The Last Couple of Weeks

My younger sister had her fourth baby girl. We had seen pictures, but they just weren't good enough. We took a day to go see her for ourselves. Oh, she was absolutely darling. It's funny how you always forget how small babies are when they're born. Talk about perfection.
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H a cousin playing with snow, while up playing at Grandma's house.

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M's latest thing is pretending she is one of the Three Musketeers from the Barbie movie. It cracks me up. She is always finding different sticks and using them as a variety of weapons. We are in the process of trying to figure out how to make a Musketeer hat. If you have any ideas, let me know.

We went to my grandmother's house to visit. She was so cute with M. She decided that

she wanted to give all of her girl great-grandchildren one of her necklace's. Of course M and I were thrilled. This is the one that we picked out.

M loves doing everything her brothers do, but she definitely enjoys having a feminine side as well. Any chance she can get she is putting on make-up of lip gloss. Sometimes I have to remind her that lip gloss only belongs on her lips. I have found her painting the couch, her dolls, the table, her coloring books, etc. M and her Prince Charming.

Me and M going for a ride. I got this bike for Christmas, and am loving it! We picked up a hitch-hiker a few months ago on clearance. It has sat in the box until a few days ago. Now C, M and I are hooked. M wants to go on rides all of the time. The only problem is that I can't take j with me. I wish I had a basket on the front big enough to hold him. I'll have to trade off between the hitch-hiker and the trailer. We are definitely having some fun times though.

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Our kids were excited to attend their cousin's baptism. My nephew performed the baptism, while J confirmed Brookelyn. Witnessing this special ordinance made L very excited for his own baptism in April. Scout Sunday was a few weeks ago. H was very excited to wear his uniform. I loved seeing him wear it with pride. He loves the scouting program. I am hoping that this love will continue, and he will be eager to work hard to achieve his eagle once he is 12.

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L and H's latest thing that they enjoy doing is running and jumping off of a stack of old tires to dunk a mini basketball. They've spent hours at a time shooting and goofing around with those darn tires. I love how they are always creative in their playing.

Well our City League Basketball team was undefeated this year. Hooray! The boys were of course thrilled to death with the outcome. L loved getting his first basketball trophy. I was so proud of them and how well they played together on the same team. It was amazing to see how much each one improved over the few months of playing during the season.

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For Family Home Evening we picked up a bunch of rocks in one of the fields. Eventually it will become a roping arena. The kids were alright with picking them up, but when they heard a sound and looked over, they saw that the cows had tipped over a very full wheel barrel, and the thought of re-picking up wasn't too exciting. One of the kids said, "It's not fair! Why can't the cows just pick them up? We didn't dump them out." Now that would be a sight to see. Afterwards, we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows and had another great picnic at the field. I love how the kids never tire of having them. They don't mind doing a little work if they know a picnic follows.

While dinner the cows decided to leave the rocks and head over our direction. The kids thought it was great!

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j has been up to quite a bit lately. He has decided that he wants to be an official cowboy. I'll let him pick his clothes out. and without hesitation it is always a cowboy snap shirt, jeans and boots. He's such a crack up. The other day I turned the corner from coming down the stairs, and there j sat on a bench with a tray eating eggs. I asked him what he was doing, and he said, "Me a big boy now." We just got back from getting the mail. Before I could walk through the garage/house door, j had run in with one of J's Western Horseman magazines, and was sitting on the couch reading it. He was there for at least a 1/2 our.

J loves to follow along while we read scriptures. He now copies every word that we say. Once I looked up I couldn't stop laughing. He was pretending to read with his head glued to the Book of Mormon. I had to keep reminding him that he couldn't see the words if he was to close to them. He'd lift his head for a moment, and then quickly put it back down.

J loves playing hide-n-seek. Once he finds a good spot, he'll go there every time. Once time at the field, this feeding barrel was his favor tie spot, and in the house, under a bench is his favorite spot. It's funny how he doesn't realize we can see him.