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.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
December 2008: by BECKY
Bjorn’s been busy with work – for which we are always grateful. I am personally so thankful for the way that he provides so well for all of us! I’m enjoying helping out in the kid’s classrooms as well as Miriam’s preschool. Today for preschool, we went on a field trip to the bowling alley. My favorite part was watching Ellie’s “hand on hip” stance as she watched her ball roll down the lane – very cute as usual. The other night, I was laying by Ellie in bed, and in her deep sleep she said, “I didn’t do it!” I wonder what she was dreaming about…. probably a broken ornament, since she can’t seem to keep her hands off of them this year.
Miriam loves to play! And everyone loves to play with her! If anyone needs a buddy – she’s your gal! She bounces around the house all day – I hope she can sit still in Kindergarten next year! Not really – she definetly loves to sit, read, color, learn letters, and she begs for “homework”! Enoch has made great strides in reading this month. He’s starting to realize that there are words everywhere and he can actally read them if he tries! If he can’t figure out what it says – he asks, because he just wants to know! I love that stage!
Natalie is doing great in school! She often comes home with reports of being the only one who got 100% on a test and she’s currently leading the class in learning the multiplication tables. We’re trying to figure out how she’s going to wear her much needed glasses and play basketball at the same time – she detests contacts.
Isaac’s made some new (very nice) friends recently and has spent the past month on the trampoline playing some sort of dodgeball with them. He’s been so good about hurrying to get his homework done without being asked before he hurries out to play – I’ve been very impressed. He hurt his neck pretty bad –playing with Ellie- and spent a few miserable, painful days recuperating. He has also taken up boondoggling and is excited for basketball to start!
Our November was filled with a nice daily routine of school, friends, family, meals, music – and not much else. We enjoy being busy, but it’s nice to have a few weeks of calm every once in a while! We’re bracing ourselves as we look forward to much more activity in December. The wonderful craziness has already begun with Auriana’s Choir concerts this week. Three nights of practices and three nights of performances in one week is enough to wear anyone out, but Auriana has handled it very well and has even been able to finish (most) all of her homework . We all (Brenda, too) went to the big show last night – it was quite impressive, involving 300 students from grades 4-12 from her school. It was fun to see Auriana play her violin and sing in the choir, she looked beautiful in her long blue dress. Auriana was able to do baptisms for the dead for the first time this month. Bjorn and I took her on a date to the temple – and afterward she said, “We should do this once a month!” It was a memorable day. We’re so proud of her and the way she’s growing up!
Miriam loves to play! And everyone loves to play with her! If anyone needs a buddy – she’s your gal! She bounces around the house all day – I hope she can sit still in Kindergarten next year! Not really – she definetly loves to sit, read, color, learn letters, and she begs for “homework”! Enoch has made great strides in reading this month. He’s starting to realize that there are words everywhere and he can actally read them if he tries! If he can’t figure out what it says – he asks, because he just wants to know! I love that stage!
Natalie is doing great in school! She often comes home with reports of being the only one who got 100% on a test and she’s currently leading the class in learning the multiplication tables. We’re trying to figure out how she’s going to wear her much needed glasses and play basketball at the same time – she detests contacts.
Isaac’s made some new (very nice) friends recently and has spent the past month on the trampoline playing some sort of dodgeball with them. He’s been so good about hurrying to get his homework done without being asked before he hurries out to play – I’ve been very impressed. He hurt his neck pretty bad –playing with Ellie- and spent a few miserable, painful days recuperating. He has also taken up boondoggling and is excited for basketball to start!
Our November was filled with a nice daily routine of school, friends, family, meals, music – and not much else. We enjoy being busy, but it’s nice to have a few weeks of calm every once in a while! We’re bracing ourselves as we look forward to much more activity in December. The wonderful craziness has already begun with Auriana’s Choir concerts this week. Three nights of practices and three nights of performances in one week is enough to wear anyone out, but Auriana has handled it very well and has even been able to finish (most) all of her homework . We all (Brenda, too) went to the big show last night – it was quite impressive, involving 300 students from grades 4-12 from her school. It was fun to see Auriana play her violin and sing in the choir, she looked beautiful in her long blue dress. Auriana was able to do baptisms for the dead for the first time this month. Bjorn and I took her on a date to the temple – and afterward she said, “We should do this once a month!” It was a memorable day. We’re so proud of her and the way she’s growing up!
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