Just in case you haven't met your daily cuteness quota:

I give you Corrine, ready to go to dance/tumbling.


Feast your eyes on her cuteness! Does my heart good every day!

FHE Temples

For FHE this week, Ava wanted to give the lesson. I prepared a simple lesson on temples which she gave. I think her big sisters doing FHE are a really great example to her. For our activity, we made temples out of mini marshmallows. I really didn't know if it would work. We dipped each marshmallow in water to encourage stickiness, and it did work! For treat, we had brownies and got to eat our creations.

Corrine made such a mess; her whole brownie and marshmellow creation was a soggy mess, which she ate with delight. Yuck.

Here is my SLC temple.

Michaela did the IF temple.

Ava's temple. We all had fun finding off shaped marshmallows to be our angel Moronis.

Here is Paydens.

A fun cheap activity!

Because Ava is so tiny...

She can fit into a little plastic container that should be holding her Mr. Potato head stuff, but of course the Mr. Potato head stuff was on the floor of her bedroom and she was downstairs inside the plastic container instead. Because she is so tiny.

Ninnyisms

Corrine has a very cute, very round belly. A while ago, I started calling it her Buddha Belly, and rubbing it. ( None of my kids knew who Buddha was, I had to show them a picture so they would get why I called it that.)

So now we all call her belly that, so much so that I think she thinks that is what it is called. Not a belly, but a Buddha belly. It is so cute how she says it too, "my Buddha Bouwie".

Tonight, she was eating something and Michaela couldn't see what it was. She asked her to spit it out, and Corrine said:

"I can't"

"Why not?" says Michaela

"It's in my Buddha Bouwie!"

That was outrageously funny.

Then again tonight, she had finished her dinner and was sitting in Dad's lap. She asked for a treat, and he said no. She asked again, and he said no again. So she said:

"Daddy, I love you."

"Oh, that's sweet. Thank you honey."

"NOW can I have a treat?"

She's a sly one, that girl. Keeps us laughing!

Michaela is 13!

Michaela became a teenager on Jan. 29th. For her birthday, she wanted to go to Idaho and visit with her friends. We went up on Friday after she got home from school, and she had a late night with her friends. Jason and I and the rest of the kids spent an enjoyable evening with our friends the Merrells. Such fun! Saturday, Michaela went back to her friends and played at Randy's gym and went shopping. Then at 4, we had a family party for her. My mom was nice enough to let us use her home for the party! We had dinner, Michaela's choice: lentil soup, roasted potatoes, rolls.

After dinner Michaela opened her presents.

Uncle Paul and Aunt Jackie got her this cute sweater and a shirt to go under it.

Uncle David and Aunt Natalia got her some cute necklaces and the headband she is wearing here. Here she is opening the sewing kit we got her. She is loving learning how to sew, so I bought her everything she needs to get started!

Then we had cake and ice cream. She wanted a chocolate pistachio cake, very good. We ended the night by playing Mafia. Happy Birthday Michaela!

I'm not 2....

The other day, Payden was telling Corrine she couldn't do something because she was only two.

To which Corrine promptly replied:

"I'm 2 1/2!"

Don't you forget it, sista.

Payden's Science experiment

Payden is in 5th grade, and this year was required to participate in the science fair. She had to pick an experiment, conduct it, and make a notebook and display of her results. She did an experiment where she observed which soda would erupt the most when she put in mentos. She did all of it by herself, all we did was buy her the pop and print her pictures for her. Everything else she did on her own. Payden is extremly good at putting things like this together. She did a talk last week in primary and didn't ask for any help with that either. Wow!




I am so proud of her!