Chunky goodness of the lovey kisses of the greatest reward (my title is dedicated to Traci)

Liam is getting so chunky! The most frequent regarding him is "he doesn't miss a meal". He is now 3 months, but has outgrown 3 month clothing. He wears 6-9 month old clothing and last week he weighed in at 16.6 pounds and 25 inches. Time for a picture update.

Grateful

Today was a nice day.  Nothing spectacular, but just nice.
Chad & I attended the ground breaking services for the Kansas City, MO lds temple.  At first it was a little distracting because the connection with the groundbreaking service kept on getting disrupted.
Then finally the webcast gets connected and Liam begins to get fussy.
I head to the foyer with him.  We listen to the service as I pace the foyer with a bounce in my step to rock him.  We looked at the pictures of Christ on the walls.  "There's Jesus", I'd say, pointing to the pictures, as if Liam understands me.  Maybe he does.
Things were peaceful.  In the peace my thoughts wandered.  I realized how lucky I was to be attending the groundbreaking of a temple in a city that early latter-day saints only dreamt of building in.  I felt grateful.  I thought about how so much that I have and enjoy can be accredited to the lives lived by my ancestors and others that came before me.  It was humbling.  I felt that being a mother and teaching these things to my son will be one of the greatest things I can do.  I cried.
Sometimes I think it's good to cry, whether sad or grateful, it's good.  It helps me feel alive.  It lets me know I'm not numb.  Have you cried lately?
Tonight I was blog hopping and came upon a link to a inspirational video.  I cried again.  I need to go to bed.  :)  But for those of you that might need a good cry, give it a watch...HERE (it's also very fitting for Mother's day)
Happy mother's day to my mom and all you other mom's out there.  Okay, now I'm off to bed.
Oh, one last thing- I got an early mother's day surprise.  Aren't they cute?

Silver Dollar City

Look at us! A day of fun, riding rollercoasters. Little Liam, he just loves it!  We were so excited to get there that Chad didn't even take the time to change from his scrubs that he wears to work.  What's that white thing on the side you ask...oh, just part of the ride.  There were random refrigerators along the coarse of the rollercoaster.  The ride was called "Yo-Yo Diet rollercoaster".  I guess the refrigerators are supposed to be some sort of prop that they tie in with the theme.  Must be.  There were also large statues of Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda, a soda waterfall, and you can't tell, but our seats were actually shaped like donuts and cupcakes...

...okay, you figuered me out.  So we didn't really go to silver dollar city.  We got a new computer and we were messing with some of the programs on it.  How could I pass up posting such a fun picture? :)

St. Louis trip

This last Friday we went to the temple. Sheena and Bradley watched Liam while we watched Sadie and Payson.
Here's Sadie with one of the flowers picked from the temple grounds...whoops.


Some flowers Sadie didn't pick :)

My attempts to get a cute picture of Sadie and Payson together in front of the temple...Does being in the same picture count as being together?




Later we went to the zoo with Sheena and Bradley. Four hours of of walking around the zoo can wipe one out! But I was determined to see the elephants before we left. I did, but I was too tired to get a picture by then.

The Prom

Did I tell you that Chad asked me to prom? Okay, okay, so maybe it was just a "church prom" and maybe he was just going because he's young men's president and had to chaperone, but it was fun anyways. It's nice to have an excuse to get dressed up. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of us, but I did of my sister and the group she went with. Aren't they cute? The youth here are so awesome!

Pinewood Derby

Cody got the award for best looking car...ironically, he hated the way it looked. My dad thought it'd be cool to make it look antiqued.



Cody got 2nd place.

Easter pics