Mom's Letters: Cousins have come to town!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Cousins have come to town!

We are so thankful to be spending this Thanksgiving week with our fabulous Finklea cousins who drove and flew down from Utah. My kids are elated to have them here! And we, the moms and dads are having a great time, too!

Jake(3), Carter(9), Luke(7), Blake(7), Ashley (6), Brooklyn (4)

Baby Julia (7 mths) and Heidi

And can it be?... the Men are watching Twilight?... and with no women in the room?! (they liked it).

They've been here just over 24 hours and we've been having a very good time! This will be a memorable week for all of us.
Phase 10 and whipped cream late and night.

Other fun from Makutus Island, Golfland, Organstop Pizza, and being at home.

4 comments:

Ali said...: looks like everyone is thrilled! why is jake naked at the kitchen table?? and yes, it IS surprising to see those boys watching Twilight!!; November 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Ali said...: i can see that your christmas decor is up too...wow. you are ahead of the game!; November 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Anne said...: Jake is naked because he had just gone potty on his own (which requires skinning all the way down - tops and bottoms) and I hadn't gotten back to dress him yet. So embarrassing.; November 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
natalie said...: hooray! looks like SO much fun! so glad they made it down!! happy thanksgiving!!; November 27, 2009 at 9:39 AM

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, November 23, 2009

Cousins have come to town!

4 comments: