Happy Birthday Robert/Daddy!

Today is Robert's 36th birthday.

The kids surprised daddy with cake and ice cream when he got home from work. Ice cream was a must because everyone knows that Robert won't touch cake unless there is ice cream to go with it.

This weekend we'll do presents and Robert and I will go out.

Happy Birthday Robert! We love you!
Thanks for all you do and for all you are.

Seamstress

Linda is such a creative girl. She has a lot of patience to do tedious crafts, and she loves to be busy. One of her loves is fashion. She loves dressing up her barbies and dressing up her little sisters. :) She always helps me pick out clothes for her sisters for the next day. Her favorite show is Project Runway. She loves to watch these designers come up with and then create outfits. We have fun watching it together and discussing what we do and do not like about each outfit. When my mom was up here visiting a few weeks ago she told Linda she would teach her how to sew. Linda was so excited!! So she taught Linda basic sewing and Linda is in heaven.When she got home from her first day of school, she had a questionnaire in her backpack that asked what her favorite thing was that she did all summer. She answered: SEWING! I think this is a great thing for her and I am really going to help her pursue it. Who knows, I may get some great outfits out of it years down the road. Robert looks forward to possibly having someone that can hem his pants one day. :)

Here are her first creations. A barbie dress,barbie skirt, and a baby dress.

Bike Rodeo

The elementary school had a Bike Safety Rodeo for all the kids this past weekend. It was really well done. I was really appreciative of all the work everyone did to put on such a fun day for my kids.

Here's Jane waiting in line to get her tired pumped up. Linda got a new tire put on because hers was old. Claire helped the guy fix her bike.:)

 

 

The next station was where they fitted the kids with new bike helmets...for FREE.

  

They had a safety obstacle course for the kids.

Linda and Jane enjoy enjoying their snacks.

My biker gang at the end of the day. It may seem like a pretty simple thing, but we really enjoy the simple things in life around here. 

Labor Day Weekend

We had a very relaxing Labor Day weekend. It was nice to have a three day weekend after our first full week of school. On Saturday, Bruce had a soccer tournament in Del Mar, CA. He had games at 10am and 2pm. The girls played on the playground before the games started, and we went out for pizza in between games. Bruce did a great job. Grandpa was even able to make it to the first game which Bruce was really excited about.

Sunday we went to church in the morning then relaxed the rest of the day.

Monday afternoon we headed to Nuevo, CA  to hang our with Robert's family. Tom and Ember just got a home with a pool. We had good food and the kids had a lot of fun swimming.

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Bruce played two soccer games on Saturday. Bruce played well but they lost both games. Might be a long season.

Linda got some training last week in sewing. She loves the clothes world. She's glued to project runway.

My birthday is next week and I'm registered at Sports Authority, FYI

I'm CPR and first aid certified for now. I have a card to prove it!

Jane loves Kindergarten...has two friends. Claire wants to go so bad.

Testimony

Today was fast and testimony meeting at our church. Bruce chose to share his testimony with the congregation for the very first time. It was so sweet. Bruce has never asked to share his testimony in church before. He's not one of those kids that needs to have the spotlight on himself. After he was baptized he told me that he thought he would like to share his testimony now. My heart was pounding out of my chest when he went up to the podium. I was so nervous for him. I wanted it to be a good first experience for him. Being the prepared kid Bruce is, he had me write down for him what he wanted to say before he went up. He kept it short and sweet. I told him that this was a good thing that he was doing and shared with him that his testimony would forever be recorded in heaven. (D&C 62:3 Nevertheless, ye are blessed, for the testimony which ye have borne is  recorded in heaven for the angels to look upon; and they rejoice over you, and your sins are forgiven you.) He headed up to the podium with his little notebook in hand and said,

"Hi. My name is Bruce.

I was baptized last month. 
I know the church is true. 

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."
I know the angels were rejoicing over Bruce today.

Bruce was so funny when I tucked him in to bed tonight. He said, "Mom, I really think my testimony was too short." :) I told him it was just right and that he'd have plenty of more opportunities in his life to add on to it.