Monday, April 12, 2010

Nursery is Great!

Here's Chase walking in the door after a hard day at nursery. He is now 18 months, so he started going to nursery at church this week. Chase did great, and I'm sure he won't have any problems, because he's such a good, easy going little dude. I'm excited for him to be in nursery and learn about playing, sharing, friendship, family and the gospel.
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Baylor has something new to share this week too. He recently started writing letters and words. His favorite thing to write is his name. He's been writing it on every inch of concrete he can find, so beware if you have a clean sidewalk.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

High 5

Like most toddlers, Chase is all about giving high 5's to people. Recently he has crossed the line to being obsessed with giving high 5's. He will give a high 5 to anything and everything.
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Take Mr. Potatohead for my first example. You may be wondering where his other arm is...
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Oh, don't worry Chase just carries Mr. Potatohead's arm around the house and gives it high 5 every chance he gets.
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This DVD was on the floor the other day, and Brody and I heard Chase saying, "high 5", and then giving it a high 5. We then looked at the cover and laughed.
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Chase also has a few book with characters waving, and whenever he reads those books you will always find him giving them high 5's.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Happy Birthday and Happy Easter

Sorry no pictures. Baylor threw my camera across the room the other day, and it is now broken. (sigh)

Happy Birthday Brody
Brody had his 33rd birthday on Friday. He's getting old, but he's still young at heart...maybe a little too young. Sometimes I feel like I'm married to a 15 year old by the way he acts, J/K. Brody wanted to see the movie, Clash of the Titans, so we did, and it was way lame. We then met some friends at PF Changs (yummy), and we all came back to our house and played outside games and had cookie cake and ice cream. We love Brody so much, and we are so happy to celebrate his birthday.

Happy Easter
We hope everyone is having a great Easter. I love Easter, not because of the chocolate eggs and candy, although I like that too. But I love it because it is a time to remember Christ life, the atonement, and resurrection. Three days after Christ was crucified he rose. He lives! We know that death is not the end of our existence. We too can live again in the presence of our Lord and Savior.

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following Easter message: April 15, 2006

"At this wonderful season of hope and renewal we testify of the glorious reality of the atonement and resurrection of the Lord, Jesus Christ. The empty tomb brought the most comforting assurance that can come into man’s heart. This was the affirmative answer to the ageless question raised by Job, "If a man die, shall he live again?" (Job 14:14).

"As stated by the angel on that first resurrection morn, "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" (Luke 24:5). "He is not here: for he is risen, as he said" (Matthew 28:6).

"This is the promise of the risen Lord. This is the relevance of Jesus to a world in which all must die. Of all the victories in human history, none is so great, none so universal in its effect, none so everlasting in its consequences as the victory of the crucified Lord, who came forth in the resurrection that first Easter morning."

Monday, March 29, 2010

Catching up

Here is a little catch up of what we've been doing the last couple weeks....

We had a great St. Patty's day. I did an all green meal of mushroom ravioli's with green alfredo sauce, salad, green jello, green peas, and a green key lime cake. Baylor thought it was super cool. For the next week he kept asking for green dinners.


We've officially had the 1st day of spring. We love spring. One good thing about having harsh winters is that it makes you appreciate spring a lot more. We love going to the parks, the zoo, and playing outside.


Baylor started a new class at our rec. center called sporties for shorties. The class introduces a new sport each week. My mom and dad were visiting and took him to his 1st class.

My parent's just left this morning after visiting us for 10 days. It was so fun to have them here. They were originally coming to watch our kids while Brody and I went on a cruise, but we ended up canceling our cruise, so they just came to play with us. We went to a hotel and indoor water park. We went to the circus. We went to a waterfall and fishing in the river. We went to a few parks. We drove up to Kirtland and toured some church history sites. We BBQ'd and also went out to eat a few times. We went shopping at the mall. We watched our teams get beat in the NCAA basketball tournament. It snowed one of the days so Nana played in the snow with the kids. All and all we had a really great time. Here are lots and lots of pictures from their trip. Thanks for coming to visit, Mom and Dad.