Precious times!

I just thought this picture was so precious.

Talan playing "ride a horsey" with his Grandma Adair.

Each time the grandparents come to visit it takes awhile for Talan to warm up to them. By the time they go home he just can't get enough of that precious quality time he gets to share with them. What would we do without our wonderful grandparents? We love you guys! Thanks for coming to visit and for everything else you do for us.

Carsten got baptized!

On October 10th Carsten got baptized.

David baptized and confirmed him a member of

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

His Grandpa Haws and Uncle Jay were the witnesses.

Grandma Haws gave a talk on the Holy Ghost and

Grandma Adair gave the closing prayer.

Grandpa Haws, Uncle Jay, David, Cousin Jeremy and Cousin Ben were all in the circle.

We were so thankful for all the family who could attend. It meant a lot to Carsten to have you there. He was thrilled to have some of his friends there as well.

Our family!

After the baptism we headed back to our house for a dinner party.

What a cute kid!

Congratulations Carsten on your decision to become a member of the church. We are so proud of you and the example you are to so many. Keep making good choices and always remember that we love you no matter what!

The Grandparents Visit!

Grandma and Grandpa Haws and

Grandma Adair came for a visit!

They came for Carsten's baptism but while they were here they got to see Reagan cheer, and Bradon and Carsten play football. It meant a lot to the kids to have their grandparents here to see them. I only wish that they could have seen Ethan at karate too.

Bradon getting ready to snap the ball.

Carsten running the ball and stiff arming

the kid as he tries to tackle him.

Bradon and Carsten's teams both finished in 1st place for the season! The playoffs are this week and next week. Hopefully they will both make it to the championship game.

Little Miss Cheerleader!

The American Fork High School Cheer puts on a cheer clinic as a fund raiser every year. All ages of little girls can come to learn a cute little halftime show that they then preform at halftime of the friday night football game. Reagan's little friend Callie was going to do it so I asked Reagan if she wanted to do it too. She was so excited! From that point on she asked me everyday multiple times, "Do I have cheer today?" I was surprised by her excitement because just a few months ago I practically begged her to take a dance class and she flat out refused.

She loved it! She could do nothing but talk about it.

Everything about it was SO COOL!

They asked us to dress our girls in layers because it would be cold the night of the game. I got out black pants and a black long sleeve turtleneck for her to wear under the cheer shirt they were going to be giving her. She put it on and then as it was time to head out the door to the rehearsal she started throwing a fit! (One of those fits that you can't understand anything they are trying to say, were they act as if they haven't slept in days and they are in need of a huge spanking... yeah that kind of fit!) I got her in the car and then tried to reason with her. It turns out that she doesn't like turtlenecks! I told her that she only had to wear it long enough to rehearse and then we would go to the store and get her something else. Due to the FIT we got to the school a few minuets late and we were rushing to the field. Then Reagan all of a sudden decided to scream and yell, lay on the asphalt and throw another yet more advanced fit! Are you kidding me! Needless to say but I was ready to give this girl the smack-down!!! We got out to the field amongst all the other cheerleaders and it continued.

Did she practice....NO!

Was I ticked....YES!

When it was over I got her her little cheer shirt and she put it on without the turtleneck. Finally she calmed down long enough to have a somewhat reasonable conversation.

Oh, did I mention that my mom and dad and my mother-in-law had just flown into town and were coming to the game that night just to see Reagan!

I thought about taking her home and putting her to bed. I thought about making her wear what she had on. I thought about NEVER letting the girl do any kind of preforming art again... throughout her whole life! I thought of lots of things! And then I drove her to Old Navy and got her a new white undershirt, new black leggings and threatened her that if she didn't get out there and preform with the rest of the girls not only would she not have any future in taking a dance class EVER but the cloths would go back to the store and I would buy something for ME!!!

Did I do the right thing?

Probably not!

So we get to the game and she's just as happy as a clam!

When it was time for her to go on, ON SHE WENT!

She did her little dance!

She looked as if she was having the time of her life, and she was!

She giggled with the girls!

She absolutely loved every second of it

and she couldn't have been any cuter!

We got pictures with her AF cheerleader...

And when it was all over with she was still so excited that she could hardly contain herself having to give Callie BIG HUGS!

What am I going to do with my

LITTLE MISS CHEERLEADER?

Primary Birthday Blocks.

My mother-in-law Jeannine called and asked if I would post a picture of one of my birthday blocks. It seems like I've posted a picture of one of these before but I can't remember. When I was in the primary presidency I came up with this idea and saw it out. We gave them to each primary child on the week of their birthday.

This one I obviously made for Talan!

