Jeremy made this note for me at scouts tonight:
It got a little water damaged, but it says “Dear mom you are SMARTies my heart melts like BUTTERfinger 4 you I Love you DOUBLE bubble much.”
Loose tooth
Jeremy has another loose tooth, it seems like it’s only hanging on by a thread:
Christmas Lights on Temple Square
We decided to go to see the Christmas lights on Temple Square tonight. Grandpa and Grandma have never been, and it’s been a couple of years since we last went. Grandpa and Grandma left before we did, so they could pick up Debby and Jeff on the way, and we met them in Salt Lake.
Eventually my camera died and I had to resort to taking pictures with my phone.
We went on walking around Temple Square without Debby and Jeff for awhile, because she needed to find some place to nurse Rexton. They eventually caught back up to us, and we finished the evening together. The bubbles on the reflection pool were pretty cool. We were all trying to figure out how they got the lights in them.
We finished the evening by going out to dinner, and Grandma and Grandpa’s new favorite Utah restaurant, the Black Bear Diner. Debby was having issues with the server (because she has been a server and knows what they should be doing). It was almost like she was quizzing the server to see if she knew what she was doing, it was kind of funny.
Jeremy’s Baptism
We were late to the baptism this morning (we seem to always be late). Kyle is not feeling well at all, and has a fever. We asked Jeremy if Grandpa could baptize him, but he insisted on daddy doing it. Also the person that normally does the program wasn’t around to make a program for the baptism today, so Kyle was finishing that up and getting it printed, that is the bulk of what made us late this morning. Liesl had her camera and took pictures for us, and I’m so grateful for that because our camera started having issues back when we had our Locks of Love drive and got really bad during Thanksgiving dinner.
Jeremy was baptized with another boy from our ward named Nathan. Nathan is actually the younger brother of one of Ethan’s friends, so that is kind of cool.
Here is a picture of all the family that came to support Jeremy today:
Someone thought it would be funny to put the kids up on a shelf while we were taking some other pictures.
Then we headed back to the house for some food! Lydia couldn’t wait to get her hands on some cheese balls:
Then she couldn’t wait to get the cheese off her hands:
Jeremy worked on his new bracelet loom while we got the food ready:
We had sandwiches and a veggie tray and some fruit that we bought pre-cut, and the cheese balls and we bought cans of soda and juice as a way to come up with some pop tabs for a project that Tyra’s girl scout troop is working on.
When everyone was done eating food, we got out the cake.
We sang to Jeremy and had him blow out his candle.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the cake, and the raspberry swirl ice cream we served with it. It has been a super crazy and busy day, but all turned out well in the end.
Jeremy’s 8th Birthday
Today, Jeremy turned 8. Kyle and I had a few errands we wanted to run today. Grandpa offered to stay and watch the kids, so we took Jeremy with us since most of the errands related to him, and left the others at home. We went to get him a new suit, since he has outgrown his current one, and I really wanted him to have a nice suit to wear to his baptism tomorrow. We took him to the toy store and he picked out a loom to make bracelets out of little rubber bands. We took him to the scout store to get his book and other things that he will need for scouts, well to get the things that I didn’t have already. And we went to pick up the cake that we ordered and to get food for the party after his baptism. It was insane to go out on black Friday, it took us way longer than we wanted it too, but we got all the shopping done.
To celebrate his birthday tonight we had leftover pie (so we could save the cake for when everyone is over tomorrow). We even put a candle in it.
After pie we moved on to presents. While Adam attacked the cheese balls for tomorrow’s party.
I think he had a good birthday. He got to have Grandma and Grandpa here to help celebrate, which doesn’t happen very often. He is rather sad about the new suit, but only because it means that he is officially out of his old suit. Other than that, I think we had a good day. 🙂