Tuesday, January 6, 2009
JANUARY 2009
Becky-
It has been a wonderful Christmas! I was sad to see the vacation end today as everyone went back to school. My favorite part of the Holiday was spending peaceful time together as a family. Everyone got along and helped out around here remarkably well. I’m grateful for the “special”-ness that affects everyone this time of year. It was especially fun to have Emmaline here (and her parents of course) for our Nativity pageant. We also really enjoyed a few days in Las Vegas, where Jenny and Chad spoiled us with love and food and lots of fun.
Elena-
I loveded Santa to give me my presents. I remember when he came and bringed my nightgown and my coloring book. Then he bringed me my aquadoodle. Emmaline was baby Jesus and Stuart and Heather were here. Brenda came. I played with Miriam and Kay Kay and Miriam was a baby in the game. My mom got me milk and graham crackers.
Miriam-
I got a nightgown and a pixo and I got some books to read myself and learn how to read. And, I got two candy canes. One was striped white and red and one was striped green and red. The pixo – you can squirt out dots and they’re called pixos. Even you can make something and put papers under it to make what you want, like a bear, and a flowerpot, and a shelf. You can make the shelf like feet and you can use the flowerpot as a tummy and a nose for the bear. Even if you want you can use the flowers like eyes for the bear. Even you can make something else like an umbrella, dinosaur, boat, and bird. If you want to do another bear, you can make another bear. If you want to use the one, well, on the other side of the bear one, you can do that, but if you don’t want to make anything on the pixo, you don’t have to. If you want to do all of the ones you can, because it’s mine and if you’re my friend you can do them. Even, I got some coloring books and I’ve been coloring in them and I got lots of presents from Santa – even the pixo. And, I got the nightgown from somebody named Becky and I love Becky.
Enoch-
I got my zero gravity micro. I liked that we went to Grandma’s house on Christmas Eve and decorated my Dad like a Christmas tree. We went sledding on a huge hill.
Isaac-
I got the whole Harry Potter series.
Natalie-
I got an ATM machine. My favorite part of Christmas was getting and giving presents. I liked it when we went sledding with our cousins and Grandma Pendleton. We went down the hill on an air mattress and I got snow in my face.
Auriana-
We had a really fun Christmas, we woke up at about 6:15 and got done opening our presents at about 10:00. In my stocking I got some cute notebookes and a folder that all matched, some hairclips, fingernail clippers (since I am always looking for some), and some chocolate. From my mom, I got some new school clothes, from my dad I got a series of books that I really like, from Miriam I got a fuzzy warm bathrobe that goes to my ankles, and from Santa I got a new green camera. My dad got the complete Calvin and Hobbes set, so I spent all day curled up on the couch reading those. It was the best Christmas ever!!!!
Bjorn-
For Christmas I got the exteme satisfaction of seeing my children truly happy in both the giving and the getting. My heart swelled when I saw the looks of excitement and joy in each of their faces. I loved being able to just relax the whole day and be with my family playing games, eating delicious food, being lazy, and basking in the Spirit of the day. There were many other fun and wonderful things that ocurred throughout the season, but the deep contentment that I felt on Christmas day stands out above them all. I am a truly blessed man to have such a wonderful wife and such wonderful children, and to have a Savior whose birth and life we can celebrate and emulate.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
January, 2009
Becky-
It has been a wonderful Christmas! I was sad to see the vacation end today as everyone went back to school. My favorite part of the Holiday was spending peaceful time together as a family. Everyone got along and helped out around here remarkably well. I’m grateful for the “special”-ness that affects everyone this time of year. It was especially fun to have Emmaline here (and her parents of course) for our Nativity pageant. We also really enjoyed a few days in Las Vegas, where Jenny and Chad spoiled us with love and food and lots of fun.
Elena-
I loveded Santa to give me my presents. I remember when he came and bringed my nightgown and my coloring book. Then he bringed me my aquadoodle. Emmaline was baby Jesus and Stuart and Heather were here. Brenda came. I played with Miriam and Kay Kay and Miriam was a baby in the game. My mom got me milk and graham crackers.
Miriam-
I got a nightgown and a pixo and I got some books to read myself and learn how to read. And, I got two candy canes. One was striped white and red and one was striped green and red. The pixo – you can squirt out dots and they’re called pixos. Even you can make something and put papers under it to make what you want, like a bear, and a flowerpot, and a shelf. You can make the shelf like feet and you can use the flowerpot as a tummy and a nose for the bear. Even if you want you can use the flowers like eyes for the bear. Even you can make something else like an umbrella, dinosaur, boat, and bird. If you want to do another bear, you can make another bear. If you want to use the one, well, on the other side of the bear one, you can do that, but if you don’t want to make anything on the pixo, you don’t have to. If you want to do all of the ones you can, because it’s mine and if you’re my friend you can do them. Even, I got some coloring books and I’ve been coloring in them and I got lots of presents from Santa – even the pixo. And, I got the nightgown from somebody named Becky and I love Becky.
