Waiting...

Sometimes, like Dr. Suess said, we come to a place where everyone is just waiting. Here are a few times this month that we have found ourselves waiting...

waiting for Goldie to finish piano lessons.

waiting for Josiah to finish piano lessons.

discovering the newly painted alleys in our town while waiting...

waiting for Goldie to finish her "Battle of the Books" practice.

waiting for Spring to come.
Some things, like Spring 2014, require patience and time. Slowly but surely the signs start popping up or shining down on us and soon our waiting will be over.

100 years!

We are thrilled as can be. Today is Pa-Paw Stuart's one-hundredth birthday. Since it was Monday we decided to celebrate for Family Home Evening.

Josiah held his picture as everyone listened to Dad tell us stories about his father's life.

Then we sang Happy Birthday and ate some cake in memory of the man who turned 100 today!

Just in time

Today, just in time for Valentine's Day, God has colored the world white instead of red.

The cold outside has been as welcome as the warmth of the inside!

Book Discoveries!

We recently tried out a new library. It was our nearby college library: Concord University.

I'd been reading the Magyk series by Angie Sage and wanted to finish the last two books, but our local library did not have them, nor did our backup Bluefield library. Concord did. So we went up and all of us checked out a book.

Goldie's choice as you can see was a Lemonity Snicket book. We didn't get excited about it, but it reminded me of the Spiderwick Chronicles and over the past few weeks we've been enjoying those.

Josiah's choice was Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher. In between practicing songs on the piano and on his sick day Mike and I read the book to him. It's part of the Magic Shop Series by Bruce Coleville. It was a fun clever book.

So if your in need of something fun to read try one of those. We sure liked them.

Ammon is Three!

This is a classic pose for Ammon. Telling him to smile brings on this expression.

Everything about this little boy is all about the "A." Captain America, Ammon, Awesome!

He cut out the A's that decorated his cake.

We spray painted his shield cake and even where the color ran it looked "A"mazing.

Our party was A-bsolutely Ammon! It was a great day Ammon. We love you.

This and That

We've discovered that Ammon has curls! I love to get them all stuck up in the air first thing in the morning. Then he says, "Put my curls down mom, put them down." I usually comply, but sometimes I have to let his Wolverine out or just let some hang out in the back of his head where he can't see them.

Goldie was recently invited to Young Women's to decorate cake. This is her creation.

Of course Bridger got his hands a bit of cake too!

In the snow...