Hamilton Happenings

A few weeks ago we did a family garage sale.  On the second day of the garage sale the kids got to sell cookies, cupcakes, and lemonade.  I made about 50 cookies.  (More than that actually but a few didn't make it to the bake sale.  Mmm yum.)  It took a couple of hours before people really started buy any of Channing's cookies.  A few tears were shed.  But eventually he realized that people wanted his cookies!  The kids did amazing at marketing their sale.  "Come and get your cookies!"  "The world's best cookies here!"  It was hilarious.  Most people were so generous and made the kids feel great.  Mckenzie also surprised us all by sitting and waiting patiently to sell her lemonade.  I assumed she'd be done with that after an hour.  But she latest almost the whole day!  I love that at the end of the sale they all just wanted to eat the inventory.  And that was okay with me! Isaac, a toddl...

We've had lots of fun the last few months and I want to make sure to document them.  And I'll try not to be too bitter as the weather is cooling off.   Dinner at Grimaldi's and then watching the fountain. Mckenzie and Emily's first swim lessons.   Channing had swim lessons too.  It was a busy two weeks.   This is what happens most days days after Justin gets home. Can't forget Jett! Mckenzie is such a chatterbox these days.  Each sentence either begins or ends with "mom".  I guess she wants to make sure I'm listening.  Her current passions are coloring, looking a her princess recipe book, and playing with the keyboard in her room.  I let her have the keyboard in her room and she wanted some really piano music to look at to do her "music lesson".  She even put some fake flowers by the keyboard.  I am sooo happy that preschool has been going well for her.  I was nervous about her bathro...

As I write this it's a chilly mid-September day.  Channing is at school, Isaac is napping, and Mckenzie is playing in her room.  Even after living in Idaho for 10 years I'm still amazed by the daily change in weather.  While putting Isaac down for a nap this afternoon he dumped out his laundry basket and started playing in the dirty clothes.  I noticed that there was a swimsuit mixed in the heap of dirty clothes.  I do laundry pretty regularly.  Which means that in the last week or so we've gone from swimsuit weather to sweater weather.   It's no secret that Isaac is a challenging child.  Kyle (his cousin) knows it because Isaac bite his finger.  The little girl in stake conference knows it because Isaac smacked her on the bottom and yelled "bottom!"  Mckenzie knows it because she informed me that Isaac smeared yogurt all over his face and neck.  And I certainly know it because there are a good amount of ear phones in ...