Enoch-
I got my zero gravity micro. I liked that we went to Grandma’s house on Christmas Eve and decorated my Dad like a Christmas tree. We went sledding on a huge hill.
Isaac-
I got the whole Harry Potter series.
Natalie-
I got an ATM machine. My favorite part of Christmas was getting and giving presents. I liked it when we went sledding with our cousins and Grandma Pendleton. We went down the hill on an air mattress and I got snow in my face.
Auriana-
We had a really fun Christmas, we woke up at about 6:15 and got done opening our presents at about 10:00. In my stocking I got some cute notebookes and a folder that all matched, some hairclips, fingernail clippers (since I am always looking for some), and some chocolate. From my mom, I got some new school clothes, from my dad I got a series of books that I really like, from Miriam I got a fuzzy warm bathrobe that goes to my ankles, and from Santa I got a new green camera. My dad got the complete Calvin and Hobbes set, so I spent all day curled up on the couch reading those. It was the best Christmas ever!!!!
Bjorn-
For Christmas I got the exteme satisfaction of seeing my children truly happy in both the giving and the getting. My heart swelled when I saw the looks of excitement and joy in each of their faces. I loved being able to just relax the whole day and be with my family playing games, eating delicious food, being lazy, and basking in the Spirit of the day. There were many other fun and wonderful things that ocurred throughout the season, but the deep contentment that I felt on Christmas day stands out above them all. I am a truly blessed man to have such a wonderful wife and such wonderful children, and to have a Savior whose birth and life we can celebrate and emulate.
It has been a wonderful Christmas! I was sad to see the vacation end today as everyone went back to school. My favorite part of the Holiday was spending peaceful time together as a family. Everyone got along and helped out around here remarkably well. I’m grateful for the “special”-ness that affects everyone this time of year. It was especially fun to have Emmaline here (and her parents of course) for our Nativity pageant. We also really enjoyed a few days in Las Vegas, where Jenny and Chad spoiled us with love and food and lots of fun.
Elena-
I loveded Santa to give me my presents. I remember when he came and bringed my nightgown and my coloring book. Then he bringed me my aquadoodle. Emmaline was baby Jesus and Stuart and Heather were here. Brenda came. I played with Miriam and Kay Kay and Miriam was a baby in the game. My mom got me milk and graham crackers.
Miriam-
I got a nightgown and a pixo and I got some books to read myself and learn how to read. And, I got two candy canes. One was striped white and red and one was striped green and red. The pixo – you can squirt out dots and they’re called pixos. Even you can make something and put papers under it to make what you want, like a bear, and a flowerpot, and a shelf. You can make the shelf like feet and you can use the flowerpot as a tummy and a nose for the bear. Even if you want you can use the flowers like eyes for the bear. Even you can make something else like an umbrella, dinosaur, boat, and bird. If you want to do another bear, you can make another bear. If you want to use the one, well, on the other side of the bear one, you can do that, but if you don’t want to make anything on the pixo, you don’t have to. If you want to do all of the ones you can, because it’s mine and if you’re my friend you can do them. Even, I got some coloring books and I’ve been coloring in them and I got lots of presents from Santa – even the pixo. And, I got the nightgown from somebody named Becky and I love Becky.
Enoch-
I got my zero gravity micro. I liked that we went to Grandma’s house on Christmas Eve and decorated my Dad like a Christmas tree. We went sledding on a huge hill.
Isaac-
I got the whole Harry Potter series.
Natalie-
I got an ATM machine. My favorite part of Christmas was getting and giving presents. I liked it when we went sledding with our cousins and Grandma Pendleton. We went down the hill on an air mattress and I got snow in my face.
Auriana-
We had a really fun Christmas, we woke up at about 6:15 and got done opening our presents at about 10:00. In my stocking I got some cute notebookes and a folder that all matched, some hairclips, fingernail clippers (since I am always looking for some), and some chocolate. From my mom, I got some new school clothes, from my dad I got a series of books that I really like, from Miriam I got a fuzzy warm bathrobe that goes to my ankles, and from Santa I got a new green camera. My dad got the complete Calvin and Hobbes set, so I spent all day curled up on the couch reading those. It was the best Christmas ever!!!!
Bjorn-
For Christmas I got the exteme satisfaction of seeing my children truly happy in both the giving and the getting. My heart swelled when I saw the looks of excitement and joy in each of their faces. I loved being able to just relax the whole day and be with my family playing games, eating delicious food, being lazy, and basking in the Spirit of the day. There were many other fun and wonderful things that ocurred throughout the season, but the deep contentment that I felt on Christmas day stands out above them all. I am a truly blessed man to have such a wonderful wife and such wonderful children, and to have a Savior whose birth and life we can celebrate and emulate.
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