New Eyes

Just over a week ago, we took the family to a BYU Basketball game (much more enjoyable than Saturday's pummeling by Utah). While we were there, Tim noticed Carter was having a hard time reading the scoreboard. Huh....never really thought about getting his eyes checked...good mom! Tim spent the rest the night having Carter try to read stuff around the Marriott Center. We went to the eye doctor the next day and it took him about 5 seconds to figure out that Carter was nearsighted..who knew? Obviously, not us. It took some serious tears and talking to convince Carter that his world was not ending. The new glasses came in this weekend, and happily, Carter decided they look pretty cool. Not to mention, he entertained himself quietly through the entire sacrament meeting taking them off and on, off and on, and seeing how they made everything change. Just glad he is happy!

Little Chimp came for a visit

Lady got to bring home her class friend--Little Chimp. He spent the day with us yesterday. We went to Costco, had lunch, played, watched tv, and read books--all with Little Chimp. Laityn insisted that Little Chimp needed to sleep in her bed, not in the backpack (I would have preferred the backpack so we didn't forget to return him this morning---which we almost did).

This is Laityn's picture of her and Jace playing house with Little Chimp. I love her "furry" effect!

For those of you not fluent in phoenetical spelling, I'll translate:

"I ate lunch with my brother and Little Chimp and we watch tv. We played house."

I love Kindergartener's! Especially mine!

...wife/mom/teacher/photographer?

So....I've been taking so many pictures lately. I've even done some pictures for friends and family. I am seriously considering starting up a little photography business on the side---Am I crazy? I posted some of my newest pictures here and I'm working on a new blog that will show some of the stuff I've done. Wish me luck!

......By the way, I hope you all have your Twilight tickets! I'm sure it won't be as great as we all hope, but it should be fun!........

Primary Overload

After a presidency meeting that ran well past midnight, I am feeling like we have too much happening on the primary front right now. We are trying to figure out teachers and classes for about 220 children. It was also recently discovered that if our ward wants to rotate to the 9 a.m. schedule, the primary needs to give up 3 classrooms... that took some serious effort to work out. It looks like 3 of our 4 nurseries will be giving up half of their rooms during the 3rd hour. (I'm sure that won't be painful at all....) We also had this fabulous idea to make wooden block picture holders for birthday gifts next year. Now all we need to do is paint all 220 of them, sand the edges, and rub on the vinyl lettering (that won't take long...). We also need to burn CD's of next year's primary songs for each family in the ward and get them passed out. And we are still trying to find a way to start bringing the "new" sunbeams into sharing time for the month of December (there is literally no more room for even one row of chairs, and we need room for 18 little bodies). Somehow, we have worked this out for the last 2 years, so I'm sure we'll get it all together...but right now, I think we are all feeling slightly frazzled! Maybe I need to follow suit with Jace, take a good long nap, and then jump back into reality... (as if I could ever take a nap at 4:00 in the afternoon, I can't even go to the bathroom without being interrupted!)

F.Y.I.

So....just to let you all know....the pictures I posted are from last Christmas...but I really wouldn't mind it one bit if they were taken yesterday! Happy days!

I'm Ready!

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I'm kind of a freak about Christmas. As you can see from my blog. . . I'm ready to deck the halls and all that jazz. I am seriously considering putting up my tree this week...tomorrow....maybe.... I'm loving the stations that are playing Christmas music and I'm working on a whole list of holiday songs for my blog. I'm sure there is someone out there who is just as crazy as me...right?! It's no wonder my kids are already asking to hang up the chocolate countdown to Christmas calendars...poor Tim, he gets a full 2 months of holiday cheer!

Party #2. . . the friends

Jace helped me frost the fortune cookie cake. . . although I don't know if "help" is the right word. He did do a nice job of making himself a frosting goatee!

Yea, I know, it doesn't look exactly like a fortune cookie. . . okay, not even close!

All kinds of decorations. . . so China-ish!

This was the point at which our game of Statue Tag turned into . . . something so-not-statue like, but they were having a ball!

There is nothing quite as much fun as listening to the conversations that happen between 10 year old girls. You wouldn't believe the goofy, loud voices that come from these little bodies. You'll notice Lady is in the picture---yep, Maddy invited her too---and she was beyond thrilled to be with the "big girls". After the party was over, we made pumpkin pancakes for dinner (Tim was slightly unsatisfied with the dinner choice) but Jace informed me "this is the best dinner ever!" And Lady said "Mom, you can make this all day long!" . . . I'm thinking that's not a bad idea!