Welcome 2017!

We stole Mom's phone

I bought clippers and cut Luke's hair for the first time...I think I did an ok job.

Watched some tv at Avo's.  She's good to us and lets us do what we'd like with the couch cushions.

Welcomed Maxwell!  Congratulations Beka and Mathew.  I think he brought the Patriots good luck in their crazy comeback and Superbowl win!.

Played in the snow...there was a lot of it (we had 7 snow days!)

Did some magic tricks

Enjoyed Parker

Dressed up like a Pokemon

Went to the Elementary Honors Academy STEM event

Looked cute while we slept

Laughed watching shows together...I think they have the best laughs :)

Luke 2016

Some of his drawings...

a bat

a monster

 

Singing for Beka

Writing his name

And Abby's name

Cards he made at Ms. Sharon's and at church

Playing the piano

One of Luke prayers from the beginning of the year..."Please bless the Heavenly Father. Please bless the food.  Please bless Ben and Beka get better.  Please bless good sleep.  Please bless Jesus Christ. Amen"

He calls hand sanitizer "hanitizer."

Luke had a pile of books to read.  He looks at me and asks "How do you do this?"  I asked, "How do you do what?"  "Read!"

He says "can't" when he means "don't."  "I can't want to go to bed."  "I can't want to eat that."

We were at my Mom's house and she had made a banana bread.  Luke LOVES my Mom's banana bread. She cut the loaf in half so that we could take some home with us.  He pointed to one half and said "That mine!"  My Mom answered yes but before she could explain that it was for us to take home with us he pointed to the other half and asked "That Abby's?"  If we let them they both would probably eat half a loaf of banana bread.

Abby 2016

Found this placed on the floor outside Abby's door one day.

Some self portraits

Her reaction to finding out that Beka was having a baby boy...

A story she wrote about when Parker was born

Instructions on how to make pizza (unfinished)

A Fairy Tale

And a story about her

A conversation on my birthday...

      Abby: Mommy, how old are you?
      Me: 35
      Abby: Oh...I've been telling people you were 55!


Abby likes to use the word nearly..."I'm nearly done"  It's nearly time for snack"

She is a BIG help with Luke.  She especially likes to help put him to bed and reminds me of all the things I need to do before he can go to bed.  She tells me to make sure he gets a story, song and his inhaler!

This is a talk Abby wrote by her self to give in Primary at church.
"Jesus Christ created the Earth for me.  My fovrit part of the Earth is the animals like Pandas and cats.  Some people as why.  Why did Jesus creaet the Earth.  Well this is why he did.  Jesus created the Earth because he had a plane.  His Plan was for us to come to Earth and that is why he crated the Earth for us!  Adum and Eve where the first one's to come on Earth. they had Children many Children. in the name of Jesus Crhis aMen."