sept. 2009
Nadia gets lots of love from her sisters. They each love to take care of her and play with her. Alex had fun giving her a bath, and writing all over each other with bath crayons. Madison and Camden love driving her around when they are outside in their jeep. Each of these girls are so wonderful, I hope we will be able to teach them to be best friends, and always help each other.

sept. 2009
Alex has started taking art and music through Ensign Education online. What an amazing program, we have thoroughly enjoyed it. The music program is written by Michael Ballum, and the art program is focused on Christ and this beautiful world He has created. I love these classes, because they incorporate teachings from the prophets and apostles, and even read scriptures sometimes in class.

We have learned many amazing things through Michael Ballum. Such as, classical music has such an astounding impact on the mind, in memorization, in learning, and in opening up the right side of the brain to help creativity be released. Thomas Jefferson was able to write the Declaration of Independence, once he had sent for and received his violin, his pacing back in forth turned into playing the violin, and then writing, playing the violin, and writing. Albert Einstein said he knows it’s music that enabled him to discover all that he did.

We’re so excited to have found a good piano teacher who is willing to come to our home, and have our children taking piano lessons again, and filling our home with beautiful music. The inspired classical and baroque period musicians were just that…very inspired men, doing a work that would even affect our future.

sept. 20. 2009
My birthday fell on a Sunday, which means Jarom’s gone to meetings in the morning, we spend the morning getting ready for church, and get home from church around 4:30pm. So it was a busy day to say the least, but good. My visiting teachers brought me an amazing fruit dessert, and beautiful mums I planted in the garden. Jarom made dinner, which was wonderful, and Jarom and I cuddled and watched a movie that evening. It was a great day.

sept. 16. 2009
Camden is now 6, but yet seems so much older than that! She is very advanced in her school work, and acts older too. She is such a sweetheart. She wanted oatmeal for breakfast, we surprised her and went to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch(I have limited that to once or twice a year, so it’s a treat), and had waffles and bacon and eggs for dinner. We let the birthday person pick their own menu for the day! We did a little shopping on her birthday, and she got heely’s, which she has been very excited for. We had a small gathering with Grandma Lott and her son-in-law Rob that evening. The girls had a movie/sleepover in Cam’s room that night. We were very layed back this year, which has been nice! Happy birthday sweet Cam!

sept. 2009
We are now in the Renaissance period, and learning about Shakespeare, amongst other things. Mrs. Rowley has taught Shakespeare, and has even taken her students to London, to watch performances at the Globe Theatre, where his plays were performed. She left us with “A mid-summers night dream,” a cleaner, kid version of course, and a lot of things to help us learn more about this poetic man. This is us and the Vezzani’s listening to Mrs. Rowley’s excitement about it all.