Baptism

Jaxon got baptized. It was again, one to remember, that is all I will say. And by the photo Gregg looks so happy....Jaxon was excited. Zeke, well he was just 'bubbling over' with excitement and I will just leave things at that.

He was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He is such an amazing example to me. He really has a strong spirit and I hope it stays with him all his life. He is a good boy who tries his best to do just what he is supposed to. I am so proud of him and for the good example he is to me. We are working on finishing the Book of Mormon (we are almost finished), and if you know Jaxon he is just like his dad and has almost a photographic memory. Jaxon implied when we were done that was all we needed to do. I said nope when we are done we read it again then again and again. He said okay so when we read it 4 times we will have everything memorized and we won't need to read it again right? I said well no we need to keep reading it all the time because during different times in our life we learn different lessons when we read it. He thought for a minute and just rescinded his comment. I could see what was going on in his head (just like his dad) 'Yeah Whatever!'. We will see! He is still a great example and I know if I am teaching a lesson for FHE he will have all of the stories memorized to the point he could teach everyone in the family what the story was about and what we learn from it.

Sad little halloween

So this Halloween was not much to be had. And it is apparent due to my week delay in getting it posted.

We had quite a lot of things going on and there were a lot of shall we say issues this year?! So needless to say we did not get the whole Star Wars theme thing going and I guess that was okay. But to make things worse this is the first year I have been a Mom of two children in Elementary school. I did the whole room mother thing for BOTH classes. While this kept me quite preoccupied (I was at school the entire day!!--with Zeke!) I did not do the good mom thing and get any pictures as I should have. Jaxon stopped in the Halloween parade this year enough to get a picture.....



He wanted to be a Football player. Kaden on the other hand let me get this......



That was all I was able to get during the waking hours!! I have been running like crazy the past couple of weeks and the only time I have felt like I have been able to sit back and think about things are when the kids are in bed.

So I got some other photos of random Halloween things.....
For Jaxon's class I was in charge of the craft. I love this and love trying to find new and different things to do for the class. This is what I found.



This was a larger version. I did smaller ones for the kids. They had fun with it. But surprisingly there were a lot of kids that did not like getting their fingers dirty (I thought it was only my weird boys who did not like having dirty hands).

Then of course there were the pumpkins.....I just love Halloween. Even though it went by so fast I was not able to get photos we had a ball from all of the parties at school to the cousin party and Nana & Papa's, I think it was one to remember!