come

"....and every time we reach out, however feebly, for Him, we discover He has been anxiously trying to reach us."

"When He says to the poor in spirit, "come unto me", He means He knows the way out and He knows the way up. He knows it because He has walked it. He knows the way because He is the way."

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland "Broken Things to Mend" April General Conference 2006

I know this church is true.

Suck Face

Nothing says "I'm a cool mom" better than giving your children a GIANT sucker the size of their face. Come on...we were celebrating birthdays! Those are very special days; they call for very special, very large, celebration suckers.
Yes Kari/Gwen, they are as messy as they would appear to be. Especially when given to a 2 year old...

Shout Hooray!

You've had a birthday!!

Well, it's finally here: our little Kami is 4 years old...TODAY! Hip, hip!

We have been hearing nothing but "when will it be my birthday?" and "when it's my birthday..." for the last, ...oh 6 months. Exhausting. It is finally here.

Kami woke up to balloons in her room, something I thought she would be thrilled about. However, she woke up to the adverse reaction. She came into my room deeply troubled in the early hours of the morning "Mom, someone put balloons in my room on my birthday." She was not in the least bit ecstatic, more upset.

I rolled over to Brandon and said "Well that had the opposite reaction I anticipated."

But, after she went back to bed, for say 5 minutes, she came back overjoyed with "Mom, guess what! There are birthday balloons all over my room! There are pink ones, lots of pink ones, and yellow, and green, and...." That was more like it. She and Cooper have spent the last 45 minutes playing in them. Much better.

We've already had 4 different birthday songs and Kami's opened 2 presents (thanks Stef). Later on we are planning on going to the beach for lunch and the library for fun and a movie. Kami would really like her friends to come over to watch a movie on the mattress and eat popcorn. Unfortunately, her friends are out of town...

We are excited to share this special day with our very special little girl. She really is so much fun!

Happy happy happy happy birthday Kameryn.

We will upload better/more pictures as we get them.

Potat - ooohs

We were outside digging in the garden earlier this evening (a lesson on faith for FHE: likening faith unto a seed...) and we saw a "little" red potato peeking it's head out above the dirt. We concluded it must be time to dig them up. Sure enough!

Harvest is so fun and exciting (I know, I'm a cheesebutt.) We weren't really expecting a large potato yield, what with our raised bed only being 6 inches deep. But, we were very surprised. Some of our small red potatoes were HUGE! Our purple potatoes didn't thrive as well, but we still got a relatively good crop from them. Fun, fun!

Our poor garden now only has onions and a little bit of lettuce growing in it. I think it feels lonely. Our other garden spot is still sporting tomatoes and squash of some kind. It's got a while to go.

Oh, and another fun bit, we are "harvesting" some raspberries off our raspberries bushes we planted this spring. We are at a whopping 5 so far, but, hip hip just the same.

It's a hair - DO!

Since Kami's last hair do got such rave reviews, we decided we would share this one as well. Do you remember doing this as a child? I sure do. Fun times.

curly cue

Kami wanted her hair on the blog as well. We did it in sponge rollers last night. She was such a big girl to keep them in. Everyone at church loved her curly do. cute. cute.

She's getting a little adenturous with her posing.

Honest Opinion

So, I need some help. We have family pictures coming up in a couple weeks and....I just cut my hair. Well, just my bangs. I'm following the current bang trend. (You know, blunt cut, straight, etc.)

I don't hate them. They aren't perfect, of course, because I cut them myself. And, I did cut them a little longer, but that is as a safety net in case we don't love them, that way I can go back to the swoop look.

So, here is what I need: HONEST OPINION; keep 'em or ditch 'em. Brandon is no help, he doesn't care. He says they look good. (But I'm not so sure he would say "hun, you look really dorky. I'd fix those before family pics") So, that is why I am posting here. I'm pretty sure I will only get honest feedback from Kadon and mom...and possibly Gina. Are my new bangs going to look dorky in family pictures? Do they look dorky in general?

These pics aren't the best because we had just gotten back from a 2 hour shopping excursion... and of course my hair is flat (as always) but this is what you have to work with. And yes, I probably will actually do my hair for family pictures.

Please remember, although I want honest opinions, please be nice, I do still have feelings and mean comments like "you'd probably be better off if you just cut off your face" will make me sad.

Amari, if you read my blog, my family could use some help with haircuts.