Camping

We went to the ward campout Friday and stayed through Saturday morning. We roasted marshmallows, sang songs around the campfire with the Whitfields, hardly slept all night and vowed to do it all again sometime soon! In the middle of the night Paige could hear the elk bugling and the coyotes howling and it kind of freaked her out. I detered her by telling her that an elk is like a deer. . . I was trying to keep it friendly for the wee hours of the night.

This is how the morning's conversation went:

Paige: Dad, did you hear the elk in the night?

Shane: That wasn't an elk, it was a velociraptor. (nice, huh!)

Paige: (thoughtful pause) NO, DAD! It was an elk. . . that's like a little deer. ("little deer"being said in her cutesy princess voice)
Shane: A little deer with giant antlers that's is as big as a horse!

I left out the "as big as a horse with long antlers" for the sake of our sleep. I really didn't want her in our bed with us.

Paige and Kate

Tyler the pyromaniac

Scouts was made for him!

Paige and Kylee

Blessing Day

Managing a little smile for her important day!
Little Morgan's blessing was on Sunday. Shane did such a great job. Harland stood in along with Kevin and the bishop. Of course, Barbs was there and Shane's cousin, Sharon and 2nd cousin, Brad and his wife Amanda also came in from Glendale. It was a great day!

Artist

My little bug is growing up. . . he doesn't want me to call him bug anymore :(

He keeps a little sketchbook/journal. I just love it when he lets me read it and look at his drawings. He's really into monsters right now. Here are a couple of his latest and greatest!

This, of course, is a dragon.

And, this attractive guy is an alien from Ben 10.

I'm amazed every day at the creativity of this kid!

6 weeks old

We went to Morgan's 6 week checkup this morning. Here are the stats:

9 lbs 4 oz (50-75th %)

22 inches tall (75th %)

36.6 cm head circumference (25-50th %)

She's trying to catch up to Paige I guess.

Bring on the Milestones!

Time really flies! That's all I can say. I just got home from my littlest sister's wedding. That's right. . . I remember her in diapers. Doesn't she look lovely! It was a great weekend!

And. . . .just last night, Paige lost her first tooth! I can't believe how big she is! She whined and carried on all day about that little tooth. Finally, when it was almost time for bed, Shane made her wiggle it until it came out. Check out that proud toothy grin!

My baby sister just got married and my baby just lost her first tooth. What's next? I think it will be Morgan's first real smile. She's right on the verge of breaking into a full grin.

GOLD!

. . . . and what a match it was!