Teeth

Here is Lilly sporting her new look. The Toothless Look.

Rachael also has a new look---Braces!

Frogs

Over Winter break we went to the Boston Science Museum. We went because Geoffrey really wanted to see the Mythical Creatures exhibit. It was an okay exhibit but the new frog exhibit stole its thunder. Here are a few of our favorite Hoppers.

This lovely frog eats its younger siblings. Obviously, the older kids really liked this mammoth frog.

Reagan the Irrepressible

A friend of ours said that he has the perfect adjective for Reagan--Irrepressible. I completely agree. Here are a few funny Reagan quotes from the last week.

*When we go anywhere the first thing Reagan asks is, "Can we talk there?" If she has to be quiet, she does not want to go.

*While shopping at the store last week she was singing, "I love to see the temple." Then she wanted me to sing it. There weren't too many people around so I sang it for her, but fairly quietly. Reagan then loudly responded, "No MOM! Sing it FORTE!"

*"I love to see the temple" has slightly altered lyrics in Reagan's version. Instead of "a place of love and beauty" it is "the house of Sleeping Beauty."

*During church on Sunday (during the Sacrament) Reagan was stretching her body. Of course, you can't just stretch your body without stretching your voice and making great stretchy noises. So I told her to be quiet. She loudly answered, "But MOM I'm trying to GROW!" How dare I disturb her growing.

Yup-Irrepressible.

Snowing Again

Unbelievably It is snowing again today! Here's a video and some pictures of the snow fall last week. Reagan is not exactly making any progress in her snow shoveling. When she shovels, the snow flies over her head and lands behind her. Apparently that wasn't quite messy enough for her so then she decided that the porch was too clean and needed some snow.

Family Home Evening

Sundays seem to be our best night for Family Home Evening. Especially with seminary and school in the morning, Monday night FHEs tend to run too late. On Sundays we can start a bit earlier. The tradition in our family is that we rotate treats, song picking and prayer picking. This Sunday was Reagan's turn for treats. I had made General Tso's chicken for dinner so I actually had leftover oil. I rarely deep fry anymore so this was a good opportunity to make some donuts. Reagan had a blast making them.

Everyone had fun eating them.

Happy 40th

Happy 40th Mike!
Beginning in December, Mike kept telling us that he wasn't going to turn 40 until he got promoted to Assistant Professor at work. I was quite curious as to how he was going to avoid turning a year older on January 30th. Maybe he had powers I didn't even know about. I was worried that throwing him a birthday party might push him over the edge. Thank goodness he got the word that the promotion went through just a few weeks before his birthday. We had a small surprise party for Mike with about a dozen of our friends.
We had mainly desserts for the party-cake, mini cheesecakes, cookies, apples and chips. The cake is an eyeball cake since one of Mike's projects is related to blood vessels in the eye.

Here's the family right before the guests arrived.

So congratulations on your promotion Mike and I'm so glad we could celebrate your birthday!

Sunday's Snowstorm

This last Sunday we had yet another snowstorm. Mike left early for church and called and said the roads weren't too bad but to just leave a bit early. We did leave early but the snow had continued to fall since he had called and I don't think the plows had been out since right before Mike left because the roads were TERRIBLE! We slid constantly. I'm pretty good in the snow but if I hadn't been we would have come face to face with quite a few power lines. We made it about half way but then the hills began. I barely made it over the bridge that goes over the train tracks. But the next hill, we could not get over. The car made great grindy noises but we were not going to make it up the hill. I almost turned around and went home. Instead, I drove half way back home and took a longer but flatter route to church. It took us 40 minutes to get to church but we made it, just a little late.

Well it turned out it was a good thing that we didn't head home. After Geoffrey helped pass the sacrament he came in and said frantically, "I need to sit next to dad!" Three seconds later I heard the Bishop announce Geoffrey as the second speaker. Geoff and dad conferred and Geoffrey actually gave a really nice talk. He had totally forgotten and had never told me about the assignment. Here though is the ironic part. The talk was on "Being Prepared." The only thing funnier would have been if the talk was on "Remembering."