A Morales Minute

My sister, Emily, organized a campout with us siblings and our families. It's the first time we've done this. Emily and her family, Elizabeth and hubby, me and my fam, Lori, Brian and his fam, and Darin...the baby of us all, but anything but. (He's so grown up now living on his own and working at his fancy, shmancy job. lol)   With the school year coming to a close it wasn't the best timing for Jaime to pick up and leave with evaluations and interviews and such. He's been so busy but he managed to escape and get home around 4 p.m. on Friday. (Ideally he'd take the day off if he didn't have so much going on. He had to go in to work on Monday, Memorial Day, just to get stuff done.) We hit the road at 4:39! Stopped in Grandview to drop the boys off. Yeah I know, a camping trip without having to chase Tyler around and make sure Aidan remembers his bathroom breaks sounds kind of nice, doesn't it.  Well, here's the deal. Jaime's folks go camping...

It's finally gotten not just warm but HOT! I've actually been happy to feel it. I'm a warm-weather-lovin' kinda person. I've been outside reading while the kids are out riding bikes. I don't know about you but once it starts warming up we start counting down the days until SUMMER BREAK! Activities like this totally shout summer fun.  We've been waiting and are ready!

This Mother's day was wonderful. I woke up in the morning to find this amazing necklace on my vanity. I've wanted a mother's necklace of some sort but I wanted something more modern. Jaime hunted one down and I love it. All my babies' names are there. :) We went to church where the primary kids sang to their mom's in Sacrament Meeting. Aidan was so excited to be able to go up this time. He just beamed! He didn't know all the words but he tried to sing and smiled at the the whole time.  Next year all four of them will be up there singing to me.  The girls gave me their gifts after church. This is from Lindsey. So sweet. Olivia gave me an adorable key chain and this list that her teacher wrote her answers to the questions on. You can tell what I've been reading recently. I decided to FINALLY read the Twilight Saga and then I've been reading the Monster High books with Lindsey. It must really stick out in Olivia's he...

I got together with a group of girls to exchange some "Busy Bags" that we made for our kids. Each one of us picked one that we wanted to do for what age (toddler or preschool). I only had to buy supplies for the bags I made instead of a bunch of different things. There were 9 of us total who made bags.  I made 6 of the same preschool bags and 5 toddler bags. (That's how many signed up for each age group.) I took them to the exchange at my friends and came home with 11 different bags for a variety of fun learning activities for my boys. They're great. Here are just a few of them. Pool Noodle Lacing Each noodle piece has a number on it. There are color pattern cards and number cards. He can pick a card and either lace the pattern or the numbers in the correct order to the card on to the rope. Good for coordination too! Pipe Cleaner Toy Tyler loves to shove the pipe cleaner into the matching color hole. He can sit and do this for a good 20 minut...

I had the amazing opportunity to attend Time Out For Women in Spokane last weekend. I'd never gone before but this year a bunch of girls from our ward were going and staying at a girls parent's lake house. There were about 18 of us who stayed at the house and then many others from our ward who went but had other arrangements for the night but we got to see them as well. Thank you Jaime for staying home from work on Friday so that I could go. I enjoyed getting to know others better and enjoying time for myself. I loved the talks and music. It was definitely a spiritually uplifting experience and I look forward to going again.