Sunday, April 10, 2011

Birthday Celebrations on Conference Week-end

"Recognizing that we have a heavenly family helps us understand the eternal nature of our earthly families." Richard J Maynes, Establishing a Christ Centered Home
It was great to see Damien, he drove 16 hours to be home for Danielle's birthday
They have such a lovely family~ Kourtni, Jacob, Sydni, Allyson, Damien, Mason and Danielle

Nathanial and Charlie
We so enjoyed having family here over conference week-end.  Arianne, James and Mason came for the week-end.  Charlie had Spring Break, so he came on Tuesday and spent the week with us.  Charlie and I had lots of fun - he is so observant and has such a keen intellect, it is fascinating to talk to him and he thinks deeply about the world and the people in it.  We started reading, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, went for a picnic in the park, played lots of Wii games, went to a Grizzly hockey game, and he helped me with lots of things around the house, like making cakes, strawberry pie, etc.  
 This is Arianne and Will's baby,Nathanial - he is filling out and is such a cute little boy!
Damien, Mason and Danielle
Arianne
James is really into "pretending and make-believe" right now and his favorite character, lately, is Peter Rabbit, so we made him a rabbit cake for his birthday
We celebrated James, Danielle's and Arianne's birthday Sunday in between and after conference.

2 comments:

Tiffany said...

Good work on that cake. It's so cute!

Sunshine and Rain said...

When people ask James his name, he says, "Peter . . . Peter Rabbit!" He used to be Randolph . . . but since he watched a movie about Peter Rabbit that we got from the library, that is now his favorite character . . . at least while he was at our house!