Jack's Silly

Jack is rapidly learning to recite all of his story books and will often finish the sentence for us. Having Jack fill in the missing words as we read is a fun game that we play with each book. He even finishes phrases and sentences as we help him pray and we are enjoying seeing some of the fruits of our teaching labor.

Sometimes he fills in the missing word with something unexpected that makes us all giggle.


He brought this art project home from our church nursery. It says, "I can prepare to go to the temple," and shows pictures of things that he can do to prepare. I read the sentence "I can prepare to go to the temple," aloud several times and then read through the ways he can prepare. After I did so I said, "I can prepare to go to the _______."

Jack's fill in word: the moon.

He repeated several times, "I can prepare to go to the moon."


Future NASA employee?

More Jack funnies:

Tonight while Ryan was helping Jack say his prayers, Jack did not mention to bless his mom, his daddy or baby girl like he usually does. He instead blessed helicopter, Thomas, Toby and James.

Jack loves to be silly. He often walks around saying, "I silly," while he tickles his sister or makes funny faces.

Anytime he does something difficult or carries something Jack grunts, "Uh, I strong."

Although he can say Adeline, he prefers to call her "girl." I love over hearing his high little voice say, "Hi, girl," whenever he walks in the room and sees her.

Did anyone see where I put my fruit hat?

one flowing skirt +Mr. Potato Head Earrings+ one pair of green bloomers = one cute little girl.

I can't get enough of these cute pictures.

Makes my heart happy

After driving home from a fun afternoon in Canandaigua, this is what I saw when I opened the door to the backseat. My 12 year -old nephew, Hayden and little Addy asleep. Can this be any sweeter?

Thank you Grandma Shirlene

How happy is he!

Jack is such a lucky boy. Last week, while he was napping, a package arrived and his Daddy put together his new Tricycle. Jack was so excited when he saw his bike when he woke up. He immediately put on his helmet and rode out the front door. He didn't stop riding until we got the the park 2 blocks away.

Addy snuck in a quick ride while Jack was still asleep.

Our studious Jack

Jack read the entire Fisher Price catalog several times through while he ate dinner. I loved his expressions as he studied the different toys. He was quiet and thoughtful while he looked at the pictures and when he was done he showed me his favorites. Can you guess what they were? Yep, cars and trucks.

Good Night Jack

When I went to check on Jack tonight, this is what I found.

I love that he is wearing only one of his rain boots.
He is now safely tucked back into his bed and his rain boot has been removed. I sure do love this boy. Especially when he is quietly sleeping and I can finally go to bed.

Good night.

Hill Cumorah Pagaent

Jack and Adeline attended their first performance of the
Hill Cumorah Pagaent.

Before the Pagaent started, we took a walk through the Sacred Grove.


We really love living so close to Palmyra and its history and my favorite place is the Sacred Grove. I always feel at peace when I am here and love to see the light through the trees. Saturday was such a HUMID day that everything felt green and thick and the grove seemed even more quiet than usual.

Except for the outburst of my 2 year old who was upset that he was not eating ice cream.
While driving to Palmyra, we told Jack we would get ice cream at my favorite ice cream place. He fell asleep in the car so Ryan and I got ice cream and took a drive through some of the small towns so Jack could get a longer nap. When Jack woke up at the Sacred Grove for our walk he had not forgotten the ice cream promise and repeatedly asked for ice cream. Fortunately, he got ice cream right after our visit to the Sacred Grove.

Here's a picture of Addy enjoying her toes while waiting for Pagaent to start.
Note: I recommend taking your own camp chairs and blankets and sitting on the back lawn and not on the hard chairs that are set up. This is the first time we've watched the show from our own comfortable chairs and I enjoyed the show much more. Addy and I even laid down on the blanket and were really comfortable.




The Jensen Family
Our friends are in Pagaent this year and it was really fun to see them in full costume and have them describe their scenes so we could look for them. We saw Blaine's arm hanging over the edge after he was killed in one of the Nephite/Lamanite battles just like he described.
(sorry the picture with Blaine and Kyle is blurry.)


This is a picture of my favorite scene (Click on them to make them bigger). It depicts the Savior's appearance to the people on this continent after His resurrection in Third Nephi in the Book of Mormon.