When school starts again I always have such mixed feelings. My kids get excited to go and so I am excited for them but I of course feel the sadness that they are one year older and how quickly time is passing. Here are my beautiful nephew and neice and my wonderful daughter Sadie on one of their first days of school.

In these pictures Ethan reminds me of that part in Superman when his parent wrap him up and put him in that pod as a baby to be sent to earth. So these are his baby superman pictures! Maybe I have an over active imagination but either way these turned out cute of Ethan.

Ethan and Joel swapped hats. Ethan's head is almost big enough! Also they say that sleep begets sleep. Emma and Ethan are like kittens when they sleep. They curl up around each other and as long as they are together like that they will sleep for a while. If one gets up, the other gets up to. Kind of funny.

Sadie's baptism was the same day as President Hinkley's funeral. It was a very special experience. Sadie's attitude towards things changed noticeably after her baptism. She reads the scriptures we got her on her own now and is much more of a peacemaker than she used to be. Joel and I are so proud of her choice to be baptised! We are lucky to have her in our family.

Sadie had her 8th birthday on Jan. 7th! She is such a big girl now!

For some reason my kids love to listen to this Cindy Lauper CD we have. Emma loves to dance with her daddy to the song "Time after Time". She will play it over and over until Joel is exhausted!

This was such a fun day! There was fresh snow from the night before and the weather stayed nice the whole time. The kids were exhausted by the time we were done. Joel had them digging caves and forts the whole time. We loved it!