Sariah's Party

After Sariah's baptism we had a party with the family at the house. Since her baptism was pretty close to her birthday and most of my family was there, we had ice cream and cake for her birthday. I made carne asada and spanish rice. I think it turned out to be pretty tasty.

Uncle Dan and Papa Boyd. Uncle Dan seemed to have a good time talking with Grammi and Mike about politics.


Jocelyn and Kyle came for the baptism. Unfortunately Kyle became sick while he was here and couldn't be at the party.


Here is Grammi and Grandma talking to my Mom. As you can tell from the shot of the entryway, there were a lot of people a the house.


Here are Brad and KC. I was glad that Brad was able to come, even though he recently started a new job.


Here are Pop and Jeremy


Sariah blowing out the candles on her birthday cake. She claims that she never actually ate any of her cake. I'm sure I gave her some though.

Here are Mom and I playing with JD. He has the funniest laugh, I love to tickle him.

This is my cousin Tracy and her youngest. For the life of me I can't remember her name right now, but she's a cutie. Mom, help with the name please?

Kilo really wanted to play with all the kids that were outside playing. My kids were having fun with Tracy's older girls since they are about the same age as Becca and Sariah.

Grandma Law came with my family. I was very happy about that since we haven't been able to visit since January and probably won't for a while.

I think everyone had a nice time and it was nice to see everyone. Sariah had a very special day and I know she felt loved.

Friends

I have never been good at making friends. I'll never forget 12 years ago when one of my friends told me that she thought I treated her condescendingly. She was one of the smartest people I knew back then; and although I only know what she's up to through her blog and Facebook now, she probably still is one of the smartest people I know. I never intended to treat her that way, but the damage was done. Other times I felt that people would pretend to be my friends and then make up excuses if I wanted to go do something, or make jokes at my expense.

Jeremy has a small group of loyal friends that he's had for a long time. However, since we've been married he's made very few new friends. I think it's a combination of being busy with work and kids and the fact that I no longer go out of my way to try to do things with people.

I have a point to all this I promise.

Between a gun-shy mom and a dad who just isn't worried about a social life, my kids haven't made many friends. Becca says she's friends with everyone, but there aren't really very many that she's ever asked to play with. Sariah (poor kid) is like a little mini-me. She looks very much like I did, she's book smart like I was, emotional, and small. She gets teased because she's small and too smart for her own good. JD is still too young to care. He does have a buddy at church though. Those two are like little twin terrors. I should get together with his buddy's mom; but being antisocial I haven't yet.

Becca has one friend at school that she REALLY loves. She writes her friends name all over everything, calls her, asks to play with her. Her friend used to live down the street from us and walk home from school. Becca would pretty much attack her with hugs when she would see her walking down the street. We all know how energetic Becca is.

Becca's friend called two nights ago and said she was moving. She was moving that very night. She said they would have the same number, but the next day when Becca tried to call, nobody answered. She wasn't at school either. Becca is a pretty plucky kid and didn't seem upset.

I was very upset. I want my kids to be happy and have lots of friends. It's hard to watch Sariah and remember how hard it was for me to have friends. I think that Becca hides how she feels a lot of the time. It takes a lot to make her really upset. I really wanted her to be able to keep that friend, but it looked like she disappeared.

Today Becca came home from school with good news. Her friend was back in school. Her mom decided not to pull the kids out during the middle of the school year. They are going to have a sleepover this weekend.

I think I was more excited than Becca. Now if only Sariah could get a friend to come over.....

Daddy Daughter campout

In September, our ward decided to have a Daddy-Daughter campout. Sariah and Becca went with Jeremy. The turnout wasn't huge since a few families from the ward decided to have their own campout on the same night, but the girls still had fun. The bishop brought some bb guns and a rifle to do target practice with the girls, they also went down a zip line. The bishop took each of the girls since the other dads didn't want to do it. I'm glad Sariah and Becca could go camping with their dad and have some fun.

Here they are after the campout; covered in red dirt. That dirt doesn't come out in the wash by the way.

I know this picture is a little fuzzy, but doesn't Becca look like she's having fun? The bishop's daughters are trying hard to keep up.

Sariah posing for the camera.


Becca was so funny. She thought she was a really good shot. She didn't hit a thing. She looks ready to go though, doesn't she?


Sariah doesn't look quite as comfortable. She gets easily frustrated too. It's hard to teach her that it was just for fun.

Here is the video of the bishop making the first run on the zip line.



Becca on the zip line

Sariah on the zip line

Christmas In October

This year, the Law family skipped Thanksgiving and went right to Christmas directly after Halloween. My parents brought all the Christmas gifts with them since we probably won't see them this year. I'm no good at waiting for surprises and I didn't know where I'd hide everything from the kids anyway, so we went ahead and opened gifts after trick or treating. I think the little bugs for JD were hilarious.

Long time no posting

Isn't he a cute little guy? I can't believe how big JD has become. He's starting to talk a lot now (actually he never STOPS) but the nice thing is, I can acutally understand most of what he says even though "zip" sounds like "flip", and "chocolate" sounds like a swear word. My dad took this picture of him at the Sacramento Temple when my family came to visit for Sariah's baptism.

I have been really tired and busy lately with school and overtime at work. School is going well and the contract situation with Health Net is looking positive. We should find out sometime in early January if we still have a contract. The cars have decided to act up on us again, I swear we have the worst luck with vehicles. Thankfully, we've been able to pay for repairs and keep them running. With everything going on, I just haven't had time to post to the blog.

Sariah and Becca have made some friends at school that happen to live in the neighborhood. The frustrating thing is that the children's parents would rather them play out in the street than in our house. They seem to think that somehow it is safer, even though they aren't watching them. I have been able to get a couple of parents let the friends come to the house a couple of times, which to me is a lot safer since they won't get hit by a car or picked up by some weirdo if they are in the house or the fenced back yard. But that's just me thinking.

Fun with the kids

I'm glad that Jeremy bought me some video editing software that doesn't freeze up every time I try to use it. We've had this video of me goofing around with the kids for a few weeks now, but I couldn't get it off the video camera and when I finally reinstalled the old program we had, it kept freezing up and shutting down. Anyway, it's fun every once in a while to just be silly. Enjoy.

JD opening presents

Here is some video of JD opening his presents. He had a lot of unnecessary help from his sisters.