Brotherly Love

Grandpa and Grandma R brought back t-shirts from their Australia/New Zealand trip.  They picked out the polynesian "HAKA" warrior dance shirt for the boys.  They thought it was so awesome!!!!  Chase loves the words.  It's the best when Matt tries to chant it.  Chase said something really funny a couple of weeks ago.  It was a Sunday and we were writing in our journals and talking about how important it is to keep a journal.  Later that night, Matt asked the boys what they did.  Chase and Bridger told Matt how they had written in their journals.  Matt said "I haven't written in my journal since my mission!"  Chase gave Matt a disgusted look and said "well that's a big chunk of your life down the drain!!!"  Matt and I busted up laughing.  It was so funny!!!

The other morning I came down the stairs and saw Chase practicing his piano and Bridger was sitting right next to him.  It's so sweet how they love to be right next to each other.  They are best friends.  I'm amazed sometimes at how well they play together.  I hope they always stay close.

The boys love their Mario shirts that the M's gave them for Christmas.

They going through a phase where they like to sleep next to each other when they go to sleep.  So we'll tuck them in their separate beds and then later that night, we'll find them in the same bed sleeping right next to each other.  It's amazing that they both fit on their twin beds.  It's so sweet!!!

Happy Valentine's Day

 For Chase's Valentine's day box, he wanted to do a football field.  Luckily Mom got it started while we were on our vacation and bought all the decorations.  So Monday night at 9:00, we were putting it all together.  Chase had the vision and it all came together.    He put BYU Cougars under the goal post and then "Touchdown" on the side of the box.  He was really excited about it.  He loves football.  I was able to go and help at Chase's Valentine's day class party.  We played the game "don't eat Val."  (I found a format that had Valentine day dogs and then the kids choose which dog not to eat.)  We played it last night with the C's and it seemed a little boring so I was worried about how it would go with 3rd graders.  But I was pleasantly surprised because the kids loved it!!!!  They had so much fun shouting out "don't eat Val!"  Bridger was finished with his school so he was able to come to Chase's party too.  One little girl that is in our ward kept telling everyone "if you wondered what Chase looked like as a little boy, just look at his little brother.  He looks just like him!"  It cracked me up.  The kids were really sweet to let Bridger play with them.  He loved it!

In the morning, I went and helped out at Bridger's class party.  They decorated sugar cookies and then played Valentine Bingo.  They made Valentine hats before I came.  When Bridger was filling out his Valentine's he wrote Hadley and then turned to me and said "This is for Hadley.  I love her."  So when I was in his class, I was checking out who Hadley was.  So when the class was lining up to leave, Bridger was standing next to Hadley.  I casually asked Bridger is he wanted his picture with her and he paused and then looked up at me with a big smile on his face and said "YEA!!!!"  It cracked me up.  The other picture is of his friends Brody and Jackie.  

Dr. Bridger

So Bridger walked in the door from preschool looking like this.  The first thing I saw was the huge band aide across his nose.  I immediately panicked and said "what happened???"  Bridger just looked at me and smiled.  Then I noticed that he had multiple band aides on and I remembered it was "doctor day" at school.  So the joke was on me.  Bridger thought it was so funny.  On the back of his hat it said "Dr. Bridger."  Ms. Cheri is so amazing.  She does such fun things with the children.  Bridger loves school and I can see why.

So this week Bridger has said a couple of funny things.  We were reading scriptures one night on my bed and Bridger said "You know Mom, Satan doesn't have any bones!"  He thought that was pretty cool that Satan doesn't have any bones.  And then he looked lost in thought and he said "Mom, you know that story about Nephi building a boat?  Is that made up or is it true?"  For some reason that totally cracked me up because he was looking at me like yea right it's true and you want me to believe it?  But when I said it was true then he looked at me with total acceptance and said "ok!"  It was so sweet.