Happy Birthday David!

It is David's 29th Birthday! Happy Birthday sweetheart. I sure do love you. To celebrate I wanted to tell you 29 things that I love about you.

1. Your adorable dimples!
2. Your outgoing personality.
3. The way your hips move when you dance.
4. The priesthood blessings you have given me and our children.
5. Listening to you sing.
6. That you gave me Gracie
7. That you gave me Sammy.
8. Your enthusiasm for things in life.
9. Snuggling with you in the morning before the kids wake up.
10. Having you cook with me.
11. Holding hands when we are out together.
12. Playing phase 1o ;)
13. Hearing you share the gospel.
14. Studying with you for your classes in medical school.
15. Singing with you.
16. Going on bike rides with you.
17. When you take Gracie on Daddy Daughter dates.
18. Having all the women at church think that you are a saint for being the only one to come to the nursery for enrichment.
19. Wrestling with you.
20. Watching you play with Sammy.
21. Your lips!
22. That you are taller than me and you weigh more than me.
23. The way you rub my leg when we are driving in the car.
24. The way you help us have scripture study (almost every day).
25. Cuddling and watching a movie with you.
26. Going on walks with you.
27. That you are always willing to help me with a project even when you are busy.
28. Your unconditional love for everyone you meet.
29. That we could share the last 6 wonderful years together.

Thanks for being my husband David. I hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Congratulations David!

Congratulations David, on getting through your first semester of medical school successfully! You have worked very hard and we are proud of you. And we are especially excited for the two weeks of vacation that you get! We love you!

Tagged again...

I have been tagged again. Thanks Tara, but since I have already done this one, I thought I would think up some things about my family...


1. One day after David and I were engaged we were spending and evening over at his parents house. His mom said to me, "We are serious about our food!" And it is true. There is always an abundance of good food at their house. In fact David loves to go there and raid the "magic white box" that never seems to be empty. He always wants to try interesting recipes like Hungarian goulash soup and buy new spices like saffron and fennel.


2. Gracie loves to sing songs about her family. Her latest is Old McDonald Had a Farm. We sing this two or three times a day. The animals on the farm are always: a Gracie baby pink horse, a mommy horse, a Daddy cow and a Sammy cow. I am very glad that I am a girl and get to be a horse instead of a cow...


3. Sammy thinks the water heater is the best toy in the world. If by some strange chance the door to the laundry room gets left open in the basement Sammy will see it and within one minute he is trying to adjust the temperature on the water heater (he has actually succeeded once too). I immediately move him away from the water heater as soon as I realize that he is there, but he throws these little temper tantrums as soon as I do (isn't he too young for that).


4. David was as full of mischief as a child as Gracie is now. He once tried to lower his brother off the roof with a rope! He soon realized that little boys aren't very strong and dropped his brother. Thank goodness everyone was alright!


5. I keep asking Gracie what she wants for Christmas. Every time she tells me she wants a pink Christmas tree. She already has a little Christmas tree in her room. I guess I could just get some pink ornaments or something for it?


6. Sammy just started walking last week, but he still crawls a lot because he can get around much faster that way. He crawls like a crab though. He doesn't use either knee. He walks on his hands and feet. I don't know if this is because we have all wood floors in our house or what, but it is very cute and funny to watch.


Okay so there are 6 random things about my family. I am tagging LeAnn, Grandma K, and Kelli.

Sorry it has been awhile!

Sorry it has been awhile since I posted. Not much has happened, except for one very fun and exciting thing. SAMMY IS WALKING! He took his very first real steps last week. I have been trying to get some good footage of his footage on video, but he has turned very camera shy for some reason. Every time I get out the camera he hides his face. But he is really the sweetest thing. He is so cuddly and happy. We were at our ward Christmas party on Saturday. I was holding a friends new little baby and Sammy was crawling around on the floor. Another friend in the ward scooped up Sammy just as he was escaping out the door into the hall. Sammy wrapped his arms around her neck and buried his head on her shoulder and hugged her tight. You should have seen my friend melt. She said her 18 month old had NEVER hugged her that way! Sammy really is my little sunshine. He always has a ready smile for his mother (even when she is crabby) and a kiss too (except when he is teasing me). I don't know why, but I have been feeling kind of sad lately, but all I have to do is sit back and consider my blessings, especially my children, and things don't seem so sad after all. What a wonderful Father in Heaven we have who blesses us with exactly what we need to get through our trials. I think I must be the luckiest girl in the world.

My funny kids.

Gracie is such a funny girl. It has been snowing for three days here. Monday and Tuesday it lightly snowed all day, and then last night and today we got dumped on. Yesterday morning when Gracie saw out the window that it was snowing the first thing she said was, "Oh man! I don't want it to snow. It's too cold! Can we build a snowman?" She loved going out in the snow today. We went out twice. Each time the only way I could talk her in to coming back inside was with the promise of hot chocolate.

All of a sudden, Gracie is totally interested in saying the prayer. We tried and tried for a long time to get her to pray, and now she wants to do it all the time. But she doesn't want any help. Her prayers go something like this. "Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the food. Bless it to our bodies. Thank you for the food... our bodies..."At this point I try to whisper something in her ear and she responds by saying, "Stop! Stop!" Then she prays for what ever it was I whispered in her ear and says "In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." It is really really sweet (except for the little outburst in the middle) and it makes me happy to know that Gracie likes to talk to her Heavely Father.

Sammy was pretty funny today to. I was doing some laundry and a pair of Gracie's sweat pants fell on the floor. The floor in my basement is wood laminate, and it is kind of slippery. Sammy figured out that he could put his hands on the pants and crawl with his legs and not have to move his hands because the pants would just slide on the floor. He looked up at me and I could tell he was pretty proud of himself. He had a grin about a mile wide. He crawled all across the room like that. Then he figured out how to climb on top of the couch. I can see this is going to be a problem, because he doesn't know how to get down on his own yet without just falling. We keep him away from the stairs for this very reason, but I don't see a way to block all the couches in the house... Anyone have any ideas?

Neither of the kids took naps today, so I put them to bed early. David is still at school, so I am enjoying a rare moment by myself. I am going to go pop in a movie and make some more icicle ornaments for my tree.

A Winter Wonderland!

Snow, snow, snow, snow... it won't be long until we'll all be there with snow!!! Isn't that how that song goes? Anyway, it really did snow here. Lots and lots of snow! I was out shoveling the walks this morning and this van came driving down the street. It was slipping and sliding so bad and I was really afraid that it was going to hit the power pole right in front of my house. It only missed it by a couple of inches. I really think there is a foot of snow out there and they don't plow the street in front of my house. I have been looking for a measuring stick so that I can really measure how much snow is out there, but I can't even find a little one (Gracie and Sammy play with it). Oh well. As I was shoveling the snow I remembered how when I was a little girl it was a fun job to go out and shovel the walks. Gracie came out with me and she was climbing on the snow that I had shoveled and rolling down it. It was really fun. Having kids seems to bring joy back into stuff that has become a chore. So today I am grateful for snow (as long as I don't have to drive in it)!