Happy Birthday Dallan!

Dallan's birthday is on Christmas Eve- a fitting birthday for my sweetheart with a merry old soul!

Dallan loves Christmas time

He loves his little boys

He loves me

He loves the Gospel

He loves to play games

He loves to read books

He loves BYU

He loves the Savior.

He is such a gift to me and all who know him.

 For Dallan's birthday he always chooses french toast for Breakfast!  His favorite cake is always chocolate, but since we just had 2 birthdays with chocolate cake, he chose his other favorite- cherry cheese cake!

For his birthday dinner we had our traditional Christmas Eve turkey dinner at my parents house and enjoyed watching Harry Potter 7, playing games and activing out the nativity. 

Happy birthday to my merry sweet heart!
I love you Dallan.

Happy Birthday Mitchell!

Mitchell turned 5 years old this week! He was so excited for his birthday to come he made a really long countdown chain that he hung in his room. He loved watching the chain shrink every day. The night before his special day he was feeling yucky and had a fever. He prayed so hard that he would feel better for his birthday. When he woke up the next day, he felt much better and knew it was an answer to his prayer. Mitchell has already developed a sweet testimony of prayer. One windy Sunday as we were walking home from church Mitchell knelt down in the middle of the sidewalk and prayed that Heavenly father would help the wind to stop. For just a few moments it did and Mitchell knew his prayers was heard. He skipped the rest of the way home. I imagine Heavenly Father looked into those big brown eyes and just couldn't resist.

Mitchell woke up eager to open his presents and was so excited about each one.

He squealed with glee when he opened Matthew's home made gift of a box made out of Popsicle sticks with a dollar inside!

Dallan took the morning off work so he could take him out to lunch, and they went to Mitchells' favorite place- Carls Jr.

After lunch, Mitchell's cousins who live in town came over. They colored a Christmas craft, decorated aprons and frosted Christmas cookies!

For his birthday dinner, Mitchell chose pizza and salad. For his birthday cake he wanted a chocolate cake with mint M & M's on top!

Grandma and Grandpa came over for dinner, and Grandma read him his special birthday story you can read here! It was the perfect story for my little super hero!

Grandpa enjoyed Mitchell's birthday presents almost as much as he did- especially the goofy glasses they brought him!

I love my merry little Mitchell.

I love that Mitchell still wants to marry me when he grows up.

I love the way he smothers me with kisses every morning.

I love the story times we share, and he never lets me forget the most important part- the snuggles.

I love seeing Mitchell love and care for Caleb.

I love the way that Mitchell knows a prayer can help anything.

I love watching him play with his super heroes.

I love hearing him sing in the bathtub- sing on the potty- sing in the car- sing in the store...

I love you forever Mitchell. Thank you for the way you share your sparkle with me.

Gingerbread Day

I love the traditions that weave through the days of December. Mitchell could hardly wait to do our ginger bread houses this year!

Happy Birthday Matthew!

Matthew turned 10 years old this week! He has been so excited for his birthday and had it all planned out. Over the weekend he wanted to go to "Nickel City" with his brothers and Aunt and Uncle. They had a great time and came home with pockets full of prizes!

The morning of his birthday he woke up at the crack of dawn and couldn't wait to open his presents!

He loved all of his gifts; Josh stayed up late the night before making him a wallet out of duct tape with a dollar inside!

I kidnapped Matthew from school, and we met Dallan for a birthday lunch at Legends Grill. He chose pizza, french fries and a giant cookie for his special lunch!

Matthew gives the best HUGS! He always know how to warm my heart with one of his giant squeezes!

After school we made his cake and enjoyed his birthday dinner with Grandma and Grandpa. He chose tacos for his special dinner and "beaver tracks" ice cream since one of his nick names is "the Beaver" (he used to love to chew on things when he was a little)

Some cousins and aunts and uncles came over to share cake and ice cream with us!

And we all enjoyed Matthew Trivia!

After dinner dinner grandma read him a poem she wrote just for him. You can read it here!

It was just perfect for my Matthew in the middle!

Some of Matthew's highlights this year:

Earning his Bear in cub scouts.

Learning how to mow the lawn.

Going on his first "Man Camp"

Riding the 4 wheelers with grandpa.

Winning the reflections contest at school with a poem he wrote.

Snuggling with Caleb every morning before he goes to school.

Happy birthday my sweet Matthew

I love you with all of my heart!

Halloween 2011

Happy Halloween! 

From our baseball player Dad

Farmer Mom

"Link" Josh (from the Lend of Zelda)

"Link" Matthew

Wolverine Mitchell

And Captain America Caleb!

Handsome Boys

Just because I can't resist taking a few pictures when they look so handsome!

Fall Break

A trip to the movies on a week day?

Mom isn't as strict about video games?

A trip to the library to load up the book box?

A dollar store stop to pick up prizes for everyone?

We all get to go to the BYU football game?

It must be FALL BREAK!

Matthew's favorite part of the game?  Frozen lemonade.

Mitchell's favorite part?  Daddy's lap.

Josh's favorite part?  His Buddy Sam who can sometimes talk him into putting his book down.

My favorite part? Sitting in front of my brother Jacob and listening to his commentary (plus he shared his drink!)

Oh and we all loved a great big WIN for the cougars!!

RA RA RA!

Together Day

Dallan and I recently celebrated our 13 year anniversary! In those 13 years we haven't ever left our boys over night or even for a full day unless we've been in the hospital. I thought it was time for us to have a together day! I arranged for two nurses to sit with Caleb, and Amy and Aden offered to help with the other boys so we could spend the whole day together!

We went to the temple together and did sealings

Went out to lunch at Sparks

Did some shopping (Our boys were losing sleep because they were so excited The Son of Neptune had been released so we picked them up a copy!)

Went to a movie

Got dinner at Zupas

Then did the grocery shopping on our way home

I just loved having Dallan all to myself for a whole day!

We're definitely going to make it a tradition!

Matthew's talk on prayer

(Written by Matthew for a talk in Primary)

  

Hello every one I’m Matthew Moody.  I’m here to talk about prayer and communication with God.  I’d like to share a scripture with you.  James 1:5   If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men  liberally, and upbraideth not; and is shall given him.

Joseph Smith read this scripture.  He wanted to know what church to join.  He went to the sacred grove to pray. Heavenly father and Jesus came to him. They told him not to join any.

This is the scripture and prayer that was basically the start of this church.  

One time our bunny got lost.  We couldn’t find her.  Then we said a prayer. A little bit later our home teachers found her. 

  

I’d like to bear my testimony that I know the church is true that Joseph Smith is a true prophet and that we can communicate with Heavenly Father through prayer.  Amen.

Pinewood Derby: The Shark

When Matthew was a baby, Josh nick named him "The Shark" because Matthew would sneakily crawl across the floor to his special things and chew on them!  The nick name stuck hence, 

"The Shark" pinewood derby car!