Harvest Arts at Fountain Green Elementary

Justin's two drivers on a road. He created his using a yam, squash, carrots, zucchini, radishes, broccoli and red and yellow peppers.

Jordan created a kid reading a book at home by his lamp using squash, zucchini, carrots, red peppers, ginger and broccoli.

The Elementary School has a tradition of having the kids gather up food that has been grown and creating something fun out of it. It is not required, but they have a contest to see who can be the most creative. The kids have tons of fun because they get to play with their food. Jerime helped Justin and Jordan with their little projects cutting out the cardboard for their masterpieces. What talented kids I have!

Slacker Abby, Happy Birthday Micheal!

Sage hanging out underneath her play gym thingy. She looks impressed doesn't she. Little girl needs a new pair of shoes.....that always cheers me up!

Jordan showing off her new bed she got this weekend. We took out the big bunkbeds we had in there becuase it was crowing out her room and she needs some serious space for her dancing trophies.

Micheal getting ready to take on Jerime in Wii Table Tennis

Jackson's new big boy bed. He is not impressed with it at all. He will only get on it to turn the little cement mixer lamp on and off.

Justin tried several poses before settling on this one for me. He wanted to look so natural. He cracks me up.

Jackson found Jordan's hair accessory drawer. He is fascinated with the digital camera and asked me (in his non-talking way) to take his picture.

So I was recently informed by a long time friend that I am a slacker for not updating my blog. With summer coming to an end...it has been kind of boring lately and honestly I left my camera at the office. So last night I took the camera home and took updated pictures of everyone. Jerime was not impressed with my reason for wanting to take his picture. It was Micheal's birthday yesterday. He turned the ever exciting 13.We had already celebrated it with family on Sunday, so we decided to have pizza and play Micheal's new Wii game "Mario and Sonic at the Olympics" last night. It was a lot of fun. I took care of Sage and Jackson and laughed at Micheal, Justin, Jordan and Jerime pretending to run on a track. By the way, we found a new thing that Jackson will say: "yucky poo poo". He loves to say it and giggles whenever he does. We hope it leads to new adventures in the potty training department, but I am not holding my breath. Take care everyone!

The Ivory Family visits the Hogle Zoo

Jackson looks like he is about to be eaten.

Jordan on the carousel.

From left to right Jackson, Jerime, Justin and Micheal on the carousel.

Mary (Grandma) and Sage riding the carousel.

Coltin and Ron (Grandpa) getting ready for a scooter race.

Jackson totally fascinated with the little monkey.

So this past weekend, we took the family up to the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City. Other than it being extremely hot, we all had a lot of fun. Jackson was really cute to watch as he saw all these cool animals for the first time in real life instead of a book. He had been preparing for a week, making all the animal sounds, so it was real cute to watch him. Coltin, Micheal and Justin were all a great help pushing Jackson around in his stroller while Jerime and I took care of Sage. I think all the kids favorite was the "ghost of the bayou" white alligator. They talked about it all night long. Sage didn't get much out of the experience and we spent most of the time trying to make sure she was cooled down. But all in all, we all agreed it was a lot of fun.