More on School Lunch

Just a note to let you know that there is national legislation being proposed to help school lunches become a little bit healthier. I'm not sure it's a total solution, but having read some about it, it seems well founded in my opinion. Here's where you can read more and either sign a petition or send an automated letter to your congressmen:

www.HealthySchoolLunches.org
http://www.facebook.com/PCRMSchoolLunchRevolution

Pretty Please...

Will you do me a favor, please, pretty please, with sugar on top? I changed all my emails and settings and blah blah blah because I got a new phone. My email address hasn't changed for getting emails, but I can't sign into any of your private blogs with my old yahoo address anymore. Could you send me an invite to all your privite blogs at my gmail address? It's jennybeykirchatgmaildotcom. Thanks!

Zion!

For Spring Break last week, we headed down to Zion National Park for 6 days. My (Jenny's) whole family was there and my mom's sister, Hillary, even flew in from Ohio to join us. Sometimes Blogger and I just don't get along, and tonight seems to be one of those nights. So, all the pictures are in backwards order, but I don't have 3 hours to switch them so, here goes...

Eating ice cream on the lawn of Zion Lodge on the last day. Thanks, Grandpa! I should have taken a picture of the crowd that was covering the patio and lawn. I had no idea there would be so many people visiting the park this week.

More ice cream.

Chris and Hillary, who have vey similar world and political views. Chris saw Hillary sitting alone and said, "what are you thinking about, Hillary?" She responded with, "I was just thinking about my hero, Glen Beck," and that was the start of their stimulating discussion. The rest of us were throwing rocks (see below).

Hadden takes his rock throwing very seriously. He was not satified with the easily found pebbles. He kept digging out bigger and bigger rocks to throw. Such a boy!

Grandpa, always a good sport!

Calla takes after her brother and wants to be like him always, including in rock throwing.

Here is Hadden with his well deserved Junior Ranger patch and badge (on his shirt). He worked very hard to earn these and it was a painstaking process to get him to write every answer in the workbook the rangers gave him all by himself. But, he did it! He had to do the workbook to earn the badge and then go on a ranger guided hike to earn the patch. On the guided hike with Dad and Grandpa he even answered questions some of the adults didn't know. He came back and told us all about tarantula moths and all kinds of interesting stuff.

Calla wanted so bad to hike herself, and we humored her as much as possible. She was very proud of herself.

She found this butterfly chair outside one of the shops in town and insisted she must lay down on it to get her picture taken.

Ha, ha. Love you, Chris!

Here's the whole clan (minus me, of course). This was at the top of the Weeping Rock trail. They said that the water that seeps from these rocks is 800-1200 years old. It takes that long to filter down through all the sandstone! Crazy!

Happy Hikers.

Talkin 'bout A Revolution...

I've become a little obsessive (see yesterday's post).

Here's Jamie Oliver telling you what he really means about a food revolution.

And here's his website, where you can sign his food revolution petition (see big banner at top of screen).

Maybe you don't feel as strongly about this as I do, but you should watch the video on the first link anyway. It's food for thought.

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

I have a new favorite tv show.



Do you remember this guy? The Naked Chef. Awesome (no nudity, just a name)!

Bye, Bye Tooth

So, Hadden finally lost that first tooth on Wednesday. He was eating a sandwich for lunch and said, "OUCH!" when he bit through his pickle. The tooth was super loose and bleeding and all that, so we told him to just keep wiggling it. He got impatient and tried to bite into an apple to speed it up, but decided it hurt too much to do that. So, back to wiggling. I went to put Calla down for a nap and he came in missing his tooth! He didn't realize it was gone and didn't believe me until I made him look in the mirror. I though for sure he'd swallowed it, but we found it out on his chair in the kitchen. So, the toothfairy came that night and we officialy have a big kid now! Here's some pictures of Mr. Toothless and his sister, who thought the whole thing was fascinating!

Random Happenings

We've been up to a little bit of everything and not much of anything...

Making pretzles, aka masks

Sewing and wearing superhero capes

Playing...

Just an ordinary cabinet...

Or a subway station, whichever you prefer