Happy 5th Birthday Parker!!!

Happy Birthday Parkerbear! I'm so glad you were born! You are the sweetest little boy ever! I love you so much! You have such a sweet spirit about you. I wanted to list some of the things that you do/love right so that I don't forget:

Payton is your best friend & you love to try to give him hugs/kisses but he tries to run away when you do that

You love to snuggle and would all day long if possible

You are so sweet

You tell me you love me several times a day

You LOVE eating chips, cookies, etc and if we are anywhere with them, you would rather sit there with a big plate of food instead of playing with your friends

If you start coughing, you usually will go to the bathroom and say "I have to throwup"

You love playing with baby Tanner

You love the wii

You love stuffed animals

You love webkinz

You would rather have me help you get ready, etc than do it yourself...you always say you are too little

This past year when anyone would ask you your name you would always say Parkerbear

You would rather stay home with me all day

You are a little smartie pants and love to learn to read

You are such a good boy and WE LOVE YOU!

The Faith of a Child

A couple of Sundays ago, our Home Teachers came to Home Teach us. Brother Thacker told us earlier that morning he went to a Stake Leadership Meeting. There was a man there that gave a talk that had at one time been a Mission President. He said that while he was the Mission President, he had one missionary that had a severe stuttering problem. He was having problems teaching families because no one could understand him, etc. This went on for months. The Mission President then decided that maybe it would help him if he made him the district leader in his district. It didn't...and it was so hard to watch him struggle with the stuttering. He stuttered on every word. At a zone conference the Mission President was watching this missionary trying to give a talk and he just wished in his heart that there was something that he could do for him. He suddenly got the impression that he should give him a blessing and heal him. He instantly shrugged it off and thought to himself, that of course he would love to heal him. He again got the impression that he should heal him and with it the words came to his mind, "he has suffered enough, you need to heal him." After the meeting was over, the Mission President went up to this missionary and said to him, "I want to give you a blessing and heal you." The missionary agreed and had the blessing and was healed. He hasn't stuttered since.

Brother Thacker afterwords told us that he thought of Ben when he was listening to this story. We all have trials in this lifetime and we don't always know why, but we can get through them. Ben has had a really tough year with Migraines...he has had one almost every single day. It seems like the Migraine surgery that he had in Jan 2009 has made him even worse, which I didn't think was possible. He has had to be in bed most days and I just feel so bad for him.

This story made a big impact on Payton. The following day on Monday, we were just about to eat dinner and I had Payton say the blessing on the food. In the blessing he blessed that daddy's head would feel better soon (both boys pray for this in almost every prayer they say). When he was done he told me that he thought we should heal Daddy the same way that missionary was healed. I told him that I thought that was a great idea. He jumped down from his chair and told me that he was going to do it right now. I said okay, go and tell Dad. He started for our bedroom and then turned around and with an outstreched arm asked me, "Mom, do I use one hand or two?" It touched my heart so much to think that he was so sure that he could heal him and that he was going to go and give him a blessing. I just love that boy!

WE ARE ALIVE!!!

I am going to try to update our blog for all of 2009 every so often (so that eventually I can print it out) and hopefully keep it up to date for 2010! Wish me luck!

Funny Payton

I was putting Payton's contacts in before school and we were talking about how cool it is that he can wear contacts. I just wanted to remember this conversation, because I thought it was so funny.

Payton: Everyone keeps telling me I'm beautiful...

Me: Really? (smiling) Who's been saying that to you?

Payton: My teacher does and then when I went to library, the librarian asked me where my glasses were and teacher told her that I wear contacts. She looked at me and said, "well, you are just gorgeous!"

kinda funny and cute!