Stake Conference Announcement

This morning in stake conference the stake president repeated the stake business that had been conducted the night before. The announcement made over the pulpit went something like this:

Stake President: "As second counselor in the stake presidency we have called John H. M. III- not to be confused with John H. M. IV, who is also in our congregation. And I hear there could someday be a John H. M. V?"

JHM III: "Talk to Edna."

To clarify- no, we are not expecting. I'm wondering if Uncle Mike put him up to this. I thought it was hilarious.

It also reminded me that John sent me this head line earlier in the week. Bill Clinton Says Wife Wants Grandchild More Than Presidency. I wish Chelsea Clinton luck.

Camy kneading bread

Or as she likes to call it "squishing" the bread:

A day with dad

Last Tuesday, Edna went to her sisters wedding in UT. I stayed home with the girls and these are a few of the pictures that resulted.

One of the first things we did was feed the blue jays. My grandpa had trained jays to eat peanuts out of his hand. Right now we are lucky enough if the girls don't bang on the glass window and scare the jay away. But they enjoy throwing peanuts out the back door, and have a surprising amount of patience to wait and see the bird come by.

As we got ready to go to the park, we ended up pulling out hats while we searched for coats.

First we headed to the bank. Over hundreds of years of experience the banks have learned that children have no tolerance for waiting in line, but if they provide suckers, the kids might manage 10 minutes or so. The blue mouths are just a side effect.

Once at the park, Macy had a great time sliding down the slide - head first, which I thought was rather bold. She seemed pretty pleased with herself.

Camy was also willing to take a try at the two-story slide, but was a little less headstrong than her sister. She was more content to walk along the structures.

I tried in various shots to try to capture Macy's perpetual forward momentum. This is the closest I got.

The girls have also enjoy playing "simon says". We haven't added the simon says part yet. The video is a little bigger than our site allows, so you will have to travel over to YouTube.