It seems like yesterday when he was born but now he is 8 already, it was a great day. We had family come from all around even his grandparents from California.
He said the water was cold and his feet almost surfaced the water but his dad was fast enough to prevent a repeat. His older Brother Connor was able to be a witness along with his Uncle Mike. His Grandma Richardson said the opening prayer and his Grandma Nancy said the closing prayer. His Uncle Mark gave a great talk on Baptism and his Aunt Susan gave a great talk on the gift of the Holy Ghost. His Sister led the singing. But most impressive was his dad’s special blessing to follow the guidance of the gospel and keep the word of wisdom, serve a mission and marry in the temple, love and respect others and honor your family. His father’s words of wisdom were inspirational and prompted by the spirit.
Then his Brother Kolton was set apart as a teacher by his father with another great blessing. He was given the calling of a teacher and the guidance by his father to be kind to others and obey the word of wisdom, listen to the spirit. His father’s guidance will take him far in life. These where the highlights of the special day for all.
Wow life gets so busy that a week is really a month and you turn around and months have passed, it amazes me that it has been months since my last post. So I have a choice catch you all up or just move on, I am afraid if I try to catch everyone up it will be a ten page post. So lets just start back with recent things.
So Connor went to Prom last Saturday that was really wired, their is no way I have a child that old, after all I am only 27 at least for another decade. I almost felt as if it was to be me getting ready for prom, but I am glad that he gets to go through the fun and enjoyment that High School Offers. Enjoy Connor it all changes tooo sooon (am I right or what!!)
I dropped the kids off to school today, a little late and with the hustle and bustle of being back to school after two weeks off we were a little out of the swing of things. They ran in and enjoyed there first day back to school but like the normal Utah winter it was cold only about 17* and of courses it snowed and snowed. I didn't realize it was going to snow and had planned on letting them walk home. When I realized the snow I left work in a hurry and told them to hang tight I would be there soon, it was only 30min away and I was half way there. When what to my amazement a phone call from my only daughter M, she informed me that a favorite Christmas Story had just played out. H had stuck his tongue to a flag pole and with the help of his brother K they had pulled him free and left behind some tongue and blood was everywhere. I told them to make a snowball and put it on his tongue, and continued on my way. Well luck was not on my side and the snow had increased and my 15 min turned into 35. About 15 after the alarming phone call, another came from M and was informed that they had not put the snow on his tongue but had him standing under the blow dryer in the bathroom to try to dry up the blood. About this time I was pushing my luck with the snow and couldn't go any faster than I was. I said that wasn't the best idea put snow on it, M said it is bleeding so much I feel like I am going to throw up! I told M to pull it together we all have blood and that the snow would help slow down the bleeding. I hung up and decided to call my Dentist and see if it was appropriate to bring him there or take him to the ER if the loss of tongue was enough to need attention. He said bring him there if it was needed, feeling a little more in control and like I had at least made headway in the steps to help take care of him; I continued to the school and arrived to see a crying H walking toward the car with his tongue sticking out of his mouth. (remind you of something?) I looked his tongue over carefully and Thankfully the tongue that was left behind was only a few taste buds. By the time of his Kuikido it was forgotten and he seemed close to being healed at least he was able to eat chocolate chip cookies with out a complaint. What a great start to the New Year! Now out of my 4 children H probably the only one that has not seen a Christmas Story so when a kid said hey someone go stick there tongue on the flagpole he had no clue that the I will do it that he said would lead to such a great memory!
The hustle and bustle of getting ready for Christmas, and then it is here and over!! what a day (and night) Santa arrived and within minutes Hunter and Madison dashed to see the stash that was left!! Enjoy the moments we enjoyed!
This year I heard Santa come and leave the loot, so I decided to get some pictures before the kids got up so we could remember what it looked like when they first walked in the room.
This didn't last long because at almost 6am on the dot they were pulling us out of bed to see what Santa had brought. (they started asking if they could open them at about 4:30am) With in minutes the quiet from the we early hours of the morning was disturbed and quickly turned into chaos.
Then in a dash we were off to Grandma Richardsons for more Christmas fun!
Almost as fast as it started it ended with a crash shhhh!
I am a mother of 4 great kids, they keep my husband and me very busy. We both work full time away from the home then we come home at night and work full time there. This makes for a very busy life.
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