Sami's World

I’m posting this before I even give this talk, but I figure none of you will actually read this until my talk is given. So…..if you are interested in reading the talk I delivered today in Sacrament meeting, feel free to Read the rest of this entry »

I saw a couple of kids wearing homeschooling T-Shirts today and so I stopped their mom and asked her about them. Read the rest of this entry »

So, after getting extremely envious of my neighbors garden (not Roberta, but Ian) I decided we needed to do something about it. Ian said that his whole garden came from his compost pile. He said all he does is throw all the stuff in a pile in the side yard, water every once in a while and boom, great soil for a great garden. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you seen anything so cute as Niah and her BFF Emilie? So they were out riding bikes today and Niah comes running in and says:

‘Mom, we felt a raindrop so we are going to put on our bathing suits so we can get wet, but put on our rain boots so we can splash in the puddles ok?’

And before I could say anything Emilie comes tromping in with her get up on. How could I say no at that point? They spent the next hour outside waiting for the rain to come (which it did……all 12 drops of it). How fun to be 4!!

How many of you knew that 7-11 gives a free Slurpee out to each customer on July 11 (7/11)? I did but had forgotten about it until my great, wonderful, thoughtful (enough adjectives?) friend Li-Li called and reminded me. So I packed up the kids and the neighbor kids and we headed to the local 7-11. It was a fun treat on this hot and humid day. Thanks 7-11!!

On 07/08/09 our eldest daughter, Jaime Louise, turned the ripe old age of 10. Read the rest of this entry »

We had a great fourth of July. We started out by eating a yummy breakfast with the neighbors (I’m going to start using their names, I promise!!). Read the rest of this entry »