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I am a Child of God

Caleb is the official music conductor of Family Home Evening. He rotates between 2 songs, Book of Mormon Stories and I am a Child of God. Chloe has started copying him and every time we start to sing, she starts to wave her arm. This last Monday I listened closely as Caleb was singing and noticed that he sings, "I am a child of God with parents kind of dear."

Anybody who calls our home on a regular basis knows that we have a hard time locating a handset before the answering machine picks up. Yesterday a call came in and the machine beat me to it. A recorded voice starts coming across the machine that Caleb recognizes as Mitt Romney. It is a call where a recording of Mitt Romney is endorsing a local candidate and encouraging our support. Anyhow, Caleb starts getting all worked up, running around and yelling at me, "MOM aren't you even going to look for the phone? IT'S MITT ROMNEY! ARE YOU LISTENING? MITT ROMNEY!" Apparently our fondness for Mitt didn't go unnoticed.

Holiday Photos

We just had our annual family portraits done for our Christmas card. I don't want to post any of the ones that will make their debut on the card, although here are a few we also really like. Dawn Yorgason took them and did such a great job. We are so pleased with how they turned out and Caleb even said getting our pictures taken was "so much fun". This is pretty amazing considering it is usually like pulling teeth to get the kids to take family pictures.

Are you ready for FOOTBALL...to be over?

How is it that something so dominant in our lives has been pretty much neglected on our family blog? Is it that I am in denial? Most likely.
Our 2 oldest sons have had football practice every night. Carter's games on Wednesday and Chase's on Saturday. The second two sons practiced twice a week, luckily at about the same times and at the same school field, and also had Saturday games. All of their practices have overlapped at some point. Add to that snack assignments, uniform washing, keeping game socks and cleats found, mouthguards clean and at games, folding chairs and blankets ready to go, schedules straight and hopefully on occasion remembering the camera. All of this made for some serious brain fuzz for me. Our final team party is on Saturday and Corbin's team has one more day of "playoff" games in a week. I would be neglecting a huge part of our lives not to post something about this football season.
Last night I actually went through Carter and Chase's closet with them pointing out that they have other clothes to wear besides just team jerseys. I am getting so sick of jerseys!
Carter scored a touchdown at the last game after being put in as a tight end. This was a game where the camera didn't make it.
Chase was the QB for his team, the Colts, and did a phenomenal job. It was his first year playing full contact in full pads and even got to play a game at BSU.
Corbin named himself MVP of the decade (any of you who know Corbin know this is all too true). He is looking forward to showing off his skills at the playoffs and recording his personal stats in the notebook he has been keeping.
Caleb played on the Packers with his cousin Jayden and loved every minute of it. Jayden was a lethal QB and Caleb was his skilled Wide Receiver. They had some SWEET plays.
Chloe is the fan of the season for going to all of the games, sitting in her stroller and clapping and cheering for her brothers. Also, for willingly let them dress her up in their jerseys, and other football gear.

Caleb admires his big brother Carter #75
Chase #12 is ready to start the game
Colts #1 Fan (or 1 year old fan)
QB & Receiver
Spectators
Concentration
Carter #75

Conference Weekend

The $26 discount car wash

I just got hosed at the gas station while trying to buy the Wednesday $1 wash! The corner station offers their premium wash for a buck on Wednesdays with an 8 gallon minimum purchase. My tank was 3/4 of the way full, but I wanted the wash so I headed in to top it off and clean my car. The drawback is that you have to buy the discounted wash inside the store. I used my debit card at the pump, then ran in with my dollar bill to purchase the wash. I'm waiting in line and as I get to the register I look out the window to see gas POURING out of my car all over the parking lot. I run out there as fast as I can to shut off the valve and see that I have a good $25 more showing up on the pump than I needed. ARRRGH! The cashier said there was nothing he could do and that I shouldn't leave my pump unattended. My pump has always shut off when it was full, except for this time. I guarantee I will not leave my pump unattended in the future. I can think of a lot of other things that $25 could be used for besides a parking lot soaked in gasoline.