Sunday

Two sweet memories from Sunday

1. We were walking into Sacrament meeting and while we were sitting down in the pew, I stopped to talk to another girl in the ward who was also just about due. The meeting was just about to begin so I quickly sat down, not noticing who was sitting on the stand. The meeting started and Lyla jumped up and shouted, "I see President Eyring, I see President Eyring!...but where's President Monson?" I looked up and she was right, president Eyring was on the stand.

2.  We were driving out of the driveway to church and were wanting to make it on time, so Matthew asked if I could say a family morning prayer on the way to church. Olivia said "I don't think it is very reverent to pray while dad's driving. Could we pray first?"

Big Sister

Matt, Olivia and Lyla had gone together to the part to eat dinner. Matt had told the girls that after dinner they could go get a popsicle...we never have popsicles, so this was a very exciting treat. They each selected a popsicle from the store and started walking home together. Right away Lyla tripped and fell on the ground dropped her popsicle smashing it on the sidewalk. Immediately Olivia gave Lyla her popsicle and calmed her crying sister.

We arrived in Utah unprepared for Halloween, so we went to Pottery Barn Kids to find a costume for Olivia. This store had a lot of thing on display that the girls found exciting. I purchased the costume for Olivia and we started heading for the doors. Before we left, Olivia leaned over to me and whispered that she felt bad that she was getting something and her sister was not. She asked if she could use her money and buy something for her sister. I told Olivia that was very thoughtful of her. I saw a pile of catalogs near the door and explained that getting one of those catalogs would be exciting for Lyla.

Good Bye New York

After 8 years of many adventures we made a rather quick decision to leave NYC and move to Utah at the end of September. When we told the girls that we were moving to Utah, they were completely overjoyed! Olivia had a reaction similar to someone who had just won the lottery. She asked if we were going to live in a house, something she had always hoped for. When I told her we would be living in a house and we would probably have 2 cars that was more than she could handle...if I only I had a video camera nearby to document her joy.

Since we have been in Utah there are many things that I have observed during this transition from city life to the suburbs.
- some things my girls have had to learn...you need to be careful in a parking lot, neither one of them know how to open a door here (all the door handles in NYC were levers instead of knobs and they still don't know how to open a door knob).
Having the subway be Lyla's only form of transportation, driving around in a car and being strapped into a carseat is a new thing. After owning a car for a week or so we came home and Lyla said "could we please never drive in a car again."
Olivia started the 1st grade again here in Utah and was so excited to come home one day and announced some astonishing news. She was so excited to share with us that her teacher was a Mormon. I asked how she knew and she told me she saw the "Gospel Library" app on her teachers iPad.
One day we were pulling into our driveway and Lyla asked why we were stopping here and I told her it was because this was our house. She replied that this was not our real house and that NYC was really were we lived.
The other day we were driving to pick up Olivia from school and we were driving toward some huge snow covered mountains. I commented "Look Lyla aren't those snowcovered mountains beautiful. Do you think those mountains are beautiful?" Lyla quickly replied, "No I don't like them, I skyscrapers are better."
When we first moved into our house, Lyla would sprint back and forth the length of the house...she found this to be a lot roomier than a 1000 square foot apartment.