Our little Angel

Disapointed to be playing the same roll as last year, Caroline made her appearance as one of the angels in the nativity. I thought she looked very holy. I'm sure you can guess from the costumes that there was a bit of kafluffle last year when they were purchased (on clearance from Halloween at the bargain price of $2) because of the wings. As any gosple scholar knows, angels do NOT have wings. I am a bit concerned that these primary children may lose their testimony or, worse, think that angels actually do have wings. Hopefully they will survive this. Brinley is shown here to the left eating the remains of her hair bow.

Brinley had a little lamb

Brinners starred as stable lamb number 13 in this year's production of the ninth ward nativity. Moments of glory for the young actress included crawling over to the microphone and singing "helloooooo" durring the inkeeper's lines, eating straw from the baby Jesus' manger, and removing her hairbows and eating them while bouncing up and down on her knees. Being the stage mother that I am, I crawled through the crowd and tables to the bottom of the stage and hissed at her to calm down, but, needless to say, she was a little excited to dial it back.

Cutie Pie

Gracie now eats just about anything . It's hard to believe a baby can digest the things they do without any molars to chew! Tonight she ate dinner just like the rest of us, with her high chair pulled right up to the table. Chicken, broccoli, carrots and angel hair pasta-yummy!

November 16th, 2007

This is the day that will live in infamy for the rest of my history on this earth: I found my first gray hair. The beginning of the end...

Little lambs

Brinley and her two little best neighbor friends as lambs in the ward Nativity pageant.

Cookie Party

December's soccer off-season activity was a gingerbread cookie party, held at our house on November 30th. All 14 of the players and some of their parents were there and, let me tell you, these girls are as creative as they are athletic! I made a few batches of gingerbread and the girls rolled out their dough, cut the cookies out, we baked them and then they decorated them. In between they spent time running around the house yelling at the tops of their lungs and playing sardines (a funner version of hide-and-seek). One of the grandmothers of the girls is a professional cake decorator so she came and showed the girls some fun tricks with a pastry bag. All in all it was super fun and very tasty-I love gingerbread!