June Wedding

My brother in law, Daniel, was married in June at the Salt Lake Temple. These are some of the pictures that I took.

Who does he look like?

This is my nephew and we are debating if he looks more like his mom or his dad, what do you think?

The beginnings of a Reader

This is the first time that she has read these two pages. We are working out of a Hooked on Phonics Book for kindergarteners. After reading something for the first time, she starts to memorize the words and doesn't really "read" them. She also likes to "cheat" by using the pictures, that is why she kept calling the cat a kitten. When we are reading words and not small stories, Emma explains what every word means. I just want her to go from one word to the next so that she practices recognizing the words quicker but I suppose it is good for reading comprehension ( just slightly annoying for me).

Evan building with Daddy

A couple of months ago, we bought a bunk bed on Craigslist. After we fixed it up Evan helped Will put it together. While Evan was helping put the bed together he cracked part of the frame. Oops!

There's no business like show business

Since I have been neglecting the blog, here are some fun clips of Emma performing. There are a couple of Sound of Music Songs, A West Side Story dance to "I want to be in America", a primary song, and some song about food (Emma original).

Holiday Fun

We went to Chuck E. Cheese with Grandpa Doug, Joci and Daniel. Here is Evan's thumbs-up after every throw. These are the presents I got from Emma and Evan. My neighbor took them shopping for me while I took her kids shopping for her. It was a great idea. Emma insisted that I open my gifts before she would open hers.

Daniel was just interested in the candy canes on Christmas morning.

Emma got an early Christmas present. We went to see the Nutcracker. She loved it! and I hope we can do this every year.

Daniel had a birthday in December. He is just one of the kids. It is fun to see all three munchkins play together.

Kids are the funniest or what cost us our exaltation

Emma is in CTR4 this year. I taught that class last year so I know that kids can make some pretty funny comments. Today, one teacher told me that Emma said she was too shy to answer a question. And her other teacher said that Emma insisted on telling a story before she would answer a question. Either, I got the story wrong or these are two seperate events. If they are two different events, I have one mixed up child. She isn't sure if she's shy or not.

This reminded me of another funny church story. Last year, Will scolded Evan after he had written on several of our walls. A couple of days later Evan went up to the walls again and repeated his dad's "no, no". I thought,"Oh, good, he is learning." Shortly after that, as we were driving into the garage, Evan spotted some orange spray paint on the curb made by some road workers and said "no, no." Again I thought he was really learning and that he wouldn't write on walls again. Maybe a couple of weeks later, it was time for the primary program. I had really worked with Emma to learn all the primary songs and her part. At the primary program practive, she didn't open her mouth at all. So, I told her if she sang loud and said her part during the real thing, she could have a movie that she had been asking for. During the program, I sat close to the front to monitor Emma. Will had to step out with Daniel and I was so involved with Emma that I didn't really pay attention to Evan. He laid underneath the bench and was real quiet. I thought that was great because he wasn't being loud and disruptive. Well, when I decided to look down a second time to check on him, he peeked out from under the bench with a crayon in his hand and immediately starting saying, "no, no". Yup, my child was coloring on the bottom of a pew. I have discussed with my friends on how I make amends for that, maybe pay a little extra tithing.... In the end is this really a funny story or a sad story. I hope this is not what stops us from getting into heaven.