Week of August 31 - September 6

Well, it's just Beth and me around the house in the afternoons. She's at such a cute age. She follows me everywhere. I go in the bathroom and she walks in a few seconds later and pushes all the bottles into the bathtub and gives me a big grin. I go to the closet to get my shoes and when I turn around, she's there trying my shoes on her own feet. It's the same no matter what room I go to. She watches me and if I stand up, she drops whatever she's doing and stands up, too. It's so cute!! She's not saying much, yet. Mostly she just makes the beginning sounds of things. She's gotten quite good at waving goodbye. Whenever we go in the front yard, she makes sure she does this repeatedly before walking away down the sidewalk. Hello? Where are you going little one? Do you have any idea how small you are? She has also started to demand that she be included in family dinners at the table. No high chairs for her! At first all of our daughters fought over who got to sit by Beth. Tonight, though after getting mashed potato smeared on them repeatedly (along with Beth's laughing glee), they pretty much cleared the bench. Funny, huh?


Savannah has joined the cross country team again this year and had her first real week of practices. She came home hot and sweaty and worn out every time. They are working her hard and she is loving it!

Mariah has started soccer (did I mention that before?) and is loving it. She will have games twice a week throughout the month.

Other than that, the girls busied themselves this week with cleaning their rooms. Actually, you don't need to read that again, they really did. We switched roommates. Savannah and Megan have been sharing a room and Sarah and Mariah have been sharing a room. This week we switched to Savannah and Sarah sharing a room and Megan and Mariah sharing a room. We decided on it because Megan and Mariah have been fighting a lot. We decided they needed a little "solitary confinement" therapy like in Parent Trap. Their relationship is already better, believe it or not, though we know it won't be all smooth sailing. In fact, Kevin thinks that maybe we should switch everyone's room around every year or so to improve everyone's relationship with each other. I think he's a genius! I'm loving it!

This Saturday as part of our goal to do a family service project each month, we helped clean the church with another family. That was actually a really fun service project as most of the work involved cleaning all the glass entry doors which kids are really good at. We sent the twins around to check every room for trash. They didn't find any, but they felt they had helped immensely! It was lovely. Afterward, we couldn't help but stay a little longer and play some basketball. Beth actually let me play a little this time while she followed balls herself.

Saturday night we had some friends over for the BYU game. We actually had a football party. Our daughters said, "We're going to do what???" When I suggested that maybe they'd like to sit and watch some of the game they said, "Why would we do that??" I guess that's my fault since I hardly ever sit down with Kevin to watch when the game is on. We had a fun time, though, and it looks like we might even do it again! Crazy, huh?

The only other pictures I have on my camera this week are from Savannah's Young Women activity. They went to the mall and had a scripture/photo scavenger hunt. It looks like they had a wonderful time! Do you suppose this is related somehow to Mary being great with child?