Nee Nees

Elanora absolutely loves tomatoes. When she's hungry she runs around the house saying "nee nees, nee nees". Anytime she is outside at my parents house she makes a beeline for the garden singing at the top of her lungs NEE NEES. What in the world are nee nees and what in the world do they have to do with tomatoes? Although my thoughts do tend to wander freely from thing to thing, today they are right on track and the 2 things relate to one another.

(I realize that this cute pictures has nothing to do with tomatoes, but just look how cute she looks chowing down on corn)

Lil' Boss talks really well. She repeats everything anybody says. So, you might wonder why she calls tomatoes nee nees right? Long story short...my cute niece Alivia called them nee nees when she was a wee little one. My dad loved the way she talked so much that he can't resist calling them nee nees. It's really cute when Nory Bug says 'nee nees' in that hopeful little voice of hers.

 

You may think my train of thought derailed at the beginning of this post but rest assured it did not, this post is about Hooper Tomato Days. See, nee nees + Tomato Days = all trains right on schedule. 

Speaking of train   

 

Oh yes indeed Tomato Days had a train. Kira and Lincoln boy rode together

 

 

Brave little twinner Lexi, rode by herself.

 

 

 Braver yet was Jaycee. She agreed to ride with the wild child. The ride started out a little rocky but by the end, Nora was possibly enjoying it...at least she stopped crying and saying "no,no,no"

 

(Can you see the small amount of fear in those beautiful blues? She gets it from her dad. Proof in the pictures below )


My dad, Kira, Jaycee, and I decided it would be a good idea to ride one of those things that go around and around. Everyone else Chickened out.

Before

 

After

 

In between

 

 



No worries, none of the participants threw up. Although those who didn't ride the ride had a walk of shame back to the car because they couldn't hang with the toughies!

Jaycee did a little rock climbing, and in true Italian Page style, had a hard time coming down before she rang the bell on the top. She is one tough cookie. That little whip of a thing was climbing in the second to hardest spot and not too long ago had a cast on her whole arm 

 

  

 

A little rodeo action

 

 

 and some extreme swinging

 

 

 

 These activities occurred in lazy, summertime, fair fashion and were written in no particular train of thought order!

I Guess if We Have to Go Back

Have I mentioned on this blog that I have a super, fantastic mom? Well she is simply amazing. None of that counts as being prideful or bragging because it is all true and then some more! It seems a little unfair that I should have a wonderful mother and an equally remarkably mom - in- law.
(I should stop for fear I will alienate the 2 people who read my blog, although I think it's safe to say those 2 readers may or may not, just happen to be my mom and my mother-in-law).
This year was the 2nd annual Grandma's Back To School Party or GBSP 2012.



(Notice the child with no pants and a crazy messy licorice face, who are her parents? honestly)

We started the party out right by making homemade pizza

We had backup in case the whole, make-your-own-pizza-thing didn't pan out (lucky for us because Canyon might have dropped his pizza on grandma's rug, I can't quite tell from the picture)

 



This year Grandma Page had a theme which she found from the scriptures. It was Alma 53:20 "... and they were exceedingly valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity...they were true at all times."

She talked about the theme and even made a Goliath to scale. The kiddos had fun measuring themselves to find out how tall they would have been compared to him.

 

 

Then we excercised our mad clothing designer skills and decorated shirts with the theme printed on them.

 

 

Then all the kiddos decorated boxes making them into cars and we had a drive-in movie. They sat in those tiny boxes for about half the movie. I'm sure it was crazy comfortable!

(The neighbor girl was walking by and joined in the fun)

After the movie, all the kids went to bed promptly at 10:00. They all fell asleep without laughing and giggling all night, keeping us all up.
The next morning Grandpa Page made pancakes. After everyone had full bellys we went on the 2nd annual school supply scavenger hunt. I found a cool way to make the clues on scratch cards.
We made slime, which stained all of our hands with food coloring. We ended the 2nd annual Grandma's Back To School Party 2012 with swimming and going down the slip'n'slide

 
 Thanks Grandma you're the best grandma in the world!

 



Deja vu

It feels a little like deja vu. Although I love the students I work with so very much, I am feeling a little ... well remember this post?