I tried to feed Marin a little baby cereal.  She would shoot every bite out with her pointy tongue.  Most of the time she would point her tongue real tight out of her little mouth so I couldn't get the spoon near her lips.  I don't think she likes it...yet. 

Every week I go out with the three kids in tow by myself and I say it is the last.  Being out numbered and out of my mind has made some "memories".  One trip to Costco Owen gleefully found himself up high on a stocking shelf.  Don't know how he got there and had to get help to get him down.  gah!  This happened as I was loading Nick into the cart  ( Read more... )

Sleepovers with my cousin Kynley were always memorable.  I have a bajillion stories but we are talking Christmas so...   We tried sleeping under the Christmas lights of the tree but kept freaking each other out with shadows and our imaginations got the best of us.  We moved to Grammy's room, who still traveled to CA at the time.  We turned on the ( Read more... )

My first Christmas in the mission field my package from home never arrived.  I thought it would really bother me but it turned out the more important meaning of Christmas won out.  Yeah, just like all those stories you hear.  I didn't miss the gifts as much as I grew to appreciate the glorious message I was set apart to share.  I kept waiting to ( Read more... )

I love the 12 days of Christmas!  One year we gave the 12 days of Christmas to a family that lived just next door to us in Farmington.  Pretty easy to deliver you would think.  I had placed the items of the day on the doorstep and was pushing the button on the doorbell when they opened the door.  They weren't even trying to catch me...just somebody ( Read more... )

I promise to be the most inconsistent contributor to the advent. But I decided some would be more fun than none... for me anyway. I am going to write about random Christmas memories. I will also add the disclaimer that my memories may be more colorful than what really happened ( Read more... )

Apparently Brad knows how to breakdance.  He must have been quite something back in the day.  He was showing the boys his moves and I was rolling on the floor.  Nicholas and Owen thought the worm was the best of course, but Brad could only take about four passes.  Doesn't feel the same as it used to he says.  HAHA.  Funny memory I hope to keep ( Read more... )

I am finding it really hard to believe it is still another month before baby.  In so many ways I'm not ready but physically I wonder how I will make it another month.  I actually do okay during the day.  It is the night that is killing me.  I have had significant ligament pain with the others but this has been worse.  It takes me several minutes to ( Read more... )

Brad has been relandscaping our yard this summer.  It will be so nice, but it has been a long dirty process and it still has a ways to go.  I have been watching him plug away at moving dirt a few hours every Saturday.  Since it is not the best time to lay sod with the extreme heat and all I haven't gotten myself to uptight about it.  As we enter ( Read more... )

I have been decluttering over the past couple days.  I even came across a box I never unpacked when we moved here 5 years ago.  It was a container full of ticket stubs, playbills, Christmas cards, graduation and wedding announcements.  Even cards from flowers I received from dates I had been on, etc.  Totally another lifetime.  I was scrambling to ( Read more... )