Peter and Sam on webcam

This what happens when you leave the room to get a younger child ready and you let the older children record a video.

Charlie 3 months video

We tried a few times to get a good couple minutes with Charlie. We tried to capture his personality up to this point, and the cute things he does. I love babies! And Charlie is the cutest!

Nephi and Zoram

I drew a picture Nephi and Zoram, you see the golden weapons. There is a sword, the brass plates are where the golden weapons are.

~Peter

Scripture study

Sam and Peter read in the Book of Mormon today about Nephi having to kill Laban and they drew some pictures that I thought I would share. If you click on the image it should get bigger if you'd like to see it close up. The kids are learning every detail of the scripture stories.

Sam's drawing notice the Holy Ghost in Nephi ear, don't know if you can see it. Notice, Sam focused a lot on Laban's severed head.

Peter's drawing of Nephi killing Laban. Notice, Peter focused a lot on the sword and putting on his clothes.

Laban and the Brass Plates

Peter, Sam and I read in the Book of Mormon today about Laban and the brass plates. Peter drew a picture. He drew Laban watching TV and on the TV is a bad guy fighting a good guy and the bad guy wins because he stabs him (Violent!). Zoram is calling Pizza Hut and someone talked to him. Then someone pushed the machine and pizzas came falling out. When the car came they pushed the button to make pizzas come out. Then they ate pizza. Laban is going upstairs for dinner. Laman comes sometime earlier and asks for the brass plates but Laban wants to kill him. So he runs in a cave. And Laban goes upstairs to eat pizza. And then Zoram and Laban go downstairs to watch some TV and they watch bad guys killing good guys. And the good guys win this time. Zoram and Laban play one of the video games they have which is Lego batman and they kill all the bad guys and do that everyday, even Sunday the Sabbath day. Laban is wicked and Zoram is one of his servants and he has to do what Laban says.

Peter is very creative! ...and a bit violent.

First Day of School!

We started homeschool and the first day went pretty well. We read scripture stories out of an old school blue set of Book of Mormon readers that has like 16 volumes- they are great! We got all of step 1 done, yeah! That's progress. We did some Spanish, we read a book of Spanish words and the kids learned to say "Por Favor" (please), "Gracias" (thank you), "Yo quiero" (I want). It was fun hearing the kids try and speak Spanish. Peter even used his new words during dinner later on. After Spanish we started our "ABC Book", obviously the first page being the letter A. We drew pictures and wrote things that start with the letter A: apple, amaranths, ant, apotasaurs, argentinasaurs, alligator, apricot, and animal. Using an old family dresser the kids now each have a drawer to hold their school things. Then using some flashcards we picked a card and learned some words that rhyme. Pig, wig, dig, twig, all rhyme. The big pig wore a wig and liked to dig. That was pretty much our first day of school. We had a lot of interruptions from the baby needing to be fed and Will getting into things. Will woke up when his diaper exploded onto the floor. After bathing him, I didn't get a diaper on quick enough because he pooped on my bed. He likes to run away when you try and put a diaper on him. Then later he did his usual: filled the oven with random stuff. He got into the laundry soap and smeared it on the washing machine. I needed a break so I sent him and his brother outside to play in our new sandbox. I forgot that it rained, bad idea! They all came in super sandy! I guess its hot dogs and french fries for dinner!

Inspiring Video

This video is truly inspiring, we really can make a different when we do what's right.