Life is for Loving: Early Christmas in Carlsbad

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Early Christmas in Carlsbad

Before Cory and Misty took off for Utah, we had a little visit. I forgot to take pix of our Christmas gifts...I was too excited about my new Grands Puzzle. It is really a thrill to see how the kids are growing up to be so loving and sweet; their prayers are so tender. What giant spirits in those tiny bodies. Yoshiko has studied all my pictures on FB and she insists that Samantha is going to be very smart and very famous.

We played a little Wii

We had early-morning stories in bed snuggled up together

Samantha tried out the bouncer and loved it

Cory bought Samantha some cool purple velour pants

She really likes them!

Thanks for the memories! I love you.

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(Elder Marvin J. Ashton, Conference April 1992).

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