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Sweet Baby Girl


Classic Delayna

And yeah, I'm outta here!

Going Private

We're going to try making the blog private. Let me know if you would like an inivite. Happy to have come visit, just trying to keep out the cyberwierdos. Thanks, Alyson

Delayna at 1

D's not talking to me so I guess I have to write this for her. At one Delayna is a crack up. She is definately a toddler and is all over the house. She has completely abandoned crawling and it bopping all over. She does not do leisurly strolling about the house. She's off! It totally cracks me up. Her favorite toys are the little white screw covers off the toilets (yes, absolutely disgusting!), pencils (she finds them EVERYWHERE) and a green bouncy ball that just barely fits in her mouth (she's thinks it's hilarious.) She babbles constantly and uses great body language to help her make her point. Everything from the full head back belly laugh to big emphatic head nods when she's serious. She loves to dance and if she hears anything resembling music she'll be grooving! Occasionally she'll eat some real food now, but still loves her ma, ma, ma. And no, that's not mom it's milk and she'd like it warm and in a bottle NOW PLEASE. She still has major stranger anxiety so good luck making friends. Ryan has high hopes for Thanksgiving since he'll be here for a week. Yeah! It's sad that she doesn't like new people much because she is so fun and has so much . . . how should we say it . . . personality, but other people don't get to see it since she WON'T LEAVE MY LAP. But we love her and are glad she decided to show up in our family. Happy one year Baby D.

Silver Linings

As many of you know Mike was laid off on Tuesday morning. It was a complete shock and we've been reeling in the wake of that event this week. But I wanted to let you know we are OK. We're grateful for everyone's concern, and we're doing better now. I can even talk about it without crying now (Yes, Doug and Randy you can call me now ;0). ) There are blessings in everything and this is no different. We'd rather not be going through this, but we are grateful that we are healthy, there is food on the table, a roof over our heads and for all the support we've recieved. Happily we've been working hard on our year's supply, have a paid for car, and both have good education and work experience to draw on. We are grateful to have a temple near by where we were able to go and recharge our batteries, remember what is important in life, ponder, pray and feel peace. I'm so glad Kristin is here to lighten the mood with jokes, music, and free babysitting :0).

Weekend Girls Trip

Kristin beat me to blogging so I'm copying. I'll have to get pictures lately.

This past weekend Alyson and I left the kids with Mike and headed to Grandma Thompson's house. We have been wanting to get all of her old photo's scanned before she gives them away and she wanted to get some photo's scanned to play in her digital photo frame and her TV. So we went up kids free and spent the weekend scanning old photo's and video taping her talking about the photo's. We learned some very fun facts about Grandma.
Friday night Trevor, Bethany, & Ryan met us at Grandma's for dinner....Grandma's stew. They headed back to Provo that night so they could attend the football game on Saturday. Al and I stayed and literally spend all day until about 4:40 scanning picture. By that time Grandma was tired of talking and we were tired of scanning so we watched a movie, had some more stew and then watched another movie. It was a very nice trip visiting and fun listening to some family history.
We got a few really great photo's. Ryan was my test subject as I was getting the timer ready to shoot.
They kids had a very nice weekend with Mike, filled with a morning trip to the donut shop, Kung Fu Panda and Superman II with popcorn....they hardly missed up.

Happy Happy Birthday Delayna!

She did it. She made it to one year old. Sadly Delyana is not feeling well today so we're putting off taking pictures untill the nose can stay clean long enough to take a picture and she's willing to leave mom's lap for a few minutes. I'm having a hard time writing reflections on the past year tonight, but when she's feeling better D may write her own letter :0)

What a Weekend

What fun we had. Mom, Dad, Nick, Ryan, Trevor, Bethany AND Mom and Dee arrived in time to enjoy the trick or treaters and some hot spiced cider and fresh scones. Yummy! Saturday we got up bright and early to take Nick to the temple to recieve his endowments in preparation for his mission. That's all eight. Now we just all need to get to the temple at that same time! Then is was home to prepare for Abby's Baptism. Kyle, Tammy, Bronson, and Sarah came to share the special day with us and is was a great day! It is always a whirlwind when so many great things are happening and those we love are with us. Hard to believe it is already over, but we have great memories to keep.

Here are few of the pictoral highlights.

Mr. Clean joins the family of rag dolls, pumpkins and golfer. (And those of us with "Halloween Shirts." We are happy to note that Trev now knows what a Halloween shirt is.)

Whoo HOOOOOOO I got a sucker! Is that pure joy or what?

Mike's family sharing Abby's special day. Braydon was VERY sad that Bronson didn't get to come back to the house afterward. He had a lot of fun with him.