Friday, November 7, 2008

Happenings











The first few pictures are on our Spud Harvest vacation. The kids don't have school for the last 2 weeks of September due to spud harvest so we do our vacationing then, less crowds, better prices, it's wonderful. This year we went to Disney Land and had a few days at the beach. I'm glad I don't live in California anymore, but I love to visit, it still feels like going home.
The next picture is of Hayden and our cat "Brother". I have never seen a cat so calm and better with kids than this one. He will just sit there and let Hayden have her way with him. We acquired him last winter when a family in our ward moved to a city and figured "Brother" would not survive. They assured us that he is strictly an outside cat, but for some reason he has definietly taken to the indoors. I have no idea how old he is so I hope we have many more years with him.
The last picture is one of 5 pictures I got of the kids this Halloween. I was a huge slacker and I so regret it, especially because I spent at leat an hour on hair. And they were so cute. I promise to do much better next year.




Tonka, aka Willy Wonka


This is our horse Tonka (it's short for some really long native american name that means survivor or something like that), when we first acquired him the kids couldn't remember his name but they somehow figured out that it rhymed with Willy Wonka, thus the "aka". Anywho, this post is mostly for my mom who asked me months ago to send her a picture of how he looked when we got him. He looks 100% better now. He is a wonderful horse. He is almost 3 years old and has been so easy to "break", although there really never was any need to "break" him.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Perspectives

I find myself in a rare situation . . . I have a few seconds in the middle of the day to blog. Everybody say hallelujah (or however you spell that word). But I need to record these experiences before I forget them.

Last week we were reading in the Book of Mormon reader in the part where the languages were confounded due to building of the Tower of Babel. Brock has now taken over the nightly readings and it's so funny to hear the commentaries he occasionally spouts while reading. This night after reading about the languages he said, "Hmm, that's a good idea!" I'm sure however that the ancients did not feel the same when they were no longer able to communicate with their friends and family, still, a good reminder to be like a little child and agree with our Maker in all things He sees fit to bestow upon us.

Also, we seem to have a resident professor in our midst. Ever since Addison could talk she has given lectures on diverse subjects. She has faltered lately however with her professorship, she now experiments with single words. This past week she has decided to use the word "sensible". I've often been told this past week that what I have done was very sensible. We'll see what her new word is this week.

And then yesterday I was reminded of how torturous Sacrament Meeting can be for 5 year olds. Usually we get the questions "When is church over?" "Is it almost done?" "Can we go to primary yet?" and a multitude of other questions, sighs and moans about 50 times during a 1 hour and 10 minute time period. Yesterday however Emma asked one question the whole meeting, "Is it fast Sunday today?" Now, I know what she was thinking, fast Sunday means that the church meetings somehow are time warped on this 1st Sunday of the month. I thought the same thing when I was her age, as well as, I am sure, every single LDS kid thought. I told her it was and she didn't ask another time question the whole meeting. I love little children's perspective, it's so simple.

Now, I know these experiences are not earth shattering, but I hope they will serve as a memoir for my little ones.