Love is in the air...

LOVE OF DECORATING FOR HOLIDAYS
Well Zach LOVES holidays. And his favorite part is seeing all the decorations. Some people in our neighborhood have Valentine's stuff out. Zach was very disgusted that I wasn't putting anything up. He asked if I would draw some hearts for him to cut out...this is the result. I did a few of the tiny hearts from scraps but he did all the rest. And this is only 2 walls...they're everywhere!!! And look at that cherubic face to go with it.

BROTHERLY LOVE
Savannah was being so, so clingy yesterday and I was trying to get a few things done. I asked Jacob to read to her for his school reading time. At first he wasn't too excited but then got really into it. The cute thing is that he's reading her Power Rangers.
LOVE OF...ROLLS?
I had to make 100 rolls for Enrichment last night. I also had to have a batch halfway done and then start another one there as part of a demonstration. I love rolls, but by the end of the day I was pretty sick of looking at them. I don't think I could work in a bakery.

Our not so great garage door...

Tonight I backed out of the garage to take Jacob to basketball practice. As I pushed the remote to shut the garage door it pulled or something on one side and bent the track on the other side. So our lovely garage door is hanging sideways and half-way open.

The bad news is that my van is stuck in the garage.
Update: It's cold outside!!! My little ones still have colds and their poor little noses walking to school...I felt bad for them.

The good news is that Dallin's car was out of the garage so he can go to work tomorrow. I also had no errands to run tomorrow, which is actually quite amazing. We also live just down the street from both the elementary school and preschool...it just better not rain.

And to make things even more exciting...this is not the first time it's happened!!!!! The same thing happened 2 or 3 months ago. The warranty people better get it right this time.

Germs

These are technically "Zach moments" but kind of long so I thought I'd just make a post out of them...

This one is very sweet. Last night Zach was saying our family prayer. At the end he paused for a minute and then said "Bless Prophet Hinckley to move to his new house in Heaven." He's such a sweet boy. He's very excited because today Connor and Jacob are both sick (again!), so it's just going to be Zach and I going to church today. He's so excited to have Mommy to himself for all of church.
Update: We got home from church and Savannah now has a really high fever. It's really going around here. A little girl sitting a couple of rows in front of us threw up all over her Mom during the Sacrament today. Not fun.

Okay, on to the germs. At breakfast I told Zach that Jacob wouldn't be coming to church because he had a fever again. This is the dialog that followed (I wrote it down as he was saying it...he couldn't see that though):

Zach: I only have one germ.

Mom: Oh really, where is it?

Zach: Right by my elbow and then it switches to my shoulder over here.

Mom: What kind of germ is that?

Zach: An itchy germ. Dinosaurs have it too.

Mom: Wow! That's amazing.

Zach: Blood. It's like a machine. You're body is like a machine.

Mom: Where did you learn that?

Zach: At school. Next year when I go to kindergarten I'll learn all about that stuff.

Good luck Uncle Justin!

For those who know my brother Justin, he is back in the U.S. If you didn't know...he was living in Brazil and got married there last January. His wife is named Ana Paula and she is pregnant with their first little boy, due the beginning of March. He found a job as a corrections officer (or something similar...I don't know the actual title) at the prison in Holbrook, AZ. My Uncle Mike lives there with his family, so it will be nice for him to have some family in town. My parents are moving Justin out there today. They are in the process of doing the paperwork for Ana Paula to come to the U.S., but it could be months. Justin will have to go back to Brazil to sign papers for the baby to be able to come also. So it will be a long process, but we're happy to have him closer (relatively speaking)! Good luck Justin & Ana Paula!

Why do we have toenails?

Tonight after his bath Jacob asks me out of the blue, "Why do we have fingernails Mommy?" So we came up with a little list of answers...to help open pop cans, to pry apart little legos (his idea), etc. He's quiet for a minute and asks "Well why do we have toenails?" I had no good answer for him. Do you?

Oh man!

Savannah's new favorite phrase is "Oh man!" It sounds so cute the way she pronounces it and when she says it. For example..."Can I watch Dora Mommy?" No, Dora's not on right now. "Oh man!" It's much better than having a tantrum, that's for sure.

The passing of President Hinckley

From the LDS newsroom:

SALT LAKE CITY - 27 January 2008 - President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.

President Hinckley was the 15th president in the 177-year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March 1995.

The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. Sunday night from causes incident to age. Members of his family were at his bedside. A successor is not expected to be formally chosen by the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after President Hinckley’s funeral within the next few days.

Oh what do you do on a drizzly day, when all the world is wet

Today, like many other days lately, is very foggy with mist all over everything. It looks really pretty but makes it so we can't really play outside very well. So Zach asked me to build him a fort. I figured out that chip clips (the kind that snap together and seal out all the air) are great for clamping fort sheets to the top of the bed.For those who've asked to see more pics of the inside of the house...this is our front room. When you walk in the front door these double doors are just to the right. Inside this room I have a bookshelf and scrapbook table (and lots of boxes) off to the left, my new bookshelf and our computer desk and supplies along the back wall, and our guest bed on the right (by the bay window). It's a good-sized room and is very multi-functional (especially for building forts that Connor can't get to).
I heard the pitter-patter of feet running on the tile back and forth for about 10 minutes as they brought books to read to eachother (Zach and Savannah playing together nicely for any length of time is a rare occasion, one that I HAVE to document). And this is Savannah's bed-head...we don't do hair on Monday until after naps since I'm just cleaning all morning.
Savannah started begging me for lunch but I told her she had to wait until lunchtime (all of about 15 minutes). Zach "made" her some lunch...what a sweet brother.
Connor's favorite spot...his personal little window next to the front door. This is him staring at the fog after being shut out from the fort.