The "gingerman" kid

We read a book about gingerbread men pirates that come to life and escape Santa. Ever since then gingerbread men(or "gingerman" as he calls it)have had almost action figure status. We have a cool little retro bake shop that sell them on Fridays, decorated with hed hot buttons and all. We finally made them ourselves and Liam helped with each step. He made me promise that I wouldnt let Santa eat too many of them.

Are Mormons allowed to believe in Kharma

Are Mormons allowed to believe in Kharma? ‘Cause I certainly do, almost as a principle to live my life by. It makes our walk to life seem fair to think that if we are benevolent people the world will treat us kindly. It makes it easier to keep going as the world around you shifts. Being a generally trusting, upstanding person I tend to think I have the edge when it comes to ‘good luck.’ Good begets good, bad perpetuates bad. Simple enough. Right?

But without asking your permission, life sometimes seems to throw a wrench in the kharma wheel. An event will throw you off beat and then without warning follows a series of intensely hurtful pains. The oft asked question “Why do bad things happen to ‘good’ people?” chases around your thoughts. All of a sudden the comfort and security in your life is extracted and replaced with an uncertain mess you have to clean up.

I believe that we are given trials to learn, I can accept that. God wants us to be refined and draw closer to Him. The path He would have us take does not meander and when we need God most we tend to be more willing to follow the straight and narrow.
What’s hard to swallow is when trials are caused by others deceptiveness and sin.

A few weeks ago my new car got smashed in the back by a hit and run the rest of the days that followed have been increasingly raw with other personal painful events.

I guess that's why we have the atonement of Jesus Christ. It makes things fair when life seems unreasonable. It brings us power beyond our own when we feel weak.

Liam is super excited about Christmas. He wants to do everything by the Christmas tree- play, eat, read his bedtime stories... He loves looking at the ornaments and playing with them (Don't worry we have the ornaments strategically placed in descending order of destructibility. All the kid friendly ones are at the bottom.) Today he was singing "We wish you A Merry Christmas" along with this electronic, twangy, musical ornament and all of a sudden I heard a crash. I was about to get angry for him trying to climb the tree when I couldnt find him. I looked closely and I saw his legs and body sticking out from the tree. It was hilarious. Seeing that no one likes to have a Christmas tree fall on their face I figured there was no need to say anything more.

Brady and Liam were fixing a leak in the dishwasher. (Liam was the flash light holder and absolutely loving it.)

Liam for some reason thinks that when he's outside he needs to put on his dragon costume to stay warm. In these pictures he's directing his parents, telling them where to put the leaves.

Halloween

Liam has been excited for Halloween all month. Went through three costumes in the few days before halloween and finally decided upon this dragon. He loves playing dress up/pretend is always trying to get Brady or I to role play with him. I totally woulda thought that Liam being 2.5 years old wouldn't care about candy when trick or treating. Nope, he was literally running between houses saying "Look mom, I'm getting wots!" It was freezing cold outside and we asked him "Liam are your hands frozen?" he said "Nope, just hurt. Let get some more!"

We Both Have Knee Bones

Today Dani was feeling sad after feeling particularly sick. Liam came up to her as soon as he saw that she was sad, looked her in the eyes, smiled and said "Mommy, don't cry." And then he gave her a huge bear hug and said "I love you. You can come play with me, that will make you feel better...and look! We both have knee bones!" as he pointed to their knee caps. He just learned what bones were this week. What a guy.

Sick, sick

Liam and I have been sick,sick, sick with the swine flu this past week. On Friday I took him into the doctor with a fever kinda in a delirious state. The doctor said to keep him away from other kids for the next few days. We got him some medicine and now he is feeling much better but after staying inside for the entire weekend we're all ready to start feeling better.

We cut up some oranges for Liam and unprovoked by his parents he decided that he would turn and sell them to us as "lemonade" for "Three dollars" (where he came up with this we don't know.") Quite the businessman.

Liam's New Carpet

We got a killer deal on some new flooring in our dining area. Liam has been loving it most of all. He wakes up and the first thing he says is "I want to play on the new carpet!" Liam has been very entertaining. He plays "motorcycle," golf, rides his bike, dances. . . .