A Day of White

My Three Little Ones:

Today I was asked just for a moment to let you know of my feelings of this most special day and once again I can't seem to express myself. I wanted to gather you close to me in a hug and whisper in your ear that Heavenly Father loves you and is pleased and so am I. I have waited and dreaded this day. I'm thrilled you have made the covenants of baptism with your Father in Heaven but that also means that you are growing up way too fast and I have to take a step back and let you make decisions on your own and accept the consequences of your actions.

I would have told you how lucky and blessed we are to have been sent you. I can't believe I was entrusted with your care. I would have told you to enjoy this day and remember it. Try to remember the feeling as you came out of the water with your dad holding onto you. Remember your friends and family that came to see you get baptized and how much they care about you and will always be there for you.

Some day I hope you will read this and know what I wanted to say, but didn't.

I love you!

Love, Mom

November in Review

I'm mad at myself again. I just haven't got the greatest pictures for November. This happens every year and each year I vow to do better.....oh well, again.
November was a crazy month here at the Beagley home. We celebrated Garrett, Hallie and Justin's birthday in style with these fantastic cakes that our neighbor, Emily Daley made. I really wanted to make cakes for the kids, but time was a huge issue and I'm glad now that I turned the job over to someone else.

We did the usual birthday things on their birthday and then waited until Saturday, to have the kid's friends over for cake. It was a fun houseful.
Alan has been getting used to only having one puppy around. Well, actually we tried having another one around, but it just didn't work. The kids were all very sad to see him go. It was just like having a new baby around. Dune, was just too young going into winter time for us to handle with our busy schedules. We decided he needed to go to another home and wait for a little older puppy, maybe when it warms up a little. We'll see.......

Garrett got his last ride of the year with Kent Sanderson on the lawnmower. Silly boy.
Please meet Hernan Cortez, Spanish explorer at his wax museum. Ash you did great!We added two cub scouts to Troop 241 and a cub master. We had an blessed, uneventful Thanksgiving day, resting, playing games and of course eating. And Karen made herself crazy with duties at Music Festival, keeping track of about 40 judges and 11 students.

I Love my Justin

Justin tries so hard to do everything he does the best he can. Piano is no exception. Sometimes it doesn't come as easy for him and he would like it to be. At our last lesson after a particularly exasperating moment of repetition he said to me, "Mom, I know what I want to be when I grow up. A piano teacher." And then I got a big hug. Made my day!!!!!!