Beautiful Kids

Christmas break is over and we are back into the swing of things at school. The hardest part of the transition is for me to wake up! But Kyah and Zane were excited to be back in school and see their friends and teachers again.

There is a cute little Mexican boy in Kyah's class named Emiliano. We call him Emi for short. He is a tiny little guy with a big head and floppy dark hair. He is too adorable. He is very quiet and doesn't talk to many of the kids in class. He is having a little harder time learning to read than the other kids because I think his parents don't speak English. I finally got him to talk with me when I was working with him before Christmas. He told me Santa was bringing him a Spiderman Action Figure and a Doc Octopus. He was really excited. I was shocked and didn't know he could talk so much!

Well, Kyah has a funny habit of saying hello to anyone that she sees speaking Spanish or anyone that looks like they should speak Spanish. She does this at the mall, in grocery stores, or anywhere we happen to walk by someone that may look Latino to her. But she doesn't just say hello, she yells out "Hola!" We are going to have to have a talk about how not everyone may speak Spanish even though they might look that way. But for now, its kind of funny.

During the first week of school Kyah befriended Emi in her normal fashion. (She is friends with everyone). She walked up to him and said "Hola!" He looked at her surprised and said "You speak Spanish?" Then she said "No, I just learned a little from Dora." :) Classic! They've been friends ever since.

Kyah came home yesterday from school and was in a good mood. She said "Mom - do you know what Emiliano said to me at school today? He told me I was beautiful." As she was telling me her face started to go a little pink. It was too cute. How could I blame him? She is beautiful!

2008 Here we come!

The new year has come. I am enjoying it by hanging out in my pajamas for as long as possible!

For New Years Eve we played charades with the kids. Zane didn't quite get the game at first. I would tell him what his word was to act out and tell him how to act it out. He would then just whisper the words to everyone or dance around like a crazy man. It was still fun.

After the charades, we fried up some scones, ate ice cream and made orange party hats for each of us. BYU puts on a big family New Years Eve activity at the mall and they put on a fireworks display at 9 pm and then again at midnight. I figured that only Doug and I would last until midnight, so we took the kids up to watch the fireworks at 9 pm. Kyah was so tired she barely was able to stay awake for the fireworks. When they were over and we started to drive home she was very upset because she wanted to stay. She fell asleep within a minute of leaving the parking lot.

After putting all the kids in bed, Doug and I watched a movie. When it was over and we were getting ready for bed we heard some loud noises behind our house. It spooked us a little bit until we realized it was the neighbors setting of firecrackers! How did we get so old and tired to not really celebrate the new year?!

We are excited for this next new year. It is going to be an amazing one! My only resolution this year is to read the entire Book of Mormon twice through. When I told Doug, he said he would do it too. And then somehow it turned into a competition between us who would finish reading it once first. It should be interesting!