President Hinkley!

Ben, myself, Ben's mom and our two boys had the privilege today of going down to the Conference Center to view the body of President Hinkley. This is the only prophet our boys have known and what a wonderful man. His body was old and tired and he is now reunited with his beloved Marjorie but we will miss him so much. I am so glad that my kids had this experience to know of the great life President Hinckley led. A friend of mine emailed me this link to a tribute from someone from Headline News. He captures just what I think, of how much kindness President Hinckley had.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/200/5127/
We will all miss him so much!

Elmo! Elmo! Elmo!

It's been a little while since I have blogged. Every time I think about getting on the computer to blog, something comes up. Things here have been okay. Lots of sickness, which seems to come in the winter. I tend a baby two days a week and I just had to call his parents today because he was running a 102 temperature. Then Jeremy is having the runs. I had it and everything else a week or so ago. I think I had the 24 flu. I was glad when it was over! Anyway I wanted to explain my title for this blog. Alex loves Elmo! It was one of his first words. He got lots of Elmo stuff for Christmas and has inherited Elmo stuff from his older brother but I think Alex loves Elmo more than Jeremy. We have these two Elmo flap books and Alex could look at them forever. We drove up to see the new Rexburg temple yesterday and we watched Elmo in Grouchland on the way up and Alex was rolling in laughter. A week or so ago, I noticed that the side of Alex's crib was hanging down. Come to discover that buying the cheap crib isn't a good thing. We had bought the same crib with Jeremy and it broke too. We probably need to bit the bullet and buy a more expensive one someday. But anyway. This one has a side that comes down to eventually be a toddler bed. Alex has been having fits sleeping in it lately and shook it so bad that a plastic bolt snapped in half and the side won't stay up. So we had to put him in a toddler bed sooner than I thought. I thought I would wait until he was two. But things don't always go as I plan. I was planning on getting him this Elmo bedset I saw at Walmart for his birthday but he got it earlier! So here he is in his Elmo bed with his new Elmo PJ's and Elmo slippers! Oh and by the way, if you read our earlier blog about Alex getting locked in his grandparents house, this won't shock you! While Ben, Jeremy and I were in the garage getting ready to bring the toddler bed in, Alex locked the door from the garage to the house. The front door was also locked. DEJA VU!! So then we tried to call the locksmith who helped us earlier and they weren't available. We ended up calling the neighbor to bring his ladder. He put the ladder up to our deck to see if so we could go in the back door on our porch and luckily the sliding door was open!! Now we need to make extra sets of key for our house!!

Fun with family!

So now that Christmas is over and all the rush that comes with it, I am finally able to get some time to post on the blog. Granted, it's almost 12 midnight. But you do what you can! I finally got a digital camera for Christmas! It has been a challenge to figure it out but it will do. I can't seem to find the pictures from the small memory card that came with the camera. We found out quickly that it doesn't hold anything. So we now have one with 2GB.  We had lots of family events over Christmas. Ben's brother returned from his mission in Switzerland and all of the kids were here to see him, including both of Ben's sisters who live out of state. One of them, Jenny, suprised us all with being pregnant! And she's 6 months along and due in April! It was quite a shock! They know they are having a 3rd girl. Ben's other sister Amy, who lives in New York, is due in March. They have tried unsuccessfully to find out what they are having. We had a baby shower for her this past week. Lot's of family gatherings! My niece Amanda was married on Saturday and we had a wonderful time with all that. My oldest sister Cindy made the cake. She is so talented! She made our wedding cake too! Today, we went up to my sister Becky's to go sledding. It was both Jeremy and Alex's first time. It was a lot of fun!