Family and Family History

My garden

2009-08-16T18:26:00.000-07:00

Well our garden did much better than I thought it would. We still have lots of weeds but should have less next year. Putting the paper and bark down in-between really helped. The bottom picture is from May 17th, the 3rd and 4th from July 8th and the top two are from today.

Revere's Family Reunion

2009-08-16T17:51:00.000-07:00

We went to Firth to Revere's parents house for his family reunion. Zeke and Carolee were in charge this year. We had lots of fun and Carolee made the girls bracelets and the grownup girls a necklace and bracelet.

My reunion

2009-08-16T17:19:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from my reunion (with my siblings since my parents are on a mission).
Daniel, Emma, Anna Marie, and Shanna also posted other pictures about the reunion.

Clematis

2009-08-16T17:07:00.000-07:00

My clematis was beautiful this spring. I even had a family stop and take pictures of their kids in front of it. This picture was taken on May 14th.

Favorite Flower Gardens

2009-08-16T16:32:00.000-07:00

Some of my favorite flower gardens are the ones in my parent's yard. There are on a mission right now so it was strange to be there with them gone but their flower gardens were beautiful. These pictures were taken on July 10th.

Stake Musical

2009-03-22T19:56:00.001-07:00

Our Stake is putting on a musical and Revere has the part of Cogsworth. Families were invited to watch the practice on Friday night so I went and watched with Emma and Daniel. (Anna Marie was visiting a friend.) The kids got tired so I took them home but came back to watch the rest.

Our Garden?

2009-03-22T19:48:00.000-07:00

At least we hope it will work. We do have a problem with weeds but are hoping to keep it under control. Here Revere is dumping compost on the back and side yards. He got three loads full of compost and will till it in as soon as he can. I also ordered seeds and some other garden stuff. I hope to plant peas next week when they come. We have had really good weather but the forecast says snow on Monday.

Family Home Evening

2009-03-15T20:22:00.000-07:00

Our neighbors, Al, Janette, Kaylie and Kylie came over for Family Home Evening. It was fun to have them over. For the lessons we learned more verses to Book of Mormon stories song. We had milk chocolate (cooked) pudding and whipped cream. They also watched Emma put on a play with her Littlest Pet Shop toys. Daniel and our neighbors are in the picture.

Random Acts of Kindness

2009-03-08T20:24:00.000-07:00

Monday night the doorbell rang. Daniel answered and when I asked who it was he said Sprite and Pizza. Someone in our ward had left the food and also a tithing slip and note showing they had paid for Daniel's Webelos camp this summer. We really appreciated it and it cheered us up the next day to eat the pizza especially since we were a little down that a place Revere interviewed at had not called back. They still have not made any kind of a decision but hopefully no news is good news.

Snow

2009-03-08T20:06:00.001-07:00

It snowed Thursday night. Everything was getting warm until this storm came in. Here is the picture of our big tree from my computer room window. When Daniel had his room upstairs (we are all downstairs now) the shadow of this tree fell right on the head of his bed. But instead of being scared he really liked to watch the shadows move.

A Visit

2009-03-01T14:50:00.000-08:00

Eric had something to do down here on Presidents Day so he dropped off Bailey. She had fun looking at Sammy and playing with the kids.

Draper Temple Open House

2009-03-01T14:38:00.000-08:00

We were able to go to the Draper Temple Open House. It was not even that crowded because we went during the day at 10:20 on Feb 19th. They showed a video about the Draper area and Temple at the first Church building we went to. Then they had us ride a bus up to the Temple. We walked quite a ways under covered walkways to the Temple. It was much larger than the Twin Falls Temple but much smaller than the Jordan River. Click on the word slideshow to see more pictures of the Draper Temple. We are very excited to be able to see a dedication session broadcast to our local stake center on the 22nd.

