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Rebekah's Baby Blessing

Joe blessed Rebekah in church on the 7th of December. We had Bishop Damstedt, my dad, and two brothers-in-law, Sloan and Allan, participate. It was very nice and a wonderful lady from the ward, who does shorthand, wrote it down for us. Rebekah was awake the whole time and didn't cry a bit. A funny note. My cousin, Ryan, who is a police officer for Richland was on duty and couldn't participate but did come in for the meeting. When he walked in wearing his uniform people were wide-eyed and one lady cautiously asked him who he was looking for. Of course the Bishopbric watched him walked across the chapel and sit down. His comment, "Can't cops be Mormon, too?" So, funny. After church we crammed about 30 of us into our duplex for delicious soup and rolls followed by yummy desserts. It is so fun getting together with family. Here are some pictures of Rebekah in her poofy white dress.

I'm a Yellow Crayon

This sounds pretty close (except the genius part). You know my bedroom growing up was yellow!
What Color Crayon Are You?
You Are a Yellow Crayon
Your world is colored with happy, warm, fun colors.You have a thoughtful and wise way about you. Some people might even consider you a genius.Charming and eloquent, you are able to get people to do things your way.While you seem spontaneous and free wheeling, you are calculating to the extreme.Your color wheel opposite is purple. You both are charismatic leaders, but purple people act like you have no depth.
Here's the very short quiz:
http://www.blogthings.com/whatcolorcrayonareyouquiz/

The Star of Christmas

This year at our ward Christmas party Rebekah got to play the part of the baby Jesus. Joe and I got to play Mary and Joseph. We weren't actually chosen for our great acting ability (as we didn't have speak; just walk out and sit there) we just happened to have a new baby. Basically Joe and I walked out with me looking great with child and sat down. They closed the curtains for a few seconds and traded my belly for a baby. It was just a narrative reading type thing. It was fun and Rebekah did great. I was so afraid she would cry (she doesn't know the song says no crying he makes)and wasn't sure if I would actually be able to lay her in a manger. A lot of people said they were surprised to see her little hands reach up and wave around because they didn't realize it was a real baby. So, here are some pictures. (Thank you NaDell for taking them and e-mailing them to me, that same night I might add. She's very on top of things!) When we walked out Romney came running to stage and was reaching up his arms and calling out Mom, mom. So, cute. Makes you feel loved!

A Hunting We Will Go

Last Saturday we packed up the kids and headed to White pass to hunt for the "perfect" Christmas tree. We just kept driving until we came to snow, because you have to have snow for the right Christmas tree hunting mood. Then we turned off the highway and onto a winding snow covered dirt road. Melissa commented, "I hope we don't get stuck." To which Joe replied, "We can't get stuck dear, this thing has 4 wheel drive. We can drive through anything." As we rounded one of the curves we began to drive sideways. Melissa and the kids all let out little shrieks of fear. We stopped and tried again and we slid closer to the edge of the road. Now, at this point Joe, being the thoughtful husband that he is, had everyone else get out of the car (because as he said if he goes down he didn't want to take us all with him). We promptly exited the vehicle. He tried again and moved closer to rhe edge while Melissa forgot to breathe. Was she to watch her wonderful husband slide off the road and meet his fate (not to mention demolish her new car which she so loved). Just when they thought all was lost one of the onlookers came to assist and helped push them out of the rut. I should mention there were two truckloads of about 6 or more able bodied men just sitting there waiting for us to get off the road. Hmmm... The very kind gentleman who helped us was actually futher behind them loading his christmas tree. So we parked it and went hunting.

We looked and looked and looked... Finally when the kids were crying because they were cold and wet we decided to just pick one and cut it down. We figured out there weren't actually any "perfect" ones out there, unless we did as some other people did and cut the top off a huge tree. Since we aren't into breaking the law we decided to go with a tree that was just right for us.

We were just going to stick it in a bucket on the porch until we had more energy to put it up but, when we got home we were so excited we just couldn't wait!