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Jerry and Taina

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We’ve got this great new family scheduled to be baptized into our church.  Their names are Jerry and Taina and they have a son who will be 2 next month (also named Jerry).

In order to be baptized, they first had to be married and luckily, the church offers this service for free.    We’re very excited to be having them join the church because they love the gospel and are excited to become members.  They have great developing testimonies.IMG_0328-1Taina is 9 months pregnant and is scheduled to be induced tomorrow morning (her due date is Thursday).  I was a little worried that she’d miss the wedding in order to have the child, but luckily that didn’t happen.

Zach let Isaac take a few pictures with my camera.  Isaac was very shy, but he managed to take this picture of the cake:IMG_0303 A picture of the kitchen:IMG_0310 and a plant:IMG_0305 Little Jerry (pictured below) will be 2 in July and on the day of the wedding he was running around hugging everyone.  Ila was his favorite person to hug.  He’d run right up and hug her and she’d laugh and pull his hair, yet he was patent with her and didn’t get mad.IMG_0313-2Here’s a picture of Zach trying to become invisible so the kid behind him could see better, it didn’t work.IMG_0311I think the cake was their favorite part.  In fact, when I told them about the wedding they weren’t too thrilled till I mentioned that there’d be cake.IMG_0337 Charlotte decided that she’d been photographed enough, she was probably right.IMG_0336

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Another Road Trip: Pensacola, Florida

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2010-02-27 Pensacola - Dad, Isaac, Charlotte 004 

So my best friend David has been down at NAS Pensacola for some training, and I thought this was the best time to go see the National Museum of Naval Aviation with him.  I’ve always wanted to visit; they have a great selection of aircraft.  Naturally, a road trip these days means bringing Isaac with me; bringing Isaac usually means bringing Charlotte too.  Hit the jump for a boatload of pictures and a quick summary.

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Kindness is. . .

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10.27.08 Isaac, Charlotte, Sam, and LillyWe invited our good friends the Kelsons over for family night.  The lesson was on how  Jesus taught us to be kind and love others.  I shared a story during the lesson about Jesus healing a blind man.  The lesson ended with a paper puzzle covering a picture of Jesus.  The kids were required to pick up a puzzle piece and tell one way they can be kind.  The responses were not what I expected.  Here are the ones I remember:

"not hitting"

"not punching or kicking"

"not poking"

"not making someone blind" by Isaac.  I tried to get him to come up with something you can do instead of something that you can avoid doing by saying "what if a friend was coming over?  Can you think of one thing you could do to be kind to your friend?"  His response:  "not make my friend blind."

Not exactly what I planned to teach about kindness, but an interesting view of the 4-year-old-mind.

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When the weather is nice . . .

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10.20.08 Isaac and Charlotte (2)I just love to be outside with my kids.  I can’t stand to be outside when it’s too hot so there are probably months in the summer when I don’t take the kids outside at all, but on days when it’s nice, I just can’t stay in.  These are the days I neglect all my housework and spend as much time as I can outside.  We started our day with a wagon/bicycle ride to the local old folks home where we participated in a Monday RS meeting program, then we 10.20.08 Charlotte and Makenna (3)rode home, did a few chores then it was back outside for a picnic and play.  We invited the neighbors over to join us.  Charlotte had much fun playing ‘ring-around-the-rosie" with Makenna.  they’d fall down before finishing the song and then kick their feet in the air and laugh.  After a haircut and a trip to the grocery store we spent some time outside at Grandma Cochran’s house (beware an upcoming blog involving a gas grill and someone’s hair!) 

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