My Early Christmas Present

So I must be painfully honest.  We tried puppyhood, I lasted 4 days.  Trying to homeschool, help Jared make it through the Christmas rush, and just being a mom overwhelmed me as I tried to attend to the constant needs of house training a pup, giving her attention, training her not to nip...  It was a beautiful experience, but our little puppy is now in a good home with a 12 year old boy :)

Caring for a puppy is like caring for a newborn babe.  I made the final decision when I ignored Lucy to put the puppy down for her nap...

So here's to being imperfect and fickle, but knowing our little puppy has a great home has eased my mind in getting my early Christmas present of a little less responsibility :)

Who destroyed Jerusalem?

Family scripture study was very insight the other night.  We were having Eliza tell us the story of when Lehi and his family left Jerusalem.  She did amazing, smart little girl.  She got all the details, so we decided to take it a bit further and ask her, who would have destroyed Jerusalem?

She was very thoughtful for a while and then she said, "I think it was Laman and Lemuel!"

Of course the evil duo Laman and Lemuel would be the only ones capable of destroying an entire city.  Those murmuring city wrecking brothers!  We all had a great laugh.

Lights at temple square (it was 50 degrees!!)

I still ask myself if we are crazy....we got a puppy!

Yes, I thought for sure Lucy would not like the dog, so I told Jared, if Lucy likes the puppy we can get one....SHE LOVES HER!  Welcome little Daisy..Sugar...Chomper...Feathers...Spike...pickles...(name pending)

A trip to aquarium especially for our Zoologist Eliza_Jane 

Who wouldn't want a hug a whale!

Lucy Darling

Lucy has been keeping us on our toes lately...Miriam and I sat down one day and made a Lucy Book, it really made us chuckle.

Lucy loves to dance, she hops on one leg and says...A-Datsing!!!

Whenever she wants something, she grabs it, runs away as fast as she can and says, "I NEED IT!"

Yeah, she doesn't like dogs...at all.

Every night she cries to go up on the top bunk...sigh

She loves her binkies...we just have to find them all the time :)

The first snowfall--photo by Jacob

This was from the first snowfall of the winter, and with the way the weather is going, it just may be the last this year.  Upper 50's for a week or so now.  Great for going to the park!