Horses with Cameron!

Play-Doh!

"Hide and Shriek" with Daddy Bear

Misc. photos

Holly playing with her Lala Loopsie dolls all by herself in our bedroom

In the kitchen looking for something to eat. She had to say "cheese" for the camera, first!

The book that Hannah is reading is called Little Mommy. It is a book about a little girl who practices being a mommy with all of her little dolls. It's one of our favorite children's books in this family, as Daddy has always taught my sisters and me to dream of motherhood. This was Hannah "experimenting upon the word." :)

I love both of these pictures so much! AJ's eyes, eyelashes, hair, freckles, and little lips are so handsome, and Heidi makes the cutest silly faces!

One more of Heidi, and a pic of me that Ian took. Everyone says Heidi and I are twins....I don't see it? haha

RANDY AND I HAD HALF-DAYS FOR SCHOOL from Tuesday through Thursday this week. We had lots of extra time together as a family, enjoying lots of yummy, homecooked meals from Mommy and watching a lot of football. We've been sick for a couple of weeks with all kinds of different things, and are finally starting to feel better. Fortunately, we get Monday and Tuesday off this upcoming week, too, so we can get lots of rest before our second semester of school! This is my last semester of HS, you guys! Yikes! I think I did really well on my exams. Hopefully I can finish up my HS experience with a bang!

Randy's 16th birthday

MY LITTLE BROTHER IS 16 YEARS OLD! Gah. That is so grown up! 16 is an important age in our church. At 16, worthy young men receive the office of Priest in the Priesthood. (We're LDS, not Catholic. Just to avoid confusion.) The Priests are the young men who bless the Sacrament each Sunday, which is the most sacred ordinance performed in our Sunday meetings each week. It is also at this age that teenagers in our church are finally permitted to date! So at the next Stake LDS youth dance, if Randy finds a girl that he likes, he said he's gonna ask her, "Heyyy I just turned 16...wanna be my first date?" Haha. ;) And, of course, he'll get his license in March. So exciting!

Mommy made Randy a really yummy roasted chicken, mashed potato, green bean, biscuit and gravy dinner--all entirely homemade. Randy was very happy. Being the health nut he is, he did not want us to make him a cake. But he did want Ding Dongs, so we made a plate of 16 of those. For gifts, he wanted Axe hair putty, Doublemint Gum, and Frost Glacier Freeze Gatorade. We all knew this, and Mommy and I made the mistake of buying the same things for him! Oh, well. :) He was actually really surprised about that hair putty...look at his reaction! I think I was happier than he was just to see how grateful he was! Also, notice the bottom left photo: I asked him to smile as he got ready to take a bite of the cake and held the glass in the other hand. He's such a goof ball.

Happy birthday, bubbles!