Policewoman

Why do people think they have to tell others when they are doing something wrong? I was minding my own business....speeding in a school zone (going about 3oish). I know, I know...not good. Then I was watching Emma walk to the school, when I heard this honk...i turned to see a woman next to me wanting me to roll down my window.
So I did.... "I was following you back there...I was going 20 miles an hour...and you MUST have been going 35 until you caught up with the bus in front of you....I feel sorry for the kids who are not in your line of vision!"
I smiled at her and rolled my window back up. She pulled out of the parking lot ahead of me and she pulled in front of another car...and got honked at!!! Ha, ha! See lady, nobody is perfect!
I must admit I have a speeding problem...so her point was a good one......I did get a speeding ticket last week.....but why does she have to pull over and tell me that! Whatever...what do ya do huh? I swear this lady was the type of girl in the elementary music program that corrected the kid next to her when they were singing the wrong words or doing the wrong hand motions (we just went to Bella's program yesterday and saw several girls doing this)
But in my defense.....I did have a "good" reason for speeding. Poor Emma was stressed that day about being on time. She said the teacher had asked her to try and be earlier so that she did not have to rush. So she was really good and got up early and was ready to get in the car when her backpack zipper broke open....her backpack is completely full. So we were rushing to find some bag(s) to get all her stuff together. So we were on time....but not early like she wanted to be.

Lesson I learned.....don't roll down your window when a crazy mom is honking at you he, he! Oh yeah...and don't speed!

Sophia's dream

One morning Lillian and Sophia were talking about how they slept that night. And Sophia said, " I had a dream Mom!" I asked her what it was about and she said that she got "runned" over by a train. "That's scary", I said. She said "Yeah, I didn't get up, I died"

"Oh sad!" I said. Then she said she went to Heaven and Jesus

picked her up and gave her to her Daddy.

"When Jesus comes"

So our poor Sophia has had a wart on her finger for....EVER. We have had it "frozen" at the doctor two times and put compound W on it....a zillion times. You can even buy this at home "freeze the wart" kit.....which we have done twice. One of those times was last night. If anyone has had this done to a wart....you know how painful it is....it is awful. She was really good about it...really only whimpered/whined about it for a few minutes. Then it was off to bed. I asked her to say her prayers and she didn't want to....mostly because she is the queen of putting off bedtime. I said honey you can pray that your finger will feel better and ask that the wart will go away soon. So I helped her with that prayer, and she climbed into bed. She then said....
"Mom, when Jesus comes to my house, he can help my wart go away....will he bring his tools with him?"
What do you say to that? "Oh....honey I don't know when he will come" And then she said,
"He can kiss it?" Then she kissed it, then I kissed it.
Oh.....how cute is that I say? It made me think of how we are supposed to be like little children. She was fully expecting Jesus to come to her house and take care of her problem, so much faith and trust in what we have taught her.

For the last six years my handsome Duff Dyer has taken our girl(s) to the Daddy-daughter dance....put on by first the high school, and now the city. They all look forward to it. Duff makes it special by taking them to dinner first, then usually a dessert after. Just such a fun date for them, I hope they remember these times when they are wanting to "pull-away". Sophia is too little just yet....so her and I had a mommy-daughter date, we had fun...... I thought, dinner and movie at home, then great treats...... then the next day she asked Duff if she would be old enough next year to go to the dance with him.....she is for sure our biggest Daddy's girl.

Our Sweet Bella-button Turns Eight!!!

SISTERS! Oh....do you want to just squeeze um both?

Bella's first friend birthday party....I know...I'm a bad mom! It was a "tea"-party with a pinata...at the end, funny combo....but we were aiming to please our Bella.

My parents came from Idaho to help celebrate!

