New Stroller

We are now the proud owners of a double jogging stroller!  Since the weather has been so great lately I have really been loving taking the boys out, but James is so big now and to really go on long walks I needed a double stroller.  I wanted a jogger because a lot of the walks that we go on are off road trails, so a jogger was important because a regular stroller is just too hard to make it through these trails.  Well, I looked online for several weeks and decided that would like a mid line stroller that I could spend less on.  I emailed several people, but ended up not going to see any strollers because Charles was out of town for a week and the boys got the flu for. a. week.  A few weeks later I did a little more research and called a few more people and was going to go look at some strollers one evening.  THEN, about three hours before I was going to spend lots of time and money my friend Jill called and asked, "I have an extra double jogging stroller, do you want it?"

YES!!! 

So, I washed all of the fabric, sewed up some of the holes and voila!  Feels great!  It is a great stroller and I have loved it!  What a little miracle!

I love it.  Henri likes sitting on the footrest, and James doesn't like it until we are moving.  But, I love it!

Conference

Conference was great!  We shared our tradition of ableskeivers with our friends the Sivulas on Saturday and then with the Fieldings on Sunday.  

Here is Henri playing in flour... he does this every chance that he gets! 

 After Conference we went for a walk at the Nature Preserve that is about a 15 minute walk from our house.  The weather was nice and cool and it was so nice to get outside and take a walk through the woods and on a nice beach along the river.

 Love these cute boys in their matching brown outfits.

The rope bridge.

And some pictures of my sweet sweet James.  I love LOVE this little face!

We really enjoyed Conference.  I was so excited about the new age limits for missionaries.  I haven't really thought a lot about how that would have changed my life if they had been put into place five years ago except that it would be a "game changer" as Papa Lon would say.  When it was announced I just started crying.  I am not sure why- maybe because I just felt that missionary spirit!  How amazing!  

Another wonderful part of Conference was seeing the boys reactions.  When Henri was little little he would play and whenever the choir sang he would stop and watch during the song.  James did that a little bit this time, but maybe he is still a little too young to really notice.  This time, especially during the first session, Henri was just quietly playing basically the whole time.  Every so often he would look up and say, "He talked about the temple" or "He talked about Lehi" or "He is the Prophet," "She said Book of Mormon."  It was definitely one of the moments that all of the work and monotony and frustration of being a mom is ALL worth it!  I am so thankful for the Gospel and for my sweet boys who are really learning what we are trying to teach them! 

Swiss Boys

Grandmaman Christiane sent these boys cute matching t-shirts and a hat.  Here are the boys showing off their new present!

Merci Grandmaman!!!

Ouch

I am constantly praying for these boys to be protected and sometimes I wonder what effect it has.  Well, there have been a few times that I think that Henri has been protected.  This is one of those times.  He was playing with the round, long attachment to the vacuum and he fell on it when it was n his mouth.  (I am guessing since I wasn't actually in the room.)  It is always scary when your sweet baby starts screaming and you run into the room and they are bleeding from their mouth. 

He basically got two puncture wounds in the back of his mouth.  I really think it could have been a lot worse.  Easily.

 Thankfully he got back to his cheerful, goofy self pretty quickly.

Funny Brothers

Here are a few cute videos that we got of James and Henri.  Henri is still a very attentive, kind brother.  Right now we are working on not taking toys out of James' hands, but other than that things are going pretty well .



In this one Henri didn't know that I was filming.  I love when he says this to James!  I love it when he says it to me!

First Tooth

This is the day that Jameser's first tooth popped through in September.  We were both pretty happy about it!

This is also pretty good documentation of what happens when James get a mosquito bite.  Which happens pretty often.  Sad.

Waking Up

Henri is still a great big brother to James.  Whenever he hears him cry he runs in to greet him.

A lot of the time when I get into the room I find them like this!