The Glad Game

Suzy has been helping the girls be more positive by teaching them about the glad game. It comes from a movie called Pollyanna. She's some kind of super positive girl who changes lives and stuff.  It involves always looking for the positive even in bad situations.

Anyway, on the way to school this morning Suzy was listening to the radio and on the news was a story about a lady who was pregnant whose husband had a heart attack. He was taken to the hospital, had a couple of stints put in his heart. After a few days he was starting to stabilize so his wife came home. Where her water promptly broke. She went back to the hospital, had a baby and the next day brought the baby up to see her Dad who was doing much better.

A few minutes after this story, Kate pops out with:
"You know what, I think there's one good thing if that happened to Daddy."
Suzy (it had been about 10 minutes apparently since the story had played on the radio), "er...if what happened to your dad?"
Kate, "You know, if he had a heart attack."
Suzy, "Oh, okay, what would be the good thing?"
Kate, "You could name the baby whatever you wanted to!"

I'm glad to know Kate is always looking on the bright side of things.

Other Yellowstone pictures

Wouldn't this make a great addition to any room! 

There's my little Indian boy.

Kate thought this was cool, until she saw the face. Then she said "That really creeps me out!"

Faith had a wonderful time, unless she had to walk somewhere and/or was cold. Which was only 67.4% of the time.  

Spasm geyser 

Lots of cool looking Zombie landscape. Those aren't Zombies, they're actually my family.  

Beautiful! The scenery is nice too.

Kate wanted you all to notice how the steam is coming right out of her ear.  Oh yeah, mad photography skills. 

Kate said this was the best day of her life. Emphatically, several times.  She loves this kind of stuff.  It helped that that day started out with some swimming in an awesome pool that we had all to ourselves (Jace was in the 1ft kiddie section which was nice and fenced off). Faith loved that part also.  Suzy tried to get them to do the Junior Ranger activities so they could get their Jr Ranger Badge, but they lost interest in that after about 20 minutes.  Plus Jace kept ripping up their papers, and his papers. It was downright fun (yes, I know you're shocked to hear that from me, but it was only one day and my kids loved it). 

Elk, Wolves and Bears! Oh my.

Well, I think I got my share of wildlife in for the year. We saw Elk, Moose and Bison in Yellowstone and wolves and bears at the Wolf and Grizzly center.  

Here's an Elk.  Tasty. (okay, so probably not super tasty, but lots of meat). 

We're all for letting our kids play with wild animals. As long as they're bronzed. 

These ones were all from the Wolf/Bear habitat. 

Bison. Now these are Tasty! (from what I hear, of course)

YellowStone- Old Faithful

Here was Old Faithful. We had a fun time waiting, except for Faith who was pretty chilly and not liking it.  Jace was having fun, and was of course oblivious to all others around. They had nice benches set up, and could predict the eruption within 10 minutes. We hit the 1:43 showing (it went off at 1:47).  Also, it was more impressive in person.

True Love

From a friend of Suzy's

"I wanted to tell you that yesterday River came home and said that he and Kate were playing at recess and some of the kids said I dare you to kiss.  River said he walked over to Kate and said “Kate I do love you, but I am not going to kiss you because it is too early.”  Kate said “ Yeah WAY to early!”  I told River that was good not to give in to peer pressure and they are right it is WAY too early!  I guess we can be proud we are raising kids who can be strong enough to tell other kids to buzz off!  Yeah Us"

I don't know about you, but my favorite part was the "Kate, I do love you, but" Hello! These kids are 6! Luckily they're keeping their wits about them.

Farmer's Market

Suzy and I took a trip to the Boise Farmer's market yesterday morning. It was fun just walking around while the kid were at Grandma's. I did notice a few things, for example, you can get a TWIG for only $2! if you can believe it! (Top left on the sign)

Nothing says delicious like peas, and nothing says SUPER delicious like poo + peas!

Yeah, that bike is covered in a hand knitted sleeve.

gotta love Boise! We also got some Brioche bread that is simply delicious (too bad it's not poo-Brioche, then it could be Super delicious). 

They had other fun things, like Elk meat, buffalo and lots of fruits and veggies. And fungus.  

Baptism

In the car ride home from Church today, Kate informed us that she can't wait to be baptized. She even has  a plan. When she's baptized she wants Mom to tell her every time before she starts to do something wrong so that way she'll have a whole day where she's "pure" (her words).

Suzy asked if she learned about baptism or something in Class, but apparently she decided this when a newly baptized 8 yr old was being sung to in Primary.

She also bore her testimony the other week about prayer and the bullfrog (the bullfrog got out of the bucket in the back of the Pilot and Suzy and them thought it was a gonner, but later found it after saying a prayer).  She's a special little girl.