Prayers

Jo is so cute, she is starting to say more of her prayers on her own. Typically she only says a few things and most of it is repeated with each prayer. For instance, her normal one goes like this:

"Dear Heavenly Father, we thank thee for this day, and for the food. Please bless it to nourish our bodies, and have fun, and go outside. (pause- one or two more things with help from mom or dad) We say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Tonight she really took off and did her own thing and it was super cute. This is how it went:

"Dear Heavenly Father, we thank thee for this day, and please help us to have fun and go outside. And please help me to sleep in my ow bed and not be scared or wake up, and help Mommy to not be scared too, and help Daddy to not be scared too also. And please help the missionaries to come over tomorrow, and baby brother to come over tomorrow too. and we say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."
She is such a sweetie, and it's so fun to watch her grow up.

Fireworks!

William experiencing fireworks for the first time.He would twitch every time he heard one.

Jo lighting a smoke bomb.

Watching the snakes grow.

Snapits! She dumped almost an entire package on the ground and started dancing on them. It was like Fred Estaire's fireworks dance in "Holiday Inn" Unfortunately the batteries in the camera had just barely died so I didn't get a video. : (

Butterscotch dum dums with Grandma, YUM!

Jo REALLY wanted to use my moby wrap to hold Hattie, her baby doll. I think she's a bit small for it right now.

Lighting a smoke bomb. She kept thinking they were all going to be noisy and would run off plugging her ears. It was pretty funny. Right after I stopped recording she turned to me and said "Mommy, it's so beautiful!" She is such a cutie!

Williams Blessing

This last weekend we had both set of parents (or grandparents) out for Williams baby blessing. It was a lot of fun to see them, and we really appreciate them coming out. The blessing was wonderful, and William was super cute (as always!) So here are some pics with family.

With the Smith's

Jo was tired and not wanting to take pictues any more, but after a lollipop from Grandpa and telling her she wasn't allowed to smile, she became her normal self again.

With the Jones's

You might be suprised how many tries it took to get this picture. We have quite a few that look like Jo was going to eat him.

So sweet!

hair cont...

Ok, so here is her hair curly so you can see the difference.

This one should be on the previous post, but oh, well. We are going to show this one to all her dates.

Mommy! What happened to my hair!

I got bored this morning, and Jo wanted me to do something with her hair so I thought we would try to straighten it. I did my best using a curling iron and trying to not burn an extremely wiggly two year old. (We were successful in that area, thankfully) It didn't come out completely straight, and definitely had volume, but you can get see that her hair is alot longer than it looks when it's curly (I will have to get a picture of it when it's completely curly to put up.) when it's wet it is almost halfway down her back. It almost immediately started curling up again but stayed fairly straight for a while.

This side was the hardest to get straight.

She isn't used to having her bangs in her eyes and was getting frustrated because she was continually having to brush it out of her face to see.

This one is just cute.

You can see it is fairly long in the back.

AAAAAH!

Cutie Pie!

Grandad

My dad came out (with my mom) for the day last Saturday to visit us. He really made Jo's day by playing with her, and I'm pretty sure he enjoyed seeing his little redheaded grandson too!

Here are some pictures of william as well. I can't help myself.

Sweet sleepy baby!

If you look just above his wrist you can see an imprint of his ear from sleeping on his arm. Hehe.

I surrender!

Prayer time!

Big stretch! His cheeks are so chubby in this one!

Big Sister Jo

Jo just loves her baby brother, especially when she gets to hold him and play with him. They are so cute! I can't believe we have two kids. : )