Conference Weekend and More Fun Stuff

     Every once in awhile, the girls get a hold of the camera and I find some entertaining pictures that I didn't know were there.  I recently found these gems that Haylee and Mackenzis took of themselves and their 2 younger siblings.

 This was defiitely my favorite!

     Kelsey has gotten a lot of attention from her older sisters since she was born.  I was very worried that this would change when Nathan was born.  Thankfully, I can say that it hasn't changed one bit.  Nathan also gets lots of attention, even from Kelsey, but Kelsey still gets her share.  It's obvious from these pictures that the girls still adore her a lot.

     Mike and his family came to Ridgecrest to visit for General Conference weekend.  Mike is in the bishopric now and so it's hard for him to visit on weekends now.  This was the perfect weekend for them to come.  Mike's birthday was a few days before, so we had a little gift for him.  It was just a book that I've been meaning to give to him for a very long time.  It was one of his favorite books growing up so I figured he would want to read it to his kids.  A couple of them are already a little grown up for it probably.  So we gave him Tikki Tikki Tembo.

     While the guys went to Priesthood session that evening, the kids made cards for Jeff and Amy.  Jeff is in Afghanistan now, and Amy just had her gall bladder taken out.  My mom got out paper, stickers, glue, crayons, markers, and cut out shapes and let them be creative!  There were all sorts of stickers:  fun stickers, religious stickers, etc.  Mackenzie got VERY creative with the stickers and made an interesting combination.  Here's some pics.  See what you think!

 Jacob holding Nathan.  Jacob really liked Nathan.

Mike reading Tikki Tikki Tembo to Audrey.

 Natalee's card to Jeff.

Haylee's card to Jeff.

Mackenzie's card to Amy.  And in case you need to see a close-up

of the bottom right hand corner, you can find it below:

      Yes, she did put pictures of Jesus on top of light sabers...but she's only 5 years old and she's never seen Star Wars so she had no idea what those were.  :)

Family Portraits-September 29, 2010

     I took Nathan to get some baby pictures at Olan Mills because I had a coupon for a free package for newborn photos.  I was so excited to see that our favorite photographer, Jasmine, was temporarily working at our studio until she can train a new person.  So we made another appointment to get family photos taken.  We got some great new pictures, and I went ahead and ordered the CD.  Buying the CD is also buying the copyright so I can post the pictures on my blog for all to see.  Enjoy!



My Stinky Girls

     Yesterday morning, I decided it was time to give Natalee some hygiene advice.  I told her that she is 9 now and can get stinky when she plays at recess.  I told her she needs to start showering every day without us telling her to.  To finish the conversation, I gave her her very own deoderant.  She was SO excited.  Especially since the scent was 'Sweet Pea.'  She didn't have much time to brag about her deoderant before school.  But after school she was going on and on about it.  I could hear her from the bedroom asking who wanted to smell some sweet pea deoderant.  I yelled for her to put it away and put it up high so that her sisters didn't get into it.  She came over to me and said, "It is put away."  I asked her why she was asking people if they wanted to smell it if she wasn't even holding it.  She raised her arms and while spinning and bouncing told me that she's wearing some right now and was asking if they wanted to smell it in her armpits.  Surprisingly nobody took her up on that offer.
     One of her sisters was a little jealous about the deoderant.  Last night while giving Haylee a bath, she suddenly said to me, "Mom, I'm stinky.  Even when I take baths, I keep smelling my armpits and they really stink!"  I just started laughing because it was so obvious what she was getting at and I think 7 year olds don't quite need to start worrying about deoderant yet.  At least they aren't shy about how stinky they are.  They are proudly announcing it to the world!