Harrison's dinner time prayer...

"...bless that there will be jam on my roll."  Millie and I could hardly contain our laughter

Tonight we had hot chocolate and waffles for dinner. I had finished my dinner when Millie asked me, "Do you not like your drink?" I replied innocently enough, "It is hot right now."

My ever so smart six year old, Julian said, "That's the whole point of hot chocolate."

Millie about shot hot chocolate out of her nose, she could hardly contain herself.

I love my family.

That Boy

This last Sunday afternoon, we had all settled into our customary spots for our naps. Millie and Julian were on our bed, Olivia was in her crib, and Harrison and I were downstairs watching T.V. I had fallen asleep quickly, but Harrison proceeded to play around in the room. The night before, Olivia's pearl necklace broke and there were pearl pieces scattered randomly around the room, well Harrison found one of these pearls and began to play with it. In his great four year old wisdom he decided to see how far he could push the one pearl up his nostril, unbeknown st to him it inevitably became stuck. Thinking that he would get in trouble if he woke me up from my Sunday nap, he ran upstairs to get Millie's help in getting it out.

Now let me tell you, I didn't know about this until the next evening, so Harrison had to reenact how Millie and he had decided how to remove it from his nose. I almost crashed the car when I turned around and saw him showing me how the accomplished this impossible feat. I have asked him to reproduce it for the picture above. All he had to do was blow to shoot it out. : )

Feeding the Ducks

Autumn Fun

Halloween Costumes

Cinderella - Olivia 1 year old

Star Wars Clone - Julian 6 years old

Captain America - Harrison 4 years old

There were so few trick-or-treaters last nights that the boys got hands full of candy at almost every house they visited.

Happy Halloween!!!

After 63 years...

...Deane Kingsford finally received nine medals and ribbons that he earned from WWII. He was honored today in the Ogden City Council Chambers in front of family and friends. Among the dignitaries was Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrew, Deane's state representative, and George Wallen (The only Congressional Medal of Honor recipient from Utah).

The Back Story...

For a few years VistaCare Hospice has been taking care of Deane's wife Georgia. Several times a week we had nurses and nursing assistants go in and provide daily care for Georgia. Over the time that they were helping Georgia they began to build a special report with Deana as well. He felt that he could call on us at any time to receive the care that he felt Georgia needed.

A couple of months back Deane called the office looking for someone who could come and sit with his wife while he went to an emergency dental appointment. Our Manager of Volunteer Services quickly found a volunteer who would be able to sit with Georgia for a while. Pat Taylor was the volunteer who went to their house. When Deane returned from the appointment, he struck up a conversation with Pat, and one thing lead to another. Eventually Pat found out the Deane had served in the Navy during WWII. Pat told Deane that her husband was an admiral during the second world war, and that he would be able to help Deane receive the medals and ribbons that he had earned during that time. (Up until that time Deane had received the royal run around from Veteran Affairs about the medals.) Pat's husband was able to expedite the process and was instrumental in getting them so quickly.

Together with some of Deane's friends and family VistaCare was able to arrange for the special ceremony that happened today. Unfortunately for Deane, he was not able to share this joy with his wife...She passed away on Saturday.

The volume is not good on this, so it is what it is.

Monet to Picasso Exhibit

Today Millie and I went to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts up at the University of Utah to see the Monet to Picasso exhibit (Mom, dad, Aaron, and Tamara were there also). "Masterworks by such renowned artists as Renoir, Degas, Monet, van Gogh, Dalí, Picasso and Matisse...graced the walls of the Museum’s first floor galleries..." It was fascinating to see these amazing pieces of work up close and in person. Visitors could get so close to the paintings and sculptures that you could see the brush strokes on the canvas'.

This link shows many of the paintings and sculptures we saw today.

Millie's favorite painting was "The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Mrs. Monet (La capeline rouge, portrait de Madame Monet)" by Claude Monet

This link shows a couple more paintings we saw...

The Thinker by Rodin was my favorite piece...here is another of Rodin's pieces that was there.

Piet Mondrian's piece was also one of my favorites.

This piece by Pablo Picasso was one of the largest pieces there.

All-in-all it was a very enjoyable and educational experience which we will remember for many years to come.

The Church Gossip
Mildred, the church gossip, self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business.
Several members did not approve of her extracurricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.
She made a mistake, however, when she accused Henry, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup truck parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told Henry and several others that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing.
Henry, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny. He said nothing.
Later that evening, Henry quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house . ... walked home . and left it there all night.

Could she possible be any cuter? She wears here sunglasses just like her mom. : )

Harrison's first day of 4 year old preschool. He was full of excitement.

The Burch Creek 4th Ward Primary Bike Parade con't...

On the second trip around Harrison's legs got tired on the last hill so I had to balance Oloivia on my bike while carrying Harrison's up the hill. What a fun activity!! Don't you love his knee pads?

The Burch Creek 4th Ward Primary Bike Parade

This evening was the Burch Creek 4th Ward's Primary Bike Parade. IT began with the kids decorating their bikes with balloons and paper. Next, we devoured "hot dogs", chips, and water. A cop in our ward than taught the children about bike safety, and than the parade began. Julian and Harrison got on their bikes and then took their respective places behind the cop car, as it lead us around the church twice.

Harrison took his time riding around; he took the time to wave to all the parents and grandparents who had gather to witness the parade. Olivia was sitting behind me on my bike, and Julian was riding neaqr the front with his classmates.

While Millie was over at Angela's baby shower, my dad and I took the boys up to Camp Kiesel. We packed the BB guns, and introduced the boys to the joys of shooting a gun. They had a great time.

The very first shot Harrison took, he actually hit the cup on top of the wall and knocked it off.

We proped a soad can up and when we hit it we could hear the BBs rattling around in it until they came to rest on the bottom of the can. We spent an hour shooting (it was the fastest hour in our lives).
On the way home from camp the boys were making arrangment with Grandpa to go up again next month for more shooting.

Sneakily she crawled over to the Lazy Suzan and turn it until she found what it was that she was looking for. We hardly noticed what she was doing, until she was doing it for about three minutes. : )

Daily Harrison

The boys were outside in the front yard playing foam lightsabers with a neighbor kid.  I poked my head out the front door to check on them.  At the time I was eating a piece of chicken.  Harrison wanted to share a piece with me, so I tore him off a piece of it.  He quickly grabbed it and ran back to play with the boys.

As I turned back to go inside, I heard him yell to the others, "Now stop, I'm eatin' chicken here!"

Cool

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Millie and I were spending a quiet afternoon with our children, when we began to hear the soft singing of the "Batman" song coming from Harrison, who was with his siblings in the living-room.  How cute! we thought.  The singing continued for some time, so out of curiosity I went to investigate what he was doing.  As only Harrison can do, he had climbed into this baby walker WITH Olivia.  When he saw me he quickly jumped out of the walker (like I would not know he was in it), leaving his sister with this expression on her face.  Olivia loves her brothers : )

I Love Her So Much

Isn't She Cute?

Harrison Singing His New Song

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No joking, it is a government run web-page, just follow this link http://plainlanguage.gov/examples/humor/writegood.cfm.

Tribute to President Hinckley

To Make One Pause...

"The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking, has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory."
-Samual Johnson, June 29th, 1751-

Just For Fun

Welcome

Welcome to my new family blog.  I hope to share information with you about the kids and what they are up to.  Also I hope this can be a place where we can share funny songs, movies (youtube), and stories.  Be Good!  WWJD : )!!!