We have been working a lot on the words that we speak at the house and to each other.  One morning recently I heard Jacob say to Joseph "What do you mean mom does not know anything....she knows how to cook and she knows 100 x 100."  I just had to laugh at the simplicity behind the statement and that Jacob would stick up for his momma.

Speaking of multiplying, Benjamin and I each week go into both Jacob and Joseph's classroom to help.  The kindergarten kids really like Benjamin.  When we were in Jacob's class this past week, Jacob challenged Benjamin to 'Around the World'.  Benjamin squared off with Jacob on a multiplication problem and the first one to answer moved on to challenge the next student.  Benjamin worked his way around the whole room.  The kids were in awe of how smart he was.  The teacher just kept telling them that if they practiced, they too could be that good at their math facts.

At 4H, the kids are on different committees and our boys are on the recreation committee.  At the last meeting the adult who sits on that committee told me they were very impressed with Benjamin.  He made it a point to throw out some inexpensive/free activities.  He wanted to make sure that everyone could participate.  I am so glad to see some of my frugal-ness starting to stick.

I gave both Jacob and Benjamin a clothing allowance this past year.  It has been very eye opening for all of us.  First off,  I need to give them more money this year.  Secondly, they have seen how far, or lack there of, the money goes.  Benjamin still has some left and him and I have recently hit Kohls, with coupons and sales.  He bought 2 shirts off the clearance rack and they were $1.40!  He was so proud.  He found some sweats he wanted and then quickly realized he was not willing to part with 30 bucks to buy them.

Back to our Denver trip...one of the places we visited was Red Rocks.  I never knew this huge amphitheater existed until recently.  It sits west of Denver and holds about 9600 people.  The weather was beautiful so there were lots of people there.  I was amazed at how many people go there to work out.  They would run up and down the rows, run across the rows, do jump squats up and down, do inverted push-ups.  It was crazy. Definitely a place I would love to work out!  The lighting was terrible (for pictures), but if you are ever in Denver, check it out.

Since we had never been there, I had no idea where to go or park.  I foolishly parked at the very bottom and this was the view as we started up to get to the amphitheater.

Then we got up to the amphitheater and found we were at the bottom of the amphitheater...so more stairs to get to the top.

This was a to scale model that was in the visitor center.

The view from the top with Denver out to the east.  I can only imagine the sound of concerts here!