Teagan Gets the Priesthood

We finally figured out why Teagan decided to come 3 weeks early!  He wanted to make sure he made the cut off for getting the priesthood with his friends.  He was among the first group of boys that received the priesthood all in January instead of on their 12th birthdays.  With a birthday on December 26th he is the youngest Deacon and will always be the youngest in his quorum.

He rose to the occasion and has impressed us so much.  We had tons of family there to support him and he loved the party afterwards.  He was so excited for his awesome blue suit with yellow pinstripes, he inherited his fashion sense from Zac for sure!  He is excited to go to the temple as often as possible.  

Teagan is technically old enough, but sometimes I wonder if he is mature enough.  haha. One day he went to an extreme to give me a heart attack.  While I was gone he colored his face with a variety of markers and then covered it with bandaids.  When I walked in he was acting like he was in terrible pain.  I, of course, fell for it, much to his delight.  This boy is definitely growing up.  He is getting a great sense of humor and has such amazing confidence.

Teagan and Zac have loved visiting the temple and have gone multiple times.  Sometimes with just the two of them, other times they bring friends, but it always ends with a stop at a fast food joint to get hamburgers.  I love these boys!

An Answered Prayer

We have started the new Come Follow Me Program that was introduced a few months ago in preparation for 2 hour church.  All these changes are so exciting and fun.  I feel like we are having a lot of success implementing the new ideas and seeing such a difference in our kids already and we are only 2 weeks in.  Along with the manual I got each of us a journal to write answers to questions and ideas as we study.  Eloise has had this growth thing on her toe for awhile.  I thought it was a wart and haven't been vigilant in remembering about it or looking closer.  The other day she was in the bath and I told her that it probably needed to be removed by a doctor and she flipped out, terrified.  The next day in scripture study we talked about Zacharias and Elisabeth and how they had prayed for a baby so we answered the question: "What is something big that you are praying or hoping for right now?"  Her answer was: "to git my toue better."  

Yesterday morning she woke up and the the whole thing had pretty much just fallen off or disappeared or something.  Eloise was ecstatic and kept showing everyone in our family her "miracle."  She was so excited and so were we!  

My favorite part happened today.  Yesterday I visited my Grandma, Lois Packer, and she sent me home with a little planner for Eloise since they almost have the same name.  Eloise was very excited to write in her daily planner every day, just like I do.  Yesterday she wrote "I play in the snow hill."  Then this morning after scriptures she wrote, without any prompting from us, "say thacue (thank you) to Jesus Christ."  She is such an example to me.  What a faithful, obedient, darling little girl she is.