10/21/08

We waited outside for the bus to pick up Kenzie this morning. Hailey loves watching for the bus. Came inside and got ready to take grandpa to the dentist. While he was at the dentist, we went shopping. Picked grandpa back up and went to his house. Taylor was good for his IV so I was really happy that went well. Grandpa sure is a good helper. Took Hailey out for lunch and ice cream, then we came home and got ready for Bible Study. She played really good with her toys and the dollhouse while I got stuff ready. Kenzie came home and she and Hailey played some games and drew pictures. We ate dinner and Cathy came while we were eating. Offered some food to her but she had already eaten before she came. She tried out dad's AB chair and liked it. We had twelve of us plus three children at Bible Study. We broke up into groups for discussion and it went really well. We are studying about loving each other and we are getting to know each other and be there for one another. Marie made beautiful harvest bouquets for each family which was really sweet of her.
The kids were all great during Bible Study. When I told Hailey it was time to go to bed she came right away. I read her a story and prayed and then she went right to sleep. She's such a good girl. Kenzie helped get the other 4 yr. olds pj's on and was a very good helper. She had a good testimony she shared with everyone too. She always wants to have input and shares good stuff. Now she is sleeping too. Time to go clean up my part downstairs. Dad has already got his part done and is reading the paper.


Kenzie in her jewels after winning at pretty pretty princess!




I can tell Hailey has been trained by her mommy the photographer. When I took one picture she asked me to take more with different poses.

10/20/08

Took Hailey to school this morning. Good thing she knows where to go in her school. She took me right to her room. Her teacher asked her if I was her grandma. Hailey told her yes and the teacher and I introduced ourselves to each other. I told her I could go on the field trip coming up and she said that would be great. She was very nice.
After dropping her off, I went to pick up Champ. He was snuggled sound asleep in his bed. I woke him up and let him outside to go potty. Then we headed off to my house so he could spend time with me and Mocha while Hailey was in school. At first he was restless and kept walking all over. I gave him a couple of handfuls of food and then he settled down. Took him back home, visited with Connie, Mel and Bruce's neighbor and then went to get Hailey. She was looking out the window when I got there. I thought she got out at 11:30 but she gets out at 11am. Good thing I was early. I got there at 10 after. I had planned to sit in the car and read grandma's journal til she was out. We stopped at grandpa's on our way home. Grandpa was happy to see Hailey again. He also told me he felt bad because he didn't thank Kenzie for the card she made him. He said it really was nice and it meant alot to him and he felt so bad he didn't tell her. He was waiting for her to get done playing and then he forgot. He was so sweet and caring about that little girl making that for him. Said it was so thoughtful for her to think of him. Came home and read while Hailey played with the dollhouse. She play so good by herself. We called Aunt Kimmy so she could talk to Max and Jacob. She was happy to talk to them.
We went out later in the rain with our umbrellas to see Kenzie get off the bus. She was really happy about that. She and Kenzie played pretty pretty princess again.
She wanted Kenzie to read her bedtime books to her. Then we had prayer time. Kenzie and her both prayed really good. Now they are both tucked in. Hailey is already sleeping, but I hear Kenzie chomping on ice.

10/19/08

We had a great service in church today. We had two missionaries. The one was from the Philipines and had such a great testimony it had lots of us in tears. God is so good and it was wonderful to hear how he sent a missionary to reach this person way in the jungles and now he is a missionary himself. Hailey said her memory verse and came out with a star on saying she knew it. We came home and ate and Kenzie stayed with papa while I went to grandpa's house. When I got home we went to the playground for a while. Hailey had me follow her all over so I got my exercise. She was going down the tire ladder and said she wanted to try something different. She sat down so I thought she was going down on her bottom. Well she tried to jump through the hole in the tire and go down through it but went too fast and hit her chin. She cried for a minute while I held her and a little girl came up and asked why she was crying. She was so caring. We talked and found out she was 4 like Hailey. We played more and then went to McDonalds. When we got home we watched a movie. Rody and Kenzie surprised us and stopped in which was nice. Kenzie played pretty pretty princess with her. Hailey had asked how many days till her mommy, daddy and Jack were coming home. She goes to the refrigerator and looks at Jack's picture and says how much she misses him and rubs his picture gently. She says she misses mommy and daddy too. We were waiting for Melissa to call and when she did, Hailey talked to her for a few minutes, but because Kenzie had just gotten here she wanted to play with her so gave me the phone back right away. She always loves it when her mommy calls. She loved taking a bath with Kenzie's bath baby tonight. She shampooed her hair and washed her up good. She only could take a 5 minute bath because we wanted to get her in bed on time since she has school in the morning.
We did her bedtime routine and she went to sleep right away. She slept all through the night last night too. We are enjoying having our little sweetie. I should have taken a picture of Kenzie when she was here but I forgot. She looked beautiful and of course was as sweet as ever.

