The Banana Dance

This year Payton learned the Banana Dance. 

 Bananas of the world UNITE!

Peal banana, peal, peal banana!

Peal banana, peal, peal banana!

Shake banana, shake, shake banana!

Shake banana, shake, shake banana!

 

Go banana, go, go banana!

Go banana, go, go banana!

Fall table runner...

What do you think?

Payton Stole my Camera

 One Sunday night, not so long ago, Payton stole my camera and took the following pictures (along with about 100 more). I am dedicating this post to her, in her own language.

 Bubba

(Carter or Bubba for short)

Nia Tyty

(Nick and Skyler)

Bubba stan this

(bubba stand)

Mama Ahhh

(Mom said Ahh)

Nia shhh. Tyty Fool ablah.

(Nick is sleeping, Skyler and Fil are awake)

No no Fool. Blue Shirt.

Carcar this.

(Carter - one of my favorite pictures of him!)

Pay har Dada Boof Neigh. No no Pay this.

(Payton's hair looks like Tangled - she was wearing CJ's extensions).

She was not a happy camper after I took the camera away!

Conference Weekend

A few weeks ago Sally, Grant and kids came up for the weekend. It was fun to see them and very entertaining.

Since Sally hates uploading pictures I will put some cute ones of her kids!

Violet ate the inside of her cinnamon roll like a lollipop! 

 

Eliseo in awe of violets cinnamon roll.

  Alma and his plate...

Yummy cinnamon rolls that were *almost* all eaten.

Felipe and Alma snuggling on the couch.

Rune. Alma and his crazy hair in the background.

Lily eating her cantaloupe. 

It was a great weekend. We love having visitors and can't wait to see Sally and Family again soon!

Utah State Fair

In the middle of September, we had the opportunity to go to the Utah State Fair with my friend Carrie, her husband and son. We had never been and wanted to go at least once while we lived here. It was fun but probably not worth the $10 entrance fee per person.

 I love making Felipe pose in front of random animals...

and pumpkins.

Jett climbing on a pumpkin with his monkey backpack. Notice sponge bob in the back?

Fil and I. 

And here is this... thing...

Fil flapping like the swan. I love his facial expression.

Jett driving the army jeep.

Pants

A student came up to me and said
"Mrs. Sanchez, I left my pants on your laptop."
This is what he meant...


















I guess these are origami pants???

Summer Crafts

This summer I found the amazing website called www.pinterest.com 

I am addicted! It inspired me to make a few different crafts and recipes. If you are a member add me! (I still don't know how to find people yet...)

I found a cool tutorial for a dry erase "To Do" board. This whole project cost me $3.

I also found an idea to take a design cut out of magical paper, stick it to a canvas, paint around it, and remove the paper. Here is the result.

Now on to finishing the scrap quilt I've been working on. Or to clean my MESSY house... nah! I vote for ignoring my house and quilting!

Foldable Reuseable Enjoyable bag

A few weeks ago my little sister had a bridal shower. I wanted to get her a few things but since we were going to STL I didn't want to pack wrapping paper and a box to wrap the presents in. I decided to make these (they took about 20 minutes each) and wrapped her presents in them. The nice thing is that they fold/ roll up to be small and cute and can fit in your purse! I got the idea here and I think I want to make more!

Fireworks

For the Fourth of July we did a few fireworks. Here are my favorite pictures!

Currently the background of my computer:

Felipe was a great firework starter. I tried to light a few but he was much better than me :)

I'm so excited that firework season is coming to a close. Maybe I will be able to fall asleep before midnight tonight (hopefully my neighbors will stop shooting off a million bazillion fireworks)!

My weekend was mostly boring

Around Christmas our old TV decided to no longer function at an optimum level. Since we've no longer been using that one we decided to get rid of it. Now just throwing it away wasn't going to do.
This is out in the middle of nowhere near Helper, UT.

I'm holding a gun. It's a 410 shotgun. Really, I'm telling the truth.
That's after a few shots.
I'd say a job well done.
On the right where the cable cord plug should be. I shot that. Yeah, that's a sweet aim.
It was Grants idea for me to pose like this. This was well worth the sunburn on my neck.