Wrinkled Thoughts

Three days after the judge made it official, we made it SUPER OFFICIAL by taking Maya to the temple to be sealed to us. I THANK ALL OF MY DEAR FAMILIES who came to the blessed event. We (and Maya) are truly loved. With out further ado, here's some shots of the after party! Actually, it was THREE parties in two days. The sealing was on Saturday, Maya's Blessing was on Sunday, and then we threw in a little extra CONGRATS party for my brother Ian who just graduated from Law School. His wife (Nat) was in Phoenix, but ordered a yummy ice cream cake from Maggie Moos and we all ate it without her.

Yep, as of January 16th, 2008, Missy Moo is officially a Service. She even has a birth certificate to prove it!

The trip to court was fairly uneventful, even the judge was kind of a stick in the mud. It was mildly amusing however when the judge had to ask our lawyer if all was in order as far as adoptions go. I guess he doesn't preside over too many of them, and this was kind of a treat. There were a few criminals in the room waiting for their turn.

Roseanne and Abigail flew up early (for the temple sealing) and were there to take pictures for us. Our good friends Christina and Cory came too, and we all went to breakfast after. Here's a few shots Roseanne took for us.

Sorry if you thought I fell off the planet. I've been ignoring my blog because I've just been so dang busy! It's kind of a double edged sword. I go on vacation and do lots of fun things, and take lots of fun pictures, but when I get back I'm so busy catching up on work, that I don't have time to blog about my adventures.

Anyway… here's what we've been doing since December.

Christmas, 2007 

We spent Christmas Eve at Brent and Larry's of course… because they throw the best darned Christmas party on the planet! It was great for the kids because we "cut back" on the presents this year due to the fact that we took a CRUISE and went to DISNEYLAND at the end of January… more on that below. Here's some pics of Christmas.

A few more shots of the annual "Graham Cracker House" building… I don't see any budding architects yet… and of course, half of my kids are always naked.

On Christmas morning, we decided to go to Flat Iron Mesa park for a little sledding. Avery took his snow board. Funny (but sad) story! Avery jumped on his board and expertly carved the hill. At the bottom, he took off his board and started walking up "the trail" behind a larger man to get back to the top. Out of nowhere, a kid about Avery's age decided to PLOW THE CROWD with his wooden sled on runners. Needless to say, the crowd jumped out of the way, but because Avery was behind the large man, he didn't get out of the way in time… I take that back, Avery got out of the way, but his snowboard was a little slow. The kid (who should have looked before he leaped) ended up EATING Avery's snowboard. Yup… split his face like a watermelon. Blood everywhere… teeth missing… Merry Christmas to him.

Avery felt bad, especially after the kids mom chewed him out for having the snowboard on the hill… What? It's a dang good thing I wasn't close enough to hear her. I would have had to give her a piece of my mind. She made Avery feel like it was his fault and he didn't even want to stay. I told Avery the kid should have looked down the hill BEFORE going down (standard snow hill etiquette) and I was backed up by the large man that was in front of Avery on the up hill trail. That made Avery feel better. 

A few photos of the fun: