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For aaron's birthday his wonderful younger brother Jason , whom cabhan jason is named after (i think i cursed myself on that one he already is a dare devil and climbs everything in site)and him decided that they wanted a weekend to spend with eachother and just hang is what they said they would do. Well as you can tell from the pictures they didn't keep their promise not that I thought they would but it was worth a try. He had a wonderful weekend, thanks jase, and if he ever gets a few minute he will add his experience as well.

Ciaran Turns Four / Pirate Bowling Party

Holy Cow I can not believe I have a four year old. I don't know why but that seems so much older to me than three. For Ciaran's birthday he has been saying for months that he wanted to go "real" bowling and have a pirate party so his wish was my command. I actually started planning it back in January and Aaron kept telling me I was crazy and his birthday was still two months away and that he needed to get past today before we started planning Ciaran's party three months away. But you know me I need things planned way ahead of time.
So we had quite the party. A lot of the adults even ended up bowling so it was way fun. The kids love bowling and it is very fun to watch them. Check out the pictures.

Dawson Turns Two

Thursday, March 6th was Dawson's second birthday party. Angie had it at jungle jims which the kids couldn't have been happier about. They love that place. I have been fighting a cold lately so I wasn't as excited to be there as usual and didn't ride any of the rides with the kids. The kids had a grand old time though and as usual didn't want to leave when it was time to go. Happy Birthday Dawson!

Busy Busy

Holy Cow Life is toooooo busy. I have been working pretty much full time since Jessica had her baby and I am getting nothing done. We are living out of laundry baskets because I dont have time to fold laundry. Hopefully this weekend I can catch up but we do have Ciaran's 4th birthday party on saturday. We are having a Pirate Bowling party. He is sooooooo very excited that we get to go "real" bowling. They both love to bowling and it is quite funny and entertaining.
This week has been so busy. Just a recap. Tuesday night we took Ciaran and Cabhan shopping to Toys R Us to pick out Ciaran's Birthday Present. He has said all along that he wants a Guitar (he loves playing dads and is very careful with it) and a new bumble bee transformer and another optimus prime transformer. Well at the store he wanted what ever was in front of him at the moment. We ended up getting him a Pirate ship to have at his own house. He has one at Grandma Doloris's and Grandma who calls grandpa Mike's (grandma Gwen) houses now but not his own. Well we also wanted to him a scooter since it is starting to get warm and he loves being outside but decided to wait for Easter and then we could get both Ciaran and Cabhan one.
Wednesday night I had the opertunity to go to New Beginnings at our ward for the young women and meet all the new beehives that are coming in. It was a very fun night. They now have a nursery every wednesday night for the kids of all the leaders for mutual which made it very nice. I didn't have to find a babysitter or anything which made it very nice and stress free. To bad we didn't think of that when we were in young womens huh quinn. Duh I dont know why because they always have it for the RS activities.

TENDER MERCIES

As I am sure everyone knows my younger sister Jessica gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on February 20th, 2008. She weighed 7 lbs 2 oz and was 20 inches long. I have not done a post on her yet becuase I dont have a camera and so I didn't have any pictures of her but my mom emailed me some so now I can finally do it. It was a long day of waiting for all of us especially Jessica and Jay. They arrived at the hospital around five and the nurses almost sent Jess home around seven am because even though she was having major contractions she wasn't dialated at all and you have to dialate for them to consider you in labor I guess. Thank goodness her doctor was there and making the rounds around seven and came in and told her if he could break her water she could stay and have this baby today. So after a long day of just waiting and never dialating past a 2 the doctor gave her a choice of having a C-section and Jessica agreeed. She was tired and ready to be done with waiting.

Jessica was born with a cleft pallit cleft lip which always made her nervous to have kids not wanting to pass that "defect" on to them. I remember when Ciaran was born she would just stare at his lips and nose at how perfect they were and I just new she longed for that in her own kids oneday. Well she did deliver a perfect little baby girl with the most perfect mouth and nose that you could ask for. Infact in most of the pictures that I have at the office people ask if she has lip gloss on. Her little perfect lips just glitter and shine like saying look at me. This was such a tender mercy for all of us to see Jessica get this perfect gift from our Heavenly Father after all she has been through. She has had so many surgeries we have all lost count but this last surgery she had (C-section) she received the best gift ever and and I think it was Heavenly Fathers way of saying good job sticking through everything you have been through and here is my reward to you. Congradulations Jessica and Jay you have a beautiful perfect baby girl and she is certainly a gift from heaven.

FREE ZOO DAY

Today was free zoo day at our local Hogle Zoo. The zoo does this four times a year during the winter the last wednesday of every month from November to February. I try to take my kids at least one day every year to see if they like it enough to buy a season pass. Well in the past years they have been more interested in the sticks and garbage on the ground then the animals but this year it was great. They loved it so much. Every animal we came to Ciaran's first concern is if they bite. That is his latest thing on everything is if it bites. I dont know why he has never been bit by anything that I know of but it is obviously a concern of his. But we had a great day. We met Melissa, Becky, Cady, Conner and Alexa there so the it was fun to get the cousins together. I also met Charees and her boys Landon and Logan and Quinn and Tate and Clair. So between everyone there that we knew we had a great time. We got to see the White Aligator which was way cool. I thought that they moved the aligator to a different zoo in September so I was kindof bumbed that we never got to see it but it is still there. I would recommend everyone to go see it. So I think I will get a season pass this year for our kids so if anyone ever wants to go to the zoo let me know and we could tag along.

Young Womens Camp

Well the cannon fourth ward is going to entrust the young women in my hands again this year for girls camp. I am so flippen excited that it is finally time to start planning and get ready for girls camp. I know a lot of people think I am high on something that I would ever want to have this calling for the third year in a row but I completly love it. I would probably say to all you and your callings that I am so greatful for the calling I have becuase it is just up my alley. I am very excited for this experience again and I hope I can help the girls in what ever areas they need help in. As everyone knows though I am a very high stresser and I have to take medications for that but I have already had one round of shingles just stressing to much about calling my helpers. I have that task over so now we move on. Well I am open for any ideas that anyone would like to give. I have found some wonderful websites but the more help the better. The bishop bore his testimony very strongly to me about deligation so I will listen to that. The stake theme for camp is "LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE" so the theme that I am going to do for our ward to go along with the stake and also the world wide theme 2008 for the youth is "CONSTANT AS A NORTH STAR". This theme comes from the most beautiful song about President Hinkley laying out under the stars at night and noticing that all the stars moved but one the north star. Everyone needs to read the lyrics to this song it is so good. Well everyone wish me luck and I expect everyone to come out and support our young women at our yearly fund raiser to help earn the funds for camp which will be April 19th. We dont know what we are doing for sure yet but please keep posted.
1. When President Hinckley was a boy,he slept outside for fun.He noticed all the stars would move,except for one.
2. Discouraged while in the mission field,he read these words from home:“Forget yourself and go to work.”His heart was stirred to
3. So if you’re discouraged or confused,just think of that bright star.Remember what our prophet saidAnd who you are.
Chorus: Be constant as the North Star that shines for you and me,Anchored in the gospel with pure integrity,Steadfast in your service to God and fellowman.President Hinckley has shown us that we can.