It's just a 2x4 piece of wood cut 8 inches long. Painted with the edges sanded down. 2 different colors of vinyl lettering layered on top of each other. We wrapped a piece of tool around them when we gave them to the kids. They turned out really cute and inexpensive too!

Reflections

At school every year they have a reflections contest.  

This years theme is "What Beauty Is." 

They can express themselves through "The Arts."

Ethan decided (because he HAD to) that he wanted to enter the contest with a photograph he took of the summer sun setting.   

Ethan loves to take pictures and I thought that this was a 

beautiful choice!  

He took this photograph on August 30,2009.

Oh it's great to be 8!

Carsten and Bradon have birthday's just a week apart from each other. Every year they seem to want to do the same things for their birthday. This year (just like last year) they both wanted to go to Classic Skate Fun Center. I couldn't have been happier to grant them their wish! (What mother wouldn't want to kill two birthday's with one party?)

What you do for one child, you must do for the other!

I made cupcakes for Carsten and brought them to his football practice.

The whole team sang to him and Bradon and Dillon hoisted him up as they sang!

If that's not a face of a happy birthday boy I don't know what is!

Then on the actual day of Carsten's birthday he took treats to school for his class, David checked him out early and took him golfing, and then he got to go to dinner and the BYU football game with his friend Tate!

Tate and his family are big Ute fans and they have RED hair wigs. Carsten has wanted BLUE ones for so long! When we got to the game we found some BLUE wigs and bought them for the boys to wear. I'm thinking they will make great "Thing 1" and "Thing 2" wigs for halloween too!

We ran into a boy that plays on Bradon's football team and he had special passes allowing the boys to go down on the field before the game. What a nice birthday treat!

Oh and did I mention that my cousin Eric Schultz plays for Utah State. So that made Carsten's birthday game extra fun too! We saw Eric sitting in the locker room before the game, we watched him come out onto the field and warm up with the team. And then after the game we waited around for him and gave him a ride to my aunts house.

It was a LONG, EXHAUSTING, FUN FILLED birthday!

Oh it's great to be 8!

We love you Carsten! Happy Birthday!

Funny Kid!

Today I got an email from Carsten's teacher at school.  She said, 

"I just thought I would drop you a note and tell you how cute Carsten is.  Today in reading group I was introducing a book called the princess and the pea.  I asked Carsten who a princess would want to meet. He said, "definitely not a prince."  I asked why not.  His reply was, " because all princess want to meet Carsten Adair."    Miss Cox"

Too cute!  Where did we get this kid?  You just never know what's going to come out of his mouth!

Carsten is getting baptized.

Last week Carsten had his baptism interview with Bishop Francom.  

Carsten will be getting baptized 

Saturday, October 10,2009

We are so excited for him!  His Grandparents are coming for his special day and that in itself is exciting!  He told me "I'm excited to get baptized because my sins will be washed away and I will become a member of the church."

It comes with the age.

My dirty faced little rascal!

This kid is non-stop on the go!  He spends his time getting into things, making messes and exploring his world.  All of which is very normal.  If he didn't do these things and keep me on my toes full time I would be worried.  Now I know that I've mentioned this before, but I feel that it's necessary to remind you of this little fact about Talan before telling you what happened to him. 

Last Sunday as we were getting ready to go down to the church for Carsten's baptism interview we heard Talan from the other room burst out crying.  This was defiantly an "I'm hurt" kind of cry.  I ran in to see what had happened.  The iron was lying on the floor next to him.  I took him into the other room to examine him to see where he had gotten hurt.  The back of his hand was white!  We quickly ran it under cold water and got on WebMD to see what to do.  I found some burn bandages that seemed to really take the pain away.  I then kept medicine and a bandage on it at all times changing the bandage everyday.  On Thursday when I changed the bandage, it had a bad odor.  I called the doctor and got him in.  Dr. Mumford looked at it and said that it was a 3rd degree burn!  Poor little guy!  Dr. Mumford assured me that I had done everything he would have done to treat it, but since it was getting infected he would start him on a topical antibiotic and and oral antibiotic to be safe.  He said that there is a slight chance he will need a skin graft done and also a slight chance it affected his nerves and he has lost feeling on the top of his middle finger.  Only time will tell as it heals.  As I was getting ready to leave the office he told me that this was just an accident, this kind of thing comes with his age.  He then went on to tell me that it was okay to feel bad for him but that I shouldn't feel guilty.  

I feel so bad for him!   He's a tough little kid though.  He has been so good about letting me change his bandage.  He whimpers a little when the old bandage first comes off, but that's it.  He sits very still as I put the new one on.  He's a good little patient!