Handi-Kappy Family

Favorite Quote

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.

I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.

I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.

I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.

I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.

I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

-Marjorie Pay Hinkley

Monday, March 7, 2011

Junk Party

My sister-in-law went to the hospital to be induced this morning, so we got to babysit Tyler. Maddie was so thrilled to be able to "keep him all day." Tyler is hands down her favorite person. They played for awhile and then both came to me while I was cleaning the kitchen and proposed a plan they both had come up with. In unison they told me, "we really want a junk party!" Since it was going to be a special day with a new baby int he family I concurred. They filled tiny bowls with marshmallows, skittles, fruit snacks and then popped popcorn and drank baby rootbeers. They put their chairs side by side and used mini stools for side tables to hold their "junk" and watched "How to Train Your Dragon." They are so funny.

Jill had a healthy baby boy and after we picked up the girls from school, we went out for ice cream, shopped for a new outfit and then headed to the hospital. Maddie and I got to see him through the nursery window, but weren't allowed in the room. He was precious. Congrats Torry and Jill!