Funny Fergy Kiddos All August Long

The Fergy kiddos are definitely a crazy creative bunch of kiddos. The twiners are best pals and do almost everything together from cuddling up to watch shows together or cookies backing in the oven.

Cami is constantly into my cooking bowels and other items and playing with them which actually quite annoys me because then I have to keep washing them again & again. Phoebe is just the follower at this stage and does anything to get attention which most of the time means copying whatever her younger siblings are doing, good or bad.

One day I came into wake the twins for a late nap and I found ALL of Cami's clothes thrown all over floor.  It took me a couple seconds to even notice she had pulled out the dresser drawer to make herself a bed.WHAT A NUT! Cory is always arguing that the kids don't need a whole room we could just make them sleep in dresser drawers, now I see his point, they do fit. This is the bases for his argument: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtsOQz2I09g.

Sophie can now crawl into the bathtubs by herself as I found out as Phoebe started yelling as I was folding laundry, "Mom Sophie got in my tub with her clothes on." This is pure trouble and she barely one yr old.

This is house is just like a big Home Deopt, filled with all sorts of NUTS!

Once Upon a Storytime

In August I came upon a cute blog and decided that I would like to start a weekly story-time with all the cousins, which all were for! I started with a really simple fun book called "Silly Sally" which the 2yr olds thought was SOOO funny!

Afterwards I had a fun activity that went along with the book which involved having all the kiddos lay on paper so we could trace them out and then cut & color. Everyone got into this and many of the little "Silly Sally" bodies were really cute! After everyone was done we hung them all upside down like Sally alked in the book and took a pic of all the artists and their masterpieces.

After craft time we headed to the park for some play time where Phoebe chose to carry on crafting time with grandma. What a cutie, she was just really into the drawing time with Grandma Fergy, while the rest of the cousins enjoyed playing with one another on the slides.

This was a really fun gathering and I look forward to hopefully doing many more cousin storytimes!

Poolin' Around

In the beginning of August we finally got our community pool open after over 4 1/2 yrs & we have LOVED it. We have been there several times and love to go early mornings because we get the pools all to ourselves. It is impossible for us to go swimming for only a couple hours, we usually end up staying for 3-4 hrs at a time. Josh is my highly timid one when it comes to water, but some neighbor girls actually got him to jump in he pool which is a flat out miracle in my opinion. Cami has a perma smile on her face from the second we leave until when I make everyone pack up to head home.  She has no problem going under water and in fac LOVES to be thrown up in the air to be tossed in the water and asks for it over and over. Sophie is content to sit on the kitty stairs and swim as long as she doesn't have to get in the kids little floating boat she can't stand anymore. Phoebe is absolutely in love with the pools and is highly grateful they are heated so she doesn't freeze her guts out in them.

I am sad that we finally just got our pool for the last summer we will live in this community, but at least we still have many friends that live here so we will probably be back to visit it next summer.

August's "To Die For" Date Night

In August we had originally planned for a romantic movie night, but the the Hunger Games was released last month and both Cory and & I really wanted to see it so we decided instead to have a movie night to die for. We Googled Hunger Games date ideas and found 2 really great ones, plus some fun printables! We chose the simple dinner for the movie night and saved the one with more preparation for our Sunday meal. I have to say Cory and I liked but did not love the movie, however we both LOVED this meal it was SO yumm-o!

The next night I prepared the more time consuming Hunger Games themed meal & it was WELL worth the time to make we LOVED it as you can tell by Cami licking her plate clean. If you can't remember how this fit into the book here is the little excerpt.

"Cinna invites me to sit on one of the couches and takes his place across from me. He presses a button on the side of the table. The top splits and from below rises a second tabletop that holds our lunch. Chicken and chunks of oranges cooked in a creamy sauce laid on a bed of pearly white grain, tiny green peas and onions, rolls shaped like flowers, and for dessert, a pudding the color of honey."

Okay so my roll isn't very flower shaped, all I had was a star cookie cutter I tried to make work. and instead of pudding we had the worlds best apple sauce I found on Pinterest, but it worked because was still honey colored. It was a fun date night and I having easy yummy themed food all makes the stay at home date nights 100% more fun!

Two Buck Tuesday 2012

As we do every August we made our annual homage to Thanksgiving Point for two buck Tuesday. This year we made it to the gardens and the farm. We haven't been to the gardens for a couple years so it was nice to get to go back and it wasn't too hot outside which made it even that much better. Cami LOVED the gardens and we had to get after her several times not to pick the pretty flowers and she refused to stay in the stroller so we had to keep a close eye on her. Cami just enjoyed running a twirling on the paths as we walked, which you can sorta see in the picture below.

All the kids enjoyed seeing all the koi go crazy for the tiniest snip-it of food, I even enjoy it because I never seen so many fish in one spot before.

One of the best parts of the gardens is letting the kiddos run loose at the end up and down the huge hill in front of the largest man made waterfall as we sit and relax, we always save this bit for last we we need a break from pushing the strollers a couple miles around the gardens.

After the gardens we made our way over to the kiddos beloved farm to see all the animals and ride the horses. This yer we rushed a bit through the other animals because all were just eager to get to the pony riding.

Unfortunately, this year it was a SUPER long wait (30+ minutes)so the kids just one ride each. The twins LOVED riding for theor fist time and would have loved to go again. Phoebe on the other had was so excited to go but when it was her turn she didn't get the horse she wanted and she came UNGLUED! She screamed and cried the whole time because she was on a boy horse with a mustache and she wanted the girl horse with pretty purple reins and a braclet. Side note: he "braclet" as Phoebe called it  was really a muzzle for the horse that must be a nipper)

Well in spit of he HUGE tantrum Phoebe through I think the farm is still their favorite place to see and we will most likely still come back to it every year.

Our Real Life "UP" Encounter

A couple weeks ago we all attend a balloon glow. It is something we never knew occurred and it was only down the street from us every year during the the Sandy Balloon Festival. About 8 hot air balloons are laid out in a large field and blown up. My kiddos LOVED watching them slowly being filled up.  To make the event even more fun we were joined by grandma/pa Fergy and Uncle Davey. We had tons of candy and sat across the street on some blankets playing, listening to the live music, watching the beautiful balloons being inflated.

Phoebe and Josh were running around "flying like hot-air balloons" , which look more like airplanes to me and Cami was just thrilled (can't be over emphasized  to keep pointing out all the balloons right behind us over and over.

When the balloons were all inflated and it was dark you could see all the beautiful balloons glowing in the night sky as they lit their flames periodically. they didn't picture well, but they really were beautiful.

The most fun part of the even however was the fat that all the balloon operators were letting families climb in the baskets  for pictures.  We waited for a while for our turn and right as we got to our turn Josh decided that he was too scared to get in so unfortunately, Cory just had to stand outside the basket with Josh. Cami even got to push the handles for the flames to shoot up, but unfortunately we didn't get pictures of it, but sh loved it.

This is a REALLY fun family event that will definitely be a new every year tradition and I can't say it enough that you really should go next year if you are in the area!