The Eclipse

Last Sunday the kids got to experience a Solar Eclipse for the first time. It was pretty exciting! I told the kids not to get the telescope out because you can't look at the sun through it... but do you think they listened?

I wish so bad that I had an SLR sometimes. Ok, not sometimes but all the time. This is as good of a picture I could get of it... which you can't even tell there is an eclipse.

Since we didn't have glasses... thanks to facebook and our friend Jason Huhtala, we made a pinhole in a piece of paper, held it up to the sun, put another piece of paper in the first papers shadow a few feet back, and we were able to see the effect of the eclipse on the sun. It was pretty cool. It was a lot darker outside than normal, but this was the only way we could really see the moon over the sun.

Elijah got more excited to see a plane in the sky.

And who can watch an Eclipse without all the kids jumping on the trampoline? Not the McOmber's! And as you can see, Ezra could only take so much bouncing.

Mom, hurry! Come and get me!

Mom, I can't live without you!

Ahhhh.... mom, much better!

Mother's Day 2012

So Mother's Day was good this year. I was so stinkin' tired and had woken up that morning at 4am. The kids gave me their gifts and tried to make me breakfast and Jason actually got up at 7:20am! We went to church and the kids were all amazingly good. The talks at church were awesome and funny! I loved hearing the kids sing their songs for the moms during church. And in primary, the kids were all really good. It was a great morning. We then drove to Oroville and saw my Grandma Meyer.....

It is always fun seeing my Grandma! She's such an awesome lady! After seeing my Grandma Meyer, we headed off to Jason's parents house. Jason's brother Tim always makes us a Mother's Day dinner. It was so good and it was so nice of him to do that for Lauren, Carey, and Me. Jason did the bbqing too. After the McOmber's, we went to my parents. My Grandma was there eating dinner with my parents & Spencer. And Raquel showed up and one by one, each of her girls showed up and Raquel's grandchildren. I love seeing how my big sister is a Grandma now! And she's such a good one. We were able to take a few pictures... 5 Generations.... Great Great Grandma Meyer, Great Grandma Meyer, Grandma Raquel, Mama Bri, & Baby Annabelle!

Raquel, her girls, & her grand daughters. It's crazy to see all of my nieces grown up!

While at my mom's we were able to give her her present, which was old family video's that were transferred to dvd. We all gathered together, minus Derek & Cami, and watched the videos. We laughed so hard & cried a few times... Isaiah got motion sickness. It was a nice evening. I love old family videos! Jason loved seeing how nice and innocent I was too. Wow... am I different now. ;-) I am so thankful for all the women in my life. The women that helped raise me.... the women that help raise my children... and my sisters(that includes sister in laws), my grandma, my mother in law and my mother! I am so blessed to have such amazing women that are a part of my life. And I'm so thankful for the opportunity that I have to be a mother to 5, almost 6, rambunctious, spirited, funny, ornery, loving, kind, God loving children....