Journaling

- Tuesday was Noah's big day!  He went two whole weeks without sucking on his fingers and Tuesday was the day to go buy his Dragon!!  It was really funny because he had picked the Dragon as his prize at the very beginning and then every few days he would change his mind, he went through several avengers accessories, Thor Hammer, Captain America shield, Hulk hands, then went through a few really strange ones, handcuffs, etc.  I for one enjoyed the changes because it seemed to get cheaper with each one.  But the funny little guy went right back to the extremely pricey Dragon that last day.  Lucky for us it was almost 50% off when we went to get it on Tuesday!  Talk about tender mercies!  He did SUCH an awesome job!  I know he still slips up every now and then, and at night, but really, this was HUGE for him!  We learned a lot about Noah's willpower.  11-13-12

- Tuesday was our big SEP day as well.  I STILL L O V E SEP's.  That's Parent Teacher Conferences for all you who don' tknow.  My kids are SO fun to talk about with their teachers.  All four of them are such good students, they all read at if not above their grade level, they're all doing great with Math and with making friends.  It's SO fun to hear that they are liked and appreciated by their teachers.  I wish I could take some of the credit for this, I'm sure I could take some, but seriously, we were SO blessed with good kids :).  It's as simple as that.  And I can't express how grateful I am to have this blessing.  Bradley's teacher mentioned that he is always the one adding extra details when they're talking about science things.  He knows SO MUCH about science.  She also made a point to talk about what a good friend he is and that he is a leader in the class.  I love that.  One thing Charity's teacher said was how whenever she has to get after her (which "isn't often at ALL!") Charity will write her a lengthy apology.  I think that's really cool. She tries so hard to make things right.  She was also VERY surprised that Charity has never been put in Spectrum with all of her testing.  So she recommended she test again this year.  Luke's teacher told us what a good kid he is and how nice he is to everyone in his class.  She said he was right up there where he should be with reading and that was awesome!  She seemed to really like Luke and said that several times.  Kelly's teacher LOVES Kelly.  She's very impressed with what an all around good student she is!  She always tells me how organized and how responsible she is too.  I am SO proud of these kids!!  It's so nice to walk in the school and see so many teachers who have all had my kids and think highly of them and feel like a respected person and that's all because of how well-behaved and smart my kiddos are :)  If I can be so bold as to say that :).  I just love it!!  There I'm done ;)

- Wednesday we took Erika in for her 3 year check-up.  I can't believe my baby girl is three!  She was in the upper percentiles for both weight and height, so that's good.  Growing like she's supposed to.  Her little bump on her hand is supposedly a ganglion cyst, hopefully it goes away on it's own, but if it doesn't we're supposed to call a specialist.    11-14-12

- Nate had to work Friday evening so that meant no going to the Ward Adult Social, but it was also Don and Sherise's wedding.  I fought the urge to go all evening, not wanting to take a bunch of kids with me, and then finally gave in about 15 minutes before the reception was over.  Dragged all seven kids (Luke was at Carter's but we had an extra, Clara Thomas, Kelly's friend with us as well), in our street clothes, nothing even remotely formal, Jack was even in his jammies!  But we made a presence and I think they were glad we did.  I hope so.  It was fun to see them married.  I hope things go well for them.

- Saturday night was busy.  First we fed the missionaries.  Elder Grow and Elder Owen.  From Grantsville, Utah and Anchorage, Alaska respectively.  They were good boys.  Very polite.  Not super outgoing, but it was a lot of fun to hear their thoughts on the new missionary ages.  They confirmed my theory about the Sisters being more of a temptation to the Elders now that they will be closer in age. Then we all rushed off to Don and Sherise's baptism!  That was really neat to attend that.  I was glad we had the whole family there to witness that.  I don' tknow if the kids have seen a baptism of anyone that old :).  It's good for them I think.  It was really neat to see how many people from their new ward were there.  They were really fellowshipped so much better in that ward.  I really think that them moving across the street was meant to be.  Heavenly Father knows what he's doing.  It was perfect timing.

- Sunday morning we slept in so Nate had to rush off to Don and Sherise's ward to confirm them by himself.  I was so bummed!  And then I was even more bummed when Nate came home and said that Margo and Gentry Cole had been visiting the same ward!!  I missed them!!  Bumbs me out!