To President Hinckely.

As you all know our dear President Hinckely died last night. It shocked me so much I told the bishop to Shut Up when he told me. I just wish to express how much he meant to me and how I adored him. I truly am heart broken but joyfull at the same time. He has returned with honor to our Heavenly Father and he is with his sweet wife Marjory. All though I have now lived through 3 prophets of the church, President Hinckely has meant the most to me and has strengthened my testimony more than the others. He will be deeply missed in my home and in my heart.

Ha Ha Ha!!! I Love Having a Boy!!!!

When you have a boy, you will never run out of funny stories to tell. Yesterday at playgroup, the other moms and I were sitting in the nursery talking (we do playgroup at the church), and all the kids were down in the gym playing. They were being noisy so we weren't to worried about them. But as parents you know that when it gets quiet there is something going on. So we went to check on them. I stayed behind to watch on one of the babies, when one of the girls came down and said Dawson didn't have his pants or underwear on. So I pick up the baby and run down to the gym. The story is, that Dawson and is good buddy Arch had stripped down and went in the chapel, stood at the pulpet and were chanting "I don't have any pants on. Look at my bum." When I got to the gym they were all in there and Dawson was showing everyone his privates. Yeah, that's a boy for you. So we went looking for his pants. I kept asking Dawson where they were and his response was "at the store". Of course what was I thinking??? Anyway, Bugs and I don't know who started it but we both know our boys are capable of anything when they are together.

Not Much to say....

If you noticed in my header Cora Belle is now 6 months old. She is growing way too fast. Since she had that steroid shot in her lip she has been really ornery. I hope it ends soon.

I also wanted to share another funny Dawson story. David was in his room Sunday night telling the kids a bedtime story. I was in the living room talking to my sister and here comes Dawson.

"Mommy I heard.... hmmmm.... Monkeys"

"You heard monkeys? What did they say?"

"I don't know they didn't say."

I couldn't help but laugh my head off. David even had to spray some monkey repellent so Dawson would stay in bed. Don't ask me where the fear of monkeys came from. I suppose I will never know.

And so you can all be proud of Cait like I am. She read her first short book on Friday. She is picking up the reading thing pretty well. She is just smart as a whip.

I decided to post this picture from Christmas. My dad bought two horses for the grandkids. This one is properly named Snowflake. She is trained and can be ridden. The other one is black and named Jake. He is only a baby so it will be a year or two before he can be ridden.

Poor Miss Belle :(

Miss Belle had a shot in her lip on Friday. You all know that she has a fat lip that is caused by a birth mark. The dermatologist finally decided to do something about it. Which makes me mad because if they would have done it when her lip started to swell then it wouldn't be as big as it is right now. Anyway, she got a shot and was miserable. The steroid made her lip swell like 3x's its size. She was unable to suck on a bottle or binki Friday which made for a rough afternoon and evening. Luckily the pain went away enough that by 9 o'clock she finally could suck on a bottle. So she slept pretty good. Anyway the swelling is gone now and Dave and I both think that it is not as big as it was. Yeah!!! I just hope it goes away enough that she doesn't have to have another shot. Poor Miss Belle.

Only one set of diapers for me!!!!!

Guess who is potty training and doing it well??? That's right Dawson!!! He has stayed dry (unfortuatly not clean) all day. He has been in underwear since 8 o'clock this morning. He had a dirty accident, but that is forgivable because he hasn't yet done twosies on the toilet yet. He only has 3 more hours and he gets a sticker for staying dry all day, and only needs 6 more days to get another train and then we are done bribing him and maybe he'll just be good. I couldn't be happier. I hate chaning two different bumbs a day.

I want chocolate!!!

I just wanted to share a funny story. After Christmas, David went to the store and for some reason bought 6 or 7 bags of candy. They were like $.70. So when he got home he gathered all the chocolate in the house that we had gotten for Christmas, and hid them downstairs in the pantry. Well I'm not an idiot and found them, so he moved them. He gave Caitlin clues on where they were. Once again I am not an idiot and payed attention when he was giving her the clues, so I followed them and found the candy. So I took them and hid them, not very well, but just enough. When Dave got home I was joyfully endulging in a peppermint patty, and he is not an idiot, so the search was on. My one mistake was telling Cait where I had put them, because as much as she could she tried not to get excited when he got close to the closet. So ofcourse he found them and the chase was on. Cait ran with them first and tried to protect them in her bedroom while Dave and I were pinching and clawing at each other. Then when we got a hold of them again we chased each other to every room in the house until we ended up downstairs. Well we fought some more and Dave got the best of me and took off up the stairs. As I went to follow him, his hand swung back and clocked me on the chin. I was down for the count. I have never before been hit in the face, and let me tell you OW OW OW!!! I have a nice bump on my chin and it hurt to put my makeup on this morning.
So now who gets the candy??? The chase was over because I had a terrible headache so we needed another plan. Scrabble it was then. We have become addicted to scrabble so we sat down for a match. There is now reason I shouldn't have won, I had all the great letters. But one wrong move at the end and I lost by 6. So now the candy is gone again and I have a bruise and nothing to show for it. Such is the life in my house.

Finally Some Christmas Pics.

I have finally found some time to put some pics of Christmas on here. We had tons of fun.
Don't my children look so pretty. They get new Sunday clothes every year around Christmas.
Meet Jingles. Santa's very roudy elf. Okay it's Grandpa Young. The kids thought he was hilarious.
Cait was exstatic about all the dolls she got for Christmas. You should have seen her face when she opened Tinkerbell. It was adorable.
Dawson was not into opening presents. He only wanted the boxes opened. We woke him up a little early I guess.
Cora actually was very active in opening her presents. She is newly into the toy stage so she was having a great time.