Camie's Baptism

Camie was baptized January 9th. It was wonderful. A lot of family was able to come and many, many people showed up at her baptism making Camie feel like a super star. Even her teacher from school was able to attend. Her dad baptized her, her cousin, Rebecca sang a beautiful song, and her Aunt Becky and I both spoke. It was a wonderful day that was completed by a dinner of Camie's favorite meal: lasagna and bread sticks. Because we had so much family from out-of-town, we invited family over for dinner after the baptism. I wish I could explain just how happy Camie was that so many people were at her baptism. It meant so much to her. The Relief Society room was packed with all our family and so many friends that live close. We are so blessed to have so many people that love Camie so much.

Addilynn Ann

Congratulations to Daren and Shannon. They were able to adopt their first baby on January 11th. Check Addi out!

Too busy

This is how I feel.

The first week in January my ward split and I am now in a wonderful new ward. It is full of wonderful people, I couldn't ask for a better ward. But, I stayed in Primary (which I am so thankful for). There are no teachers, no nursery toys, no manuals, no snacks, no chorester, no pianist, etc. No one has been called and that leaves me feeling a little crazy. To top it off, Camie was baptized the same weekend. I was so fortunate to have family and friends come into town, but I'm sure they thought I was crazy, because that is how I feel. On top of that I am still the PTO treasurer. I still have 5 children. And I still have a husband. They are all wonderful blessings, all of them. But all combined together in a small amount of time are leaving me brain dead. And crazy!

New Year's Eve

Danielle and Nathan were still running pretty high fevers on New Year's Eve. We were supposed to go out to the ranch with Troy and Becky, but we decided against it, didn't want to get them sick. Again, we were home and couldn't go anywhere. Troy was so nice. He called and asked if we had any fire works. Of course we hadn't bought any. They said they were

leaving the ranch early and were going to come over to our house and share their fire works with us. They stayed outside the whole time to avoid catching anything. It was so nice of them to do that. My kiddos LOVED the firecrackers, especially, well all of them did. Nathan liked watching them and all the rest of them liked the sparklers and watching. It was great and so nice of Troy and Becky to come celebrate with us outside.

Christmas Break

This is an example of what our Christmas Break was like. The first week the kids were out of school, Spencer ran a fever of 103 for 6 days. It lasted through Christmas and I finally took him into the doctor on the last day of his fever and he tested positive for the flu. Poor little guy.

We were fever free in our house for three days when Nathan and Danielle started in with the high fevers all in the same hour. Theirs lasted 5 days and they were so sick. That was the second week of the Christmas break. So, we stayed at home with very sick kids for two weeks. I felt bad that Taneal, Camie, and Danielle didn't get to do anything really exciting, that we stayed at home the whole time. It was still a great Christmas and New Year. Fortunately it was only the three little ones that got sick and not the whole family.