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Yesterday I gave a talk at Church. My topic I was to talk on was Righteous Traditions. Things were going pretty good until I hear a beeping. I first thought it was a cell phone going off, so I continued. Well, when it didn't stop, and got louder I noticed this blinking light on the wall. I then realized the fire alarm was going off. The Bishop got up, I sat down, and some people went around the building to see if there was a fire, or if it was just some kid pulling the alarm. No one found any fire, so they turned off the alarm and then the Bishop asked me if I wanted to continue. So I got up to finish. Well about 3 minutes later, the fire alarms went off again. I looked at the Bishop, he asked me to sit down, and they went to check things out again, no fire found, they turned off the alarms, and the Bishop asked me if I would like to finish. So I got up and finished.

After I was done, I sat down, and looked a Jake, and he was laughing. After Sacrament meeting I asked him what he was laugh at and he said he was just thinking of all the funny things I could have gotten up and said each time the fire alarm went off. I didn't say anything that funny. I can't just think of things spur of the moment like that. So, what would you have said or done?

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This past weekend Micah, Christiann, Jackson, and Makenna came out to visit us. We had a great time and on Saturday night we went to Temple Square to see the lights with them and my other brothers and sisters. It was snowing while we were up there so it added to the atmosphere. Seeing the lights at Temple Square always makes the Christmas season complete.





Congratulations to Lindsay and Adam!!!!! They got engaged on Saturday morning. Adam sent her on a scavenger hunt with a princess theme. At the beginning of it he gave her the first glass slipper and then at the end of the hunt he put the other glass slipper on her and proposed. He did the princess theme because they are going to Disney World for their honeymoon. Welcome to the family Adam. We are excited for you guys.


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This past week Hannah was able to go to the "Nutcracker" with Grandma and Grandpa Proctor, Isaac and Taniel. She had so much fun and loved every moment of it. This reminded me of when Hannah was about 18 months old and she saw the Nutcracker on TV. She was either glued to the TV watching it, or dancing around. For the next few months she would ask for her graham cracker. I always thought she was talking about the cookie, and I would just tell her we didn't have any. After a while, she would get really frustrated with me when she would ask for her graham cracker, and finally I asked her to show me what she wanted. She took me into our toy room and pointed to her little tutu. I realized that she had never asked for a graham cracker, she was trying to say Nutcracker so I would get her little tutu out.
Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!!





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I don't really post many pictures of Brooklyn, so I decided to write a post just for her. She is now 8 1/2 months old, getting her third tooth, and is finally saying "mama". She has said "dada" for a few months now. She must be daddy's little girl.



She has been content to just sit and watch everything going on, so it has taken her a while to move around that much, or even roll over. Even now, she can roll over, but won't do it very much. She is beginning to discover her knees, and before long, I am sure she will be crawling everywhere. So now, I am enjoying that she just sits there and plays because I know that once she begins to crawl, things will get a lot more crazy around here.


Whenever Brooklyn is sad or tired she does this trill with her tongue. I thought I would get a clip of it because the trill is pretty cute.


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Thanksgiving was great this year. We started out our vacation going to the free day at Hogle Zoo. We had tons of fun. I was only able to get one picture, then my camera's battery went dead. We were a little sad that the white alligator went back to Louisiana (I think it was Louisiana) for the winter. Hannah's favorite animal to see at the Zoo was the zebras and the hippos. My favorite thing was that Jake was able to take off the afternoon to come with us.
(Everyone should ckeck out free day at hogle zoo. It is the last Wednesday of Nov-Feb.)
On Thanksgiving we went and spent the day at Jake's families house. It was great to be able to spend the day with them.
On Friday I experianced black friday for the first time. I went out with Jake's sisters at 4:30 in the morning. It was a lot of fun, except for the fact that I was so tired because Brooklyn only slept about 4 hours the night before. She had a bad cold. I did however get more sleep than Jake. He was up most of the time with Brooklyn. She finally went to sleep about 1:30 am and than woke up again at 3:30. I got up with her at that point, so I was all ready to go at 4:30 am. We went to Shopko and got some great deals on some games and towels. Shopko was not that crowded at all. As we drove past Walmart, Best Buy, and Toys R us, I was glad that I was not in their lines waiting. They were a lot longer than Shopko's lines and it was raining.
I don't have anymore pictures of the weekend because I never got around to charging the battery. We had a really good time hanging out with our family, and it was nice that Jake had some time off work to play with us. I can't wait for Christmas now.

