Call me MR POOH

I love my kids! David had us all in in stitches as he put on Peter's Winnie the Pooh bathrobe. "Hello, Winnie", said Lucy. "I'm not Winnie. Winnie is my sister! Call me MR. POOH!" rumbled David in his manliest voice. We could not stop laughing. :)

David comes running down the stairs, speaking a mile a minute, entirely upset. "Dad!! Lili won't forgive me!!"  He goes on to explain... "I only kicked her 5 times and I said sorry each time! Now she won't even talk to me! I said sorry!" While Matt tried to organize his shocked thoughts, David decides he should show his Dad how little and deserving of forgiveness the kicks were. So he kicks Matt's leg, saying, " I only kicked her like this!" Then, being the honest boy he is, he decided it might have been a bit harder... so he kicks Matt's leg again, "Or, it was like this... or maybe like THIS! By this time, Matt shakes himself out of his shock in time to stop David's demonstration and laughs, "Ow! Well, I'd be mad at you too!!"

I guess the lessons of forgiving others have sunk in... Now it looks like we need a few other refresher courses!!

WORST Family photo EVER!

So we went to the space needle on Friday, Dec. 30. We had a great time running around the space needle under the stars and laughing. We enjoyed the trip to the top of Seattle in the Space Needle and got this nifty little family picture taken to remember the family outing! Unfortunately, it happens to be the worst family picture EVER! I've got some helmet hairdo (thank you Seattle wind and rain). David looks like the space needle just fell over! Lucy is contemplating what she wants for dinner (it's a hard decision). Alex is looking into the green focus light looking a bit green himself. And do any of you Berryhills recognize Matt's pose? I swear all his teenage photos have him posing exactly like this! Peter is cute as a button's profile (though I'm not sure I understand why buttons are cute). And poor sweet Lili is smiling as big as she can, even though she just lost her favorite Christmas gift... her camera. Poor girl!
Incidently, we are not sending this photo out with pretty Christmas cards this year and sadly it is the only family photo we took. However, it is also a bit of a perfect representation of the last few months. In the last three months we have had an adorable, talkative, baby boy join our family. A new job for Matt (long story). Lastly, we bought a new, larger, home in a nice little neighborhood 10 minutes from our old house. We started going to our new ward at church and are trying to make new friends while keeping the old. So long story short... our life has been a bit like the photo... rushed, stressed and fun that isn't always apparent in our faces.