Daddy's Treat

Jared has been working a lot lately. He is waiting on one more guy to get security clearance before he can start working, so they have been a little short handed, meaning he has been working later than normal. On Friday he called and asked if he needed to pick anything up for dinner. I did need him to pick a few things up, and I told him to get a treat for dessert. Well Daddy brought home a very special treat...sundaes! He got the waffle bowl, chocolate syrup, caramel, and even cherries. The kids loved making them as much as they liked eating their special treat.

Mt. Rainier

Jared is the Young Men's basketball coach for our ward, and the games are on Saturdays. So Saturday he had a game and after the game we decided to drive up to Mt. Rainier last minute. Mt. Rainier is always so beautiful when we get to see it on a clear day, and we have been talking about getting up there this winter so we thought why not. We headed up and the kids slept most of the way up. We spent most of our time in the lodge. Then we came out to get into the car and Brayden wanted to go climb on the snow. Most people come up to sled, but we weren't really prepared for that, and since we didn't leave until late afternoon we thought we could just check it out and save the sledding for another time. Brayden was not very happy that we spent all our time in the building, as he called it. So Reagan and I sat in the car while Brayden and Jared played in the snow. I thought it would be a few minutes, but it was more like 30 minutes. Brayden had a blast even with the Popsicle finger he had when he returned to the car. It will be fun to get up there again soon and do some sledding. Here is Reagan inside the lodge. This is her new smile face.
This is me with the kids in front of Mt. Rainier.Daddy and Brayden having fun in the snow.

Sunbeams

Sunday was Brayden’s first day in primary as a sunbeam. I was a little disappointed that his first day in sunbeams wouldn’t be in our own ward, but Brayden didn’t seem to mind. Kira was with us and my parent’s primary meets in the Chapel. So Brayden, Kira and I were in the very back, because we didn’t know where there class was. The sister conducting asked if there were any visitors and Brayden in the very back row raised his hand (I am not even sure how he knew to do that), once she noticed him in the very back she asked Brayden and Kira to come up on stage. They sang “Here We Are Together” and they put Brayden and Kira’s name in the song, they both thought that was so awesome. After the song they went and sat with their class, and then they were off. Hailey and I watched from the door as Brayden helped Kira and sat right by her, she was a little nervous about being in primary. Brayden seemed very helpful and he was excited to be in primary. After we got home from church the kids played primary all afternoon. We had to find the song they sang, and we would have to pick new name so we could keep singing the song. It was very funny and I am really happy that Brayden loves primary. While I was helping Brayden get to primary it was Reagan’s first day in nursery without me, she isn't old enough, but since my mom is one of the nursery leaders they let her go;which made it easy for Reagan to have a good time. We’ll see how she does when we get back to our ward and there is no brother or anyone she knows. Here is Brayden ready for sunBEAMs!
Nursery here I come! (love the smile face)