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I love fall time. I love seeing all of the leaves change colors. I always point out to my kids how beautiful the trees look, so now whenever William notices a tree with the leaves changing colors he says, "Ooooh, that tree is so beautiful." It was fun to have leaves to rake this year. Hannah and William especially loved to play in the leaves.

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We have great news in our family. William is potty trained. YIPPY!

I have always gone with the theory to wait until the child potty trains themselves. That worked with Hannah so I was waiting for William to do it himself. When he turned three and still had zero desire to go to the bathroom in the toilet, I was beginning to think that my theory was not going to work with William. I started to push the potty training and after a few weeks of failure I thought that William was going to be in diapers FOREVER.

Then one day... Jake and I were upstairs and William came up with no pants on and said, "Mom, I went to the bathroom all by myself." I immediately thought, "Oh no, What kind of mess did he make." I went down to check things out, and I was pleasantly surprised. There was no mess. Since that day, which was a week ago, he has done great! Only two accidents, but that is it. I guess I am going to stick with my theory and let my kids potty train themselves.

Potty training is one of those things that you think with never come, but when it does, it seems like an ordinary miracle.

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I just got back from voting and I felt like a kid on Christmas morning. I was so excited to go vote. Especially since I only had to wait 5 minutes. We tried to vote early and went one evening about 6:30, and we would have had to wait 2 hours. It is neat to see so much interest in this election. It will be interesting to see how the election turns out later tonight. I really hope that McCain wins. If not, it will really be interesting to see how the next few years go.
I also wonder how prop. 8 will turn out in California. I just saw on KUTV news a new anti-prop 8 commercial. ( I was going to post the link, but then I thought that I don't want a link to that kind of stuff on my blog. You can see it on KUTV web site if you want.) I could not believe it when I saw it. What is this world becoming. It made me kind of mad that people would go out and make this kind of propaganda without trying to fully understand everything.
The Church always does great in defense when these kind of things happen. This was the statement that the Church came out with in reference to this commercial.

Scott Trotter with the Church released this statement,

“The Church has joined a broad-based coalition in defense of traditional marriage. While we feel this is important to all of society, we have always emphasized that respect be given to those who feel differently on this issue. It is unfortunate that some who oppose this proposition have not given the Church this same courtesy.”

I love being apart of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is nice to feel that while there is so much bad in the world, things are going to be OK. We can find peace if we rely on our Savior and try our best to do what we know is right. Thanks to our wonderful Savior for this peace. There is a new song that has come out in the October Friend. It is my new favorite Primary song. It says exactly what a family is and the purpose of a family.
I LOVE IT!

Here is the link so you can listen to it. I don't know how to make it a link, so you will have to copy and paste it.

http://broadcast.lds.org/primary/Primary_04_TheFamilyIsOfGod_.mp3


Isn't this song great.

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We hope that everyone had a great Halloween. We had a lot of fun carving our pumpkin, dressing up and eating a lot of candy. William dressed up like a knight and Hannah and Brooklyn dressed up like little Spanish girls in flamingo dancing dress. Thanks to Grandma Jeanne for getting the dresses earlier this year when she visited Spain.

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On October 22nd was William's birthday. I can't believe that he is three. He has grown up so fast. Some of my favorite things about William is his sweet caring personality. He is always so helpful with Brooklyn. She could be entertained by him for hours. He is also a jokester... I wonder who he got that from...Jake. He can be so funny, even when you are trying to discipline him. He will say something funny, or just giggle the whole time you are trying to get mad at him, and his giggle is contagious. I love it! But the thing that just melts my heart is when he looks at me with his big brown eyes. We love you William.



The next video is kind of long so you don't have to watch it all. The reason I put it on is because I love William's reaction to each present he received. he loved them. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Proctor and all the Aunts and Uncles for some great presents.







We had a family birthday party and went bowling. This was the first time we have taken our kids bowling, and they loved it. It was fun to watch them. I also found out that Jake is an AWESOME bowler. Hannah scored a 112 (with bumpers), which was higher than my score, of an 87. I guess my excuse is that she had bumpers and I didn't.



