Fun Fall Pictures

We went out looking for leaves earlier this week to take some fun pictures!  

Wyatt's Blessing

Last week Louis blessed our Wyatt Jack.  We were able to do a double blessing with Louis' brother Josh and their baby Calvin.  Calvin is a month older than Wyatt.  They live in Missouri, but were in town for a wedding so we took advantage of that and did the double blessing.  It ended up going really well and it was nice having so much family around to celebrate with us.

A few things that stood out to me in Wyatt's blessing:

He was instructed to find the right person to take to the temple for this is the purpose in

 coming to this earth, to create an eternal family.

He will have a drive for knowledge and education like Grandpa Jack, 

and others will look to him for answers and he will be able to give them.

Wyatt was blessed to have sympathy towards others and be kind to others.

I am grateful for the Gospel and the wonderful joy it bring into my life.  I am grateful for the priesthood holders in my life to bless those around them.  I am grateful for my eternal family!

I don't have the pictures from the day of the blessing, but here are the few I do have.

This is Calvin and Wyatt the night before the blessing

Mary LOVES Wyatt

Mary's Birthday Pictures and Interview

Here are some of the pictures I took of Mary for her birthday.  I did some before she had her haircut as well as after!  Her interview was a fun one this year!  I took a video while I asked her the questions and I'm glad we'll have that to look back at!

I know this isn't the best picture, 

she just wanted to sit on the stump!

I asked her to smile a four year old smile, 

this is what I got!

Again not a terrific picture, 

but she wanted to stand on this stump!

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4 Year Old Mary

Mary had her fourth birthday this last week and she loved it!  For her party she requested we play at the park and then eat at the grape restaurant (Olive Garden).  So that is exactly what we did!  The Saturday before Mary's birthday we went to Whittier Park and met up with some family to play.  Mary ran and climbed around and had so much fun!

We then headed to the grape restaurant where she ate none of her dinner, but we paid $8 for it anyway. After the restaurant we met up at our house for cake and ice cream.  Mary wanted a blueberry cake with pink frosting this year.

After her party on Saturday Mary was convinced that she was now four years old.  Even though she knew her birthday was on Thursday the 22nd.  Then when she woke up on her birthday I and told her happy birthday and that she was four, she denied it!  I am not four!  That is until she saw her presents downstairs, then she got excited and said it was her birthday!

Later in the afternoon she got to go on her birthday date with Louis!  She wanted to go to Disneyland for her birthday date, but sadly we couldn't make that happen!  Instead they went to eat at Chick-Fil-A where she got to play at their play place. After Chick-Fil-A they tried going to the Jump Zone, but it didn't open for another couple of hours.  Mary was very devastated and cried for a good 10 minutes over that while they headed to Macey's to get ice cream instead.  Overall she had a fun date and came home happy!

That night Nana and Papa, Great Grandma Nola, Tifannee, and Kamila came over and had dinner and a doughnut cake with us.  After dinner she got taken to see the play The Little Mermaid with her aunts.  She liked seeing Ariel, but from what I heard didn't sit patiently during the play and kept making loud funny comments during it!  Over the last few days she keeps asking when she can go to a play with Kami again.  Kami said she has to wait awhile before she'll take Mary again!  

That was the end of Mary's birthday celebrations, she had a fun week!

We love our Mary, she is sweet and funny and loves to cuddle.

We are glad everyday that she is a part of our family.

Kindergarten

Avery has successfully made it through her first week of Kindergarten!  She is looooving it so far!  I was able to go with Avery to her first day of school which was nice to be able to see what a typical day will be like for her and get a bit more information on how things work.  One thing they failed to mention though is that on Fridays they get out half an hour early, so I was 30 minutes late picking her up today!!  Luckily I wasn't the only mom who was late or I would have felt even worse than I already did.
Avery gets out of class every day with so much to tell me about her day and each day she says "I had so much fun!"  I'm really looking forward to this year and seeing how much she is going to enjoy everything and how much she is going to learn.
I love this girl of mine!