Primary Program

Now, you may accuse me of picking on Nate a little, but he is the most hilarious child I have. The funny thing is he never tries to be, he just is. (disclaimer again) All of my children are hilarious in their own right. I just have one who is different in how things appear to be funny. Surprisingly enough, he did do better than expected. I watched Mitch fold his arms and sing. He was my perfect angel child up there. I watched as he studiously followed the note cards the chorister held up and Dad and Mom gave him a few "good job" smiles. He was very obedient as most always.
Paige was beaming up there too, other than the few moments we caught her rolling her eyes as she was watching her other brother. (she had a clear shot of him the whole time.) She tried to ignore him and keep her self composed, but she slipped a couple of red faced smiles in here and there. They all said their parts just perfect. Of course, there's always the littlest child that draws the parental aawwws! That was little Mr. Cook. I looked over and his mom and dad were happily smiling at him and the cute response.
I teared up a couple of times while the whole primary was singing, and especially when they had all the children who had turned 8 during the year sing "When I am Baptized". The tear jerker was they were all dressed in white. So beautiful.

Now you can't very well have a primary program that doesn't include that one child. You know what I'm talking about. I am proud to say that he would be my child. Harmless in his antics and not purposely trying to get attention, but they just can't sit still and you know his mind is going a mile a minute. Rather than explain, I drew some crappy pictures for illustration. 

T -Square

Nice smile Mitch

Someone was scared of Jesus. He was very big up close.

This will be short. We went to temple square a few weeks ago. The kids had their first experience with the church history museum. The little ones especially loved the interactive floor where they could try on clothes and TOUCH everything. Tori loved the paintings. Especially one in particular. It was very moving. There's a cool small scale temple that shows what the inside looks like. They all thought that was cool. it even faces the temple, so you can visualize where it's all at. I am looking forward to taking Laylie and Sam at Christmas time! That should be fun for them.

Love the Hair & ISU

Sam's hair will not stay down. It may calm down when he gets older, but for now it's just too cute sticking up. I plastered it yesterday to his head with very low hopes it would stay just how I combed it. That lasted about five minutes. Where I parted it was still visible, kind of. He's too cute.
ISU had their homecoming parade was last weekend. We took the kids. Paige's dance group was in it. Fun for her, but a long walk and mostly up hill. It ended up at Holt Arena. With all the masses of people (parade and football fans) up there when we arrived it was hard to find her. Did I mention I walked (purposely) right through the middle of all the tailgate cookers. MMMM! I love the smells! It was heavenly, and after we found her and went home, I made myself an awesome peanut butter and jam sandwich.

 She ate all her candy.

The boys watching the parade.

He's so serious. (This is my hair flat against my head.)

Top view. Notice the back pieces already not conforming.

He does not look like the child I see every day.

10 minutes later....his hair is up!

Sam and his hair enjoying the parade.