I am so excited mom and dad are going to be here more. For those of you who don't know, my dad has accepted a position with BYU. He is going to be working part time down here. The next few months will be hectic going back and forth, but hopefully by this summer it will settle down a bit. Mom and dad have rented a home in Mapleton and will be moving some of their things in next month. I don't know who is more happy about it, myself or Kelton. It will be so nice to have them close and to be more a part of what is happening down here in Utah. I know it isn't Washington, but I hope they can call this "home" too. After work today Sam and I spent a little time down at Ben and Brit's house. Eli was absolutley full of it. Blake doesn't stop eating, and Britney is constantly going, going, going. My cheeks hurt from giggling when I got home and thought about how much energy those boys have.

I am grateful for my little sunbeams. I am grateful for my little sunbeams. I am grateful for my little sunbeams. I keep hoping the more I say it the more it will come true. I got a new class the first of the year and I honestly don't know how I will survive the next few months until they get used to it. We have 3 sunbeam classes in our ward and my class is the youngest. Out of the 6 active kids 3 turned 3 in November and December. Needless to say, I will be taking a shower after church as well as before. I have been beat on by a kid named David, whose mother said he has an anger problem. I have been tooted on, buggers wiped on, peed on, and I have been pitting out the last two weeks. I would go into more detail, but don't want to bore you with it. All I can say is I am sure I will be "blessed" for my service.

Last night I attempted to give Sam some rice in the hopes that he would sleep longer. He isn't 4 months yet, but I figure it's close enough. He actually slept for a little over 6 hours! He did wake up about every hour and a half, but I just held him and stuck the binky in and he fell back to sleep. We were awake as often, but not as long. He woke up at about 4 and ate, then I tried to lay him back down and he got totally upset. Once I picked him up and started talking to him he started giggling and smiling. He was awake until 6 playing in his bouncer happy as a lark. (what is a lark anyway?) I hope after a few nights he won't wake up at all. I honestly don't know what I would do with myself if I got that much sleep all at once.

Kelton and Shad have been bonding lately. The other night we realized Kelton has never played checkers. Shad went and got a checkerboard and they have been playing nonstop ever since. It's funny how Shad shows no mercy to an 8 year old. They were really into playing football on the xbox before this checkers obsession, and Kelton kicks his rear every time. I guess Shad is happy to be beating him at something finally.

Boys

I love my boys. Last night I had to walk Kelton all the way across the street to scouts. It has been frigid here and it snowed a few inches Tuesday night. I waited to the last minute to make sure Shad wasn't going to come home to walk him over. Kelton didn't want to go and was crying that he wanted to stay home and play. At five minutes to, I decided to bundle Sam up and get over to the church. Kelton was crying and crying and I was getting frustrated because I didn't want to bundle Sam all up for 3 minutes, and I couldn't understand why Kelton was so upset. The second I put on the fluffy coat on Sam he started to giggle and giggle. It made Kelton and me giggle too and the walk over not so bad. When Sam and I got home I decided to put on his new hat he got for Christmas and see how it looked. I was crying from laughing so hard. He was hamming it up for me. Shad came in and I didn't even hear him since I was laughing so hard and trying to tickle him. Anyway, I thought that was funny.

Kelton is such an independent kid when it comes to certain things. Lately it has been his hair-do in the morning. He doesn't want my help except to put on the hairspray. Mind you, I haven't purchased hair spray since halloween 2005, so I don't even think it keeps it's hold. This morning I was wondering if it was mean to let him go to school the way it looked, but he was so proud of what he had accomplished I just couldn't say anything. He told me he looked like scrappy like it was a good thing. I took a picture...

It's 9 on Thursday morning,school started at 8:40 and Kelton is on the couch with Sam. He woke up this morning crying saying he didn't want to go to school today and proceeded to lock himself in the bathroom and yelled "I am NOT coming out!" What to do, what to do? I told him he is going and that is it...Then I realized he is sick. All sorts of sick. Needless to say this child doesn't tell me when he has a tummy ache until it is too late. I don't understand why he doesn't say he doesn't feel well if he doesn't feel good. He doesn't want to inconvenience anyone, he must get it from Shad.

The last week has really been uneventful. On New Years eve, Shad and I had the option of going to a friends house with adults only or staying home. We kept going back and forth on what to do, and when it came down to it we stayed home with Kelton and Sam. We were planning on our own little family New Years party with Kelton. We ended up in bed at 9:30...Sam ended up waking up at 11:30 so I got to catch the new year while Shad and Kelton were cutting z's. It was still fantastic to be together anyway.

Sam has come down with a nasty cold, but is still such a happy boy. He doesn't even care when I suck his nose out with the sucker thing. He just smiles and coos the whole time as the snot comes out. He is having a rough time sleeping since it's hard to breathe with the congestion, but he is happy while he's awake. I can't believe how much he has grown in the last couple weeks. He is now officially in 3-6 month tops, however two pair of the newborn pants still fit, and the 3-6 month bottoms are ridiculously too big. He obviously inherited the Wall legs.