We Put The F In Awesome: A Wonderful Sabbath

Saturday, October 4, 2008

A Wonderful Sabbath

This last weekend we blessed Rachel in our ward. John gave a beautiful blessing and my mom wrote it down for me in my journal. I'm very blessed to have a priesthood holder in my home so that we can always ask for blessings. This is a group picture of all of us who were at the blessing. A day before we were able to see my brother Sam who came to visit for a couple hours. He was in town for a concert and staying up in Park City with some friends. You can check out a picture of us on that day on Liz's blog. After the church meeting, we all came to our house for a dinner: ham, potatoes, fresh veggies, homemade rolls, fruit salad, real oreos, and peanut butter brownies. Thank you all for donating food. I am glad you all found our church. Ingrid and Martin drove around to four different churches before they found ours. Sorry guys! What a wonderful day! It was also my brother Andy's twenty-first birthday, which we celebrated on Saturday. Happy Birthday Andy! Rachel was blessed in a dress that my sister Becky made her. It is so gorgeous. I will post some close ups of her in it later. We missed all of you who couldn't come, but are glad that we are all family! I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful family. Grandma Fossum (who will be 97 this year) also came. That meant so much to us. Thank you!

back row: Ingrid and Martin, Mom and Dad Fossum, John and Sarah, Mom and Dad Packer, Andy and James, David and Liz/ middle: Cat and Grandma Fossum with baby Ray/ front row: all our dang kids

2 comments:

Alex said...: Sarah, what a great day! Wish we could have been there. It is so nice to see everyone in that picture...can't wait for the close ups of your little angel. Love ya!; October 5, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Aubrey Newland said...: Wish I could have been there. Thanks for posting the pictures. This is a great way to keep updated on everyone. Rachel is adorable. I'll have to come down when I'm home for Christmas to visit.; October 5, 2008 at 7:40 PM

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favorite sayings of our boys

After graduating from preschool, the boys and I were walking to the car. Ben was a little sad and said, "I kind of don't want to go to Kindergarten, because most of the kids there are Chinese." (What?)
Isaac: I think Michael Jackson should be on American Idol. He would smoke everyone!
Ben: I know why it rains. Because Jesus is sad that everyone is evil so he is crying.
The twins call adults "humans". So Ben was talking to Jake saying, "When you grow up you get to be a human."
Jake's new thing is to call girl's "ladies". We were at Costa Vida and Jacob came out of the play area and said, "That lady in there is being mean." He then pointed to a little girl. The next day he woke up and said, "I had a dream that I kissed a lady."
The boys were talking about going to Cabella's. Ben said, "Is she going to be there?" John said, "What?" Ben replied, "Cabella. Is she going to be there?"
John was explaining the Law of Consecration and how we will put everything in a big pile and each take out what we need(an easy explanation). Isaac said, "Are there going to be kids in the pile? You can throw me in there!"
Ben's favorite Super Hero is now Joseph Smith. He said, "I'm going to fight all of you! Cuz I'm Joseph Smith!"
The other morning Ben was checking out my pudgy post pregnancy arms and while grabbing them he said, "You look like the Hulk!" I guess that's better than calling me fat!
The twins don't have very many friends. They are perfectly content with eachother. Ben came up to me while I was cooking dinner and said, "Can my friend eat over?" I said, "who?" he then pointed to Jake. Then he told me that Jake is his friend that wants to eat over and he will go home after dinner. I thought it was halarious. Then a couple days ago they went running through the kitchen to go play outside and one of them was calling the other "Uncle."
I always laugh at the misinterpreted words Enoch says. The other night at the dinner table he was trying to get the twins to eat by saying, "You better eat. There are starving children in Australia." I think he meant Ethiopia. John told Enoch we were going to take the newly found turtle to the pound if we couldn't find it's owner. A couple hours later Enoch says,"I don't want to take the turtle to the hound."
Ben asked,"Mommy, how come you know everything in the whole wide world? Did Jesus teach you that?" I didn't know I was so smart!
Jacob likes to bless the food at almost every meal. Lately he has been saying,"Bless mama and her baby and help her baby to get taken out." I think we are all anxious!
Upon sleeping in a tent with Grandpa Fossum and Enoch, Isaac was asked how well he slept. He said, "Not very well. Grandpa started snoring really really loud, and then Enoch started snoring and then he kicked me off the mattress. So I didn't sleep very well at all." Isaac has a sweet voice and doesn't pronounce his r's correctly yet, so you can imagine how cute that sounded!
I was talking to Enoch about the difference between girls and boys and he said,"Boys work really hard when they are young and then they grow up and buy their own car, but girls just say,'Daddy, I want a new car!"
Jake and Ben learned about Jesus healing the 10 lepers in Primary. Their teacher asked the class,"What did Jesus do to the 10 lepers?" Ben said,"He killed them!" I think he's getting confused with killed and healed!
Uncle Jacob and Ben had this conversation: Ben:Is everything alive, and does it talk? Jacob: probably we just don't understand them. Ben: Can trees talk? Jacob: maybe, we just don't know their language.Ben: a tree talked to me. .It said,'who's bike is that?' and I said, "it's mine."
Enoch says, "I need to start wearing boxers instead of tighty whities. I'm becoming a man. b-e-c-o-m-i-n-g becoming a man!"
I let Enoch watch Michael Jackson's "Bad" video. Later that night he came and told me that he got some spray paint and sprayed the word "Bad" on his wall! Woops, I guess he shouldn't have watched that one!
Ben was looking at his cousin's picture and said,"Peter is funny." I said, "yeah he's cool huh?" Ben replied,"Peter isn't black. Only black guys are cool."
Ben and I were making John a Father's day breakfast to eat in bed early in the morning. Ben saw how much attention Father's get on this day and said, "Mommy, when's Kid's day?"
I was breaking out on my face and Isaac says," Mom, why do you have all those nipples on your face?" I said, "they're not nipples, they're pimples!"
Enoch says, "I'm sick of this weather. It's always raining." Ben goes, "Yeah, my tummy feels rainsick."