The greatest blessing of 2010

Brigham was blessed while we were in Utah over Thanksgiving. I am not going to lie, I wanted to bless him here in our ward, but David wanted to do it it Utah. I am not one who can't admit when I am wrong though. It was AMAZING to have it with all of our family members and to have all that family PRIESTHOOD there to help with the blessing. I LOVED it!

Brigham is a very serious child. At least it seems that way to me. He didn't even crack a smile (besides the gassy ones) until he was two months old. I tried and tried to get him to smile that night, but he was to busy reflecting upon the blessing that he had been given. :) He is still such a handsome baby though. In truth I think being passed around from person to person may have had something to do with his seriousness. He is such a momma's boy. I ALMOST got him to laugh yesterday and today. He lets out one almost ha and that is it. He is so so special and I really love him a TON! He is the best thing that happened to our family in 2010 and we have had some pretty great blessings this year, but what can I say... nothing compares to a baby!

A great big truck!!!

While we were in Utah over Thanksgiving we stopped at my dad's work for a couple of minutes. I LOVE to visit my family and my husbands family. I feel really lucky to have two amazingly wonderful families. We only got to visit our families for a week, and can I just tell you it wasn't enough time. I hadn't seen my siblings in a year and a half. That seems like such a long time! We saw David's family at his graduation, but still it is so much fun to get together with everyone. I felt really stressed trying to figure out which families got which time while we were there. Not that they really pressured us, more that I did. I let the stress ruin some of the fun for me. Looking back it was dumb to be so stressed about it, but I guess it is too late now... One of the things that I was stressed about was driving out to my Dad's work. I really wanted to go and to take my kids to see what he does, but I felt like we left late and were cutting into David's family's time so we only stayed at my dad's work for a few minutes, but I am SO GLAD that we went!!! It was really fun to let my kids see his work. He is a diesel mechanic and at the time he was working on some HUGE Catepillar trucks. The trucks are so huge that the tires are taller than my 6'3" husband. And my dad was the only one at his work who new how to fix them (what a smart dad I have). I really love my dad and am so grateful for him.

All of the kids sitting in the trucks tire. I really love this picture even though my kids kinda look like orphans in it. Gracie dressed herself and picked out those great socks. :) David dressed Benson, and even though I don't love him less for it, he doesn't really know how to match. And I don't think anyone had their hair combed that morning... oh well.

My dad le the kids climb in the cab of the truck and was surprised when they figured out how to start the engine. Yep that is my kids driving the biggest truck in the world! I always love to drive past Caterpillar equipment. I can be driving through road construction and every time I see a Catepillar it makes me think of my dad. I love you dad. Thanks for being my dad.

Hallelujah!

I really love Christmas usually, but I have found myself to be kind of... I don't know exactly, maybe kind of drepressed this year. David works a lot and some of our traditions aren't exactly going as planned because of that, and we just went to Utah to visit our family and now I am missing them all a lot having seen them so recently. So yeah, I have been feeling a little Grinchy here and there. But this got me in the Christmas Spirit today. Actually, it made me cry, but I guess the Christmas Spirit can make you do that sometimes. It just made me happy to see all of these people singing about Jesus in the mall where usually everything is about Santa and buying gifts. It is hard sometimes to keep things in perspective, especially when you have young children who are so excited for Santa to come. I wish I could have been here in the mall when this happened.

Duke's Smile

We have been really busy lately and I have tons to blog about, but no time to blog about it. But I just couldn't let another day go by without posting a picture of this cute little fellah's smile. Often times when I am holding him and you know, trying to be a mother to three other children too, so not really paying 100% attention to him I will look down at him and see him just smiling back up at me. Could any mom be more lucky than I am? I doubt it!