Blueberries and Ice Cream, but not together!

Today was a good day to go Blueberry picking.  We went to Futch Family Farms in Polk City, FL and picked two buckets of blueberries.  Everyone seem to enjoy themselves and have a good time.  I think it would have been better if we got there earlier in the morning instead of noon time and the heat of the day, it was 85 degrees out.  But that didn't affect the taste of the blueberries.

Yummy!!  She is another of my blueberry lovers!

Aamerik LOVED the berry farm and would take fist fulls and put them in his mouth.  

He would go to everyone's bucket to get his berries, lol

This was after he emptied his bucket, he was HOT and TIRED!!  He did good tho, he got a lot of berries.

Jairyn showed him where to get his own, but he didn't know he shouldn't pick the green ones!!

You can almost see the heat rising off of her face, lol...she is flushed for sure.

I am really glad I took them on this out, even though there were these yellow flies that would bite/sting you!!!  OW!!!  I noticed them mostly when we were in the shade.  There were a few smaller bugs too and I found a bigger beetle in our bucket with the berries, but thank goodness I got him out before we brought him home.  It was worth the fun tho.

After picking blueberries, I decided to treat the kids to an ice cream.  They deserved it and were very well behaved at the farm.  I ate most of my ice cream and then gave Aamerik my cone...I knew it would be a mess, lol...it was.

Aaliyah was acting like she was exhausted, lol...such the drama girl.  She's so funny!

Teighlor got a Watermelon slushi and kept giving herself Brain Freeze.

"See mom, almost gone."

Yep, was a literal mess.  When we got home and washed the blueberries outside in the baby pool, he got himself soaking wet and ate more blueberries.  He is such fun and a cutie.

Organizing Mood

I have been in sort of an organizing mood lately...not sure why...guess I feel I am a little chaotic or something, ha ha...anyway, we asked the children what they feel that Sam and I have taught them so far and then what they feel we still need to teach them or haven't done as well at teaching them.  I made them both into poster and I will hang them up so when they feel I am nagging at them I can direct them to the lists and show them that it is my responsibility as a parent to make sure I am teaching them correct principles.  We will see how this works. ha ha

Then on pinterest there was an idea for chore cards, so I decided to create my own of those as well and then on Saturdays I will pass them out so the kids know exactly what needs to be done.  I also wrote a list of what I expected in the evening time as I come home from RS presidency meetings and things are often not done and they aren't in bed and....I made a list of what they need to check for themselves before they are allowed to play and have free time.  Again, I have tried several different things in the past, we will see if this works. Wish me luck, lol

We had FHE evening last night with Sis Cook and Sis Chadwick, it was such fun to have FHE with someone else.  We learned about the personal lives of our Apostles and that we know small details about our everyday friends, so why not know small details about them.  Makes sense to me.  Teighlor made special White Chocolate Candy, Aaliyah directed the music, Jaemyn was in charge of prayers, Tariyah was supposed to have the scripture but didn't want to do it cause she wanted to do music and Jairyn was in charge of the activity.  Of course he wanted to play a Wii game but I had to set limits, lol...so I introduced him to an activity that was my dad's favorite.  Fold a piece of paper in 1/2 and then in 1/2 again so you have 4 horizontal sections.  The first section is the head and drawn by 1 person, bringing the lines of the neck just over the fold to the 2nd section, then fold the 1st section back leaving just the 3 sections open.  Pass the paper to the next person and that person draws from the shoulder to the waist bringing the waist lines just over the fold and then fold their section back and again pass to the 3rd person.  They will draw from the waist to the knee, bringing the lines of the legs just over the fold.  Again fold it back so it is not seen by the next artist and they get to finish the picture with the feet.  You can set limits of only Animals, only People, anything you want.  Here is the finished product of what we created together.

One thing I learned about my children during this time is that we need to have more visitors, they really had a hard time sitting still and being reverent.  Makes me wonder how they are in Primary, lol...Tariyah really struggled as she wanted to be called on all the time, and cried if she wasn't.  I guess it is a learning process.

We each had an opportunity to tell what talent we have.  I really couldn't think of one for myself, other than the talent of no talent but wishing I had lots of talent.  Sis. Cook and Sis. Chadwick asked the kids what my talent and here is what a few of them said... Teighlor ~ she is good at nagging (she said it with a smile), Jaemyn ~ she is good at finding me the best school to go to, Jairyn ~ she's good at being on the computer. Wow, what a few eye openers, guess I need to make sure that a couple of my kids think I can be better at something else too, lol  It was fun though.