Cool Man

Can it be? My Noah's 13! His birthday was on March 22nd but I've been slow getting it all together here! Sorry Noah!

Kirstin, Noah & Emil
March 2002

Cool Man was Noah's self given nickname. 

We usually call him Noah S'moah or my personal nickname Mr. No.

Summer 2006

I love those sweet cheeks!

Noah & Kai
June 2006

This is probably my favorite pic of him. Emil took it when I was visiting my family in Ut. Kai was sad because Emil had caught them getting all muddy and they had to wash off in the cold water outside before he would let them go inside to take a proper shower. I'm pretty sure I know who the mastermind of the whole adventure was....

Dog on head 2011

May 2009

He loves his Blaze dog! She is his constant companion. But she keeps him under control. 

(In a manner of speaking.)

I love his silly antics and how clever he is. He loves to snuggle up to me still and I love that! He's mischievous and mercurial and we love his bright smile and all he adds to our family.

Anyway you slice it he's a teenager now and I'm not quite sure how that happened.

We love you Noah!

March 2012

To celebrate we had a family dinner at Emil's parents. Here he is playing with his cousin, Cara. She absolutely adores him and he's her undisputed favorite. I love how patient he is with her. 

  We went to the Norfolk Zoo in Va for his birthday. It was a bit chilly but nice!

 They had this amazing Elephant statue made out of butterfly shapes. It was cool!

Noah the Brave!
The sign says "Caution Tapiers can spray backwards 7-10 feet. Please stay alert! Urine Danger" 

Even I couldn't help but be amused by the Tapiers and their "special" talents.

This was the Meerkat habitat. It helped to get a good idea of their point of view.

This past weekend he went rappelling with Kirstin and Emil at Raven's Roost. It's an 80 foot rock face so he was pretty proud of taking that challenge.   

Noah and Emil March 2013

 What a blessing our children are. We love and miss our Kai. This month will be 4 years. I'm so grateful for spring and the promise of new life but most of all for the beautiful plan my Heavenly Father has for our family to be together again someday. 

I found some quotes I really like this morning. Thought I'd share one,

"Faith in God, means faith in his timing." - Neal A. Maxwell

"Faith makes things possible... not easy."

Kiss your dear ones and make the most of every day!

Greetings from Mars

Hello Earthlings!

I hear you're celebrating Christmas this season. Here on Mars we celebrate a special season called 2 yellow crystals day. It's the day we find two yellow crystals and stick them on either end of a stick and show it to one another. It's a rather festive day. You should come by and join in our revelry sometime. There is a lot of room on the red planet for friends!

Ok enough of the silly stuff. Noah was reading blogs

and wanted to add his Lego guy picture and so of course we had to add a story. ( He's supervising me right now!) This was one of those weeks that you just want to be over. We are almost there. 

On Wednesday we had our HSA (Home School Association) meeting to find out how many kids we were going to have for our lock in on Friday. The count was 35. We were feeling really good because it was a very manageable number and we had all our supplies bought. We were going to have the kids make gramcracker houses, play games, do pictures with Santa, have pizza and watch Frosty the Snowman. From 3-7pm on Friday afternoon. All for the bargain price of $5.00. Yes, it is very cheap but we have some low income kids and we wanted everyone to be able to come. So we were ready to go. 

Thursday Kai had a field trip to the Hunt Club in Va Beach. It is a winter wonderland type deal. They had a Christmas Tree lot and it brought back memories of Dad selling Christmas Trees on the Bakery parking lot every year. I love the smell of real pine. Those pine candles just stink to me. It was really stormy and that afternoon there was a tornado warning right at the end of school so the buses were delayed coming home about 15 minutes. They actually had a tornado touch down about 5 miles from the school but there wasn't any damage. 

That night we had the ward social. I was 40 minutes late for it along with Noah who was suppose to be one of the wise men. I thought I was getting there 20 minutes early.  I was totally off by about an hour. Oh well it's not like they waited for us, oh wait, yes they did!!! How embarrassing!

Friday I called one of the officers to see when she would be at school to find out her daughters both had a case of Lice and she wouldn't be at the lock in. Then when I went to school I discovered that our count for the lock in had jumped to 87!!!! It was utterly ridiculous.

I went with the other co-president to get more of everything and we rushed back to the school. The entire lock in was chaotic and very loud. Let's just say Melissa I'm glad it wasn't a 2 1/2 year nursery stint, but we made it through. We had to wait for 40 minutes for one Mom that was late for pickup... Grrrr. 

Then we rushed home to eat ice cream for Kai's birthday, open presents, and go deliver our Secret Santa gift and fall in bed. I was exhausted. Yesterday I got to dip some Bon Bons and make more Peppermint Meringues and last night we went to Emil's parents for a Birthday dinner and more presents. One of his presents was a Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em game. It was a total riot playing everyone. I stink at it. 

Today is the Stake Christmas Concert that Emil and Kirstin are both singing in. So we'll be heading out for that tonight. Next week I'm taking it easy. I don't like the rush that often accompanies this time of year. Usually I'm better able to block it out but I haven't been very successful this year. Better planning next year.