Sundays with Sam 5/3

"Hey, Sam!"

"What, Coop?"

"Do you know what Holiday is coming up?"

"Easter?"

"Nope"

"Greeny day?"

"Nope"

"Pi day?"

"It's April Fools! We should plan some pranks."

"Yeah, what pranks do you have in mind."

"Well I was thinking that we could...

MOON EVERYONE!"

"Say No To Death Pies"

 Another great motto.

For our March Buchanan family dinner we ate death pies!  No wait, I mean chicken pot pie.  Dave, naturally, was in charge of  'venting' the pies with his usual creative prowess.  there was a third pie, I don't remember what it had on it, I think it said something witty, or more likely puny.  Alas it didn't get a picture.

 
Speaking of puny, Dave recently entered a pun contest, he entered ten great puns, hoping at least one would win.  Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

This is a creeper face (sans nose.)

Book of Mormon FHE

Dave and I were recently called to be the Cub Scout Bear leaders.  The first pack meeting that we were able to help plan was a night of service making care packages for the missionaries.  Dave had the brilliant idea at have a "Photo Booth" that the kids could act out scenes from the Book of Mormon.

I spend the week hurriedly making costumes.  I was planing on making 3 or 4 costumes, but I was having so much fun that I just couldn't stop!

So we used the costumes for FHE too!

Here we have Captain Moroni.

And his jedi's

Enos

King Benjamin

(No Ethan, Try to be serious.)

Nice arms Mo!

"Look my arms grew back!"

This is suppose to be Nephi shocking his brothers, 

but all I see is:

'Laman, Lemuel, I stand above you, now kiss my hand.'

'Ugh, Nephi, put your arm down, the smell is making my eye burn!'

'It burns!, It burns!'

Did you know that Nephi loved his baby brother?  Yeah, Jacob and Joseph were pretty lucky little kids,

"Look kids, it's a Liahona"

Abinadi?

Yeah, this one gets funnier the more I look at it.

Remembering Isaak

Ten years ago today, the most amazing, and vibrant, and daring, and adventurous, and loyal, and huggable, and beautiful little boy returned to his Heavenly Father.

My heart broke into a million pieces that day.  I truly didn't think I could survive the pain of the heartache of missing him.

Fortunately, I know that I have a loving Father in Heaven, and he has a plan for all of us, and it is a plan of Happiness.  One day I will see this beautiful boy reunited with his family, and the joy of that moment will be compensation for the heartache of today.

For years the song 'Streets of Heaven' would play in my head when ever I thought of Isaak.

Well it must be kind of crowded on the streets of
Heaven so tell me what do you need her for
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever
but right now I need her so much more
She's much to young to be on her own
barley just turned seven
So who will hold her hand when she crosses the streets
of Heaven

Lord don't you know
she's my angel you've got plenty of your own
And i know you hold a place for her but she already got
a home
well I don't know if your listening
but prayin's all that's left to do
So I asked you Lord have mercy
You've lost a son once too.

And it must be kind of crowded on the streets of Heaven
so tell me what do you need her for
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever

but right now I need her so much more
Lord I know that once you've made up your mind there's
no use in beggin'
So if you take her with you today will you make sure
she looks both ways

And would you hold her hand when she crosses the
streets of Heaven

As much as I would like to think of Isaak as the eternal little three year old full of mischief and joy, abounding in trouble, being chased by nurturing grandma angels,  when I am still, in my heart I see a man large in stature like Nephi, steadfast and true like Mormon, passionate and determined like Captain Moroni, brave and loyal like Ammon.

I see a Guardian of Virtue, I see a servant of the Lord working silent miracles in our lives.

Several years ago, I think Ethan was 5, we were camping, enjoying a quiet moment in the shade.  The canopy of trailer that we were sitting under ripped, the aluminum brace broke and swung down, giving me a pretty good thump on the shoulder.  The end of the canopy, that swung with the most force, stopped less than two inches from Ethan's head.  We all agreed immediately that our guardian angel had been there that day.  A few days later we were talking about the incident again.  I mentioned to the kids that maybe Isaak was our guardian angel that day.  My heart instantly filled to bursting when I mentioned Isaak, and I knew I had unwittingly spoken the truth.

How beautiful is it to know that not even death can break the bond that unite us as family.

I love you forever Isaak!