The belly button song

My kids were singing this song at dinner time. I love VeggieTales!






While we were looking for the Belly Button Song, we found another Silly Song that made us laugh:

A thought for the day

As I was folding clothes and listening to the washer and dryer chugging away today, I had a thought come to me. Women can understand the concept of eternity being one eternal round because so is laundry.

Seth's birthday pictures

Happy Birthday Seth! He loved the balloons, almost better than the cake and ice cream.

Happiness is a new puppy (toy)!

Denying the new pants, he just wants that puppy.

I made a barnyard cake with a gingerbread barn.

My sister, Nicki, gave me the idea to put our family's brand on the roof.

Approaching with caution...

Digging in!

After we pulled the barn off there was a bare spot on the cake.

Nicki put the animals there and titled it "Overgrazing."

Happy first, Seth!

Our little happy baby is a year old today! Although we (ok, just Felicity and me) were a little nervous about another boy joining our family, Seth Gavid has been a blessing from the beginning. He's almost always happy, sweet and cuddly, and has a huge curiousity that starting to make me a little nervous! He loves his brothers and sister, even forgiving them when they get a little too rambunctious or force their own ideas of sharing on him. It's been a fun year and we're looking forward to the rest of his life.

Not quite what we meant...

So today at dinner for some reason the kids (and Farris) were trying to touch their noses with their tongues. Boys, boys, boys, boys, and Felicity. Anyway, When Joseph asked me: "Can you touch your nose with your tongue?" I told him I couldn't and showed him, so he said "I can!" Then he started toward me with his tongue out. For the record, Joseph cannot touch his own nose with his own tongue, but he can touch my nose with his tongue.

Praying Mantis egg

Yesterday as it WAS SNOWING (sorry, just had to get that out of my system) I was trying to cover our tomato plants and saw something really yucky looking on a tomato:

EWWWW. But then I recognized it, it's a praying mantis egg sack. The gardening store I worked at in Logan actually sold these for use as a natural pesticide, praying mantis are wonderful at eating all kinds of the bad garden bugs. So I thought I'd post this in case any of you find something gross in your garden: Don't smash it or throw it away! I'm not sure yet if I'll bring it in the house until spring or if it's better to leave it outside all winter. Anybody have any ideas?

Exotic destinations, sort of

Well, it's time to upload pictures from my camera again, so here is what we've been up to:

No, we haven't been traveling, this is the local Krishna temple (yup , here in Utah!). Our ward's play group met to feed the llamas. Squeaker squeakin! That means "Demon Llama!" in squirrel. They also had little brahma bull calves, which was pretty cool, ok, I'm a farm nerd, but they were funny little things with their humps.

Seth loves animals so he was pretty happy squealing and kicking and trying to pat their noses. I don't think the llamas appreciated it. He did not want to leave.

We also went to our town's fall celebration, every year they have free kids activities in the park, art projects and balloon animals were the favorites this year. And the suckers, of course.
The concert this year was Nancy Hansen and Peter Brienholt, yea! Farris and I went to as many of their concerts as we could in Logan. It was fun seeing our kids dance to "You Wore Flowers" and "Birken Street" while we sang along. I loved hearing their music live again.

On Thursday, Caleb had his first ever Class Field Trip, with A Bus (yes, capitol letters are needed here, just talk to any kindergartner about a Ride in a School Bus, and their voices capitalize it). They went to an apple orchard and we decided to tag along.

Yum! Natalie and Caleb enjoying their Freshly Picked Apples (capitalized again).

Here's Abbie, I think she was a little surprised to see Sister Child, but hey, I came for the free apples.

Joseph and Hyrum enjoyed their apples, too. But the favorite part was the doughnuts, they even had SPRINKLES!

There wasn't any school on Friday so Farris stayed home from work and we decided to check out Strawberry Reservoir. So we did. And it was really cold and windy, so after eating sandwiches in the van, watching other people fish, we turned around and went down a couple thousand feet in elevation to another lake and then we played.
Seth loves water, even though when you crawl in water your belly gets wet before your bum does. And it did, and he was very!

I love pictures of feet in the water and his toes are very cute and little.

Before we took off, we rented a canoe from BYU, how much fun is that. The kids loved it, but Caleb did comment that daddy took them out faster than I did. But, hey, I didn't do too shabby, thank you Cindy and Julie =) We all got wet, Joseph got stripped down to his underwear, Caleb found lots of, ummm, cool rocks and sticks (you'd think he got enough of that in Arizona, but no), and Felicity formed a new Club (with Joseph and me as members) complete with a special tree to meet at. Fun was had by all.