The past few months I have been reviewing my life and everything I have going on. I have started to say no to things and am being really selective in how I spend my time. One of the things I have decided to say no to is my blog. I am done. And if we are being truly honest, I wasn't that good updating it anyway...
So long
This year for Valentines Day we decided to do a romantic dinner for 4. Morgan and I secretly decorated the table while John was at a meeting. We had so much fun knowing he was going to come home and be surprised! I failed to get a good picture of the streamers that were hanging from the ceiling fan, we went all out!
Jude doing his usual, running around and trying to undo everything we were doing.
Here is Morgan showing how pleased she is with our romantic dinner set up.
Morgan's Birthday was in December and I thought it was about time I blogged about it. I told her she could invite 4 friends to the party, because along with her two sisters and herself that made 7 girls, which I think is still over my limit of fun! Here are a couple pictures of them being silly.
Morgan wanted to have a flower party; which is not an easy task on Thanksgiving weekend. It was not snowy but it was pretty chilly, so we decided to have an indoor picnic. We had a picnic table in the living room where they ate their cake and ice cream and were still silly...
We played pin the lady bug on the flower, as you can see in the background it was a homemade game. It was pretty good if I may say so myself. The girls thought it was fun, until we decided they were all peeking out of the bandanna. It got a lot harder after that and the fun factor seemed to go down.
Since I was feeling crafty and creative after making the flower game I decided to try to make a flower cake. It was a round cake with cupcakes for the petals. It was a pretty good try! Here is the birthday girl blowing out her 6 candles!
For those who are unaware, Jude is real busy-body. He is into EVERYTHING! At times it is funny and other times it is just plain exhausting. Here he sitting in a side table we have next to our couch. I have told him no at least a million times and he just happily does what he wants anyway. Notice the look of real pleasure on his face:
The only pleasure I can get in return these days is the fact that I will have many pictures with which to blackmail him with when he is older. One of many that I am saving for the future is this one of Jude in the "hair salon" getting his hair cut and dried.
A couple of weeks ago we put shoes on Jude for the first time. He acted like they were made of cement and he could not possibly be expected to walk!
I wish the novelty would have lasted 3 weeks! Since we are beyond stir crazy at home, Morgan decided to make Jude a "train" to ride in. He loved it so much that he wouldn't let her stop pulling him around. Good thing she didn't have anything better to do...
Last night was a big night at the Burton home. Morgan lost her first tooth. It has been exteremly loose for about 2 weeks but she was hesitant to have anyone pull it out. Last night John asked to see it again and he twisted it and it popped right into his hand and Morgan didn't even know it came out until she put her finger in her mouth and her tooth was gone! She was giddy for the rest of the night. She promptly grabbed an envelope and labeled it like any good Kindergartener does, right?
And here is a picture of toothless Morgan
John and I are in charge of the Burton Family reunion this June and need some fun ideas for games we can play. We came up with a fun Family Feud night idea but that is as far as we have gotten. Anyone have suggestions for games for adults and kids to play together and/or separate? We estimate about 50 people will be there.
I took a picture the other day that sums Jude up perfectly these days....
Here he is leaving the scene of his mess and moving on to the next. And he is also walking! 9 months old and walking! He sure has a lot of energy. I have to keep this post short because he is emptying out my pots and pans cupboard as I blog.
As the Primary President I had to come up with something to give out for the birthdays next year. I put a lot of thought into it and came up with a picture of the resurrected Jesus in a frame. Our theme for Primary in 2010 is 'I know my Savior Lives' so I thought these pictures would correlate with that quite well.
The pictures for the kids are much smaller. I found the frames at Dollar Tree and the picture is different, but I found it online as well and just printed them too. I don't have a picture of them, but I really hope the kids like them and will put them in their rooms.... I tested it out on Morgan and she thought they were really cool, but Morgan is such an unusual child that its hard to know if other kids will like them too.
Well, Jude's first Christmas came fast. He was the happiest once he found the big yellow truck under the piano, his favorite place to hide and pound on the pedals. He pushed it all morning peeking each time around the room at his olders sister's gifts.
