New crafty projects on my scrap blog!

Click on over to see what I made this weekend.  It was national scrapbook day and I actually stuck with it and made all 12 challenges from over on My Pink Stamper.  It was a lot of fun!  (But Mom and Dad...maybe you should wait until I am there.  Unless you want to ruin the surprise of what I made you.)

Why do we love Grandma's house?

Benjamin had a writing assignment at school and the topic was "Who I would like to trade places with for a day."  It was the last day of two weeks of testing and he decided to have fun with the essay assignment.  I'm going to try to get him to tell it in his own words, but until then, this is what he told us he said.  He would like to trade places with his Uncle Nathan because then he would get to live at Grandma and Grandpa's house and drink orange juice for breakfast.   Hmm.

I asked Johnny why he never takes a nap during the day when I always get tired in the afternoon.  He said it is because he thinks about Jesus.  At night he doesn't think about Jesus because then he would stay awake all night.  Hmm.

Courtney decided that we don't have any more babies being born into our family because Jesus decided our family is just the right size.  Ahh.  Now there's reason!

Talk about a making you feel guilty...

Last night Johnny wanted to play Crazy 8s.  We were setting up Apples to Apples Jr so we could all play a game together...but Johnny hadn't played before and just wanted to play his game.  We told him to give it a try, but he didn't want to.  "No!  I want to play my game.  God and Jesus would play with me!"

I should change this blog to "guess what Johnny said"

Courtney got baptized today.  It was a beautiful day and we were blessed to have family here to help celebrate.  Grandma Sevy gave the talk about baptism and was talking about how Courtney was being like Jesus in this choice to get baptized by authority.  "By John!" yelled out Johnny.  Right after Courtney came up out of the water, Johnny jumped up and down and said, "Go Courtney!! Wahoo!!"  Seems to want to get all the attention.


I think he redeemed himself at dinner tonight.  After the prayer, everyone started eating.  Johnny said, "Wait!  My Holy Ghost is telling me something!  We forgot to wash our hands."  I guess he really was listening today and really is trying to understand it all.  

Johnny says...

When Johnny was getting his pajamas on tonight, he was having some issues with buttons.  When asked if he needed help, he said, "I can do it.  I know how to do EVERYTHING, except swim in a big deep hole where there's water.  Or climb rocks.  Or climb a house."  Where do they come up with these?

Funny quote of the day

The kids got a perfect day today.  They spent about 7 hours with all their grandparents at the same time.  We went out to lunch, made Christmas cookies, and acted out the nativity with everyone taking part.  Three kids and seven adults means we all got to have a major part.  As soon as we were all decked out in our costumes, there was a knock at the door.  Mind you, we were all in the living room so there was no chance of secrecy.  Mom took off her angel costume/towel and opened the door. It was Mom and Dad's next door neighbor delivering goodies.  She said "Merry Christmas" and then asked if Dad (Joseph in a bathrobe) was feeling ok.

As a bonus, here is Kyle's hippie wise man mama bearing a gift of chocolate to the baby Jesus.

Packing for Christmas

We are going to Grandma's house for Christmas and the kids are pretty excited.  They couldn't wait until Saturday to start packing and Johnny told me he was ready to go.   I am glad I checked...here is what he had packed:

3 ties (he never lasts more than a half hour with a tie on)
1 Sunday shirt
6 pairs of underwear
1 pair of socks
5 pairs of pants

Yup.  But to his credit, I think he ran out of room for shirts.  He had a whole pile of t-shirts in the middle of the floor.  Silly kid.