Megan's Baptism

April 11th, 2009 1:00pm at the Chester Road building in Tracy, California...
Megan Nicole Patten was baptized by her father Cory Michael Patten. Megan's Grandpa (Papa) gave the opening prayer, her Grandma (Maiya) was the chorister and her Aunt Christy gave the talk on baptism. Cory's dad and mine were both witnesses to her baptism and were there to give her the gift of the Holy Ghost. We are all so very pleased with Megan and her choice to be baptized!

Those who were able to make it were: Grandma and Grandpa Patten, Aunt Christy, Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Kathy, Papa and Maiya Thelin. We had a wonderful luncheon afterwards at our house.









Megan got a set of new scriptures from Cory and me and a beautiful necklace from Grandpa's cousin Doug Patten.

Ethan is "Amish"

We were driving in the car to go pick the older two kids up from school. We drove onto an overpass that was high up and Ethan exclaimed "Amish"! I figured out that he was trying to say Awesome! So when anything is awesome, we all yell Amish!Another thing that is "Amish" is Ethan trying to potty train today! Last night he kept taking his diaper off and trying to pee in his little potty. So this morning I dug out some old undies of Jonny's (sorry if this grosses anyone out) and put a pair on him. We had more accidents in his undies than we had pee pee in the potty, although he did go pooh in the potty this morning. After I had started, there was no turning back, and I wondered what I had gotten myself into. I hope he is as easy as Megan and Jonny was when they potty trained. Jonny was the easiest, to my surprise, he didn't really even need to be trained, he was totally ready. Megan was the best at not wetting at night. I am a little worried tonight because Ethan kept trying to get his hands on more water to drink. I kept telling him that it was enough, I turned around and found him drinking more water from a cup that was in his room on top of the dresser! I'm gonna go and get some more underwear from the store in a few minutes so we'll have a ton on hand. Fingers crossed that this whole potty training thing takes on with Ethan, after all he is "Amish".











Ethan trying to pee last night and Ethan wearing big boy underwear today!

Happy 8th Birthday!

Happy Birthday Megan!! We have enjoyed our princess over these past 8 years! Here she is through the years...

Hard Good-Byes

Megan was very upset today because she had to say goodbye to her best friend Sydney. She lived down the street from us. We all got a long with her whole family, she even had a brother Jonny's age, named Thomas. We had them come play at our house one last time. After dinner we went over to a friend's house to say goodbye for the last time to Sydney and her family. Not only are they moving, but they are moving basically to the other side of the world! Hopefully Megan will be able to keep in contact with her friend. Both girls cried a lot when it was time to part...

TinkerBell Party

So yesterday we quickly drove home from Fremont so I could get Megan's birthday party ready for when her friends came at 3:30 pm. In my rush to get home I left some things for the party at my in-law's house. No worries cause I popped into Wal-mart and bought more frosting and a poster board after dropping Cory off at work. I was able to make the cake, decorate, finish making the games and clean up. Everything went awesome! Megan had 4 of her friends come and they all had such a good time together! First they watched a little of the Tinkerbell movie while we waited for the rest of the girls to arrive. Next they played Tinkerbell Bingo with jellybeans as the markers. Then they played pin the star on Tinkerbell's wand. Next they played Fairy freeze tag outside. After that, they came in and sang Happy Birthday (CHA-CHA-CHA) to her and ate chocolate Tinkerbell cake! Finally they gave her some presents and then they all ran upstairs to play with her new toys in her room. When it was all over, I finally was able to relax.

Good Times

Hurray! Christy came home from her Mission! We are so happy to have her back and to see her again! Her sister, Stacy and little Cailin, flew out to see her too. Shawn and his friend Kim also flew out from Utah to spend a couple of days with the family. We went on Friday and brought Butters with us. Everyone had so much fun hanging out and playing games, even the puppies had a blast! Here are a few pictures...











Jim and the crazy shivering baby and Cory fixes a late night snack












Adam plays Rock Band and Cailin and Stacy play trains









Visiting with Doug, Martha, and Sarah Patten
Sorry I didn't take many photos, I'll have to snag some from the others

Puppy Paradise

Well we are watching Butters for a couple of days and Lucy couldn't be happier. These two could not wait to play together. When Lucy and Butters play, they can keep on playing for hours. Luckily it's been sunny so their tumble play can take place out back instead of my family room. I've taken them for walks and have enjoyed it quite a bit. I was a little worried that they would both be crazy and all over the place, but Lucy already does well on walks and Butters was happy to follow along.