Westra Father's Day Party

 

We were not able to attend the Westra Father's Day party in Draper this year, but I am including some pictures from The Westra Way blog post just so that I have all the years in order!

Father's Day 2008

Girls' Camp

Here is Janika with her friends at her first year of girls' camp. (She is the one on the left with the pink jacket around her waist).

She returned home this morning looking tan and reeking of camp-fire smoke. She chattered away about her snipe-hunting adventures and showed off her cross-stitch and crochet projects. She sung her camp songs for us. (I think Janelle and Jaiden will be singing "God Bless My Underwear..." for weeks to come. )

She said that she had lots of fun and talked of the spiritual moments too, like their closing testimony meeting.

I am glad she had a good time. We really missed her at home. When Janelle asked, "Where is Janika?" I explained that she was at girls' camp and wouldn't be home until Saturday. She looked horrified. "Saturday???" Then she burst into tears!

We are glad to have her back! Welcome home Janika!

Favorite Part

Tonight we took the family to go see "The Sound of Music" at Tuacahn. When Maria and Captain Von Trapp kissed for the first time a hush fell over the audience...

That was until Janelle in her usual loud voice exclaimed, "That's your favorite part, Jared!"

Everyone around us started laughing.

I'm surprised Jared didn't turn around and yell at her since he can't stand anything even remotely romantic. Maybe it was his favorite part!

Strawberries -- Yum!

I found Janelle in the kitchen eating strawberries. She said, "These are good! I ate almost the whole box!"

Then I saw the strawberries
lined up on the snack bar -- with one bite taken out of each one.

It reminded me of the time when Jase was two years old and I found a bite out of each apple in the crisper drawer. At least I was able to cut up the rest of the strawberries and they were quickly consumed!

The Ticket System

We have our kids earn tickets by doing chores, fixing meals, being obedient and so forth. They pay tickets for privileges such as playing video/computer games, going swimming, playing with a friend and late nights. They also lose tickets for misbehavior (What? OUR kids misbehave -- never!!)

Our ticket envelopes were getting really ripped up and so Janika made these little cute little pockets out of denim as a place holder for the tickets. It has worked much better for the little girls since they know which one is theirs and can easily access them.  This system has worked really well for us and we put together a big list of jobs for the summer.

Do You Like My Earrings?

Jaiden earned ten tickets and chose this gold purse for her prize. It came with fake nails and stick on earrings.

She came in flipping her hair and said, "Do you like my earrings?"

"Where are they?
"Right here!" She lifted up her hair and there were the earrings -- right above the holes in her ears. (If you click on the picture to enlarge it then you will see the earring -- otherwise it just looks like a big pink wart.)

I tried not to laugh as I let her show off her earrings to everyone in the house!

My Head Is Cold!

Janika made strawberry jello to go with our dinner tonight. Josh ate several helpings and then smeared the rest in his hair.

Then he started shouting, "My head is cold! My head is cold!"

At least he is learning about cause and effect!