Ellie's Pink Eye

We are going through the winter crud. Miss Ellie Belle had the joy of pink eye. She did not seem to be in any pain, she disliked the anti-biotic eye drops more than her eye seemed to bother her. She is very good at sharing but luckily for us did not share this with anyone else in our family! I hope that we are on the mend with all of the winter sickies. P.S. it looks like we beat her up, I promise she was not :o)

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Gavin's Birthday Party

For Gavin's birthday we took him and his best buddies to see the new Chickmunk Movie. We ate lunch and opened presents at McDonald's. It was a lot of fun but it made for a long party. Happy 6th birthday Gav-a-lav!!

Ellie's Birthday Party

Ellie turned "4" on Jan. 25th, but on Sat. Jan. 23rd we had a "Fairy, Dress Up" party. We had it in the clubhouse and were able to use the big movie room to watch the Tinkerbell Movie. My lovely friend Lisa came to help do some face painting all and all the girls had a lot of fun! Mike and I did too really!!

Retro Wednesday ... Double Dose

It is a double dose tonight because I am posting about Gavin and Ellie's birthday's. Ellie turned four on Monday, wow I can not believe my baby is four all ready. Ellie is a girly girl, she loves princesses and fairies, anything pink, dressing up and looking cute. She is a lot of fun right now with all of the funny things that come out of her mouth. She started pre-school this year and loves it. At the beginning of the month she started in Sunbeams at church, she has even given her first talk :o) Ellie is so sweet and loving, she can be rough and tumble with the boys if the need presents itself, but can be so tender and loving too. We lover her to the ends of the earth and can not imagine our family without her.

sorry her baby pic is not the best ... they were on a hard drive that crashed, so this was the best I could do. Hope you all enjoy.

A little Dose of Gavin

Gavin turned 6 on Jan. 8th. He is in all day kindergarten at Hulstrom Options school (a k-8) He is really into mini skateboards, anything to do with art {painting,coloring,clay,cutting paper, etc.) He still likes to play with girl toys, but seems to be growing out of that more and more. He is very sweet and loving, he is very patient with Ellie and tries to be good and do what is right. School has not hardened him too much and I am thankful for that too. He can read and is doing really well in other subjects at school as well. We love him very much and know that our family would be very different with out him. We are thankful he was sent to be a part of our family.

Pray for Baby Scout .......

My Cousin's daughter Scout is very sick. If you have a moment please help pray for her. Bailey is Scout's Mom and her sister Aubrey posted about what is going on here is the link (http://thekekauohas.blogspot.com/2010/01/super-scout-is-sick.html) . My heart is breaking, we just saw little Scouty Pants around Thanksgiving when they passed through town on their way to Utah and back. We love you Scout and your family is in our prayers.

Sunday quote of the week ...

Ellie gave her first primary talk today. Mike wrote her talk, and I loved a couple of quotes he put in there. So I was "inspired" to share those will all of you!


Ezra Taft Benson once said,

"Nothing is going to startle us more then when we pass through the veil to the other side, than to see how well we know our Father in Heaven and how familiar his face is to us. Can you imagine how exciting it will be to return home to him one day?"

President Hinkley once said,

"Let us never forget that we are children of God at all times."