A lesson for Claire.

Last week Jake and Haley came over to play with claire. While they were eating lunch, claire started teasing Haley about the fact that she did not get the pink cup. This is how the conversation went:
Claire: "nanny nanny boo boo I have a pink cup and you don't.
Haily: "Claire, that's bad words to say"
Claire repeats "nanny nanny boo boo.
Haily turns to Jake who is sitting in between them and says: "Jake, Claire is saying bad words to me."
Jake turns to Claire and says: "Claire, don't say that to my sister. Jesus will be mad."
Claire: "They're not bad words. I say them all the time."
Jake: "Yes they are and Jesus will not let you say them."
Claire: "No they're not and I say them all the time!"
Jake (getting very frustrated at this point) says "Claire, You're being like a wicked Lamenite! A VERY wicked Lamenite!"

Even though I was not happy with Claire's behavior, I just wanted to bust up laughing hearing this conversation. Jake said it better than I could have ever put it! Claire learned a good lesson that day from her little friend Jake.

catching up part 2

Here's some photos from the school play in December.
Brayden played the part of the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.
Unfortunately he got sick the day of the play. He had to dig deep that day.
We thought he did very well in spite of feeling miserable.

catching up

Lots to say in the past month since I posted. Where to start? The kids had a six week break from school with both track and winter break combined. I knew the only way for both of us to survive it was to stay busy. We took them to Utah during the first part of Dec. Winter was making it's arrival there. It was beautiful! The best part about it was we managed to avoid driving through a snow storm. The kids went sledding with their cousins and had a blast.


We took the kids to see Santa at the University Mall in Provo. Claire sat on Santa's lap for the first time. Another evidence that my baby is growing up. I'm trying to enjoy each moment.



We had our annual family gift game party. We started doing this a few years ago and it's become a tradition. We hosted it this year. We had yummy soup in bread bowls and every one brought a gift. We have a few "gag" gifts that have circulated through each year. It's fun to see who will take home the famous coin belt buckle or the singing pooping reindeer. Of course, there's always a few good ones for the grabbing.





Christmas 2007 was yet another wonderful time for our family. We have all remained close and enjoy each other's company. We spent Christmas eve at Mom and Dad's. Mom has always prepared a spectacular Christmas Eve dinner. I wish I had thought to take a picture of the beautiful table she set. It was something out of a Martha Stewart magazine. Ever since I can remember, she has always gone out of her way to make every detail extra special. I'll have to take one next year so that we can preserve her hard work.
Santa made his way to our house. He made each of our three children very happy. Shelby assured me that it wouldn't be a problem to receive two large gifts for Christmas because Santa could bring one and We could provide the other. Her believing spirit won out when she woke up Christmas morning to find that Santa had brought her a Karaoke machine and a new bike from Mom and Dad. Brayden jumped for joy when his box began to ring as Kerry called his new cell phone. and Claire was most happy with her princess makeup. It's always fun to see the smiles on their faces as they open gifts. Making all the work of the saving, shopping and wrapping worth it. Travis and Ashlee invited us all to their house for breakfast. It was literally a breakfast buffet. We all got together again for dinner games and gifts at Mom's house on Christmas night. I wonder if there are times when my mom wishes that we lived a little further away. Now that they are close we make our way over a lot!


MERRY CHRISTMAS 2007!

I forgot to mention Brayden's play among other things, but I'm out of time for now. There will be more to come on catching up.