Playing Catch Up . . . Again

So my life is busy again!  I know that everybody else is busy too, but it just seems a little crazy around here lately!  We all got some nasty flu/strep throat bug that we are still trying to get over as well.  Because of the craziness and sickness, I have neglected my blog so I need to try to do a little catch up!

Audrey is eating so well and will eat almost anything (besides smashed peas) that is put into her mouth.  She loves bananas especially, but so does Jack!  Frequently while I am not looking, he will climb up onto the table and finish off what is left in the baby food container that I am feeding to Audrey.  It isn't really funny at the time, but I figured I would get a shot of it and laugh at it later.

My ever happy Audrey Mae

So I am a firm believer in letting my children make their own cards and projects.  They may not be the prettiest things you will ever see, but they were made with love by their own hands and I think it means more that way!  I also believe that many times when a project is started, children quickly change it into what they want it to be.  I try to go with the flow most of the time.  What started as a Mother's Day card making activity, turned into a fantastic sensory art project!  I wish I could have just given Jack as the project, but we had to go to church in the meantime.  I just try to remember that they are only little for so long and these experiences help them become who they will be!

We started painting the paper and figuring out what we could do there

But after accidently getting some on himself, it quickly changed to painting Jack instead of the paper

The final paper products were good, but Jack was more colorful!

Then the next night it was Audrey's turn.  I accidently left the spoon within reach while I was feeding her.  She flicked some on her tray and loved playing with it.  It isn't that expensive to buy so I let her go at it with the rest of the bananas in the container!  She ate some, but thoroughly enjoyed getting messy!

This morning we went to the 1st annual Walk for Williams out at a park in Draper.  My older sister has Williams Syndrome which is a genetic mutation that causes some specific disorders but also comes with some fun characteristics that all children with this syndrome seem to have!  This morning we met at this park to do a 2K walk in support of research and help for these individuals.  It was fun to be with so many people that feel the same way!

They had a big picture of Lisa up on one of the walls as well as some smaller ones scattered around on advertisements.

Someone had arranged for two blow up houses and slides to be brought in for the kids to play on.

Then after the walk we rushed back to my parents' house to help finish getting ready for the Neighborhood Preparedness Fair that my parents help to organize over at the Stake House.  It was very well attended and made me realize I really need to get more things in order before the "Big One" hits!  They had lots of wonderful resources and the people that came went away with lots of great info.  My mom did a great job organizing it!

Lisa was in charge of the samples station.  There were samples of freeze dried apples, MRE brownies, MRE pound cake, and some freeze dried beef stroganoff.

My mom with the earth quake lady who did a presentation.  This earthquake lady is very knowledable and showed some cool stuff.  I guess she is a missionary too.

Detective Jacobson brought kid's fingerprinting kits and other things for the neighborhood.  I talked to him for a while before it started.  It is fun to have a husband in public service because you always have something to talk about with these people.

UFA came and brought their firetruck and ambulance.  I spent most of my time up here because Jack liked looking at the trucks and I enjoyed talking to the Captain about working for the department.  This is not the captain here, this is the young attractive new guy showing the truck to Nathan.

The engineer on the left and the other medic on the right

Even though they were from UFA, who I am not incredibly fond of, they were fun to talk to and great entertainment!  They didn't get a call the whole time and were able to stay for the whole fair!