Things that make me smile

Natalie was in her very first Primary Program this past Sunday. She missed last year's program because we moved right before our ward had theirs, and our new ward had already done theirs. I was so sad that I wouldn't see my little Sunbeam sing and wave to me from the stage last year, so I was REALLY excited about this year's program. We practiced the songs all year so that Natalie would be comfortable with them (we even listened to a CD with the songs in the car). The part they gave Natalie was for her entire CTR 5 class to memorize. I wasn't sure if Natalie could memorize several lines yet - but she did! And made it look easy too!! She was a little nervous about the program (probably because I was making such a big deal about it) but I told her that it was for Mommy and I just wanted to see her sing. So when it came time for her to go up there she went right up to her spot and sat down, then her class was the first to stand up and say their part together - Natalie was too busy watching me wave to her so she totally missed saying her part but that's ok! I knew she knew it :) And she sang every single song!! Can you tell how proud I am of her?! I almost took the camera in for pictures (I mean this is for posterity, right?) but thought better of it in the end. We're so sad that Dan had to miss it, but don't worry, he got an even longer version of this story than what I'm posting here!

Natalie right before church started

Natalie loves to climb the tree in our front yard and has gotten quite good at it...

Apparently heights don't bother her!

She is such a sweetie!

One morning as we were getting ready I found Nathan like this...

What IS THAT you say?


See, Mom? It's a bandaid!

(don't worry, it's clean)

So of course Natalie had to get her own "bandaids" too, and just look at that face Nathan is making - pure mischief!!

What you aren't seeing is that Nathan was also wearing my shoes. But to keep this blog clean I couldn't post those pics (seeing as how the pads and shoes were ALL that he was wearing!)

I had such a good laugh with the kids!! They keep me smiling all the time and I am so thankful to have them for my family.