I don't update this much so here are some pages I have made of what we have been up to since Penny was born.

We drove down to the beach for the day with the youth in our ward. It was beautiful and relaxing.
I made rainbow tutu's for all the girls at Adelaide's birthday party and I couldn't resist making one for Penny too. I made super hero capes for the two boys who came, I think their parents appreciated that I didn't make them wear tutu's (although Isaac keeps stealing Addie's and wearing it, Joseph says I'm not allowed to take pictures of that).

Right before Joseph had to head back to work after his 3 weeks of paternity leave we drove down to Monterey and went to the aquarium for the day.

I took the kids to a fun family water park for the day, Isaac loved this water slide and my water sling came in very handy for Penny.

Jocelyn and Solomon both had their first soccer game and are loving playing soccer. Jocelyn scored her first goal today, go Joc!

Solomon and I made his catamaran together for the Raingutter Regata and he got 2nd place!

She is still my biggest smiler and getting so big!

Reading Time

I know having a big family, there's less of me and Joseph to go around, but I always hope that the benefits of having lots of brothers and sisters balances that out. It's when I catch a moment like this that I am so grateful for each of my children and what they give to each other and learn from each other.

Jocelyn's learning to digital scrapbook

Jocelyn has been wanting to learn how to digital scrapbook. We had our first lesson in photoshop this morning and she wanted to post it online just like I do so I told her we could put it up on my blog. Jocelyn's first scrapbook page made all by herself :)

Something for Sunday

There is a primary goal for each of the kids to memorize all 13
Articles of Faith and when they do the presidency bakes them a pizza size cookie as a reward. My oldest two had them finished and passed off in no time. What has surprised me is how quickly Adelaide has memorized them. All I do is sing her whichever article she is working on as her good night song and she has already memorized up to number 11. What really surprised me though was when I heard Isaac in the other room singing the 10th Article of Faith as loud as he could. I have a video of him doing the whole thing but I thought this one was so funny because of how he got frustrated at the end when he messed up at the end. I think I will have to make him his own giant cookie since the challenge isn't for nursery kids :)

Penny for your thoughts

Here's my sweet little Penelope Kim, a.k.a Penny. She has been a really easy baby so far and is definitely loved and adored by all her brothers and sisters. I've been especially surprised and touched by how much Solomon loves to take care of her. He is always offering to hold her while I shower or do other things. Isaac is so funny he loves to ask me a series of questions:

Ike: Can Penny run?
Mom: No
Ike: Can Penny talk?
Mom: nope
Ike: Can penny eat?
Mom: no
Ike: Yes she can, from Mommy.


This is always followed by uncontrollable laughter (on his part) I'm not sure why, but he thinks he is hilarious.


Jocelyn loves to interpret different noises Penny makes as words. She will get all excited and insist that Penny just said, yeah, or sure. Yes, my baby is apparently very precocious.


I really enjoyed Joseph's 3 weeks of paternity leave. The first day I jokingly asked him what was for dinner and he followed through by cooking almost every single meal for the entire time. He also did all the laundry, by the end he was informing me that we really need to buy one of those whirlpool duet washer and dryer. I should have hit him while he was weak, now that I'm back on laundry duty I think our *need* for a super washer and dryer was converted to a *need* for a ping pong table. (which we bought last Saturday).


I should have had him do more of the cleaning around the house while he was home, because my *need* to hire my housecleaner back isn't impressing him thus far...


Here's a few more pictures/pages of my sweet Penny girl.


One week

Two Weeks

Three Weeks

Four weeks and really starting to smile :)

faith is like a little seed

I love having a garden. Sometimes I like the idea of a garden more than the daily watering/weeding/harvesting that it entails but I spend a lot of time planning and dreaming up what I want to plant in my little plot of earth. This year I have planned my biggest garden. Our house here has a huge garden shaped like an E and last year I only planted one section of it. This year I really wanted to fill it up. I got this great California organic seed catalogue and decided to try starting my garden from seeds for the first time. I have to say sticking these little seeds in the dirt I started panicking that I had just wasted a lot of money on seeds. I was really nervous that my little seeds would be duds and not sprout at all...

But they did! I just love to look at them. And hopefully thanks to the fact that my garden has automatic sprinklers installed they will continue to grow.

In my veggie garden I've got 5 different kinds of tomatoes, 4 different kinds of cherry tomatoes, crookneck squash, zucchini, watermelon, cantaloupe, edamame, rhubarb, scallions, 5 kinds of peppers, 3 kinds of cucumbers, pumpkins, celery, breadseed poppies, strawberry spinach and sunflowers.

I also planted a cutting flower garden with sweet pea, zinnia, cosmo, giant poppies, calendula, amaranth and a hummingbird mix.

No such thing as a free lunch?

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