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just a little low on energy compared to yesterday anyway when he could barely walk eyes were red and he burned with fever for most of the day at moments probably those when he was picking on ziya i even questioned whether we d made the right decision in postponing his baptism but when we finally sat down to have the crepes with just our immediate family it hit him hard again so hard that after mustering up the energy to open his family presents he decided to skip cake and go straight to bed here he is getting ready for crepes we always make the kids eat the healthy ones first eggs and sausage before having the nutella whipped cream and fruit abe requested his tiny bit of eggs and sausage not inside the crepe then kenai made the same request i wondered why i d even bothered making them they re not exactly easy ammon answered that thought by eating about 8 of them we had to cut crepe time short because abe was running out of energy he opened his gifts and was excited for what he got some new scriptures with his name engraved on them a ctr bag to carry them in a baptism memories book and a cool spinning ctr sports ring from mami and papi a ctr tie the real tying kind from ammon a little 3 minute scripture reading timer from ziya and scripture marking crayons from kenai and finally a pose with brothers and sister it wasn t the day we d planned for but when it ends with a picture like this my heart is grateful jacob carried him up the stairs and he was out like a light hopefully it won t be too long before i write a post about a very happy and healthy baptism day happy birthday sweet abraham now it s sunday and i ve stayed home from church with abraham and kenai who is now burning a 102 fever abe and i went through the year s photos and made this little slideshow of his past year posted by munyer jerk chicken 3 comments friday january 20 2012 a perfect snow day back in january sometime i don t know how to blog anymore on several different levels i just finished catching up on friends blogs and everybody has such cute backgrounds i don t know how to do those everybody has cute new features i don t know how to do those either heck i started this post over a month ago and couldn t get it done in one sitting i don t even know how to do that anymore it s definitely going to be a work in progress for me i need to change my big family picture and all of my sidebar pictures the kids have changed in the past two years just a little bit but in spite of all this one day last month i felt inspired to share my day so even though it s old news i will finish this one i ll worry about the other stuff later january 20 jacob s phone rang at 5 30 a m as soon as i figured out that it wasn t his alarm i knew what it was snow day he quickly made his own call for the phone tree checked the news to verify that our own kids also didn t have school and then went back to sleep although we didn t get to sleep in too long forgot to turn off ammon s alarm it was nice not to have to rush rush rush all morning we all had breakfast together and then got geared up to go play in the snow after all it is a snow day we finished the shoveling and the kids played with penny for a while she s kind of wimpy in the snow but it was fun to see her chasing the kids and trying to jump on the sled there s a little hill not too far from where we live if ammon and abe think about it too much they complain about the hill not being steep enough for them luckily they didn t think about it too much today they were all just so excited to finally have snow to play in after playing in the snow we went home and were just hanging out when all of a sudden i realized that it was a perfect day this is what made it all so perfect ziya and kenai were helping me make bread ziya has always liked to bake with me and now kenai is finally catching on too and seeing his cute little potty training naked butt made it all the more precious ammon was having fun playing with penny she loves the attention and i love seeing the kids play with her abe was engulfed in another great book he keeps getting reading awards at school love it and jacob was finally able to take a nap he claims that was his first day nap in years all of this was set to some great music i love peter breinholt i used to listen to his stuff a lot when i worked at the museum of art at byu great times a few minutes later on my playlist was matsiyahu this inspired the dancing i love it when my kids dance kenai was just as into it as ziya but i can t post his pictures for lack of modesty he sings along to one day though and i love it it really was a perfect day posted by munyer jerk chicken 3 comments sunday november 21 2010 happy birthday little grandma posted by munyer jerk chicken 1 comment birthday balloons for little grandma posted by munyer jerk chicken 1 comment tuesday october 19 2010 ammon s baptism the small and simple things for ammon s baptism back on august 7 i got him a baptism memories book i ve tried several times to get him to write in it but it wasn t until two nights ago that all on his own ammon pulled out his book and sat down to write about his baptism if there s one big lesson i need to learn with this child it s that even though he does need some prompting and prodding he really likes to do things on his own time schedule anyway after reading his sweet remembrances i did some of my own pondering and now the writing about a year ago we took ammon to a gathering called eight is great in which all the children who would be turning eight during the next year were taught about the importance of baptism and some of the things that they could do to prepare themselves we walked away from the evening with a little booklet of activities that we could do with ammon to help him prepare i had all the best intentions i did pull out the packet several times and we certainly talked a lot about baptism during the past year but i also did not complete some of the things i d wished to do before it came time for ammon to make his decision therefore when it got closer to august and his 8th birthday i started to feel a little bit of stress did i help him really prepare does he understand the significance of such an important step does he have a strong testimony of the restored gospel of jesus christ what if he decides that he doesn t want to be baptized well ammon did decide to be baptized and it was a simple and beautiful experience for him and for me i let go of all of my grandiose and magical expectations for my first child s baptism and instead i realized that ammon is an eight year old child and that he has an eight year old understanding of the gospel and a beautiful eight year old testimony to go with it when he wrote in his book what his feelings were after he received the gift of the holy ghost he described it in perfect eight year old terms my whole body felt like handwarmers i m thankful for the inspired primary teacher who described the feelings that the holy ghost gives us in these terms because ammon testifies that this is really what he feels i also realized that this is but a beginning for him he has entered the gate which will lead him back to his heavenly father 2 nephi 31 17 this certainly does not make him perfect just as i am far from perfect we both need our savior and his redeeming atonement we both need to plead for forgiveness when we make mistakes we both need to make this part of our every single day lives i ve stopped stressing about whether