One Person's Gift

...is another's nightmare!








Who would think that under this nice tree would lurk an annoyance of major proportions!












It started out OK. These guys didn't seem to mind!












Kendal was having no problem with it at this point.















Even Ryan was oblivious to it as he opened his Captain Underpants books!











Bremen tolerated it for a while.






But then it got tense. I guess when you get a new camera, the person behind the camera is the only one really happy the whole time!





































































Oh well. At least I got one good shot of the Lambson gang while they were busy looking at pictures Dawn used for her gift to her brothers. Ironic isn't it? They loved looking at the pictures - they just didn't want to be the subject of them!!

YIKES!!

Christmas is in 6 days and I haven't finished with pictures of our Idaho/Utah trip. So, in the interest of time, let's do a hurry-up post with abbreviated narration before Christmas comes!

Ready? Here we go...

Logan's birthday party. Fun.

Do you like the Idaho version of Happy Birthday?

Snow. Lots of it. Kids love it.

When you get cold, come and lay in a pile of blankets.

Or play games.

(Did you look at that Operation game picture closely? Lexi doesn't want the buzzer to sound, so she goes and gets the regular tweezers out of the drawer!)

Teaching Papa how to play a fishing game on the computer. Yes, Logan's teaching Papa.

We baked cookies.

Decorated them to look like pumpkins.

Logan and I got mashed potato duty for Thanksgiving.

Lots of yummy food.

Kids table. (Logan had his mouth stuffed with a roll - it wasn't pretty - hence the blocking of the mouth.

Adults table.

Taekwondo.

Lexi. Just because she's cute.

Did I mention it snowed? Like a lot??

Ok, that wraps up Idaho. Utah on the return was a drive by - literally. Too sick to stop. So I'll leave you with a picture of brotherly love from the trip up. After all, aren't we in the season of love and peace and good will? Hunter thinks so!

AND, GUESS WHAT ELSE!!

Our timing was great this year. We had been planning the trip up to Utah/Idaho for a year, so we knew about when we needed to be heading up north. Well, because our timing was so good, we got to meet our new grandson just a month after he came home! Cameron was born in September, came home to Patrick and Heather in October and we got to cuddle him in November!!

Cameron is an adorable little guy with the sweetest dispostion. He has little chub cheeks, a cute little grin and...well you get the picture!

But of course, there was Hunter time, too! He's grown up so much and is liking arts and crafts!! Yay for me!

But, he always has time for Papa! They spent some time looking out the window at the horses and having some good bonding time...

Unfortunately, because I got the creeping crud in Idaho, we weren't able to spend some more time with these two handsome little guys.

But guess what? We are heading back up in February - we'll see if we can work it out to spend a few days with them then! (Did I just say that out loud? Shoot - didn't want to give them the heads up...)

I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ...

...of Latter-day Saints!





I know who I am,
















I know God's plan,

























I'll follow him in faith!











This is the reason we were in the land of the cold and the snow for the past several weeks. Logan was baptized! What a special day it was for him. He had his Grandpas as witnesses as his Dad baptized him, Papo gave a talk on the Holy Ghost and Papa gave the closing prayer. They are great examples of worthy Priesthood holders he has to look to and he couldn't find 3 better men to follow!

In the days leading up to his baptism and following, I had conversations with him about what it all meant to him. Logan is a special little guy and he has a big heart. His decision to be baptized is the first of many he will make throughout his life and I know he will continue to make good choices. He knows who he is and he knows God's plan.