...we had pictures taken.
And now, finally, I'm sharing them with you.
February 23, 2011
February 14, 2011
Sunday Game Night
So we're sitting in the living room playing Candy Land and the following conversation occurs:
Russell: Hyrum you get to move 2 blues.
Hyrum: Okay, 8 reds.
Russell: No Hyrum, only two spots, two BLUE spots.
Hyrum: Uno, dos, thirteen. Jump, jump, jump, jump, I WIN!!!!
Brielle: Why does Hyrum always get to win?
Ahh, to be 3 again.
February 6, 2011
A Fancy Nancy Party
We started with the fancy cupcakes. They took much longer than I anticipated, largely due to a sad, overtired baby who screamed from 9 PM- Midnight. So the cupcakes were finished around 1:00AM.
I bought a cupcake stand just for this occasion, though I'm excited to use it every chance I get. I foresee a lot of cupcakes in our future!
The table was set with little china bowls filled with candy....
And the girls dressed up in their most elegant of outfits....
When the guests first arrived we did manicures. After that we went straight for the dessert table!
Brielle's mouth is filled with chocolate here, which made it difficult to blow out her candles.
The girls had a wonderful time feasting on sugar. And the resulting sugar-high was not wasted, after eating we played Marshmallow Olympics. I altered several "Minute to Win it" games to fit with a 5 year old birthday party, and the girls had a blast playing.
Sitting cool at the boy-table are Hyrum and Brendon.
Opening presents. All the girls were so excited for this part. They were all eager to show Brielle what they had picked out for her.
I love this "fancy" picture of Brielle. She's become such a girly-girl over the last year.Brielle thoroughly enjoyed her party, and we're so grateful that we have such good friends here to share it with her.
Brielle's 5th Birthday
During the week of Brielle's birthday she got to go out for ice cream, buy doughnuts at our favorite doughnut shop (Top Pot), go to McDonalds, have her favorite dinner made for her, have a party at her preschool (and bring the show and tell) and open presents with her family. It was a very busy week!
Showing off her new jewelry...
And a new jewelry box to put it in, from her Grandma.
Then she had to wait a week for her birthday party. Incidentally every day in between was still considered part of her birthday. ;)
Trains and Butterflies
We are members of the Pacific Science Center, and we went a few weekends ago, to see the Train Expo. Hyrum was in heaven! All throughout the museum they had different model trains set up.
Holding crabs
Our cousins came with us: Spencer, Roma, Cassandra, Brendon, Brian, Meaghan, and Uncle Dave and Aunt Carol.
Brielle loves the Butterfly House they have there. It's one of the permanent exhibits.
This one is fuzzy because the humidity in the room fogged up my lens.
I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked. That's the problem with having 3 children, most of the time I'm just trying to make sure I still have them all!
Clara's 4 month pictures
My little Clarabee
Her 4 month stats:
Weight 13 lbs. 8 oz which puts her in the 45th percentile
Height 27 inches which puts her in the 95th percentile
So my baby is tall and skinny
Clara is easily the most people-oriented baby I've ever met. She lights up and babbles every time any one makes eye-contact, family member or stranger. She's always talking, giggling, cooing, growling, and chatting, it's fun to hear.
And she's always, ALWAYS moving! When I'm holding her, or changing her diaper, her arms are flailing and her legs are kicking continuously. She's going to be another active one, that's for sure!
You heard me.
We joined the YMCA.
That's right. A gym.
I've never had a gym membership, EVER. Not in my whole little life.
The YMCA is more expensive than some gyms, BUT they provide 90 minutes of child care a day.
NINETY minutes of free child care. I'm actually enjoying going and working out 3-4 times a week, but that's a moot point. I would probably do ANYTHING if it provided free child care. I would join a manure shoveling club if they had babysitting.
If you don't understand, then you probably don't have teeth marks in your deodorant.
Deep Like the Pacific
Elder Dallin H. Oaks gave a speech on the state of religious freedoms in the United States.
It's deep. And very insightful.
I like it.
Here's a quote:
“All of this shows an alarming trajectory of events pointing toward constraining the freedom of religious speech by forcing it to give way to the ‘rights’ of those offended by such speech.” -Dallin H. Oaks
Here's another:
" I took sad notice of the fact that the United States Supreme Court had diminished the significance of free exercise by expanding the definition of religion to include what the Court called “religions" not based on belief in God. I wrote:
“The problem with a definition of religion that includes almost everything is that the practical effect of inclusion comes to mean almost nothing. Free exercise protections become diluted as their scope becomes more diffuse. When religion has no more right to free exercise than irreligion or any other secular philosophy, the whole newly expanded category of ‘religion’ is likely to diminish in significance.”19
Unfortunately, the tide of thought and precedent seems contrary to this position. While I have no concern with expanding comparable protections to non-religious belief systems, as is done in international norms that protect freedom of religion or belief,20 I object to doing so by re-interpreting the First Amendment guarantee of free exercise of religion." --Dallin H. Oaks
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