We have a 117 month old!

The other day I was doing some shopping and overheard a brief conversation between a man and a woman who were standing close by. The woman asked how old the little boy was who was with the man (the boy looked about 3 to 4 years old). His reply caught me off guard. "He's about 39 months." What.....?

Now maybe I'm way off base here, but it seems that maybe by then you can convert the age factor into years, not months. I lose track of months once they reach the 18 month mark. After 18 months then I start to say, "oh, he'll be 1 this December." or, "She's almost 2." I give my brain a little break . Otherwise I'd still be saying, "Who Mason? Oh he's 117 months." or,
"Mia's 75 months and Madden's 43 months." It just sounds ridiculous to me, plus who wants to count that high?

I guess the question I ask is this, at what point do you start to convert the age question from months to years? I'm thinking at the same time they stop making clothes in that size. So for me it's around 18-24 months. Maybe I could start saying "My baby? Oh, well next June he'll be 4T." Stay with the clothes size to make it easy. But the month thing, definitely NOT for me.
:)

Single Mormon Girls

I'm kind of a freak for blog surfing. I love to find new blogs to browse. Not just family blogs like ours but also other informational and entertaining ones. I try not to waste a large amount of time searching and reading these blogs but when I'm in the mood I really enjoy them.
The other day I found a blog that caught my interest called Singlemormongirls. It's written by 4 Mormon girls/women living the single life in Utah. It sounded kind of interesting so I saved it to favorites so I could browse through it at a more convenient time. A couple of days later Mason was playing on the computer and went to favorites to get to his favorite website. There on the list he saw the title "Single Mormon Girls". Matt happened to be in the same room and Mason turned to him with disgust and scolded, "Single Mormon Girls?! Come on Dad, you're married!"
Matt quickly explained that I had saved that to favorites not him. And then before Mason could get any crazy ideas about what I might be looking at, he quickly explained what it was.
Later Matt and Mason both told me about the incident and I took the opportunity to show Mason for myself what the website was.
I'm telling ya, I really hope we're not destroying this kid as we go. We sure seem to have to clean up a lot of mishaps. I'm glad he calls us out on things he questions but boy, not much gets by him. ;)

ps: The above mentioned blog didn't catch my interest fast enough so it's been deleted from favorites.

Festival of Trees

Kirsten's friend Angie Pierson and her family decorated a tree for the Festival of Trees this year and donated it in Grace's name. It was so beautiful and sweet. I'm always in awe at the amazing talent people have. Thanks Pierson's, I know whoever bought it will enjoy it...how could they not!

Isn't it darling? Of course, pictures don't do it justice.

I didn't know until later but Angie made this table too. Like I said, I'm in awe at people's talent.

We went down Saturday morning and met most of my family there. There were a few that couldn't make it and of course we missed them but it was really fun to see Gracie's tree and spend some time together. I could have stayed for hours but of course the kiddies got a bit tired of wandering around looking at trees.

I love the Festival of Trees! All proceeds go to Primary Children's Medical Center so no child ever gets turned away. Our little family has been blessed immensely from the doctors and staff there. We have several other family members who are regulars there too. We'll always be grateful for all they do for us.