Crazy Eye

Holland has earned a post all to himself.  He has had this thing we call his crazy eye for awhile now and he has learned to do it on command.  It first started when he was about 18 months old and he had climbed out of the bathtub and walked around the corner of the hallway really slowly with this facial expression and his head cocked to the side.  He really looked possessed.  I tried to get his attention to break the crazy look but he stood completely still and kept looking at me.  I had to go up to him and physically make him stop by shaking his shoulder and then he just started laughing.  Since then he did it sporadically until he mastered the look and can do it at any time.

Grandma was able to capture the best picture of it.  Usually he holds the look for a minute and then laughs about it and I never have my camera out in time, but this is a pretty good idea of his CRazY EyE!

Families Can Be Together Forever

As part of my catching up, I need to post about another wonderful event that happened in our family over Christmas break.  My brother and his wife Sara were sealed for time and all eternity in the Oklahoma City Temple on Saturday, December 29, 2012.

 Jakob baptized Sara a little over a year ago and they were so excited to take the next step and make their family eternal.  Sara has such a strong, fresh testimony of the church and as she continues to learn more through her calling in Young Women and other church meetings, it is so fun to see how excited and accepting she is of all the truths she is discovering and then applies them to her life.

 

 I was honored to be asked to fix her hair for this special day.  She is beautiful!  And my brother is handsome too!

 We started a little tradition of siblings holding the bride like this at Kristi's wedding, so we continued it here.

 So we thought it would be fun to do to Jakob too but he started rolling out of our arms and Justin had to hurry and grab his head back up before he hit the concrete.  Jakob will probably never let us pick him up again.  Did I mention that this boy is TALL!

I am so glad that I am sealed to my amazing family and extended family.  I can't imagine a Heaven without them.