for that matter.

 We got a wiggle car for a killer price in the winter and since it's too cold outside till about April and we had a massive main level with lots of wood and tile flooring, this toy got a lot of use.

 Kenz stole my phone and had to get some selfies at the temple open house.

 This is how Masie usually sleeps.  Right up against the edge of her bed.  If it wasn't for her rail she would always be on the floor.

 Kaders discovered Nutella.  Or should I say his hair discovered it.

 Just being cute.

 More of the Children's museum.  This is in the ancient exploration area.  This kids are digging up things.

 Gotta make sure you wear protective gear, even it's on upside down.

 We like to try and wear these two out.

 More sandbox cuteness

 I did  take two shots of Randy's surgery. Well before his surgery.  He looks so forlorn.

 My cute boys

 And sometimes just weird

 OK, really weird!

 I guess it kept her busy during General Conference so that's all that mattered.

 Upon arriving to MN we found out that band starts in 5th grade so we jumped at the chance to have Micah begin lessons.  He chose percussion.  Hope my nerves hold up.

New Camera, another Happy Day!

I've been waiting for this for a very looooong time.  My old camera was just not cutting it anymore and I hated using it because of how washed out everything looked inside, which is where I take a majority of my pictures.  I told Randy I didn't want birthday or Christmas presents last year, all I wanted was a new camera.  So we waited until our tax return came and purchased a new Nikon D3100.  It's a bigger camera and I'm not a photographer, so I have a few (hundred) things to learn, but am excited to see what this baby can do.  But wow, what a difference it makes, even if I have no idea what half of the buttons do yet.  The first pics I took was with the flash and then figured out to turn it off and holy cow, you could see everything. . still.

 Even bathtub shots come out.

 Mac was sick the day I got it, and so she was camped out on my bed while Morgie was doing post bath routines.

 I just remember taking pics of the kids at the table before and how awful they would always turn out.  I love this camera.

 Malia just had to show off her pillow pet.

 I've been dying to get a good shot of  the view from my window of Mt. Timp.  I have the best view in the world and have never really gotten a good shot of this.  Not that this one is the best but I wanted to give ya what the mountain looks like because this next shot there is one cloud hiding the face of Timp.

Stunning isn't it?  I get to look at this every day and now that I have a camera that takes awesome pics, I might be putting more of the mountain on my blog.