More from my Beautiful, yet crazy kids!

So Nate brought this funny bunny mask home from school and of course, and without hesitation, Adam put it on Cecily while she is helplessly confined in her chair. As you can tell she was really hating having the mask on. She laughed and smiled and laughed. She kept trying to take it off but Adam and Eli were laughing too and made her keep it on. So with all the hilarity and joviality in the air, and having noticed all of the fun and positive attention that Cecily was deriving from this frolic, Eli had to be a part.

There really isn't anything more to say about that picture except, "WOW!" He is like a scary pirate bunny winking through his one good but very squinty eye. The smile is really all it takes though to know the Eli is one wild and crazy guy. Oh,and please, disregard the random empty gatorade bottle in the background. I have no idea why that is in the picture or why I didn't edit it out with all of me newfound photoshop skills. Obviously we just finished dinner or something. Nice!

Eli, Eli, O!

I've been shirking! But I'm back. A little weekend get away and bout of the flu and I'm totally out of my groove.

I have to write about Eli today. There is always so much to say about the little man. My mother-in-law was a very spirited little girl and she remembers her mother introducing her to friends they would see at the store or wherever. Her mom would say "... and this is Melanie. She is the spice of my life." What a great way to put it! I've used that a couple of times lately. "This is Eli, the spice of my life." OH MY is he spicy. It's so much better than saying "this is the reason I could sleep 12 hours a day" or the "handful" comment.

All of this background info is really just to set up one of the funny things that Eli has said for the past couple of days. On Mondays we have Family Home Evening. It's a time that we spend as a family having a gospel centered discussion an activity and songs, etc. Some are fantastic and others have good intentions....:) but this Monday was particularly good. We were discussing that Satan does not have a physical body and he is so jealous that he tempts us with things that destroy ours. We talked about all of the physical temptations (minus "intimacy", our crowd is a little young for that). Then we talked about the obvious benefits of living healthy. We then read a scripture about the "hidden treasures" (scroll to the bottom of the link) of living healthy and did a fun activity involving finding a hidden treasure after doing something that was obviously beneficial. The lesson must of have stuck with Eli. A couple of times he has said very seriously "the devil wants my body." I know what he means and I really try to take this seriously and reitterate part of the lesson, but it's very hard to not chuckle at a 3 year old saying " the devil wants my body." He's quite a guy.

Here are a few reasons I love Eli. When we started doing puffs in Cecily's hair Eli was all over it. He still sticks her barretts in his hair. If it looks fun, Eli will do it. A cookie, a big wheel and some puffs. Now that's a good day.

Next pic. This was obviously a while ago. But when he does something he does it big. If one was good, two HAD to be so much better.

Last pic. Back to the fun...who knew that the empty detergent bucket and fabric softener box were a drum and a hat? Eli did. These are the things I need to remember when I flop down exhausted in bed at night.

I just love my guy!

Easter is on it's way!

So, we still don't have the digital camera but I was looking on my friend Anna's blog and she had a tutorial about how to add color to black and white photos. I actually did it! And since Easter is coming, I thought I would share my results. Thanks Anna!





So here is the original picture.

And here is the enhanced photo.
um, it's not loading. I'll try later. :) Anna, could you please post a tutorial on why my pic isn't uploading and how to FIX IT!!! Too big probably. I don't know.

Much, much later... Anna is a GENIUS! She was RIGHT. It was saved funky. Here it is! So cute, eh?

My Family

Some of you that are reading this are new friends that I have met since moving to Rochester a month ago. Others are friends and family that I have known forever. I thought I better post a picture of my family so that if you don't know them, you can see who I'm talking about, or if it has been so long since you saw us that you can't remeber what we look like you'll have a visual. :) I also haven't uploaded a photo for quite a while so I better try my hand at it and see if it works.


I did it! Woohoo! So, here we are. This was taken by my skilled and hip sister-in-law Lindsey. It was taken outside of the Logan LDS temple on the day Cecily was sealed to us. It was beautiful and wonderful. Happy, happy day. If you have no idea what I'm talking about you can go here for a better explanation than I can give: http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/membership-in-the-church/temples-and-family-history Yeah, I did a link. I ROCK!
Anyway, that's us for today. When I finally figure out where our digital camera (bane of my exsistence) is located since the move, I'll post some recent pictures. Really the only difference from the picture above is that Nate now has front teeth (and so does Cecily, come to think of it) and Cecily has gigantic hair that I LOVE!

beginnings

Well folks, here I am. I've done some blogging but never had a blog of my own. I was never sure if what I wanted to post was enough "us" and not just "me" since it was our family's blog. SO, I'm branching out and starting anew. Welcome to Persimmon Poppy. Why the name? The first 302 names I thought of were taken so I decided to go a little outside the box and title my blog with something I love and possibly describes me in a way.