The Wonders of Technology

2009-01-11T16:29:00.001-08:00

On Christmas Eve my parents joined us via the webcam from Chile. It's hard to see but they are on the computer screen. We talk to them most days on Skype, it's been great! The kids are holding up their ipods (Nano for Anna Marie, Shuffle for Emma and Daniel). That was Shanna and Damon's gift to them.

New Year's Eve Day

2009-01-11T16:26:00.001-08:00

We always get games for the family on New Year's Eve Day. Later that day I bought another game called Whoonu about guessing everyone's favorite things.

Visiting

2009-01-11T16:16:00.000-08:00

Here is a video clip of visiting Revere's parents when we went up on the 3rd of January. Daniel, Tysie, Paige, McKenzie, are all on Revere. Kailee, Zedekiah, and Emma are in the background.

Clark Planetarium

2008-11-24T20:03:00.000-08:00

The kids and I went to Clark Planetarium today. We wanted to see a couple of shows before they changed the schedule on the 28th. And we had some time because the kids only had individual piano lessons in the morning and no group piano lessons that are in the afternoon to early evening.

We saw The Alps and Fly Me to the Moon. The Alps had gorgeous scenery and an interesting story of a man who went to climb the mountain that his father had died climbing in the 60's.

We also got popcorn and drinks. The popcorn was not good, it tasted like cardboard and we will not get it there again. We have a membership to Clark Planetarium that expires in January so we are trying to see as many shows as we can before the membership expires.

Kids' Posts

2008-11-23T10:03:00.000-08:00

Since a lot of what happens in our family will be posted on the kids blogs I will just mention it and have everyone click over to their blogs. If you click on the different colored word in my post it will take you to their blogs. They are doing their blogs by themselves, I am not helping. They love getting comments so thanks to everyone who has commented so far and please keep it up.

Anna Marie had a flute recital on Saturday. She posted the video of her song, you can click on the play arrow at the bottom of her picture to hear most of the song. Both she and Daniel posted about our visit to Wheeler Historic Farm.

Utah Youth Guild

2008-11-23T09:48:00.001-08:00

We had been trying for some time to attend the Utah Symphony as a family. I could get $8 tickets for the kids as students but the tickets for Revere and I were expensive. Well, we found the Utah Youth Guild

The Youth Guild was only $15 to join then we bought vouchers for 4 tickets for each of us, parent price $32 and child price $16. So we get to see at least 4 concerts this year and each will be for less than it costs for our family to see a movie (not that we ever go to the movies).

So last night we went to Shostakovich’s Response The program was as follows:

MOZART: OVERTURE TO DON GIOVANNI

WOLFGANG AMADÈ MOZART: Born in Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died in Vienna, December 5, 1791

BRITTEN: VIOLIN CONCERTO, OP. 15
I. Moderato con moto –
II. Vivace –
III. Passacaglia: Andante lento (un poco meno mosso)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, November 22, 1913; died in Aldeburgh, December 4, 1976

SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN D MINOR, OP. 47
I. Moderato
II. Allegretto
III. Largo
IV. Allegro non troppo

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Born in St. Petersburg, September 25, 1906; died in Moscow, August 9, 1975

It was very good and Emma and Daniel did fine even though it started at 8pm. We were on row 12 and 13 in the middle which I think were good seats. We were a little flustered finding parking (we forgot the checkbook) and were afraid Revere would have to park far away and then walk over. We found a close parking lot but were a few cents short of the price of $10. The attendant laughed and told us we could get in for $5. We really appreciated that.

A Little Info About Us

2008-11-23T09:31:00.000-08:00

My kids are telling me to hurry and start my blog since they have been posting for the last week. Their blogs are listed on the side of mine. Our parakeet Sammy has a blog too.

My name is Sheri Lee and I am in my thirties, homeschooling my kids using the k12 program provided by Washington School District here in Utah. We have been having fun this year going on lots of "fieldtrips".

We are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. My husband Revere and I were married in the Idaho Falls Temple in 1994. My parents are on a mission in Santiago, Chile at their LDS Employment Center. Revere's parents and quite of bit of our family live in Idaho.