The Six B's

We are familiar with President Hinckley's six B's, (Be prayerful, Be humble, Be true...) but this past week we've come up with six B's of our own:

Blue Skies
What a BEAUTIFUL week we've had! We enjoyed wonderful weather of sunshine and blue skies almost every day! We went on picnics, walks and hikes, played at the park and the beach. Ty loved riding his scooter at the skate park. Every moment we could was spent outdoors, it felt like spring! In fact my tulips I planted in the fall have started coming up already! Yikes! We know rain is in the forecast, but for January weather in Tillamook it sure has been fantastic!


Beach
Nate, bless his heart, gave me and Mimi the day off on Saturday and spent the day with the kids. We enjoyed a great lunch at Chinese, with a quiet meal of egg roles, sweat-and-sour pork, and scheshwan beef!! (Yum!) We did some shopping, there's really not much to do in Tillamook besides Fred Meyer, but it was still nice to get a little break. Nate not only took the kids to the beach but helped Ty ride his two-wheel bike and pulled the kids in the wagon to the park! What a great husband and dad!!


Birthday
Happy Birthday Nate!! You might be wondering why half the cake is missing on Nate's birthday cake...well Nate has a fetish with hot cake and when it came out of the oven the night before he was pretty adamant about celebrating his 'birthday eve' by eating his cake while it was still warm! Nate is excited about his new fishing pole to take his little buddy fishing this summer--he hopes to catch at least one fish! Ty gave his daddy a new foam sword so they could have sword fights, but with the first swing his new sword broke! What a rip-off, we will take it back tomorrow!

Beauties
I've been wanting a haircut for several weeks, but kept putting it off until after the baby came! I soon realized I'd be waiting a while for this little guy so I might as well get it taken care of before he comes! Well Mama and Mara both got haircuts and we are very pleased with how they turned out! Did Nate notice? Well... he was actually there when the beautician came over to cut it. He helped look through a magazine and told me all the haircuts not to do! Mara was very pleased with her hair this morning and when Nate came in the door to go to church she ran up and said "Daddy look, pretty hair!"

Belly
In case you've been wondering what the belly looks like after waiting an extra week and a half well...here it is! One full day to go! I can hardly wait! I've gotten some really funny (and not so funny) comments waiting for this baby to come:

"You look like you are going to blow!"
"You were looking so good...I mean, well..."
"You have really grown this week"
"Haven't you had this baby yet?"
"Holy Cow, I thought you had that baby a month ago!"


all Boy
Today after church Nate and I stood in the hall to visit for a minute while Mimi went in the primary room to get Ty. When she found him he had pinned a poor kid to the floor in a wrestling move and announced: "I've pinned him!" Poor little Seth didn't know what had hit him and was crying out for his life "Get off me!" Why Ty is wrestling his buddies in church I don't know, but we had to have a little talk on the way home about 'no wrestling at church!' In between smiles and smirks we kindly explained that wresting was only okay at home with daddy, not at primary! He said 'but I am so strong, I can beat anyone!