Thankful

10 Things I'm Thankful for....

1) Family: my own, my family of origin, my extended family and the family I married into
2) Loving Heavenly Father and his son, Jesus Christ
3) The gospel
4) Good friends
5) Good Health
6) A job in a troubling economy
7) A beautiful place to live
8) Four seasons
9) The Constitution and the people who fought for it to come about and those who continue to fight for its enforcement
10) Modern technology... I wouldn't have made it as a pioneer!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Naughty Words

Lady: Mom! Bell said "poo." She said "poo," Mom. She needs to go to the naughty room (the laundry room).
Me: Bell? Did you say a naughty word?
Bell: No, Mom. I said "shamPOO." ShamPOO! ShamPOO! ShamPOO...
Me: Okay, that's enough.

Future attorney?

Mama's Little Helpers

My girls love to help me around the house and yard. Here, Lady rakes the leaves into a pile.

Bell puts the leaves in the bag.

Then she takes a moment to survey her work.
Ah, yes... this girl has "management" written all over her face.

Sweets for the Sweet

Lollipop, lollipop,
oh lolli, lolli, lolli,

lollipop!

First Utah Snow

A few days after we arrived, it started to snow. The girls watched in amazement as the huge flakes fell from the sky.
Bell, dressed in rubber boots and her raincoat, is wondering where the flakes went.

Lady catches a few flakes on her tongue.

Jammy Time

"Hey girls, why don't you all lie on the floor in a row, so I can take a picture of you in your heart pajamas?"
But alas, one of these kids was doing her own thing

"Hey Mom, take a picture of me. Look at what I can do! Clap for me, Mom."

"Watch me, Mom. I can do it, too."

"Are you taking our picture?"

The last days of Autumn

Bell on the left (with bangs) and Lady on the right
Baby G, sporting yet another tooth (her upper front left)

Always a Lady to me...

Bell

My girls