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Monday, February 8, 2010

Videos from the birthday

I didn't take as many as I had hoped...nor the quality I had planned... but since when does anything turn out as I plan?! I uploaded a few clips we took onto youtube. Here are links to them and a little explanation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e49Hf9fvql8
Brianna showing her dance moves. After she has her bath and is dressed in her jammies, we like to let her get her leftover energy out. Notice the 90's EFY music blasting in the background. Gotta keep the Sabbath day holy, ya know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpf-ybjn6L4
Usually she wakes up from her nap happy. Today she didn't. But it's her birthday and she can cry if she wants to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmK-TlNuOxg
The only gift she unwrapped was from her Grandma McKell. It was an elephant that comes to life when it's back is petted. I really like Brianna's smile here - very genuine, not the huge cheesy grin she puts on for most pictures/videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_TSWKjVH4o
We weren't planning on doing anything in the evening - just hanging out at home playing games with our birthday girl. But our good friends surprised us and came over with a gift for Brianna! She was SO excited to see them at the door. She loves her friends Tyrus and Sienna. They gave her a supercute gift - a mix-in-a-bag for birthday cookies and a cookie cutter (which I mistook for a pizza cutter because I'm smart like that). At the end of the video I tell Brianna to say "Michelle, you rock!" But Brianna chooses to say, "I rock!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkrxO9pzXoo
We decided to make the cookies right then while they hung out at our house. But I messed it up somehow and they spread too much so it looks like brownies. I thought I might as well stick a couple candles in them and sing to her! Brianna obviously loved the attention but had trouble blowing those candles out. Afterwards Brian said to me - "I know why you wanted to make the cookies while they were here - you didn't want to eat them all!" Brian has me all figured out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEZD8l5SGmA
Her birthday ended with her favorite activity - bathtime. At this one, Brian bravely stuck his head in the tub and taught her to blow bubbles. Because every 2 year old should have that necessary skill.

2 comments:

the Gardners said...: lol! It is a pizza cutter or a cookie cutter or a playdough cutter. It just cuts whatever they want...you are smart!; February 10, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Unknown said...: What a fun little birthday! I love that her daddy took one for the team and taught her that VERY necessary skill of blowing bubbles. I did that once and now my kid finds it very funny to drink the water when her face is down there...YUCK!; February 11, 2010 at 6:27 PM

Quotes I want to remember

"The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence."
-Ezra Taft Benson

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children will somehow get the drift of your beliefs on their own.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

"We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith."
-Neil L. Andersen

"Certainly there are times when getting the family together to read the scriptures does not stack up as a spiritual experience worthy of a journal entry. But we must not be deterred. There are special times when the spirit of a son or daughter is just right and the power of these great scriptures goes down into their heart like fire. As we honor our Heavenly Father in our homes, He will honor our efforts."
-Neil L. Andersen

President Hinckley admonished both men and women to be nurturers. He said, ‘How much more beautiful would be the society in which we live if every father . . . and . . . mother regarded [their] children . . . as gifts from the God of heaven . . . and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.’ ”
-Susan W. Tanner

"Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife of former U.S. president George Bush, spoke wisely: 'Your success as a family, our success as society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.' "
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
-Henry B. Eyring

“Reverent behavior is not a natural tendency for most children. It is a quality that is taught by parents and leaders through example and training. But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence.”
-Margaret S. Lifferth

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."
- M. Russell Ballard

“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Security for our families comes from learning self-control, avoiding the excesses of this world, and being temperate in all things.”
-Kent D. Watson

Monday, February 8, 2010

Videos from the birthday

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