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While I was writing this post, Sara decided that Timothy needed a diaper change.  So she yelled at me, "CHANGE. HIS. COUCHE!" Then she smiled sweetly and said, "I said it politely." Rea came up with a plan that she pitched to us the other day. She wants to invite everyone in our family over for a sleep over camp out in our back yard. Alison persuaded her to make it a late over: we'll set up tents and play in them, but at bedtime anyone who wants can go home. We're looking for a good Saturday for everyone to come over in the afternoon. We'll borrow the poulsons' portable grill and make hot dogs and s' mores. Expect invitations soon. Saturday was my work party at thanksgiving point. This year it was pirate themed. The girls liked riding on a barrel (on wheels) propelled by oars (toilet plungers). The pony rides and petting zoo are always big hits, and this year rea loved the bounce house and Sara liked a spinning teacup ride. It was shortened b...

We finally got a picture of Timothy smiling! I have made an Android phone app for Sara to practice her colors. All you do is press a button and the phone says the name of the color. If you have an Android phone (any smart phone that is not an Iphone or a windows phone), then you can download the app  here . It has been tested on two phones so far and seems to work ok. If you press the buttons too fast it crashes, so I have to figure out why that is. This weekend we made gyros for dinner to use our home made feta. I didn't originally think so, but the feta wouldn't be harmed by more salt. I have posted my card designs for dancing robots online, and have been getting a lot of feedback. I decided to give in to everything that everyone told me to do and then once I am done going back and making it look like I want it to. The thread is  here . So far they have changed a huge amount of the card. Here are the before and (current) after: I will contine to work with the...

 On Friday we got a load of hay. We ended up getting 25 bales (that is what fit in the trailer that my parents lent us). We were hoping to get more, but 25 bales will last us a long time. We got it from a place in Riverton , although in the future we might get some hay from a place in Highland  that we recently saw because it would be less driving. The big question is how much would the hay cost (the current hay is costing $9 a bale (which is good for the Salt Lake City area), and is very good quality) I took it home and stacked it up in the car port. it ended up stacking clear to the roof (which means that if we had gotten more we would have had a hard time storing it). As a side note, I discovered that you want to get hay from the second crop of the year because it is better for goats. All last week I had been working on building a manger for the goats. I finished it Thursday and the goats have been enjoying it ever since. One benefit of the new manger is that i...

I didn't write a blog post last week because I left for a conference on the Sunday before this one. I normally write the post on Sunday. In the week before that we were mostly dealing with sick kids (all three of them got sick). Fortunately Alison and I remained healthy. Sara has realized that you can make different words by replacing the first word with a different consonant. She likes to be called "Sara Beara", she has a doll that is named "Toothless Boothless", and she also says "Sorry Borry" after hiting Andrea on the head with Toothless Boothless. We need to convince her that it is better not to hit Rea than to hit her and then apologize. If anyone has any ideas about that I would appreciate hearing them. Sara said "I need to poop" to which I responded "Then go to the bathroom". She went into the bathroom and then stood there saying "poop poop poop". After that she left the bathroom. Timothy is growing very la...