Morgan picked up one of her small gifts and said, "what if this is a ring box from Santa, because Mrs. Clause is being mean". Where does a 6 year old come up with things like that? The whole family had a great Christmas! 
We decided that this year we would go to Gardener Village to check out the witches they have there. We have never been but I have heard that they are really cool and that the kids love them. We had so much fun walking around and seeing all the silly witches. Morgan loved the one that was riding her bike!
And here are the pretty cheerleader and cute little lamb with their party pooper parents who didn't dress up for Halloween. 
We don't think so! Here are Morgan and Jude enjoying the fountains on temple square yesterday after our Regional Stake Conference meeting. Just wanted to share...
We have a family tradition that we try to go to Park City on Labor Day to hang out and eat and just have fun. This year we went up and John took Morgan down the Alpine Slide. The wait was about 2 hours, but Morgan said it was well worth it!
Here is a self portrait of John and Morgan on the chair lift up the mountain.
Morgan preparing for the big ride.
Here is the crew waiting again to get into Baja Cantina to enjoy some delicious Mexican food.
Morgan had her first piano recital last week and she did amazing. She was the first player and she remembered her song perfectly. Lots of her family came to see her play. Grandpa and Grandma Burton, Grandpa Nelson, Ra Ra, Jessie, John, Jude and me.
Then we continued on with our tradition of Maggie Moos ice cream to celebrate a recital. She enjoyed the all the attention and also the ice cream.
She did a lot better than I did at my first piano recital. I faked a stomach ache so I wouldn't have to play...
We have been watching kids go back to school for two weeks now and today was Morgan's turn. It was her first day of Kindergarten and she was so excited. She has been waiting for Kindergarten for about a year now, she was ready! I did get a little teary-eyed watching her walk into the school, but she was so confident and excited that I felt much better.
And here is Jude wondering who is going to play with him while mommy works and Morgan is at school.
With Morgan starting school this week I decided we needed one day of fun. I woke her up in the morning and told her to get dressed and come help me make some lunches because I had a surprise day for her. She was so excited! I took her and Jude to the zoo and it was such a great day. Not too hot, not too crowded. It was awesome.
Here are Morgan and Jude in front of the penguins. These were Morgan's favorite animal of the day.
Here we are at the bird show. Jude was bored until the doves flew over. He liked that part but then quickly went back to being bored.
And last, here are Morgan and Jude in front of the elephants. Jude was more interested in the people next to us than the animals.
She can now start school and I can have some peace in the mornings!I thought I would do a post dedicated to Jude because he is learning something new everyday and growing so much!
Here he is with a piece of licorice. OK, I know that 5 month old babies should not have that. But he is just so dang cute that I gave him one to suck on for a few minutes. I am a sucker for my little boy!
3. He loves to roll all over. He is so pleased with himself after he rolls over that I had to take a picture of him.
4. We love to look out the window and watch the cars drive by. I prop him up on my leg and a pillow and he plays with the blinds and follows the cars as they drive by.
5, And last, he LOVES Morgan. She plays with him all day and can make him laugh more than anyone else. He smiles the moment he sees her in the morning. She is a great big sister!
Yes, congratulations are in order, or condolences... I am not sure which. I am now the Primary President of our ward. And for those of you keeping tabs, John is still the Young Men's President.
So, for those of you that are in Primary or have been, feel free to leave a bit of advice for me. I am a novice, especially after teaching Relief Society for two years. This will be quite a change for me....
Help!
Morgan got to do something really fun for the 24th of July this year. Her grandma and grandpa invited her to ride on the Wells Fargo stage coach in the Bountiful parade. She was so excited! This is a picture of Morgan and grandma Hatch and great grandma and grandpa Hatch too. Grandpa Hatch was helping to drive the team of horses. 
And Jude found something fun to entertain him during the parade...his foot. This picture makes me laugh every time I look at it.
Morgan learned how to ride her bike a few weeks ago. John took her to the school across the street from our house and she rode for an hour straight and loved every minute of it. Now we just need to work on the start-up. She is still too scared to start on her own and needs our help. 
And here is Morgan's fan club after the ride.
