Happy Birthday William

On Saturday we celebrated William's 4th birthday. Since his birthday is always so close to Thanksgiving we were able to celebrate with our family in Utah. We spent most of the day at the Children's Museum in Salt Lake, which William absolutely loved. Later that night we had a yummy birthday dinner, opened presents and ate birthday cake.

Here are some pictures of the day's activities, as well as William's annual birthday video...

Now that William is 4, here are some things about him:

favorite color is green

full of life and energy

still takes naps....yea

loves doing "homework" with his big brother Hyrum and asks often if he can read a Bob book

takes care of Thomas now that he's the "big brother" during the day while Hyrum is at school

is silly, crazy, mischievous and loud most of the time, yet can be found on occasion to be sweet, soft, loving and cuddly

has only one volume....extra loud

a natural athlete and little daredevil when it comes to climbing and playing at the park

draws his baby sister's picture often and insists that her name is going to be "Rosie"

We Love You William!

Innocence of a Child

Tonight we had the missionaries over for dinner. After dinner Elder Chalk shared an object lesson with us where he placed three cups in a triangle on the floor and asked us to balance three knives across the cups and then support his scriptures on top of the knives. The cups were spaced far enough apart so that the knives could not reach from one cup to another. Dave was able to come up with his own creative way of doing it; however, Elder Chalk showed us the correct way that the three knives could be used to support each other, making a strong foundation for the scriptures to sit on. He likened the knives to three things we can do to support ourselves during difficult times. The three things were going to church, praying and reading our scriptures. While talking about prayer he asked why saying prayers is so important. This was Hyrum's response, “Prayer is the only way to talk to Heavenly Father because he doesn’t have a cell phone number.” We all chuckled over that one. I'm grateful for the innocence of my children.

Happy Halloween

Halloween is definitely not my favorite holiday (...though eating the kids' candy is not so bad), but I'm learning to enjoy it as I watch the excitement on our boys' faces. Though these pictures don't show the excitement, they had a great time dressing up, carving pumpkins, and attending carnivals, trunk-or-treats, and halloween parties.

Boo Bash Carnival at Hyrum's School

Pumpkin Carving

Festive Fruit Platter for Halloween Dinner
(Thanks Marianne for the fun idea)

Trick-or-Treating