Daddy - Daughter

I thought this was a cute Daddy -Daughter moment. They were just sitting on the bottom step watching Chandler get his hair cut.

Bye Bye Bowl Cut!

We cut it off, all off! We gave chandler a NEW DO! It's funny how much they change when you give them a different hair cut. You see how they look like different cousins and family members and such. Chandler was so excited to be able to use HAIR GEL. And he can't wait to go to school he says that no one will recognize him. Mom still likes her baby boys with bowl cuts, but it is a nice change for awhile.

A day at the SPA!

Kassidy had fun painting Brooklyn's finger nails on Saturday. Brooklyn just sat and loved it! We are so happy to have 2 cute girls in our family. How blessed we are!!!!!! Brooklyn is at that fun age where she is discovering everything and is so cute to watch. Erick and I decided that for one night it would be great fun to have all our kids Brooklyn's age for just one night. It would be a blast! Hey Santa Hint Hint.

And why do we need to buy toys?

I keep a basket of combs in the kitchen so I can quickly retrieve a comb as my boys are walking out the door in the morning to comb their hair. All this week Brooklyn has been playing with them. And why do we need to buy toys?

Christmas Decorations

Here is Payson Posing with the Christmas Decorations. It sure is nice to have old enough kids to go get all the Decorations under the house and then put all the boxes back and then they go retrieve them again to put them back for next year. Thanks guys!

Saturday morning surprise!

I came down stairs a couple of Saturdays ago and look what I found Chandler doing! He has been bugging Erick for awhile about this extra set of scriptures that he had on the bookshelf. So Erick finally gave in and let Chandler have them. It made Chandlers day and he couldn't wait to get up the next morning and read them.

Hey, Uncle Brian I have a Secret! Shhh!

In my family there was always a joke when we were kids. My mom had a plant hanging in the corner by the kitchen table. The plant grew really well and we would always attributed it to all the fertilizer that us kids would give to the plant. When there was something served for dinner that we didn't especially like the plant was the recipient of some much needed fertilization when mom and dad left the room! I think Brian was caught one time, anyway he is the one we tease about it. Brooklyn has come up with a new idea. For some reason when she gets tired of eating her cereal she stuffs them down her jamies. So every time I go to get her dressed I find surprises. So Brian I would appreciate it if you wouldn't teach my children such things. They need to eat their food weather they like it or not!

November 9 2009

Well it is finally FINAL! Erick is a licenced contractor!!!!!! It took forever.

Capitol Christmas Tree

Saturday November 7th we attended a "Capitol Christmas Tree Celebration." Arizona has the honor of providing the 2009 Capitol Christmas Tree for the US Capitol. The tree is an 85' blue spruce harvested from the Apache Sitgreaves Forest south of Eagar. This is the first time a tree has been selected from an Arizona forest. Parker was able to sing with his school choir at the celebration, it was an historic moment! My camera died so I didn't get the best pictures. The tree is packaged up and goes on tour across the US until it arrives in DC November 30.

Our Family Secret

People have wondered how we get our kids, even Payson our 4 year old to memorize the Articles of Faith. Here is our secret! First of all the prophet has asked us to have family prayer 2 times a day. So we have family prayer before the kids go to school and then before bed. So when we kneel down to have prayer we start off singing a song to bring the spirit and then we repeat an Article of Faith. It only takes about a week of doing it twice a day for them to memorize one. Plus it also helps them learn the Primary songs for the Primary Program. So my Challenge is to everyone who reads this to try it with your family, and you will see how great it is. We are done with the articles of faith so we are moving on to the Scripture Mastery Scriptures for Seminary. You might also think that it takes longer, you know time is rushed in the mornings trying to get kids on the bus and things, but it only takes about 5 minutes start to finish. So come on take the challenge!!!!!!!