Sacrament Meeting

 

Every Sunday as we sit through Sacrament Meeting I try to keep this kid engaged as long as possible before she spots someone more exciting that she wants to go sit with. This usually lasts 5 minutes. tops. Today while she was off sitting with another family and I was busy not looking up at the stand, Hunter turns to me and says,"mom, do you know where Emma is"? to which I reply,  "of course Hunter, shes sitting with either Reghan or Davia".  "nope mom, look up there".  I glance up and  see Emma sitting up on the stand with one of her favorite people, Pres. Bart. or President Winters as most people call him. Shes up there with her arms around his neck just sitting on his lap hugging him. 

 I was a little surprised by this but I don't know why.

She is my most social child and always enjoys being out doing things. She does not enjoy staying at home unless she has a friend over, and yes this does worry me.  She is never shy in asking all my friends if she can go home to their house and throws the biggest fits if she doesn't get to spend the night at grandmas. 

It did make me feel good last week when she had spent the night at my older brothers house and then spent the whole next day at grandmas house and that evening she told her grandma that she missed me and wanted to come home. 

It only took 35 hours for her to miss me. 

Family pic outakes..............

Sunday Morning we decide we are driving out to see Dusty's sisters. 

Sunday Morning I decide on our way out we will see if we can have his sister snap a couple pics of us. 

Sunday after church I lay some clothes out on the couch and in 10 minutes have the outfits decided. 

After our hour drive and waking Emma up we spend 1o minutes outside taking pics. 

It was not a fun 10 minutes for our photographer and was pleasantly surprised at all that she was able to capture.

I should not be surprised. She is a great photographer that taught me everything i know.........

All of my boys were out of control wild and my girl was just a grump. As i  sat watching the wrestling matches,  I  wondered what the heck I was thinking when deciding to attempt pics again.

But I'm glad I did.  

 
 
 
 

Baby D

 
 
 
 This is my cousins baby that I got to play with on thanksgiving who I pretty much fell in love with. 

Is his face not the cutest ever?? 

Thanksgiving 2009

started out with our annual charity turkey trot and turkey bowl for the boys.  We had a great turnout this year with just under 75 people and raised a good amount of money. I wish I could have run the whole thing and probably won this year but we had some problems with some runners not following the arrows very well and coming back too early.  It was a fun way to start the day and I have no pics of it. I am looking for someone to win it next year so if you are a girl and a really fast runner email me and make sure you train all this year. 

Thanksgiving day we made it over to my aunts house and spent the day visiting with my cousins and siblings and taking a lot of pics. This poor dog was glad when thanksgiving was over and he was allowed to leave Emma's lap.  

                                              
 
                                            
 

October 31

 
 
To no surprise Halloween is not my favorite Holiday. It is apparent by the lame costumes put together hours before we leave. Emma of course changed her outfit back and forth from a cheerleader to a princess. 

The kids had a great time at the Halloween Party Aunt Katie planned for them with all of their cousins and Dusty and I were exhausted and fell asleep on the couch. 

They are lucky that their aunts and uncles get into Halloween and love them enough to take them as their own that night. 

Good Job Katie and Jon!

Hunter

 
 10 days later we celebrated Hunters 9 Bday

He is to no surprise my easiest kid

He is really turning out to be an amazing kid that I love hanging out with. 

He is my biggest help and a great babysitter. 

He tries hard in school and does perfect. 

He loves math and I am glad that his Dad likes to help him with that. 

He plays basketball and likes me to rate him 1 to 10 at the end of his games on how well he played. 

Yesterday I gave him an eleven. It helps that he missed the cutoff and is now probably the oldest in the league and the tallest. 

He had always been a sensitive boy and pretty aware of how people are feeling. 

He loves to argue his point no matter how wrong he is. Just ask him how to say Brett Favre name. This really frustrates him that it is pronounced weird. 

We love to watch sports together although mainly just basketball and football and he is on the computer memorizing stats daily. 

He is not a perfect kid but he really does come close at times. 

 
 

Ben

 

A while ago this guy had a  birthday. 

He is now 7 and has gotten easier with each passing year. 

So if you know him now, imagine how he used to be. 

He is my little challenge at times. 

He is stubborn and hilarious. 

He loves crafts, playing wizards, vampires and pretty much any pretending. 

He does not like sports (well except for hula hooping and recreational wrestling) 

He is way too nice to his little sister. 

He has a lot of energy.............to the point where sometimes he does walk down the hallway and bounce from wall to wall and roll of of them. I love this....and don't quite know what to do. 

He has started to finally read really well. 

He refused to go to summer spalding class and did I mention he is REALLY stubborn. 

I love his sense of humor and how he laughs at himself. 

His laugh is the best and always makes me laugh. 

I am so glad my fattest baby came to me 7 years ago. 

 
 *** For Bens party this year he got to choose two friends and go to As You Wish to paint pottery. He chose his other craft loving boy friend and Gracie who he is just in love with. 

I think they loved playing in the play set at Chickfilet more than anything. 

Next year i am just taking a couple friends there and calling it good.