This is right before she was baptized. Annabella is our sweet-hearted and...little-bit-shy-girl. As her birthday got closer she kept saying that she was nervous. We assured her that her Dad would talk her through everything, and that it would be fine. I kept thinking, she a great swimmer...not afraid of the water, what could she be nervous about? I asked her and she said....."all the people". I said, oh honey we don't have to announce in it sacrament meeting, and we can just have family and close family friends. And she let out a big sigh...like oh thank goodness. Poor thing! Didn't want all eyes on her. So we did just that....and we still had a biggish group. Come to find out she was also nervous about her dress coming up and her underwear showing. So we were able to borrow a dress from my good friend Christie....that someone had made for one of her girls...and it had weights sewn into the bottom hem...you can't even see them or feel them...but the bottom is heavy. Bella was very excited about the dress...so it was Christie to the rescue....love that woman! The Saturday before her baptism I had a dream that we went to church and there was an insert in all the bulletins "advertising" Bella's baptism! Funny!

Babies holding babies

The girls watching...and waiting for the new baby!

Notice Jenny and I....how we are gripping our own hands/arm. One of the nurses, who happened to be Ruth Markward, her daughter is in our halloween pictures (fun to have her there!) insisted on taking this picture, glad she did...shows our excitement. Oh how cute if he???? This is the first picture of the

"new-macrae, the new boy" our girls called him.....now we know his name is Rhett.

I stole this picture from Kjrsten....look her to blog for all the great pics! Congrats Anna you were awesome!!! I love you so much!

Christmas morning

She ended up in our bed....then we had to wake her up to see what Santa brought her

Her first journal entry in her new journal

Not enough room!

Gingerbread houses

Sophia eating way more than what ends up on the house

sNOw way!

Growing up in Idaho gave me lots of memories in the snow, so I was SO

excited when it snowed so my girls could have some of those same memories. In the 13 years I have lived here, I have never had a white christmas...or birthday,

I was so excited when it started snowing ON my birthday.

Bring on the blizzard....YAY!

Ganah has been saving a snowman kit for years....now she gets to use it...in true Ganah style she ran right down and started helping the girls with their snowman!

Isn't he handsome? When we got out the "nose" Sophia wouldn't believe us that it was wood until she tried to take a bite out of it. I only intended to take some pictures real quick....but it was snowing so hard and the girls were having too much fun....so I had to join in. When I was pulling them in the sled down our driveway they kept yelling faster......it was fun to see how excited they were, and it made me feel like a kid, for just a second! We also went sledding down the Danbridge hill. There were a group of grandmas taking their walk around the neighborhood who had stopped to watch us. When I had my turn the girls yelled, "go mom", and Isla yelled "go Keirra", so the old ladies started yelling "go Keirra, way to go" They were clapping and yelling just like my girls. They also groaned with us when the plow came to move some snow off the street. Funny! They reminded me of my Grandma Jones.....I hope I can be fun like that....when I get old!

Snow makes our front yard beautful!

Christmas surprises.

Lillian was so excited to get gifts for everyone that she began wrapping

stuff around the house in doll blankets and belts! Oh! I reminded her that

she had some money saved and that I could take her to the store and

she could pick out gifts for her sisters, she was so excited about this idea! Her favorite gift she recieved was from Emma......A SWORD! :)

Seattle birthday

My Husband is so wonderfully good to me! For the last few years we have gone to Seattle for a few nights for my birthday. We do a little Christmas shopping, sleep-in, stay up late, watch movies, eat good/junk food and sit in the hot-tub. This year for the first time we took a "handsome-cab ride" around down town. It was really fun....but oh so cold!

Our horse...Henry

Oh I love my hubby!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

So we had this tree in our yard....that was growing near the bathroom, they said it had to come down because it could cause damage to the pipes......so why not make it our Christmas tree???
My cute lumber-jack

The girls are a little sad because the tree was in there

"secret-hide-out" and they had named the tree Samantha....then

they said that she would look so beautiful all dressed up....funny girls! Looks like a Charlie Brown tree on

steriods....this is after we cut six feet off the top

Brandon and Isla stopped by...and when Duff and I were putting the tree upright, Brandon burst out laughing....then we stood back and laughed too.

When it was finally up the girls changed into last years christmas

pj's and started singing..."O Christmas Tree"

And ran around the tree...can you see them?

Not too bad, Charlie Brown!