Mo-fellie

Ellie is 18 months old today. Do you ever wonder what you did without these little people? Thank heaven we have her. Her poor name though. We've morphed it to death. Elizabeth-Ellie-Ellie mo fellie --Fellie girl--Fo fell fells. Today I was picking up the kids and Jonathan (a neighbor friend) got in the suburb and said "Hi Mo fellie!!"

She is so spunky and tough. When the boys play soccer she is right there with them and gets mad when I go rescue her from being stampeded.

With Ammon she has done a role reversal. She brings him his milk and blanket (by the time he gets it its half empty from her dripping it down the hall, up the stairs and around the corner all the while saying "where iz he?" )

For me she has brought so much healing and wonder. Each time her finger reaches out and points or she remembers things I have taught her I marvel. 

We love you Ellie!

Be Doers

 A few weeks ago, at the beginning of school, we had our 2nd Annual special school dinner. Our theme this year...Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only..a scripture found in the book of James. 

We had a special evening eating dinner and discussing our new theme. As we ate enchiladas, we talked about the difference between being a hearer and a doer. We got more in depth as everyone committed to DOING and LIVING the gospel of Jesus Christ and DOIng without being asked.

My personal favorites: 

Sam.."If you see some wandom person lying on the ground you could go help them up"


Landon: " You could watch out for old ladies and try and help them somehow"

All in all it was a great boost to start a new school year...so if you happen to see 'some wandom people lying about' don't be a hearer only, go ahead and lend a hand. Sounds like a familiar story anyway. Something like the Good Samaritan story the Savior taught. Thanks Sam!

"Are you guys going to beat your parents?"

 If only I could count how many times Andy and I have been asked that question. Or...
"Are you going to have 17 kids?"  Or after we have a baby " Only 10 more to go!" I secretly wish I could have a dozen.

Really,  if only people knew how blessed Mom and Dad Hair are. Over 100 grandchildren! Think of the bragging rights!(Ammon was the 100th)The picture I would love to capture is Mom and Dad  surrounded by ALL of their grandchildren.

Mom is a ROCK. She has great faith and gives without reservation.I think our children will have fond memories of her retrieving goodies for them from her secret stash in her bedroom. I have to be careful not to compliment her on specific items in her house.

For example:  Me:" I love your vintage books!" Mom: "Take them! Their yours." And she's not kidding. She'll have them packed up ready and waiting for you at her front door.

Dad has rich spiritual depth from a life of loving Heavenly Father and the Savior and putting them first in his life. I love sitting in one of their overstuffed rocking chairs on Sunday evenings and listen to his stories. Hardly ever does he get through one without shedding some tears. Tender, sweet, humble man.
They love the Lord and it shows. We have a lot to live up to.

I'm personally glad she didn't give up at number 13 or 14 like most people would have:) #16 is my dream come true and soul mate. Without their example of devotion to marriage I wouldnt be treated like a queen in my own home.

Let Freedom Ring

You Know the Saying

Remember this one?


Fix it up'
Wear it out
Make it work
or do without

This saying used to sit in my window sill. I wrote it on a piece of paper and even put scotch tape over to preserve it. (My version of laminating)We here at our house have been without a dishwasher for one year. Which doesn't seem like that long in the grand scheme but some days I think every dish was out because everyone used 50 cups each. We made it work and like my wise father always said..."Why do I need to buy a dishwasher, I already have seven!" So, what do you think I said to my kids when they were tired of standing there rinsing dishes? It's the great circle of wise sayings.

We now have an electric dishwasher!! Sweet!!
I was thinking though, standing and washing dishes while listening to music is a great way to re-connect with our children. Landon even drew pictures of him and me washing dishes together and told me it was his favorite thing to do together. I love no-brainer jobs (most of the time). It gave me a chance to listen to the Diane Rhem Show on NPR after I dropped off the kids at school.Of course there are still dishes to be done, but in half the time. Sometimes having things break is blessing. (like our DVD player in the suburban-love it gone!)


One night I came home to this piece of heaven.





Watching my boys laughing together and working together...even though it took 2hours...hey its worth it.

Thoughts from a 10 year old

Hi my name is Zachary Kent Hair this picture right here, this is 6 years ago when I was 4 years old and that dog right there is named Sunny and you have to realize this was in my old house so this dog is long gone so yes I Zachary Kent Hair am 10 years old my birthday was Saturday Feb, 20, 2010. The things that I got for my birthday are a bike computer a bike bell a basket ball Sunday pants and a watch from my mom and dad and game from Bradley Johnson oh and Brad if you're there thank you so much for that game it is awesome and Geronimo Stilton book from Grammy and Granddad oh and Grammy and Granddad if you're there that book was really good and a postcard from Eli hey Eli if you're then thank you for telling me that there are trolls in Norway I didn't know that there are trolls in Norway.

Vitamins, trophies,steps and so much more.

Do you see this. It's a vitamin.In between the size of a quarter and a nickel. A children's CHEWABLE vitamin. I just bought them to boost my children's health. After I handed them out to everyone Brian looked at me, eyes watering, "Man! Those are hard to swallow!!" Brian, are you ok? You were supposed to chew it." OH! DANG. It's caught it my throat. " It finally made its way down. We had a good laugh for a long time.
16 years ago this week I went to the MTC to serve a mission in the Philippines. My does time fly when you're having fun.I pulled out some of my pictures and artifacts from the vault and showed my children. I pulled them out to help Brian with his "World's Fair project". Landon thought I looked 'weird' back then...but that I look 'cute' now. While going through my hope chest, Sam pulled out one of my trophies (like there are sooo many). He loved it. When I tucked him in bed that night he asked.."Can I have your trophy when you die?" For sure. I'll leave it in my will. Landon then asked me, "Can we just take a picture together before you die, so I'll have it."I do have pictures with just him and me, but we need more for sure,now that I'm dying some day and my kids are requesting 'last 'things of me.






Ellie conquered the stairs this week...going up and down. Brian taught her. Just like he taught Zac and Landon to ride a bike.
Zachary turned 10 this past week. We had fun celebrating his birth by going to the Gateway in Salt Lake. Happy Birthday Zac!

What we've been up to

Welcome 2010!!

Landon. Future Winter Olympian.




Natalie and Brian had their first piano recital.
They did amazing!

Natalie is playing basketball with the young women. Brian and Zac are both playing for city teams and Andy is playing with the men at church. Our Saturdays are fun-filled with games. I love seeing how much they improve every year.


Zac and his partner Parker won first place in the Science Fair for the 4th grade. They put a lot of time into this little "Bug".


100 days of school has already passed! The kindergartners celebrated by making a
poster with their choice of 100 things. Sam chose WORMS.

The 6th graders at Brian's school studied the knights and the medieval times. They all were assigned to make a castle. Sam was drooling over this castle. There is a flap in the back which opens up to the inside of the castle...Brian made a staircase on the inside with CARPET. Needless to say he spent hours on this and had a blast doing it.

One of the BIG highlights. Grammie and Grandad came to town!
Ellie in particular was partial to Grammie. She cried when
Grammie walked out the door to go home.


Little Baby Karie was blessed. We were so
grateful to be there to see her. Look at this awesome family.

P.S. If you want good clean LDS entertainment...visit the
Johnson's ward.

Some good dirty fun. Our water main broke coming into the house.
The boys loved this "project." Thanks to our neighbors Andy was
able to get it fixed so we could have water again for Sunday.









In other news...Andy started teaching a class at the Art Institute of Salt Lake.
I was called to be Landon's primary teacher. I love it!