Liken It's "Jonah and the Big Fish"

There are very few movies that all of the kids and the adults in the family can agree on watching every Sunday, but the Liken It movies all qualify. We try to watch only "Sunday" movies on Sunday which is usually church movies or a musical. The Liken It movies definitely qualify as both. When we got the set of movies almost 2 years ago we got the soundtracks and the movies. The kids love to watch and hear the stories they have been reading about in their scriptures. We also put the cd's in the car to listen to while we drive to church or everywhere else. The cd's have two parts, the vocals and the instrumental tracks. When the vocal part ends, the little voices from the back of the car say "We want to hear it talk please." They have also started singing along, I think their favorite is "Samuel the Lamanite", with the favorite song being about the "Tarchery Corp" (the Nephite Archery Corp) and yesterday we got a great rendition of "All's well in Zion."

Right before Christmas the cd for the next movie came out and I received it as a birthday present. It went immediately into the cd player and has become a favorite of mine. the songs are great and very singable and I can't wait to get to see the movie/play. It should definitely live up to Liken It's high standard of quality and performance and be a memorable experience for all who attend.

Christmas Quilt

I have been working on and off on this quilt since August and the goal was to have it done by Christmas for someone's present. With everything that was going on, it did not happen, I had issues with inserting some of the seams and then my machine went into the shop and then I had a baby, you can see where the time problems came up. Well, since pictures were asked for, I finally got to pin it together and prep it for quilting and here are the pictures of some of the different sections of it.

First Picnic of the Year

This is for my mom. The weather was about 50 degrees and they really wanted to go outside so Nolan cleaned off their table and let them do exactly what they wanted to do.

One Month

Cyrus is one month old! We survived one month! Wahoo! I have tried with all of my children to take pictures once a month on the same date each month with the same animal. Each child got different animals and Cyrus got this delightful elephant that I love and am trying to find just the right music box to go in it. I have also discovered the main reason why for the first several months baby pictures are all of babies asleep. They like to move around. I snapped a good twenty pictures and these were the only ones that looked remotely clear and good. We are very grateful to have Cyrus in our family and as he becomes more active and alert, the other kids are starting to interact more with him.

My Cutie Pie

As her birthday approaches, I have been doing some sewing for Keileigh. I've had this fabric for a few months now and finally felt like trying to figure this pattern out and make a "twirly" skirt for her. She had picked the pattern and told me that she needed all the different skirts and shirts to match and that we would need to find her just the right shoes and everything to go with it all. This outfit was for her birthday, but she told me that since it was done she needed to wear it and look cute, her words not mine.

Siblings

Trying to assimilate a new baby into the family can be difficult sometimes, but today Knut announced that he wanted to hold his baby brother Cyrus and he wanted me to take his picture. Keileigh decided to get in on the photo op, but Nevan was not getting involved with his. Though later on he looked at Cyrus and announce "Baby. Cy'us." Also we had t take pictures for Oldermor in Norway, the shirt and the booties are ones she had sent a while back, right after Knut had been born.

Shh, he's sleeping

Cyrus still spends a lot of time sleeping, which is good, since Knut was home from school for two weeks and that is a really long time. But I love to watch them sleep and the different positions they can end up in are really cute.