By the end of the day William was pretty tuckered out.

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Martha found this awesome website and I just had to try it out. The picture of me is how I would have looked if I graduated in 1972, and Jake's is if he would have graduated in 1976. I think I look a lot like my mom when she graduated, and doesn't Jake look so stunning with his new hair do? You should try it out yourself. Go to yearbookyourself.com and I guarantee you a good laugh.

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A few weeks ago the Jake was involved with a youth activity where he told about the culture in Taiwan. For part of it he bought some duck eggs to show to the kids. I guess they eat duck eggs a lot in Taiwan. They call them 1,000 year old eggs. The way they would make them years ago is they would soak them in horse urine with the shell on, and then they would peel them like a boiled egg and eat them. Fortunately now they don't soak them in horse urine. They soak them in vinegar, and some other things that I don't know. Anyway, I never worked up the courage to try it, and for some reason I don't feel like I am missing out on anything.


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So I didn't end up making any salsa. The day I was going to make it, I did not have green peppers and I did not feel like loading the kids up in the car to go to the store just to buy green peppers, (due to my last experience of taking my three kids to the store.) You can't have salsa without green peppers, so I made tomato sauce instead. The reason I am posting this is because I just read a post on someone's blog about onions and crying and it reminded me of when I was trying to cut onions for the sauce. My mom had sent some onions out from her garden and I was using those. They were the strongest smelling onions that I had ever cut before. Tears were streaming down my cheeks. It was so bad that it was making me gag. Hannah was watching me wondering why I was crying while I was cutting onions. So I explained to her that I was not sad, it was the onions that were making me cry and mentioned that it would be a lot better if I could just close my eyes while I cut the onions. So she asked, "Why can't you just close your eyes?" I said, "If I closed my eyes while I cut the onions, I would probably cut my finger off." Then she said, "How about you close your eyes so you won't cry, and I will watch your fingers so you won't cut them."

It would have been interesting to see how that turned out.


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I have a lot of tomatoes and tomorrow I am going to be making and canning salsa. The only thing that I am missing is a salsa recipe. Does anyone have any really good salsa recipes? Or tips on canning salsa? There is nothing better than a really good homemade salsa. Don't you agree?


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Last month Hannah and William were able to spend some time with Grandma Jeanne and Grandpa Gilbert in Nevada. They had a great time. Every night they would call and tell us what they had been up too. My mom kept them so busy with so many fun things, I was afraid they would not want to come back home. They played with cousins, helped with irrigating the garden and grandma's yard, they rode the four wheeler, gathered the eggs, went swimming, jumped on the trampoline, played with the kittens... Grandma and Grandpa bought a little ford truck that the kids could drive around in. I think that this truck was one of the favorite things of the week. They were even able to drive this truck in the 24th parade. Hannah's favorite part of the whole week was playing with my Barbies. I told her to ask my mom to get out my old Barbies, and that is the first thing that Hannah wanted to do. Hannah had a great time playing with the Barbies all week. You can see in the picture that Hannah dressed them all up, then lined them up so they could watch a movie with her. Yes, me and my sisters had a lot of Barbies. Hannah was in heaven with all of the Barbies. Seeing her play with the Barbies brought back a lot of great memories playing Barbies with my sisters. Hannah and William had a great time. Thanks mom and dad for taken such great care of my kids.





































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We had a great 4th of July. We started out on Friday morning at 6:00 am. I have always wanted to go to the balloon fest in Provo. I thought this year was a good time since I knew Hannah and William would enjoy it too, so, we got the kids up and headed out. I think they had a good time despite the fact that they were up way to early. If you are wondering, yes those are ear plugs in Williams ears. My kids don't like loud noises and so all through the balloon fest and parade they both wore ear plugs and enjoyed the day a lot more.
We then went to the parade. Hannah loved all of the Princess floats. They both loved the big Curious George balloon.



























On Saturday we decided to go up to Timp. caves. I never knew that a caves could be sold out, but we got up there and, yes, they were sold out. So we went on a little hike instead.














Then we headed to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point. William loved seeing all of the dinosaurs and the kids loved digging in the sand for dinosaur bones.















We had a great 4th of July!!!

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