Touching Story on YouTube

Dan called me today to tell me about this video on YouTube. It's some friends of ours from our last ward. We taught their oldest son in Scouts and I was her visiting teacher. Her husband was sent to Iraq when their youngest baby was about a year old. When Dan and I moved out of the ward, everything was still fine, but a few months later, her husband had a terrible head injury, which should have killed him. Luckily, he seems to be recovering, although he definitely is still struggling with his injury. Anyway, if you want to hear a beautiful story about an awesome family and see what awesome blessing they have just received, take a look.    Kendall and Sarah Redmond Family

Dad, this one's for you.....

I saw this on someone's blog and it made me laugh really hard. I knew my Dad would get a kick out of it!

Don't hate me....going private.

I know, I know. I am not a huge fan of when people make their blogs private, but Brandee and I just a had a huge discussion about it and a special they did about it on KSL and it scared the tar out of me and I've decided, even though it's not nearly as fun or convenient, that I should make my blog private. So, I need everyone's email addresses, but if you don't want to post it, here is mine, so you can email me and I will send you an invite  saedranne@yahoo.com . If you don't get around to it soon, just find me on facebook (if you don't have a facebook account yet, then repent and get one, because it's so much fun!) and I will get your email address there. Love you all!!!

Here is the link for the ksl story, for any of you who have asked!

Tag, I'm "it". The 4's

Brandee tagged me, and for once, it sounded like something simple enough that I didn't feel like I needed a nap just thinking about it. So, thanks Brandee. My 4th picture in my 4th folder is..................

 I was surprised that this picture happened to be the 4th. I have so many random, pointless pictures that I can't believe I got a fun one with all of us in it! This picture gives me some happy memories. This was taken last year (only about 3 weeks away from today in fact) when we were on our way to our first day of Disneyland. It was such a fun trip and I wish we were headed back there right now! I can't believe how little Aidan is in this picture! He has grown up so fast.

Ok, I don't know who to tag, because I know I've seen this on most of your blogs already. Ummmm, if you haven't done it yet, consider yourself TAGGED!!!

I love this boy.......

.............because he's yummy!!!

Halloween-2008

We had a great Halloween this year! Every year, my sister, Mom and I take our kids trick or treating down Center Street in Provo. My sister (Saesha) lives in Pleasant Grove and for a few years we just felt  bad for ourselves that we never got to see each other on Halloween or see the kids all in their costumes. Then, one year we decided to meet in Provo and trick or treat down Center Street. It starts at 3:00, so it never interferes with any ward parties, or regular trick or treating and the kids love to get to see each other, as do Saesha, Mom and I.

Here we are, the four pirates. I don't usually dress up for Halloween (which is weird, because it's one of my favorite Holidays) but this year, I couldn't resist joining in with the boys.

Here is most of our group (Koby, Lori, Kolton and Kaleb all came a few minutes later). 

Aidan was so stinking cute in his little pirate outfit. I loved his bandana, but mostly, I loved how proudly he wore his costume. I was afraid he wouldn't want to wear it, but he loved it and it was so fun to watch him strut around. He wouldn't say "trick or treat", but he did say "Hawoween!" (Happy Halloween) to a few people. He was pretty good about saying thank you though. He cracked me up once, we went into a shop and there was a really cute girl behind the counter handing out the treats and he said as we were leaving "Dank dou, dirl" (thank you, girl) which made me laugh and laugh.

Ethan was so adorable. He kept pulling his hat down over his head really far, so it looked really funny. I had to keep fixing it, but it never lasted long. He really got into trick or treating this year. Last year, I remember him having a hard time and lots of tantrums, but this year he was just cute and sweet and always remembered to say "thank you" after he got his treats.

Mason was Captain Jack Sparrow (thanks to Saesha for lending me the costume). He loved being Captain Jack and actually told a few superheroes that we saw that night that "he could beat them, because he was "Captain Jack". He's such a nut.

Here we are at our Ward Halloween party the night before (on the 30th). Dan and the kids had a blast. I had fun too, but I missed everything that happened outside of the primary room. We did a Carnival Style Halloween party with games and a spook alley, etc. But, the Primary Presidency had to be in charge of our two games (bean bag toss, and ring toss) so I missed everything else. Dan said the Spook Alley was great though.

Also on the 30th was Ethan's Preschool Program. He was so cute. He'd been telling me for at least a month that he was going to "scare all of the Mom's" during their program. I was worried that he wouldn't go up to the front. He gets really bad stage fright. But, he went up and after the first song, he actually started singing along and looking like he was having fun. We were really proud of him.