I’ve been a lazy blogger lately. I’ve had a lot of things to blog, I just keep putting it off. Well anyways, we had a great Martin Luther King Day weekend… Grandma and Grandpa Stubblefield were able to come in town for a few days. Grandma came in Friday morning and we headed to the Phoenix Children’s Museum. We had such a great time there! There were fun things for everyone,even for Chelle! Most of our pictures are from there because I kept forgetting my camera. Grandpa came in town late Friday night. Saturday morning we went to Jackson’s soccer game. He had been praying all week that he would score a goal in the game… I was really hoping his prayers would be answered… and they were! He was the only goal for his team that game – it was the perfect game for Grandma and Grandpa to be at! We then went to the delicious and always busy Joe’s Farm Grill! It was great food and the kids loved that we could sit outside, play, and hangout.  That afternoon/evening the kids played with the Bendaroos Grandma brought, cards, football, chess, etc with Grandma and Grandpa. Jackson got to give the scripture in primary – he memorized D&C 88:63 and it was another great thing for him to have Grandma and Grandpa at. Monday morning Micah got a little patch painting done from the termites we had in Jackson’s room and also picked up a fan for the family room while he was out getting paint. A few weeks before I had noticed how dusty our family room fan was and I got up there and dusted it really well, then went to turn it on and it turned a couple rounds and stopped… it was totally stuck on something. Luckily it was winter and we didn’t need the fan on all the time! Grandpa was so kind to help Micah to first see if they could fix the existing fan, then to replace the fan. Thank you! The kids were pretty impressed and still talk about our ‘new fan.’ For lunch we went to one of our favorite places, Chic-fil-a! (the kids favorite play place) and then to see “Yogi Bear.” It was a pretty silly movie but the kids thought it was the greatest thing ever!  We came home and played some more and had Family Home Evening. The next morning Micah went to work, Jackson went to school, and Lacey, Rachelle and I went to the park with grandma and grandpa and all of the sudden our weekend was over and Grandma and Grandpa had to catch their flight back home. We had such a great time with Grandma and Grandpa! Thanks for coming to visit us! We loved having you here!

Christmas morning we were driving to Mama and Papa Great’s house for breakfast. We had had a great morning and we were all happy and excited to get there. Jackson was telling us about some things and then randomly announced, “Hey mom and dad, I can talk girl!” then in a high pitched voice he said, “See, I can talk girl.” He’s got skills.

Every year our family, like many others, reenacts the Christmas story. This year Lacey and Jackson were Mary and Joseph. I was a little nervous… not for Jackson, I knew he understood the story and knew to be respectful,  but Lacey was having a rough night, and I was having a hard time getting her to be kind and calm. As I helped Lacey get dressed to play Mary I reminded her that this story is about Jesus and she needed to act reverently because it’s such a special story to us and we love Jesus. We’ve talked a lot about baby Jesus in family home evening and many many other times, so I hoped things would go well.  Have you ever seen or read “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”? We aren’t exactly the Herdman’s (at least I don’t think we are), but I couldn’t help but think of that story as I watched what happened next: