Little Artist

Lately, I have been making some home-made paints for Landon and we are discovering that he can be quite the artist when he's in the right mood. I really like this painting that he did with corn syrup and food coloring. Here's how he made it:

1. Put corn syrup in little cups and add food coloring to make your paints
2. Landon dumps all of the paint onto his paper
3. Landon swirls the paint around on the paper
4. There is way too much paint on the paper so mom gets strips of paper and trys to soak some of it up.
5. Landon pulls the pieces of paper off and underneath lies a masterpiece.

Landon enjoys painting with the corn syrup because it is sticky, makes fun designs and it dries shiny.


WARNING: Is very sticky even when it dries. I had to put this one in a sheet protector so we could keep it.

FINALLY!

I bought new running shoes 2 months ago and I finally found the motivation this morning to put them on, put the boys in the stroller, and go for a run. Since I was told to take it easy when I was pregnant, my exercise has consisted of walking to the park (that is right outside my door) and watching Landon play. This has to stop! Honestly, after a while I liked being able to say, "I can't exercise". But now that I don't have a good excuse, I just feel lazy and my body is really hurting. After only 3-4 minutes of jogging I started huffing and puffing and I could feel the side-ache coming. I ended up doing intervals of jogging 2 minutes and then walking for 2 minutes. After about 20 minutes of this my legs felt a little wobbly so I gave in to Landon's requests to play at the park. Now that I know how out of shape I am, I'm really going to feel guilty if I don't get out and exercise. Breastfeeding is great for losing weight (I'm back to my pre-pregnancy weight). Too bad it doesn't build muscle and give your body the oxygen it needs.

UTAH FUN!

We have returned from a fun-filled trip to Utah. We are so glad that we were able to see so much family and a few friends in the week we were there. There is never enough time with each of you, but we really do try to visit with as many as possible. Thanks to all of you who took time out of your busy lives to visit with us. We love you all!

It was the perfect day to hike to Battle Creek Falls.

We went on a hike with Ryan's grade-school friend, Ryan Peck. Ryan was glad Peck offered to carry Landon.

Ryan and Landon with Aunt Joyce and Grandma Liston.

We went on a walk with Bruce and Nancy and April.

Dan is my favorite horse

I can't believe how big my baby brother is!

I loved visiting with two of my best friends from highschool, Shauna and Rachelle. You both are beautiful!