A Weekend in Buhl

Earlier this month, we took a weekend trip to Buhl.  Jonny really wanted to stay in a motel with a pool, but Buhl didn't have any motels with pools.  Luckily, the next town over had a community pool so we spent the afternoon swimming.

Jonny really wanted to go down the water slide, but he climbed to the top and then climbed down again.  Finally on the third try, he made it with his daddy waiting at the end to catch him.  And then he went down and went down and went down!

While we were in Buhl, we also hiked up to the balanced rock in Balanced Rock State Park.

A Trip to the Zoo

Last week, we attended a foster family appreciation evening at the zoo.  They fed us dinner and then let us into the zoo for free.  Jonny enjoyed looking at all of the animals, but his favorite part BY FAR was looking at all of the mechanical dinosaurs that were set up around the zoo.  He didn't ask to go back to see any particular animal twice, but there were several dinosaurs that he wanted to see again! 

Kindergarten!

 Jonny was super excited about starting school today!  He is attending afternoon kindergarten.  I took him to school and then he rode home on the bus.  The bus stop is a few houses down from ours so Mac and I walked down to meet Jonny and Jonny was happy to show off his bus tag.  (I was happy to see that Jonny's bus driver is one of our ward members!)  Jonny told us that kindergarten was fun!

Jonny loves his John Deere backpack.  

Look Who's Five!

Jonny turned five on April 3.  We invited the family over for dinner, presents and cake.  It was kind-of warm enough to eat outside, so we all sat outside for dinner but we moved back into the house for opening presents and cake & ice cream.  Grandma Vicki is the expert birthday cake-maker and Jonny requested his cake far in advance:  he wanted an orange "lemon" cake.  That meant that he wanted the orange car from the Disney movie Cars 2--you know, the "lemons" are the cars that no one likes!  Well, Grandma Vicki wasn't too sure about that so we created a race track and decorated it with a bunch of toy cars and Jonny was happy.  Jonny is now ready to start kindergarten.  He was pretty sure that he was going to be able to go to school the day after he turned five.  He was a little disappointed to learn that he still has a little bit of time to wait!

Foster Brothers

We were approved to do foster care in October and received these boys into our care a couple of months ago.  Trevor is four years old (he'll turn five in August) and Chauncy is 4 months old.  Jonny and Trevor play outside all day long and have all kinds of fun!  Chauncy has started laughing and smiling and using his hands and Jonny likes to have Chauncy hold his finger.  These little boys are keeping both Jonny and me busy, but we're having fun!  

New Kitty

This is Jonny's new kitty.  We got her back in August.  It took a while to settle on a name, but Jonny finally chose to call her "Missy".  Jonny LOVES her!  He thinks he needs to carry her around all day long!  Luckily she is a pretty easy-going kitty and goes along with it most of the time.  Jonny's only had a few scratches so far and is learning that if she wiggles around then she's ready to get down!

Grandma Vicki's Wedding Reception

Grandma Vicki got married in September and we were able to spend the evening with the Deming family at the wedding reception on October 5.  It was a fun evening and we had a good dinner.  But you should have been there about eight p.m. to watch the eight grandkids (who are all eight years old and younger) bounce off the walls since it was past bedtime!