Lindsey's Baptism

Well, yesterday was the day ... Lindsey was baptized. I could not believe that she was 8 years old. We had enlarged a picture of her blessing and it seems like that was just yesterday. In the picture, she was sitting in our $5 thrift store rocking chair that was ugly the day we got it and just as ugly the day it finally broke down and could be repaired no longer.

We had severe tornado watches in our area last night and it came close to having to call off the baptism. The Ward Mission Leader's wife was afraid for him to come up and fill the font. There was flooding and huge downpours along with the winds, and it did actually touch down in quite a few places in Memphis, Jackson, and a little town just about 10 miles south of us ... but we were rather torn. Jonathan's parents were here and leaving the next day and then Jonathan will be out of town starting Thursday until Sunday so doing it on Saturday was not an option either, so we decided to have faith and just do it, and it turned out wonderful. We had not the number in attendance we expected, but there were quite a few brave souls who came out and supported Lindsey, including her best friend and her teacher at school. She looked beautiful, said she felt wonderful, and it was a very special evening.

The 911 Call

I was out taking Erin to get her glasses and Jenna was playing with her little friend, Drew. Apparently, Drew said he didn't want to be her friend anymore so Jenna got mad and decided to call 911. She asked the dispatcher if they could put Drew in jail because he didn't want to be her friend anymore and then hung up. Well, of course, what happens next is that they come to your home. I am so glad I wasn't here. Jonathan invited the officer in to come and talk to Jenna, who replied, "I didn't know you couldn't do that." She still felt perfectly justified in her actions because, after all, that was a mean thing he said and he deserves to be punished!

SNOW IN TENNESSEE!

It did not accumulate, of course, but for a whole five minutes we had flurries. Andrew and I just saw and watched the flakes kind of dance around. There was hope it would turn into something, but just as quickly as it started, it left. For all of you who get snow in your area, build a snowman for us!

Well ... the verdict is in!

And Erin needs glasses. It is just crazy because she went from seeing just fine (20/20) a year ago to 20/100 in one eye and 20/200 in the other. The same thing happened to Michael a couple of years ago and I don't really understand it. Jonathan and I both have close to perfect vision, so how did our children end up with such bad eyes? Oh well, the positive thing is that she is super excited and picked out of course, pink Hannah Montana glasses. Lindsey also had her eyes checked and was very disappointed to find out she sees just perfectly (she really wanted the Hannah glasses, also!) I told her to give herself another year and she'll probably follow suit! The bad part about that is that her teacher said she is not doing very well in math. Lindsey said it was because she could not see the problems on the paper, and that would have been an easy solution. Now I guess I'll actually have to do something to help her some!

Erin does look very cute in glasses and when they come in tomorrow, I'll take a picture of her.

Our washing machine is broken and I have laundry piled up all over the place. Jonathan comes home today and hopefully he can fix it. I really don't want to have to purchase any appliances right now.

Chiropractor

I never thought we were chiropractor type people, but we have someone in our Ward who moved in recently who is a chiropractor. I got talking to him at our Primary activity and ended up making an appt for Michael. We went this morning and he said he has some serious misalignments and thinks it will help with his ocd and processing. Who knows ... maybe it will and maybe it won't but I guess it is worth a shot. I really like him as a person and he seems very competent and caring, as well as very honest, so we'll see. Michael was so excited to go because he told him most people grow 1/4 inch just from decompression of the spine at the first visit. We haven't remeasured him yet!

We have started Jenna on a new program to see if it will help her behavior. The first step is 20 minutes a day of YAMA (you and me alone) time. I haven't read ahead yet and am just trying to go step by step. She had a full fledged 1/2 hour rage yesterday at church because Andrew took some of her goldfish crackers, as in she was screaming, thrashing, whaling, etc. I finally had to take her out to the van and told her we would sit in the cold car until she was done, which took another 15 minutes or so. Oh boy ... sitting by myself at church is just about the funnest thing I've every done!

I'm trying to post a picture of Michael at Homecoming with his escort. It was quite cute. I stink at pictures, but I'll try!

Videos of Ward Christmas Party?

I hope this works. It took me hours to get this on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YpvUhTkQv8

Ward Christmas Party

Well, we had the Christmas party and the kids did such a good job! Briana was trying to explain to me how to connect my camcorder to the computer but I think I am missing a cord, so I will go to radio shack tomorrow and try to get one and post a video. If I do say so myself, Lindsey was just the cutest little Mary, and she actually did it. We were very proud of all of them.