Journals

Dec. 9, 2004     Halle is now 13 months old!  Her Birthday, Nov. 9, was not such a good day for her.  She was really ornery and mad.  But, she got a new book and the baby Einstein duck puppet, which she absolutely loves!  We threw her a birthday party a few weekends later down…

Our little Halle girl turned 6. Wow–6 seems like such a big kid. We had a fun day with presents, playtime, wearing the school Birthday Glasses, and going to Chic-fil-a for dinner. For our Quarterly Relief Society Enrichment last month we did a Service Aution (SO FUN–if you want details, email me). I won a…

Here’s Halle and Rusty and the Annual Daddy Daughter Ball at Lifetime.  So fun!

The NYC day I’ve been waiting for finally arrived!  Newsies on Broadway! Newsies was my FAVORITE movie as a kid, and I couldn’t wait to share it with Miss Halle.  We bought the broadway soundtrack a few weeks ago and have been listening to it non-stop.  I’m glad we bought the soundtrack early because there…

Nov is always a fun month at the Banks house as we celebrate the birth of two out of the three cutest kids ever born.  Josh turned 6 and Halle turned 9.  The festivities start with Josh.  He was the happy recipient of lots of legos, a razor scooter and cold hard CASH. Later in…

We walked on sacred ground at Harvard University today.  The tour we took was fascinating—we learned about Harvard traditions and culture, famous Harvardians, and lots and lots of Harvard history—much of which predates the United States!  One interesting fact of the day….women were not allowed to attend Harvard until WWII, and instead attended Radcliff, the…