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1. It was one of those days. Denying Luke some gum set him off and this is what we ended up with. (sigh) Makes me wonder if this was one of those battles worth fighting. So I said no to gum and he hits me. Then I have to fight it, its just not acceptable. I tell him to go to time out and he starts running from me screaming "noooo!!!" like I'm about to inflict mortal pain or something. He finally hides under our desk and I have to pull him out and carry him, which is not easy because he weighs like 50 lbs.! He is kicking me while I'm carrying him to his room and screaming at the top of his lungs. I plunk him down on his bed and walk out of the room and close the door. He proceeds to open the door. Repeat three times and finally does it so hard that he puts a hole in the wall. (looooong sigh) I wanted to scream at him. I wanted to shake some sense into him. I wanted to....I won't say. Thankfully I was able to keep my calm. Luke needs yoga or something. He needs to harness his chi. I love this kid, hot temper and all.....

2. We blessed Sadie this weekend. My parents in law and sister and brother in law came down. My SIL made this adorable bow hanger for me. I LOOOOOOOVE it. She also made these precious (did I just say that?) bracelets for Sadie and bows. Oh. My. Goodness. I am in love. Thank you Sherrie for such cuteness. We are so glad you all could make it. We had fun going to the beach and playing with you guys.

Its January and warm enough for these boys to jump in the ocean but these showers were too cold!!

The Whittaker family with Sadie

Jaxon loved holding baby Sadie. Here they are before church.

Sadie in the car seat at the beach.

3. Our Primary presidency is handing out this really cool FHE manual. I'm burning it to cd's to pass out on Sunday (a few weeks late...better late than never right?) as I type this. Check it out here (click on here). 4. Have I blogged about this onesie yet? My sister Mae made this for me after I showed her some etsy sites with some cute stuff. She is so talented. I love this onesie. Its adorable and Sadie is adorable in it. I think I might cry when she outgrows it. Thank you, Mae for your hard work. Sadie and her hippo onesie...soooo adorable. 5. We leave for St. Martin tomorrow morning. Worst case scenarios are running through my head. I can't stop thinking about all the horrible things that could happen during my seperation from my two boys. I keep trying to tell myself that I'm overreacting, everything will be fine, I'll be eating yummy food, relaxing in the sun, having a spa treatment etc. etc. but my mind wanders back to the extreme. Its my worst fear, something happening to my children and I can't get back to them....or being seperated from them during crisis. Which makes me wonder, why don't we have a living will or a plain will yet? Ugh. 6. Luke moved into Primary. He's only been one week but he did great that week. I was so surprised. I thought he would have a hard transition but he did great! Way to go Luke! We love our little Sunbeam. 7. My family came back from Brazil last week. My sisters have posted some awesome pictures of their trip on their blogs here and here. I look forward to going back down there one day. I want to take Steve and the kids and let them see where I spent so much time. Its such a beautiful country. I have so many great memories there. I want my kids to have a few there too. We'll shoot for being there for the World Cup. 8. So the pain when I run isn't going to go away any time soon. The doctor said I have a pulled groin muscle from giving birth. Its kind of like a twisted ankle. You have to stay off of it to let it heal. He said I could keep training unless it gets worse, which it hasn't. It just doesn't get better. Advil and I are going to be close friends.