1st attempt

This was Katie's first attempt at writing her whole last name by herself. She did great!

I'm going to Heaven

Yesterday during family home evening we had just finished the scripture and were getting ready to start the lesson. All the kids were talking and Jacob was heading into the kitchen and I said "Jake, where are you going?" He turned around and really matter of fact said "I'm going to heaven." We all kind of laughed and I said "that's awesome! But I meant why are you leaving this room?" He smiled and said "Oh! I am going to get a drink of water." We all smiled at each other. I love family home evening!

Jacob wants a zippered jumpsuit

Our little Jake got baptized today :)! He was so sweet and so happy. We are so grateful to all of our wonderful family who joined us for this happy occasion. Thank you John and Mike for being a part of the program. While we sat and waited for jakes turn to be baptized I asked him if he had liked the talks. He said "yeah, I liked Mike's and John's the best!" Which was super cute because Mike didn't speak, he gave the opening prayer. But it was a great prayer :)! John gave a fantastic talk on the Holy Ghost. He told the kids how it is the greatest gift we can be given but if we don't "receive" the gift and open it and use it, it doesn't really do us any good. He also compared the Holy Ghost to a stoplight. Red- telling us to stop doing bad things. Yellow, warning us of danger and slow down before we get into trouble. Green, this is good for you, do these things. (That's the gist anyway :). It really was a fantastic talk. Jacob is quite happy to be baptized and we are so proud he made that decision. I am so grateful to have such a sweet little boy.
To explain my title: After David and Jake got ready in their jumpsuits Jacob turned to David and told him he really liked his jumpsuit,he thought it was really cool, and he would like to own one to wear. He can be the funniest little thing :)!

Fun at seaside

We had a blast today on the coast. We decided to take the kids and Nana and Papa to Seaside for some beach fun. There are a lot of really fun shops there and things to do with the kids. There are swing sets on the beach that the kids loved. We got caramel corn from a candy shop, and played a ton of games at the arcade and bought some super cool souvenirs from a very fun little shop called Del Sol. They have tons of shirts and jewelry and swim wear that changes colors in the sun. Jake and Ben got these awesome pirate necklaces that turn from silver to gold in the sun. Joelle and Emma got these beautiful white flower necklaces. Emma's turns pink in the sun and Joelle's turns blue. Actually it's all about uv rays, so they all still turned even though it was cloudy :). It was a very fun day!

Fun in the snow.

So this picture was taken a while ago but I love it and wanted to make sure I got it on here. This was back in December when we got a very small amount of snow but my children found the joy in playing in it anyway. I thought this would be a good way to try out my new blogger app. If I can really blog from my phone then I will be back to blogging and life will be good again :) so let's hope this works. Kind of a boring post , sorry . It's just one of those "testing, one, two, three, testing," kind of things :)

Is it Christmas yet?

Jacob and Sacrament meeting

Unfortunately our family didn't make it to sacrament meeting today, so David and I decided to go to a later sacrament meeting after our ward. We came home and asked which kids wanted to come with us. All we got were a bunch of blank stares. I said I didn't mind if they stayed home but if someone wanted to come they could. They all chose to stay home and then out of nowhere Jacob says "But... can you save me a piece of the bread?" It was classic.