My two most favorite people!
Nauvoo, 2008
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Snow day
Today it is snowing!!! It has been snowing all morning and is absolutely beautiful!
V. was sick over the weekend. Poor thing. She was throwing up, had a horrible cough, headaches and body aches, then a fever. Poor, poor thing. She is feeling much better now. She just has a runny, runny nose, and a small cough. SO anyway, I told her she couldn't go out and play in the falling snow, because she is just getting better.
So instead, I made some hot cocoa, some cinnamon swirl bread and turned on Christmas music and let her color at the table, and we are planning on playing board games in a little bit. You can see in this picture her Santa mug of cocoa off to the side. {You can also see the colors I painted my walls last week!}
V. was sick over the weekend. Poor thing. She was throwing up, had a horrible cough, headaches and body aches, then a fever. Poor, poor thing. She is feeling much better now. She just has a runny, runny nose, and a small cough. SO anyway, I told her she couldn't go out and play in the falling snow, because she is just getting better.
So instead, I made some hot cocoa, some cinnamon swirl bread and turned on Christmas music and let her color at the table, and we are planning on playing board games in a little bit. You can see in this picture her Santa mug of cocoa off to the side. {You can also see the colors I painted my walls last week!}
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
V. has had a birthday!
Yes, my baby has turned 5! I'm late in getting this post up. And I don't have cute baby photos to show because we didn't have a digital camera when she was born. So I'd have to scan in older photos and all that. I'll do that one of these days so you all can see what a cute baby she was!
She is growing up so fast! I can't believe it's already been 5 years. She is such a joy in our lives! With each miscarriage I have, I realize more and more what a miracle and a blessing V. is. I'm so grateful she was chosen to come to us.
She is a smart, goofy, friendly little girl. Her teacher has told me many stories of V. be-friending another kid in the class who was maybe having a rough day.
She is also good at making Steve and I laugh. She's just so funny! Last night at the dinner table she was making faces and we were just laughing and laughing!
She loves to help me with the housework. She loves to sweep, dust, do the dishes, fold the laundry, etc. Hopefully this eagerness to help with housework sticks around for awhile!
She loves to follow Steve around when he is tinkering around the yard, garage or house. She'll get out her tools and 'work' on her tricycle while Steve is working on his motorcycle. Those two are just two peas in a pod! She loves hanging out with Steve and they'll talk hunting talk, which she understands and I don't. Honestly, one day she was looking thru a hunting magazine and she points to a picture and says,"Mom, these are called wattlers {rattlers}. You make noise with them to get the deer to come to you." What? How does she know that? I didn't know that...
Anyway, we have loved these last 5 years and are excited to see the young woman she grows up to be. However, I wish there was a way I could slow time down. She's just growing up too fast!
So here's a few photos I've taken over the last few months. She is such a beautiful little girl! She'll always be my baby!
She is growing up so fast! I can't believe it's already been 5 years. She is such a joy in our lives! With each miscarriage I have, I realize more and more what a miracle and a blessing V. is. I'm so grateful she was chosen to come to us.
She is a smart, goofy, friendly little girl. Her teacher has told me many stories of V. be-friending another kid in the class who was maybe having a rough day.
She is also good at making Steve and I laugh. She's just so funny! Last night at the dinner table she was making faces and we were just laughing and laughing!
She loves to help me with the housework. She loves to sweep, dust, do the dishes, fold the laundry, etc. Hopefully this eagerness to help with housework sticks around for awhile!
She loves to follow Steve around when he is tinkering around the yard, garage or house. She'll get out her tools and 'work' on her tricycle while Steve is working on his motorcycle. Those two are just two peas in a pod! She loves hanging out with Steve and they'll talk hunting talk, which she understands and I don't. Honestly, one day she was looking thru a hunting magazine and she points to a picture and says,"Mom, these are called wattlers {rattlers}. You make noise with them to get the deer to come to you." What? How does she know that? I didn't know that...
Anyway, we have loved these last 5 years and are excited to see the young woman she grows up to be. However, I wish there was a way I could slow time down. She's just growing up too fast!
So here's a few photos I've taken over the last few months. She is such a beautiful little girl! She'll always be my baby!
Happy Halloween!
Okay, a quick post on Halloween.
V. was Ariel. She got to dress up 4 times. Once for story-time at the library, once for her pre-school Halloween party, once on Saturday for trunk-n-treat, and again on Sunday for trick-n-treating. I know alot of people don't go out on Sunday. But we didn't see a problem spending the evening as a family walking around doing trick-n-treating. Now, when she gets older and wants to go out with friends on Halloween, if it's a Sunday, we'll say no. Sunday is a time to be together as a family. Anyway, so yeah, we went trick-n-treating on Sunday. We're little devils like that!
V. with her scary jack-o-lantern Steve helped her with!
Trunk-n-Treating with V.'s cousin, J. Man,there were so many kids there! I handed out, maybe, 7-8 pounds of candy! But it's nice to see our little community here in Moreland get together like that! V. wanted Steve to go as Eric, her Prince Charming. But dressing as Eric really isn't dressing up. SO we convinced her to let him go as Eric dressed up for Halloween. So, he was in disguise, in disguise!
Aren't we a good-lookin' couple?
V. was Ariel. She got to dress up 4 times. Once for story-time at the library, once for her pre-school Halloween party, once on Saturday for trunk-n-treat, and again on Sunday for trick-n-treating. I know alot of people don't go out on Sunday. But we didn't see a problem spending the evening as a family walking around doing trick-n-treating. Now, when she gets older and wants to go out with friends on Halloween, if it's a Sunday, we'll say no. Sunday is a time to be together as a family. Anyway, so yeah, we went trick-n-treating on Sunday. We're little devils like that!
V. with her scary jack-o-lantern Steve helped her with!
Trunk-n-Treating with V.'s cousin, J. Man,there were so many kids there! I handed out, maybe, 7-8 pounds of candy! But it's nice to see our little community here in Moreland get together like that! V. wanted Steve to go as Eric, her Prince Charming. But dressing as Eric really isn't dressing up. SO we convinced her to let him go as Eric dressed up for Halloween. So, he was in disguise, in disguise!
Aren't we a good-lookin' couple?
Monday, November 1, 2010
My Thankful November, 2010
Last year I started a new tradition with myself that I want to do again this year. This month is Thanksgiving. But instead of focusing my gratitude on only 1 day, I'm going to be thankful EACH day. I've added a list to my sidebar titled 'My Thankful November'. Each day this month, I will add one more thing I am thankful for. Doing this last year really helped me realize how blessed I really am. I think it's time to remind myself of all my blessings!
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