My Sweet Little Girl

Kaylee decided to get sick last night...well more like this morning (about 1:00 am). After the first throw up, I had tucked her back into bed and she said "don't worry Mom, I wont hold the babies tomorrow." And if that wasn't sweet enough, at around 6:00 am (after she started having a diarrhea problem with each time she threw up....which was about every 20 minutes through the night) she decided to try and clean up her accident by herself. When we asked her why she said "I knew you guys were tired and you needed to get some sleep, so I tried not to wake you up." I thought that was so nice that even though she was feeling miserable, she considered our feelings. I am lucky to have such a great daughter!

Sunday-Snowday

We got an ice storm yesterday, followed by rain, which froze about an inch of ice on the ground, then it snowed 5-6 inches this morning (and it is still snowing now!) So we got a call this morning letting us know that all church meetings were canceled today. The worst part is that we worked hard all day yesterday to get the house clean for company (boy am I glad I knew Kim was coming because my house would never have gotten clean otherwise!) But now the kids are home all day and we don't do work on Sunday, so we have had to improvise. After the kids played out in the snow, we made cookies to bring to our friends down the road. Bryan pulled Kaylee and Trevor on the sled and I pushed Nathan and Ashton in our big bike trailer stroller. It actually worked really well, and our friends were all shocked to see someone at their door in this kind of weather.

The Bath Dance

Ashton is a very active baby when he is happy. He LOVES taking baths and having a diaper change. When I put him in the tub he just cant hold still, he wiggles in every possible way. I gave him a bath last night and he started doing his bath dance. He danced for about five minutes and I was sad that I did not have my camera. I expected him to get worn out and stop any minute, but he just kept going, so I had Bryan get the camera, he did this bath dance for at least ten minutes, and would have gone longer, but I took him out of the tub. (and threw a huge fit)

Brrrr!

We bought snow sleds here last spring when Target put them on clearance and we had not gotten enough snow to really use them here, so we decided to haul them down to Utah with us when we went. We were so glad that we did because it snowed almost every day we were there. Most of the kids liked it. Nathan only went down twice, but everyone else had a blast.

Here are the rest of our fun shots...Enjoy!

Uncle Danny is Home!

We are so glad that Uncle Danny came home safely from his mission. We had a ton of fun gathering as a family to hear his story, but I think Bryan had the most fun. Danny went to the same mission as Bryan, so they had tons of stories to swap! Danny even brought home some pictures of people that Bryan had baptized that were still active in the church. Danny brought us all gifts from Guatemala including these nice shirts! This is Bryan, Danny in the middle and Ben.

Grandma Heaven

We are so glad that we had a chance to see Mom before our trip to Utah. I know she loved having the babies around. We are so greatful for all that she has done for us!

Blessings of the Spirit

For those of you who have not heard my crazy neighbor story (this is only one of many crazy neighbor stories that we have) here goes: Last Wednesday morning as Bryan left for work, I took our garbage can out to the curb. I watched Bryan drive away, then stop and back up. He tells me to look at our neighbors garbage can. Sticking out the top of his garbage is our wagon! Now this wagon has been out in our "garden" for about a year now. True enough our "garden" looks like a garbage heap because it is full of cement pieces, rocks and weeds. But our wagon had been half buried with dirt and rocks, so our neighbor apparently dug it up in the middle of the night (we actually heard him doing it, we just didn't know what the sound was at the time), and put it out in his garbage can!! We were quite upset. Then later that day I saw him again in our "garden" digging up rocks and dirt and throwing them away. Well a few days later, Bryan was outside installing our new tether ball pole when this neighbor approached him and told him that he needed to clean up that dirt pile aka garden because he is worried about our kids falling on it and getting hurt. He said that he tried to take care of it for us, but it was to much for him. (he is older and has had a stroke so he only has the use of one of his arms). Anyway, it is a little bit freaky that he feels so free to dig up our garden, but I just realized that I do not feel that he poses any threat to our family. I am grateful that we have the spirit to guide our actions. I know that the spirit warns us of danger, and comforts us when there is safety. (this is by far not the strangest thing our neighbor has done by the way, but the rest will have to wait for later!)