Life is but a dream...: August 2013

Lily's school did a jump rope for heart fundraiser to raise money for the Australian Heart Association. Lily was really stressed because she isn't the best jump roper in the world, but she worked really hard and practiced lots and she did fantastic. Too bad a I was lame and didn't help her get any one to sponsor her and have money to donate! ;) But she did wear red and brought a gold coin (a one dollar or two dollar coin) donation. So there, we donated $2 to the cause. :)

Here is Lily doing the long rope jump.

They had to or three kids per rope at this station.

At another station they had the longest rope I have ever seen! They probably had 6 or 7 kids jumping at once!

Here Lily jumped with this year 7 girl. The older girl swung the rope and Lily just jumped in front of her. They really got going!

Here's Lily jumping on her own! :)

She did such a good job! I was super proud! ;)

My video settings are super messed up, but here is Lily doing some jumping.

I was glad she was able to practice and succeed at something she wanted to learn how to do. :) She is on her way!

So the girls recently had a two and a half week break from school. And it is winter here and the kids were all sick for a majority of the school holiday. So we didn't do anything too exciting or amazing. We just laid low, relaxed and tried to get better before school was supposed to start again.

There were some days that we had great weather. Here we are having a picnic at the park.

Gotta love Lily's smiles these days! LOL!

One day, the girls said they wanted to make gingerbread houses and I thought, why not? It is winter here.

Sorry, I got a kick out of all of these pictures of Lily pointing to the gingerbread house!

They each made some gingerbread girls too.

So then, that night after we had made the gingerbread houses and people this happened, here in Kalgoorlie! Bringing on the Christmas in July!

Say what?? It was a massive hail storm!! It looks just like snow! Haha! It was great!

Lily got to change her earrings during the holiday. She couldn't wait to put in her dangly ones.

Love that cheeser and all those big teeth!

We visited dad's workplace one afternoon. The kids always love going there because there are $50,000 toys that are so fun.

Here is Will using the CB receiver as a phone.

Hello:)

Taking a ride.

One Saturday morning a guy from our ward showed up at 9 am and said he was going to help Cory put this play house together that has been disassembled and in our garage for weeks. It took them all day but it got done! And we are so glad that Jared Goodlet came to help or that play house would probably have never been reassembled.

Will thought he was very much a part of the process. He loved the drills.

Here is the finished product. The girls and I are excited to give it a face lift in the form of new paint. We'll have to post pictures when we actually do it. :)

Here are some pictures of the inside.

Here's their fully stocked fridge.

Here is handsome Will in the morning one day when he wouldn't change out of his church shirt and vest so he slept in them. I thought it was too cute.

During the time off school, Lily informed me that she has hardly any jeans and that we needed to go jean shopping. So my friend, Ali and I, decided to go on an Op Shop rampage. There are about 6 here in town and we decided to start on one end and see how far we could get. Ali and I took a deep breath and we took our 7 children all 7 years old and younger to 3 op shops, 1 Kmart and 1 grocery store and we accomplished our goal and more. Plus, it was so enjoyable and so much fun!

Here are 4 of the 7 all squished into one cart.

All my kids love to wrestle.

Ava just laughs as the other two pummel her!

One night, I took them all to get ice cream cones at McDonald's while dad did bishop stuff.

Look at Will's amazing nap hair.

Ava being cute on a shopping outing with me. :)

There are seriously tons of parks here in town. So I decided to see if we could go to all of them. So far we have been to two new parks. I may be able to make it to all of them by the time we move. :) Here's one.

This car was a huge hit.

Lily built a sand castle.

Love these two sisters.

Not sure if this video will work, but if it does I feel like I should explain that we had been watching Megamind a lot at this time. That is why the girls are singing Crazy Train by Ozzy Osborne.