His Papers Are In!

My brother Chad sent his mission papers in this week. I am very proud of him and slightly in shock over the fact that he is old enough to be sending in his papers! He is very excited to go.
I just had to share these pictures that were recently taken. One of the pictures has been doctored by my dad. Can you guess which one?? LOL

Practice Makes Perfect

This morning Sadie and I were playing a little game of catch. For the most part, I was catching the stuff that Sadie threw to me. She was kind of having a hard time catching what I was throwing.
She finally got frustrated and said, "Mom, you REALLY need to practice throwing!!"

Self Control

Last night for dinner we had french bread pizza, salad, and (Sean added) potato chips. Sadie was doing really well eating her potato chips, but having a hard time eating her pizza or salad.
She kept asking for more chips and we kept telling her she had to eat her other food first.
Half way through dinner she yelled out, "I know that I shouldn't eat more potato chips but I just HAVE TO HAVE THEM!!!" (She said this as she shoved her little fist in to the bag.)

Not So Bad

Sean got to work yesterday morning and noticed that he had a set of keys in both pockets of his coat. He knew Bethanie had preschool that day and would be very sad if she couldn't go, so he drove back home to drop off my keys.
On the way to preschool Bethanie was saying how glad she was that Sean brought the keys home.
She said, "Daddy is a good dad after all!"

I'm Full

After the big dinner on Thursday Sadie patted her belly and exclaimed, "I am full of MEAT!"

Staples

We had a family first while on our Thanksgiving vacation this past week. On Friday Sean and I took Bethanie to the walk-in clinic to have the huge gash in her head stapled back together!
Bethanie did very well. She didn't like the shot in the back of her head much, or the sound of the staple gun when the dr was putting the staples in, but she was very brave. The dr gave her three stickers as a reward. She immediately put two on and held the third tightly in her hand.
After that was all done Sean and I took her to the store where she picked out a pack of little puzzles. She totally deserved them!
When we got back to grandma and grandpa's house, Bethanie handed her third sticker over to her sister Sadie.
What a great big sister she is! She was thinking of Sadie even when her head wouldn't stop bleeding.

Looking Good Grandpa!

This last week while we were visiting Grandma and Grandpa for Thanksgiving, Bethanie and Sadie took the opportunity to play beauty salon with Grandpa. Bethanie was busy doing Grandpa's hair when she told him,
"Grandpa, we are going to make you look good for women!"
Grandpa got a good laugh off of that comment.