Boy Names

As requested....here are some boy names that I wrote down. The baby name book I have has 30,000 names in it. Sometimes too many choices are not a good thing. Brook didn't like any of these. SURPRISE!!!!! The girls can't think of anything either. Lauren would probably be happy with Donald, Huey, Dewey, or Louie. Before we had Lauren we wanted to name a boy Hyrum Michael. Hyrum after Hyrum Smith since he's my 3rd Great-Grandpa and Michael after Brook's friend that brought him into the church. After watching The Single's Ward, it made the name Hyrum sound cliche. Earlier in the pregnancy, while I was looking through the baby name book, I had the feeling that we should use Matthew in his name. I would use it as his first name, but Williams is such a common name. Mel's husband gets so many phone calls for other Richard Moore's, so I didn't want to do that. Mom had a stocking made for a Hyrum way back in the day, so Auburn thought it might be good to keep it that name. I don't know what to do. I liked Spencer, but Jared used that. I liked Glade, but Mel used that. Anyway, here's the list.....they're just the names that sounded good while I was looking through the book one day.

Andrew, Brody, Logan, Luke, Jacob, Grant, Grayson, Graham, Morgan, Oliver, Wesley

Brook's suggested the other day that we name him Brian or a B name. I wasn't sure why until he said, "Then his initials could be BMW." What a German!!! :) I can't ever get a straight answer from him when I ask about names.

Mom called the other day to suggest Fielding, which is another family name. Most of the other family names were pretty common or I didn't like them. How about I name him after my Grandpa Glade...then his name could be William Williams? ;)

Why does this have to be so hard?????

So far his name is ______ Matthew Williams. What do you guys think? Any more suggestions to consider?

3 More Months

The countdown has begun! Today I have 3 more months until my official due date. I'm hoping that I can hang on until April because no one in our family has a birthday in April. I'm also hoping to have the baby during the girl's Spring Break. They will have 9 days off in a row, and it would be nice to not worry about carpool, homework, etc... Here's hoping!!!

A Good Book

Don't you love the satisfaction you get after reading a good book? It's been a few weeks, but the last book I finished was 'Book of A Thousand Days' by Shannon Hale. I never thought I would like reading fantasy, but I love her books! Sometimes you just need to get away, and her books do that for me.

Right now I'm reading 'Saboteur' by Dean Hughes, another one of my favorite authors. Historic fiction is something I love to read.....especially WWII history. I can't seem to get enough of it. It's been a pretty interesting read so far.

Auburn started reading her first Junie B. Jones book tonight. They're pretty funny. They kind of remind me of the Ramona Quimby books I used to love when I was younger. Junie B. seems to get into a little more trouble though. I think Lauren liked them so much when she read them because she could relate to Junie B.

Anyone else read a good book lately? How about a favorite from childhood? I liked to read Beverly Cleary books and Judy Blume books. One book I really liked was The Cybil War. The main character was in love with a red haired girl that was kind of quirky, but confident. Fun times...it's amazing what kind of memories can be stirred up with the thought of a good book.

Merry Christmas

My favorite part about Christmas is to see the excitement on our kid's faces, and to relax and spend time with family. Hope you all had a great Christmas!

Yeah! It snowed on Christmas Day. I love having a white Christmas.



Tic Tac Toe....3 Donalds in a row

At Lauren's request, Hannah with the white boots

Another request, a Lola doll

Auburn and her Easy Bake oven...can you tell she's excited?
She said, "I've always wanted one of these!"

Auburn trying to hold up all the mixes

A new DVD player to replace the broken one

Look at their eyes

The girls both got Donald Duck sweatshirts.

This picture of Auburn made me laugh.


Stamps for Auburn from Uncle Jason's family

A new game for Lauren from Jayden

Our little "twins"

Grandma got Feliz Navidad pajamas for 4 of the girls....these 2 loved them

I'm not sure how many days they wore them

Christmas Eve

Brook and I spent part of Christmas Eve finishing up some last minute details and then we took the girls to see Bolt. They really liked it...it was a cute show. Then we went to my mom's for pizza. We usually spend Christmas Eve with Brook's parents, but they stayed down in Arizona this year. I wasn't in the mood to do too much in the way of cooking so I was thinking pizza, but I didn't know if my mom would go for that. While I was out running errands she called and said, "I was thinking about pizza." I laughed and told her I had been thinking the same thing. After dinner the girls opened their presents from Grandma Mills while she was on the phone. Brook's parents had gone to Hawaii recently so she bought them grass skirts, shell necklaces, a flower for their hair, and a top. Auburn's had a little coconut bra, but she refused to put it on even with her shirt. Lauren didn't want to put on her little bikini top either. I thought it would be funny just to put over their shirts, but they wouldn't. I guess I can't complain since they want to be modest.

Don't you love Lauren's look. She didn't want to stand by her sister. She has a huge grin in the next one because I told her she couldn't open anymore presents if she didn't smile. AHHH the blackmail.


Auburn was REALLY excited about her Christmas pajamas

Then we let them open up their Christmas pajamas. I didn't get a picture. What was I thinking? I think I'll do one of those staged pictures before we take the tree down. Then they opened the gifts they got for eachother at home. I got Brook a pair of pajama bottoms that had Christmas lights all over them. I couldn't stop laughing....they were just for fun. Mine had Chip and Dale on them. I was just glad to have something warm and comfortable to wear. I finally had to put my regular pants away this week. I could wear them standing up, but they were too tight when I sat down. It was a little more quiet this year, but we had a nice Christmas Eve.

Saying Goodbye to Gingerbread.....FINALLY

Gingerbread season is over! I've gone from zero gingerbread projects to five this year. I helped the girls do 2 houses for the Festival of Trees, which was great. We should have ended there, but we got ambitious. The girls wanted to do gingerbread houses to keep at our house so we got 2 more kits and started decorating one Sunday. They started decorating away, but soon lost interest so I worked on them some that day and finished Auburn's first. Then Lauren had a math project at school where they made gingerbread trains, which I signed up to help with. The parents just helped put them together and then the kids decorated them the next day. They like that part best anyway. Next, I got tired of having Lauren's unfinished gingerbread house on the kitchen table with all the candy trimmings so I finished it one day. I've had enough for a while. They turned out really cute, but I got the hankering this morning to get a bb gun and have a little target practice like Ralphie on a Christmas story. Anyone have a Red Rider I could borrow? :)

Lauren putting together her train

She loved putting all those nerds at the bottom

Auburn made up a story that the door had lots of doorknobs and if you tried to open up the wrong one, you would fall through a trap door. I said, "Sheesh, the unfriendly gingerbread house." She just laughed.

This is the one that Lauren started. She made the door and the pretty stained glass windows on the front of the house. I think I finished the rest.

No more gingerbread.....well at least until next year. :)

Scattergories

Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things.. nothing made up! You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

WHAT IS YOUR NAME: Charity

BOY NAME: Charlie

4 LETTER WORD: Coin

GIRL NAME: Cassidy

OCCUPATION: Chimney Sweep

A COLOR: Cerulean (thank you Ocean Blue)

SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Chinos

BEVERAGE: Cocoa

FOOD: Chocolate Chip Cookies :)

SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Carpet.....ewwww, I know....not in mine though

A PLACE : California Adventure

REASON FOR BEING LATE: Car wouldn't start

SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Can you please stop that???!!!!! (I never say that....mostly)

It's 5am and I've been up since 3. Can't sleep. If some of these answers are strange, you'll know that my brain isn't used to being up this early. Thanks for the idea Brooke!