i sufficiently prepared ammon for his baptism instead i feel grateful for inspired church leaders who teach me the small and simple things that i can do with my family to assure that ammon and my other children as well are prepared for life and its many challenges sometimes when i hear the giggling during a family prayer or the fights during family home evening or the apparent inattentiveness during scripture study the natural man in me just wants to throw in the towel and call it hopeless and i ll admit that i have done just this more than once however deeper within me is a strong and fast testimony that if i continue to make these small and simple efforts my children will gain the firm foundation in jesus christ that will carry them through this life s many storms helaman 5 12 many small and simple things that happened before during and after the baptism all added up to make it a perfect baptism day the booming voice of brother franz teaching ammon that his name was being recorded in heaven twice on that day the soft but sweet voices of all of ammon s cousins on the zavala end singing when i am baptized the inspiration that flowed when i prepared for the talk i gave the wise words from aunt coyo telling ammon to actually receive the holy ghost the beautiful authority to act in god s name the holy melchizedek priesthood which jacob holds and with which he was able to baptize and confirm ammon the support of all three of my sisters their families and especially my parents the sweet words from a primary president testifying to ammon that he is literally a child of god one more small and simple thing for which i am grateful i was at deseret book about a month after ammon got baptized and i bought a really cool plaque that now hangs on my my boys bedroom wall i hope that it will serve them as a small and simple reminder of some very important ages and events in their lives eight the age at which they can be baptized and make sacred covenants with heavenly father twelve the age at which they can become holders of the sacred power to act in god s name the aaronic priesthood and nineteen the age at which they can become elders in the holy melchezidek priesthood and full times missionaries who preach the restored gospel of jesus christ it continues to be the small and simple things that will help my children to reach these important milestones it was a beautiful experience and blessing for me to see ammon reach the first of these important steps i m thankful to have a husband who was able to worthily baptize our son with the sacred authority and power of the priesthood my big little son i want to share my life with them through all eternity ammon loved having his best buddy cousin isaiah here from utah isaiah got baptized just one month later posted by munyer jerk chicken 4 comments wednesday october 13 2010 i m number one i won t go into details right now except to say that ammon is testing me and we seem to butt heads a lot sometimes it makes me wonder just what he feels for me my answer came while we were reading scriptures a few nights ago he wouldn t participate and i was about to get mad because i thought he was just sitting there drawing something told me to just let him be thank goodness jacob was on the same page because this is what he was actually working on 1 mom 2 dad 3 brothers 4 sister 5 food 6 scriptures 7 roller coaster 8 halloween 9 birthday 10 star wars posted by munyer jerk chicken 3 comments tuesday october 12 2010 the help i read a really great book called the help by kathryn stockett and although i would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good read it s not what i want to write about today i ve had what i ll call a little mothering paradigm shift and i want to write it down 1 so that i ll never forget these sweet moments and 2 because i m sure that it won t be long before i ll need a reminder what i want to write about today is the help that i receive each and every day as i go around doing my stuff ziya s new favorite thing is to help me with whatever i m currently doing whether it be cooking something in the kitchen folding laundry making my bed or scrubbing a toilet she wants to be right there actually being there is not enough she wants to be totally involved she knows how to measure flour in a cup lock and turn on the mixer change laundry from one machine to the other sort socks and pile them according to what room they will go in and wash and dry dishes among many many other things the curious thing is that she d rather be doing any of these things than playing with her dolls puzzles or any of her other stuff i love the way she carries her stool into the kitchen so she can reach things she does this at least five times each day my dilemma is this she slows me down way down i found myself getting annoyed by this a few days ago i felt like i spent the entire day in the kitchen with her on that particular day and i was complaining to jacob about it at the end of the day still thinking about this the very next morning i purposefully woke up early so that i could make my bed and bake the breakfast muffins without any help i did feel a little guilty about my stealthiness but i thought it was worth it sure enough my bed was made in a record two minutes and i didn t spill a single ounce of flour or make a huge sudsy mess in the kitchen sink my new annoyance was that i couldn t help but feel guilty as images of my little z popped in my head her wriggly little body squirming around under the covers that she has jumped under just one more time and the cute way she holds the stool to carry it into the kitchen so she can reach things not only did i feel guilty the entire time i was working i also found myself actually missing my help i decided to add scrambled eggs to the breakfast menu just so she would have something to help me with when she came downstairs and yes one egg was splattered on the counter top but i was o k with it this happened on saturday morning it s only tuesday but i ve been a lot more patient with my help i m thankful for my help i love my help and even though there will still be times when i will ask my help to go and play so that i can get my stuff done i hope to always appreciate and love my help p s i have thought about writing this post ever since saturday but i only had the one picture to post with it so today i thought i would get a picture of my little help on her stool by the time i remembered kenai had dragged this bucket of wheat from the pantry to the counter so he could wipe the counters for me now i have two helpers i m especially glad i ve written this because now more than ever i m sure i ll need the reminders that this is a good thing a really good thing just two more cute pictures of the partners in fun posted by munyer jerk chicken 3 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom munyer party of six when i first met jacob he worked for united airlines and had some flying privileges that he so graciously shared with me several times we traveled standby together and we often waited for hours and hours at airports until a flight was available for us i loved it when the desk employee would shout out munyer party of two not only because it meant that there was space for us on the flight but also because i loved being called munyer before we were even married hee hee who ever would have thought back in those days so long ago that we would one day become munyer party of six i love it famous 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