My Buddy

 

This is my buddy Claire.  She is one of my favorite little girls ever! I think I can speak for both of us when I say that this living far apart business is for the BIRDS!  I miss seeing this girl and her crazy antics on a daily basis.  She is such a cute and sweet little stinker and I think I am going to take her mom up on the offer to keep her with me for a week or two. Her mom offers regularly but I am pretty sure she would change her mind before really letting her go, I think Claire's cuteness is all the sanity her  mom gets sometimes;) To say I miss her is an understatement.  And I think she feels the same way, here is a little story for proof, incase you needed any;
I flew into Cedar on my way to St. George a while back and Billy picked me up on his way home from work for the weekend.  We meet Jay and the kids at a restaurant for dinner.  When Bill and I walked in together Claire was so excited to see us both and you could see the struggle of who to reach for first, after going back and forth for a minute...I won!!! She reached for me! I didn't want to rub it in too much but she totally picked me first!! I love you too Claire.
                     
                                                                                     March 15, 2013

Little Smarty Pants

Jackson received a "Principal's Award" for scoring really well on a Math pre-test. The school held a small, short ceremony one morning for the Principal to give him the award.  We were so proud of him, he sometimes (always) has a hard time focusing and finishing work on time so for him to finish and excel on a pre-test was pretty impressive! He was proud, we were proud, it was cute and Soph loves going to his school for ANY reason.


I love when they actually cooperate and take pictures together.

Soph and I found a little doughnut shop and picked out some over the top doughnuts to congratulate him. I had to work that night so Codee let them go to town on them!

                                                                                        April 11, 2013

Almost One Year Later, And Now He Is 8!

So it has been just short of one whole year since I last blogged anything... and I have no excuses.  I just stopped.  But lately I have been taking pictures again with the intent of actually doing something with them.  I hate going out of order, since I obviously have many pictures that would chronologically make much more sense here, but I think this is the only way I will ever actually bite the bullet and jump back into this... so here we go, wish me luck.

The most recent event in our house was Jackson's Birthday! He turned 8 on Friday and was baptized on Sat. May 4th. It was such a great weekend!  The Blackwell's and Kim, Dee, Kenny and Leah came up for it.  We went to Gardner Village via Trax (as per Jackson's request, he didn't care where we went just how we got there) and later that night we went bowling and had Subway for dinner...bowling, subway and Trax...really? sure kid, whatever you say. He loved it.



We woke up early Sat. morning for his baptism, it went off without a hitch it was just the right amount of spiritual and speed mixed together;) Codee baptized Jackson, Dee confirmed him and Codee bore his testimony because I didn't want to get up in front of everybody and I even got everyone to hang out afterward for a minute for some pictures!  

After the baptism we went up to Bruge's for waffles then to Deseret Book to pick out some scriptures for Jackson.  The kids played in the fountains at City Creek for a bit then we came home for naps...Claire, Sophie, Codee, Billy AND Jamie!
It is a full house anytime we have company but we LOVE it, it is pretty much what we live for right now.  We would trade our peace and quite for the chaos of company anytime!

Oh, I just remembered something else! Two Sundays ago Jackson was assigned the talk in primary, up until this point we have avoided this somehow, so I prepared a little talk for him and assumed he would want me to stand up there with him for a little support but to my surprise just before sharing time he said he would do it on his own...he didn't get that confidence from me!  I'm so glad he has it though, I was so proud of him for standing up there by himself and reading the words that I had wrote for him. He did such and amazing job, the room was quite (not usually the case in our current ward) while everyone listened and I felt like clapping when he finished.
         
                                                                                            May 3 & 4, 2013