Mom's Letters: Big Day

Monday, August 10, 2009

Big Day

Ashley was up and excited early this morning. She had everything on her chore chart done by 8:00 - bed made, room cleaned, dressed, hair done, shoes on, breakfast, lunch packed, etc. She was ready to roll. Luke on the otherhand woke up leisurely, not quite as enthusiastic about this year as he was last... must be part of growing up. But he caught the fire and was also energetic before too long.

Everything went fine with drop-offs and I haven't recieved a call home, so things must be going great! :) I went to the gym this morning and then Jake and I went out for a birthday morning date with his friend Hannah and my friend Jill. We went to toysRus and then for ice-cream at Baskin-Robbins. He is having a happy day, too.

Tonight we will have a little family birthday party for Family Night. But here are some pictures of this morning:

4 comments:

shauna said...: happy birthday Jake -- You are the greatest kid!!! Love, Nanna & Poppi; August 10, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Anonymous said...: .....see.... I TOAD YOU!!!!; August 10, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Jill said...: That was fun to hang with Jake for his b-day. Hannah has not stopped talking about it! Thanks for your wonderful friendship. You are one and a million.; August 11, 2009 at 1:38 PM
T and A said...: Wow 3 crazy isn't he still baby!?; August 12, 2009 at 10:46 PM

Mom's Favorite Quotes

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Monday, August 10, 2009

Big Day

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