JJ's baby blessing and smiley boy

JJ was blessed this past weekend.  We did it at our house because they were having a special stake conference.  It was great! All of our family's were there, minus my parents  :(  That was hard.  My mom and dad sent his blessing outfit from Mexico, so it felt like they were kind of there (not really though)  Jared gave him a beautiful blessing and it was wonderful!

He has also recently started smiling and I really am pretty sure there is nothing cuter then a smiling baby.  Love it!!

a laugh a minute

Shelby constantly cracks me up.  As we were sitting here eating lunch, she turned to me and randomly said, "mom if anyone barges into our house, you just let me take care of it."  I laughed and said, "well Shelby, what would you do?"  she answered, "Just kick him in the face"  I am so glad we are in good hands.

hALLoWeEn

We had a fun Halloween.  We went up to Logan to be with my sister and her family.  Logan is a place I have never been to.  It was beautiful!!  We enjoyed it very much!  It was tons of fun and can't wait to go up there again!! 

One neat story!

I have to share quite possibly one of the neatest things that happened the other night.  It was Halloween night  the kids were watching some Halloween show on the Disney channel.  I was upstairs with Jared.  When the kids were done with the movie, Shelby came upstairs to go to bed.  She proceeded to tell me the show they had been watching scared her.  (Joquelle later imformed me that it was not at all scary, but it must have been to a 5 year old).  I told Shelby she would be fine and that I would leave her door open and leave the bathroom light on.  After she had fallen asleep I had gone into her room to pick some dirty clothes, I was fixing the blinds which were turned the wrong way (yes I am OCD) and I woke her up.  She looked and me and began to sob uncontrollably.   I asked her what was wrong and she said through her tears, "He is gone, I want to see him, but he is gone."   

"who is gone, I asked"

"Jesus" she answered, "He was here and I want to see him, but now he is gone"

I asked her if she has been dreaming and she said yes.  I was dreaming about Jesus.  I told her to go back to sleep and that maybe she would see him again.

In the morning I asked her about that "dream"  I asked her if she was able to see Jesus again.  She told me that she "dreamed" of him all night long that she saw him over and over again.

She then told me that she had prayed before she went to sleep because she was scared.

Heavenly Father answers prayers.....Even to 5 year olds!