Thankyou for this surprise snapshot on my camera Rody!

Great picture Rody. We are very proud of you and were glad God placed you in our family.

10/18/08 HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIMMY AND VIKKI...WE LOVE YOU!!!

Happy Birthday to our sweet twins, Kimmy and Vikki. Hope your day is special.

Last night Melissa and Bruce dropped Hailey off while they go on their trip. She was so sweet. We did her night time routine and I was so blessed to hear how she prays. She prays better than alot of adults do. Amazing!!! We read her books and she listens so good and answers all the questions. She is quite a conversationalist now. She is growing up so fast into such a nice little girl. Nana is very proud of her. She went to sleep in our room on a compfy bed made of blankets and a sleeping bag. She slept all night through and didn't wake up until I woke her in the morning.
Today we got up and went to a Mission's breakfast at church. Hailey was very good there too. We left and went to grandpa's house. He was happy to see Hailey.
I gave Taylor his IV and it went quite well although it's not something I enjoy having to do. Grandpa was a big help to me. We came home and Hailey and I went to make Aunt Kimmy and Aunt Vikki's birthday cake. We started and realized it was a brownie mix. We made them because Hailey said she wanted to eat a brownie at the party instead of cake and probably some of the other kids would want to too. She helped me make cabbage buns while the cake and brownies were baking. She had lots of flour on her face and hands but did a great job spreading the dough out for me to put the hamburger filling on. When we were done, we frosted the cake. Then we played pretty pretty princess. She beat me bad. She had all the good jewels and crown and I had the ugly black ring. After we were finished we went outside and raked leaves so we could play in them. She worked very hard raking and kept right at it until we had a big pile. We had fun and took lots of pictures. We came back in the house for a while and she played with play dough. She was so happy when her mommy and daddy called and talked to her. She ran for the phone when I told her who was calling. She told them everything she had done, and had lots of kisses and hugs to give them over the phone. All day she was looking forward to the birthday party. She picked out a beautiful white top with sparkles and put it on and said it would be perfect for the party. She made beautiful cards for her aunts too.
Papa started working in the garden and she wanted to help him clean it out. She was hauling corn husks for him and worked real hard. I left to pick up grandpa while she ate and papa watched her. We went to Kimmy's and had a great time. We ate lots of yummy cake and ice cream and watched the girls open their presents. The kids loved helping blow out the candles. It was so fun watching all the kids play together, including big kid Jared. He had them laughing. He put the tunnel over his head and would go looking for kids to pick up and take inside it. Max was scared and sat by me so I would hide him with a pillow. Pretty soon Jacob was hiding with him with another pillow. All the kids would laugh when Jared got them except Max. He wanted nothing to do with it even though he saw it was Uncle Jared in there. He clung to me to hide him. He was so cute. One time Hailey wanted the car Max was playing with so Max came up to Vikki and me and said, "Do we have to share the car" in his little accent. It was so cute. Adam smiled his cute smiles when Kimmy would ask him to smile. So adorable. Kenzie made us all cards. They were so sweet. That was so thoughtful and we all sure loved them. She is so kind hearted and very good with her cousins. We miss Jack. He went with his mommy and daddy. We missed them at the party, but know they are having fun.
















Hailey like this huge leaf she found and wanted her picture taken with it.


Hailey took this picture of nana. The one above we set the self timer for.











Hailey showing her nails I just painted for her. She picked the colors for each finger!



Hailey beat me playing Pretty Pretty Princess