Family Home Evening

Kimball LOVES Family Home Evening. We start each FHE with the "Family Night" song from the Children's Songbook. If we start humming it and it isn't time for FHE we are in big trouble because Kimball gets so disappointed.
Our lessons are all out of the Nursery Manual that is used at church. Kimball brought me his book Monday and told me that he was doing the lesson for Family Home Evening. I said okay and told him to give me the lesson right then so I could do the lesson that evening. He taught me about the Creation...naming all of the animals in the pictures, talking about the water, plants, trees, etc. I asked him who made all of those things and he answered Jesus. Then I asked why Jesus would do that and he had a big smile when he said: "He wants us to be happy!" It was really sweet.
That night we sing our song and I was going to do the lesson...Kimball runs to me and tells me that HE is giving the lesson. We let him and he does the exact same thing he had done earlier in the day. It was really neat to see my 2 1/2 year old son give our lesson. For our activity we pretended to be different animals and took turns guessing the animal. Kimball loved it.
We just hope he loves Family Home Evening for years and years to come. Wishful thinking? Maybe. But for now we'll take all of the excitement we can.

Kimball holding the picture of the animals that he told us about.

3 Months Old

Rebecah turned 3 months old today. She is wonderful! She still doesn't sleep much during the day, but she is learning to deal with her exhaustion better without crying as much. We are learning to deal with it better too! She sleeps great at night though and we can't complain about that. Kimball had a rough night over the weekend and Joseph and I are still recovering from it. I don't know what we would do if we were up so much on a regular basis, as it is we go to bed quite early.

Here are a few pictures.

Rebecah

Rebecah and Kimball

Easter

We had a nice Easter. It was wonderful to talk with Kimball about the significance of Easter and our Savior's resurrection. We did the fun part of Easter as well. We had a small egg hunt for Kimball Saturday afternoon. It had rained the night before so most of the eggs were hidden inside with a few on our deck.


On Saturday, I dressed Rebecah like a little Easter Egg and then decided to wear a coordinating color so we could match.







Showing off the treats a friend of mine gave him.


I fixed what Joseph called the "perfect Easter menu": ham, stuffing, asparagus, and pineapple. For dessert I made an Oreo cake. We also ate orange rolls with dried cranberries in them for breakfast. THe cranberries were a nice touch.

Maybe in years to come we'll decorate/dye eggs or something.

General Conference

We really enjoyed General Conference this weekend, especially Kimball. He has really taken an interest in the General Authories and will frequently pour over the General Authority chart we have given him. He readily recognizes many of the men and women who lead our church. He got very excited when he saw people he recognized speaking or giving the prayers.

Alas, if only he would give as much concentration and excitement to potty training. : )

5th Anniversary

We celebrated our 5th anniversary this past weekend. Our actual anniversary was Friday and Joseph took the day off. We used his day off to buy our van so that day wasn't the most exciting way to spend our anniversary as we drove to various dealerships and then drove home separately.
On Saturday we made eggrolls together which has become a tradition. We always make eggrolls right around our anniversary because we first made them together right after we got married.
On Sunday we ate our anniversary dessert...a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake, recipe compliments of Kristin, Annette's sister. The cheesecake was so good and we have decided that this cheesecake will become a new anniversary tradition.

The Cheesecake

Joseph and his cheesecake. Sorry, Rebecah, none for you.

Kimball opted for a sucker instead of cheesecake but wanted a picture of his dessert as well.

Annette's New Baby

Annette got a new baby last week:

I bought my first car almost 8 years ago and it was 7 years old when I bought it. It was time for a new car because with over 200,000 miles on our Camry we needed something newer, quieter and with fewer miles.

After quite a bit of research and tips from Scott, Annette's brother-in-law we made a trip to Fort Smith, and found a new car.

We bought a 2006 Toyota Sienna. It has low miles and looks really good. The color wasn't our first pick, but it is growing on us. It is fun to have a new van to drive and we hope to fill it with children in the years to come.

We are keeping our old car for driving around town without the kids. It will mainly be Joseph's car now. Joseph is glad to be able to drive to work and church instead of biking.

The Things We Say

As we all know, little children pick up on the things we say and then start repeating them. It has dawned on us recently that we must say:"Sure", "That would be fine.", "Maybe" and "Thank you." quite often. It is not unusual to hear the above expressions multiple times a day coming from Kimball's mouth. It is so funny to hear him using our expressions. We are just glad that the expressions we use are children friendly!