gratitude #6

Mollie's Blessing

Another little girl's blessing day.  I love the blessings Ben gives.  I love that she calmed down and didn't fuss during the blessing.  I love how much family came to spend the day with us.  I think it was the most ever for a blessing and we loved it!  The girls love to have cousins come to our house since it doesn't happen very often.

Thank goodness Allie took a few pictures.  But we didn't get any really good ones so I'd better do some later!  And we still don't have a picture of our entire family!  But we did get pictures of everyone that came.  Thanks for coming and being part of our day!

gratitude #5

Jon Schmidt Concert

Ben has been wanting to go to a Jon Schmidt concert and it finally worked out for us to go . . . kind of.  We're blessing Mollie on Sunday so we had lots of company, but they were nice to entertain themselves, make pies with the girls, and take care of Mollie so that we could go!  Thanks Krysta, Nate, Marci, and Marilyn!  It was fun to see Jon and Steven Sharp Nelson (he's my fav) live.  Now we just need them to come back so we can take all of our girls because they love them more than me I think!

This is our favorite youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePianoGuys

gratitude #4

At the moment I'm just glad that it's nearly quiet in our house.  My sisters are here with their 4 kids and it's been VERY loud the last 6 hours while the kids have played and we've sorted through clothes to make sure everyone has the right things (it's great to hand clothes around but every so often we have to take time to sort and then share with cousins).  But almost all the bags of clothes are put away in the right spots and 4 of my 5 children are in bed and as soon as I put the sheets on my bed (and get Mollie to sleep) I can sleep too!  Thank goodness for bedtime!

gratitude #3

"What if we only received today

the things we gave thanks for yesterday?"

Our girls still say in their prayers,

"We're thankful for our new house."

We are so thankful for our house!

(Notice the pumpkins and gourds--
the girls put them EVERYWHERE!)

gratitude #2

Girls who get their homework done!

(without a lot of help from their mom!)


*I shouldn't have posted this--we ended up having a very frustrating long night with homework that even went into the next morning when I had to drive them to school to sign a paper that had been left.  But hopefully "she" learned her lesson!

gratitude #1

"Field Trip"

Charity has really started thinking about things.  One thing she's very interested in is how you buy a car.  She is really worried about how she'll get to a car lot to buy the car she wants.  I've promised I'll take her.  So a few weeks ago she asked more questions about the "car store" and so today we took a field trip to the "car store."  We planned on talking to a salesman (hoping he'd be nice) and wandering around the lot, but it was freezing and we weren't dressed right for the day, so we just did one thing . . .

We found a YELLOW vehicle!  That's what color she's going to buy when she's old enough.  As we left she said, "I hope it's still here when I get big!"  (Of course, usually she wants a car not a huge truck, but it was the only yellow one on the lot.)

And then we went to her favorite place in the world!

She said it was essential to go there for her "field trip" and she got a chocolate Frosty, so she was thrilled.

She didn't get to do preschool this year (there weren't enough kids her age who wanted to do it) and we're both so sad, so this was our attempt at doing something educational.  I had great plans, but like most of my plans, they are still in the planning stage!  But she's been my huge helper the last two months and we are doing some fun things together.  She is hilarious and makes life fun!  I'm thankful I have Charity!!!

My least favorite night of the year!

I don't like candy, I don't like begging, I don't like finding creative costumes, but thanks to creative girls and a patient dad and lots of nice "grandpas and grandmas" in Oakley, we had a fun Halloween night.