The Bateman Clan: Boys

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Friday, August 30, 2013

August 30th, 2013

WE DID IT!! WOO HOO!! The boys are so very excited. All three boys have the 13 Articles of Faith memorized. ( Videos to come) Andrea and her friend made an ice cream tracking chart for the boys, so as they memorized each one, we got to put a scoop on top of the cone. I am not a big on giving food as a reward for things, but Rex and I decided that since the boys worked so hard and memorized all the Articles of Faith that we would take them to our favorite dessert stop, Kiwi Loco. They are so very proud!

In other news, Evelyn had her 4 month check up. She is long and skinny * sound familiar, Liz?* She is 27 inches long ( 98%) and 13 pounds ( 38%) She is strong and healthy.

Friday, July 26, 2013

July 25th, 2013

So, things seem to be moving along as usual. Nothing too fantastic happening. Rex just got back from a short business trip to Idaho Falls. He took some beautiful pictures of the temple and the falls. He even had some time last night to go to the visitor's center. I am glad he got to have that time.

We are almost all set and ready to start school. Organize and prepare!! It is fun. Ben is very excited to start his official Kindergarten work. It should be a great year in the school of mama!

I am heading to the doctor again soon. I am just not finding the umph that I once had. Evelyn is sleeping through the night, I have been eating healthy and exercising, and doing all the things I should be doing, but I still have no energy. I get completely exhausted and have had a hard time even functioning on some days. My iron is somewhat low, but not in the anemic zone. They next thing they are looking at is my thyroid. We will see how it goes.

The garden is growing like crazy. I don't have as much time as I would like to put towards it, but it is surviving and I will have plenty to can and eat! My apple and pear trees are packed full too.

Until another day!

Monday, July 15, 2013

June 15th, 2013

Something pretty to look at today.

Today was overall a good day. We are gearing up to start school again. The boys and I started planning out our curriculum, and figuring out what they wanted to learn. Benji is excited to start "kindergarten" this school year. There is a lot to plan and do now with 3 boys in full swing with school. We were going to start tomorrow, but I still have a lot to plan and organize.

We are planning to have yard sale soon, so that is in the process, and the piles of useless stuff are mounting. I like getting rid of stuff. I am not a fan of "stuff" at all. I am ready to have my house back and not so much "stuff" hanging around.

On the down turn of things today, I am so sick of having animals. I love animals, but I am done with them in my house. After these dogs, we are done having pets until the children are out of the house. I don't mean to sound insensitive, but it is just too much.

I hope tomorrow is emotionally better for me. Some days are harder than others trying to deal with everything life throws at you. But it is all a process. I think part of my poopy mood today has to do with not feeling well. My eye infection is getting better, but it is draining still.

Tomorrow is another day.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

June 24th, 2013

A long tiring day. Evelyn is not sleeping at all, and has decided to start teething early. I am guessing we will see little teeth in about a month.

Andrea is going on Trek tomorrow, and getting ready for it all has been...an adventure. I get to go participate tomorrow for part of Trek. It should be fun, if I am not drop dead exhausted!

We had the missionaries over for dinner and FHE tonight. It was a lot of fun. The boys like to show off and get all crazy when we have missionaries over. They are such crazy kids!

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Picture Update!

Our garden spot is ready to plant! And the boys have our seedlings started in our side yard.

I am a lucky mama to have this little lady to stare out while taking my finals!

Benji is head over heels for this girl!

I love his eye lashes.

This is my fun and tasty card that Andrea made me for Mother's Day. It was too cute.

Benji and Evelyn holding hands.

This is what I came home to after church. Decorations and a wonderful sign. " Happy Mothers Day To An Epic Mom" I laughed so hard!

Monday, October 15, 2012

Nature!

This week we are studying weather. One of our experiments was how it rains. We did the experiment above with shaving cream, water, and food coloring. It was awesome!

Along with the experiments, we are taking some tips from the Charlotte Maso n curriculum and observing nature. The boys started nature journals today. we are going to try every day to sit out side, regardless of weather, to observe nature. They can draw, write .. what ever they want in their journals. It is exciting!

The boys really enjoyed taking in nature and actually observing what is that is going on around them.

This picture...........DON'T ask. It was not fun, but we made it through and the boys were cute!

Friday, August 3, 2012

True Peace of Mind

So, it just hit me. We don't have to go buy school clothes this year! I am not buying school supplies until after the "back to school" season is over. I have picked up a few things here and there, but man, my school supply bill is going to be so much cheaper!!! I for once feel so so much better about the boys starting "school" this fall than I ever have before. I have not set curriculum, in fact, we are more or less set on what the boys want to learn in 3 month blocks. I have set things they are going to review and practice, but other than that it is what they are interested in and letting their learning go from there. The gospel will be first and for most before the 3 R's, that is our main goal. I am so so excited to do this for our boys. Yes, excited. even after the past 2 weeks which have been nerve shredding with my darling children and a lot of crying, whining, arguing and so on. This is what we need, and we need to learn to get along with each other as a family.

I am all registered for school and I feel that I will be very refreshed and ready for this semester after my nice long break! I have awesome classes and a only 2 teachers out of 5 classes! Woo hoo!

Life is good!

Friday, January 20, 2012

I am SNOW Happy.

Winter has been a bit..err..delayed. We FINALLY got a good amount of snow this week. It was so pretty!

Zeke was sure happy. His true husky colors show when it snows. He was out for hours, just rolling, and playing. It was cute.

The boys had fun too! Here is Joe's snow angel.

Here are 2 outta 3 of our boys. Trenton was at school :(

I sure love my happy kidos! We had a fun day playing in the frozen moister! Stay tuned, I think we have some pretty awesome news to share!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Day 27

Daily Routine-

Now, these are obviously not my boys, but this is what they do with 95% of their day. eat eat eat.

I swear all I do is cook a meal, clean up a meal, cook a meal, clean up a meal. I fear their teen age years....

5 grateful things
breakdowns-feeling better after breakdowns- school is almost done- holiday season- cookie contest tomorrow!