The Brown Family: October 2008

Me Mosaics

I found this concept on Jess's blog. Her Mosaic was cool looking. And so of course, I wanted to look cool as well. Thus the Mosaic. It's really easy and fun. It's kinda of nice see 'me' visually. If you have the time, give it a try. :D See if you can put the answers with the picture.

The Concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Aimee
2. What is your favorite food? Chinese Food
3. What school did you go to? BYU
4. What is your favorite color? Red
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Christain Bale
6. Favorite drink? Boba Drink
7. Dream vacation? European Cruise
8. Favorite dessert? Peach Pie
9. What you want to be when you grow up? Entrepreneur
10. What do you love most in life? Tommy-boy
11. One word to describe you. Unique
12. Your nickname. Aimers

Spontaneous Vacationing

Tom and I decided to take advantage of Cindy's mom's--who is the wonderful Rilla--generosity and go down to their condo in St George, Utah for a little R & R. This is as spontaneous as vacations get for us. We decided on Sunday, September 28th and left Friday, October 3rd. Jimdy and Lora Beth joined us for our little reprieve from the real world. We arrived at the condo Friday night, unpacked, put the kids to bed, and enjoyed a little Tom and Aimee time before the rest of the crew arrived. It was a very leisure weekend.

On Saturday, we watched General Conference (For those who are not LDS: Every 6 months, the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hold a conference for all members giving spiritual and uplifting sermons or talks), did a puzzle, ate lunch, watch conference, went swimming, ate dinner, talked politics, put the kids to bed, played games, talked some more.

On Sunday there was conference; and we went to Snow Canyon State Park for some hiking and nature appreciation. The landscape was breathtaking.

Enjoy the pictures.

We went home after a wonderful weekend of vacationing the right way: taking everything slow.

Month of Family Togetherness

Instead of cleaning the kitchen, folding laundry, vacuuming, disinfecting the bathrooms, or even catching up on world wide news, I decided I would use this 'free' time to let you--my friends and my family--know what a wonderful month September has been.

If I had to label this month I would label it: Family Time. Tom and I are working harder to spend more valuable time with our kids. "What do you mean by valuable time?" you might ask. What I mean is more direct interactions with the children. We try to do more kid friendly activities like miniature golfing, bowling, hiking, or even picking grapes as a family.

Here a few activities we enjoyed as a family.

We celebrated Grammy's birthday on September 11th.

Happy Birthday Grammy!

The Huggies bought a boat and invited us one Saturday to go boating with them on Utah Lake. The boys had a blast. Isaac didn't like the cold water as much. He ended up taking a nice nap on the bow of the boat with Claire. Ben and Mike had fun jumping off the boat and swimming in the lake. However, it took Ben some time to gain the confidence to swim around the boat by himself. Ben and Mike even went on the tube. Funny thing is the boat wasn't going fast enough so the tube submarined and dumped Ben and Mike into the water. But Ben got back on the tube and went again. I'm very proud of him. He was very brave.

We went miniature putting at Trafalga. It was a lot of fun. Tom beat me somewhat fairly. :D I should have won, but my tennis elbow started acting up. ;)

We went to CornBellys. Ben and Ikey really enjoyed the different activities there. Isaac's favorite activity was watching the chicken robots sing and tell corny jokes. Ben enjoyed watching the piggy races.