Happy 2 month Birthday to little Logan & Baby Blessing

My how time flies! Logan is already 2 months old and weighing in at 13 pounds! He is a little chunker that is so cute. He loves to smile and coo and his brothers and sister and parents are wrapped around his little finger. I'll post some photos soon!

On February 6, 2011, Logan received his baby blessing at Church. Both sets of grandparents came along with Auntie Whitney and Uncle Dustin. His Dad blessed him and his grandpas, Bishop Frost and our home teacher Cass Cook stood in the circle. After church we came home and had a yummy carne asada taco dinner with chips and salsa and guacamole of course. The Downens were headed home shortly thereafter and the Howards stayed until the next morning. It was so fun to have everyone here. As you can see from the pictures below, the kids love hanging out with their grandparents and Uncle Dust was lots of crazy fun wrestling with the kids and playing tag and tossing them around. They really wanted him to spend the night. We got lucky to see Whit, too,who was in town from Utah that weekend!

Some of the things mentioned in his blessing were: your name honors your mom & dad, bless you with a healthy, strong body, bless you with faith and a testimony of the Savior, Jesus Christ - watch those around you for an example of Christ. Watch your mother as an example of faith and charity, follow the prophets and listen and know they follow the Savior. Be baptized and make good decisions and choose to receive the priesthood and go on a mission. Blessed to be the youngest of 4.

Carson Glad to be a Boy & Eliza's Scripture Sunday

The other day we were driving in the car. It was me, Carson and Logan and Carson all of the sudden said, "Mom, I like being a boy." I of course thought, Phew...that is good to hear! Then I asked him, "Why do you like to be a boy?" He thoughtfully responded, "Because I can pick up sticks and play with rocks and ride my bike and fly kites and play firefighter and build lots of things." He does love to be a boy and he is good at it!

Another funny tidbit about Carson: Today at Church I had to take him to the restroom. When we came back, the meeting had already started and I was trying to hurry us back to our seats. Well, he was a little confused and sat right down with the family behind our family. He saw the dark suit on the man (Brett Harmon) and just looked at that and climbed right up on the bench without any thought. Brett handed him some pretzels and that should have been Carson's first clue since I try really hard not to bring him snacks now that he is in Sunbeams. But he still had no idea until he finally turned his body around and saw his real family sitting in front of him. We all were looking back at him. I've never seen the boy move so fast...he hopped right down and ran up to our bench and jumped in my lap and put his head down. He was so embarrassed. His whole head turned bright red. It took me by surprise because I've never seen that side of his personality of being so embarrassed for doing something that was "wrong". It took him a few minutes to recover and spiderman and iron man and then he was all good. We were cracking up.

Also at church today, Eliza gave the scripture and prayer in Primary. She was so excited and got all ready for it. It was so cute to see her go up to the pulpit with her scripture bag. It took her a few minutes to actually get her scriptures out of her bag and to find the scripture she marked, but she was so calm and composed it was super cute. She spoke loudly and clearly into the microphone and shared D&C 76:22 and read it perfectly. It was one that she had memorized with "The Living Christ" so it was very familiar. She said a great little prayer and looked so proud up there doing it all by herself. It's fun to grow up!