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A third child will be blessing our family on Sept. 30th, 2011.

I am not extremely "church-ie" but something about a child coming into the world makes me thank the heavens for my life and all that I am truly blessed with. My patriarchal blessing says that my children will be my greatest accomplishment. Looks like I will have 3 of my greatest accomplishments :)
My cup runneth over!

Family Photos

RUN!! So every time I am in a photo that I take myself I also have a few of these...
That's me mid-sprint to get in the photo. Obviously we are also to far away for a quality image anyway. It was bitterly cold and Winter was in short sleeves for lack of a better outfit, so we only did two locations and for only like 5 minutes each. Here's what we got...

Right before the ones with Winter and I, we found out that our Ogden house's basement flooded. Needless to say I was not happy to hear that news. Sorry for the kind of faked smile.

Here this one is better.
It was my birthday.



And of course I love the kissing photo, even if no one else does.

Conversation with Winter age 4

I love that she is holding the bowl with her feet :)



Winter: What's for lunch?
Me: What do you want for lunch?
Winter: a HOT DOG!!
Me: ok... what else do you want with it? fruit of vegetable?
Winter: a BROWNIE!!
Me: that's neither a fruit nor a vegetable
Winter: what's a fruit nor?
Me: ha ha what else to do want with your hot dog?
Winter: why is it a hot dog?
Me: what do you mean?
Winter: well, its cold right now, so it's not hot. is it dog? (I almost literally saw the light turn on in her head) MOM WHOSE DOG ARE WE EATING?!
Me: ha ha no it's not dog meat, you aren't eating anyone's dog
Winter: then what is it?
Me: pig, pork mostly, you know yummy piggy meat
Winter: does it come from their tummies?
Me: hot dogs come from all the left over parts after pork chops, bacon, sausage...
Winter: bacon comes from their bellies!
Me: how do you know that?
Winter: daddy told me
Me: your daddy sure is smart
Winter: yep he sure is...but not as smart as you mommy!

I gave her two brownies for desert :)

Winter's Christmas Songs

Winter was very excited that we came to see her sing at school.
She happens to have a really great teacher and we both adore Ms. Sherrie!
Winter was so very excited to see Santa. He called Mrs. Clause while he was in their classroom so each of them could remind her what they had put on their Christmas list.

Then they all got candy canes, and so did all the children in the audience.
This is the "can I eat it now?" look they all gave their parents :)
She did a great job singing all the holiday songs. Since then she has also learned several off of the radio. Her favorite is Let it snow, and she knows ALL the verses.

Christmas cookies

Ledger's creation

Cory hard at work
Finished product!