Raegan has been talking and asking about her sixth birthday since her fifth birthday. How do you tell them that their birthday is so far away, they can't even count that high? So when the birthday got close enough Raegan could actually count the days left, she was very excited!
Her class sang happy birthday while her teacher gave her a birthday sticker and a grab bag of things like a sticky hand, pencil, and little notebook.
Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Morris, Raegan is set for the swim season with new goggles (which she insisted on wearing until she went to bed) ear plugs, towel and suit. She loves it when they tickle her arm, a tradition that was started when we lived with them and had to keep her quiet during church!
The birthday girl (or boy) gets to pick where we eat dinner. Raegan loves the rice at On The Border. And she thinks it's cool that they sing to her and give her a big dessert for her birthday. She was embarrassed this year, though, and hid behind Dad. :)
The Birthday Fairy strikes again!! Each time our girls have a birthday, there is a package sitting outside the door when they get home from school. This package is filled with cool birthday stuff and everyone crowds around to see what goodies the Birthday Fairy has found this time.
The girls know it's not me or Scott, or either set of grandparents, but aside from that, I'm not telling!! It's more fun that way. :)
Thank you Birthday Fairy!!!
And they're off! Try not to miss us, Mom, and enjoy a peaceful night of no crying and no snoring! They camped overnight at a place called Oak Flats. There were quite a few other wards doing their Father/Son outing there, as well
Scott was able to take a couple of boys from the ward and grabbed his brother, Marshall, on the way out of town.
"Mom, this is what guys do when we camp... we eat dirt!" Mmmm looks good.
Well, he is a boy, so we should be expecting things like this. Yesterday, Canon tripped, fell, and bit all the way through his lip. There's just a little cut on the outside. The inside looks worse and it's a little swollen and bruised. He cried, the girls freaked out. Nothing like blood to bring the family game night to a screeching halt! Good thing for Dad, though, because he and Aubree were getting schooled in Cranium. (He does an awesome cameo of Kramer...ask him to do it for you...he'd love it!!)
Raegan is the only child in our family to have lost 2 teeth at the same time. They've been loose for weeks and were steadily drooping lower and lower so that, even though they were still in her mouth, they haven't been helping her pronounce "s" for some time. The adult teeth are already coming in, so she won't have her "window" for long.
We kind of last-minute planned this trip. But I wanted my kids to know that the temple is an important place. We always hear about temples in far away places and know we can't go there because of the distance. I don't want them to look back and say,"It was only 3 hours away...why didn't we go?"
The angel, Moroni, sits atop this temple, as most others, sounding his trump to signify that the work is going forth.
It was chilly and very windy, and we were ill prepared. It was actually snowing at the top of Mt. Graham. But I'm so glad we made this trip. It's a small but beautiful temple and will bring great blessings to the residents of this valley.
My boys!
Thanks Marsh and Krissy for the use of a larger vehicle and Marilee and Clint for entertaining us for dinner! We also visited cemetaries in Thatcher and Safford where some of my family members are buried.
We celebrated Easter for the Morris side on Sat. with a potluck dinner and egg hunt. Then the boys got dressed and headed over for the priesthood session of Conference. We girls got to hang out and talk and even fit in a few games of cards.
