Our body's are Temples

In primary this week, we learned that our body's are temples. Emory was selected to choose a picture (they were pictures of healthy foods, coffee, tattoos, water, etc.) and she picked up a picture of cigarettes. She was then asked if we take these into our Temples? Of course she said, YES! So, this week I will be working on a Family Home Evening Packet about the Word of Wisdom. I have coloring stuff, the packet and a file folder game to go with it - I even have a laminator. Anyone interested in joining the fun?

A couple weeks ago my mom and I did a "little" project that turned out really cute.

Introducing . . . the World's Fattest Quiet Book!

It isn't supposed to be this humongous, my mom's doing it as a mid-week activity and we wanted a sample of all the letters in the alphabet. Generally one would only do the letters in their child's name!
Here's what a few pages look like:
Butterfly - you put the cut outs inside the net. Car - you can take the wheels off. Nest - there's little eggs in the nest, with little birds inside the eggs. Owl - eyes come off. And my personal favorite, Tic Tac Toe - closed and . . . opened!This week I'm gonna try and make a mini skirt that I bought for $3 into a bag!

PS Thanks for all the birthday best wishes and fun; my family for ice cream at Leatherby's, the Radfords and Grandma for the lunch at Sugarhouse BBQ, and Amanda for Zupas yesterday! That felt a little like an acceptance speech for an award or something.
PPS This is what Cory and I will be doing in 3 weeks! Hooray!

The Childrens

We've had too many amazing quotes over the last few weeks!

Grandma: Adam, come get you're grilled cheese!
Emory: NO FAIR!!
Me: Why?
Emory: No Fair! Girl-ed Cheese, that's not right for Animal. He needs a Boy-ed Cheese!

(Emory- quietly playing on the ground. Me- sitting on the couch reading. Tessa- waving around an unearthly heavy flashlight, like a crazy person. Tessa loses her grip on the flashlight and it flies toward Emory, hitting the coffee table inches from her head.)
Me: TESSA ELAINE!!! What are you trying to do!?!? Kill someone?
Emory (very seriously): Just me, mommy. She was trying to kill me.

(We went out for ice cream to celebrate my birthday and she had this to say about it.)
Dad: Eat that delicious ice cream.
Emory: Okay Dad. I will eat this ice cream and it will get the issues out of my throat and throw them into yours!

I know there were more, I'll have to keep thinking.
The girls continue to grow at the speed of light. We went in to the doctor for some shots, 7 to be exact. 2 for Emory, 5 for Tess - what a glorious day that was! Both girls are in the 50th percentile in almost all aspects, which surprised me. Emory's appetite is unstoppable at the moment, and I haven't seen Tessa eat in days!
Emory is always good for a laugh, and loves to play with her friend Lexi.
Tessa is . . . crazy. I really, truly think that's the only way to describe her. This is the list of missing objects today: my toothbrush, the flashlight (again!), one black shoe, and her spoon. She is also one of the smartest things. I swear she learns 10 new words a day. It would be useful if I understood even a quarter of the stuff she says! She also loves to be outside. We bundle her up and away she goes. The only thing that stops her is ice, which she chants over and over till you shove another piece in her mouth. This is what she did when I told her it was time to go inside. Love the snot pouring into her mouth! This was my attempt at taking a picture of her in the matchy-matchy dress.Last but not least, Emory possibly has a photographic memory. She's memorizes what words look like, where I put things, where Cory puts things, and where Tessa puts things, where clothes in her closet are, how to get places while driving in the car, the list goes on. Here's her new passion, learning songs in primary after hearing it maybe 5 times. (I think most sunbeams have no clue what's going on and just move there mouths their whole first year in primary!)

Blog Book

I've been meaning to blog about this for awhile, and thanks to April's questions, here it is!
I know most of us out there aren't blogging for everyone else's pleasure - well, most of the time. So, it's for journaling purposes, but do any of you actually print out your blogs? I didn't. Until I found this, or more I found it on another friends blog - thanks Jaime!
Blog Book is wonderful! It is very user friendly. All you do is go to this website, download Blurb Booksmart and voila! Well, I wish it was voila, but you do have to do a little moving around and all that jazz. This tutorial is pretty great, it's only 5 minutes and it gives you the general idea of how everything works. I thinks the prices are very reasonable for what you get.
Hope that helps, April!

New Year Festivities

Can you guess what this is?As always, we had a good time for the celebration of the New Year. We spent New Year's Eve here because it's my brother Josh's Birthday! I think we have a tradition of bowling on his birthday, since we've done it for quite a few years now. Emory was being camera shy. Josh had a well played game, along with Sydney, my dad, and Animal. Josh celebrating a strike.For the evenings excitement, we had my Grandma and her husband over, along with our cousins, the Radfords. I forgot to take pictures, but needless to say we had a great time. I tied Amanda's Hula Hooping record, the old people played a hilarious game of bowling, and Emory and Hannah had the best time together!

New Year's Day we went to my aunts Stake Center to watch the boys play BB. Sydney was a great sport about pushing the girls around in cousin Issac's Christmas Present. Here's Cory in action.Last but not least, I celebrated the new year by having Amanda remove most of the hair from my body. Oh the joys of having a waxer in the home! This was the first experience with "nose" waxing before, and let me just say I love it! It didn't even hurt, and I feel like I can breathe better. My dad was such a good sport and he looks like a new man!Can you believe that THING came out of his nose?!?!?

On a less disgusting note, here are my beautiful girls in the Christmas dresses! Dresses made by Grandma Chris and Bows by Me.Also, their Christmas PJs, this is literally what I got when I asked eat of them to look at the camera and smile.