Mom's at Young Women's tonight....

She said I had to give the girls a bath. She didn't say we couldn't watch a movie, though. He he he....Ponyo, here we come!

A few things I will miss

As you all know from Jon's Post (almost ready to post, I just couldn't wait) we are heading to...

As I was looking at some of our pictures today I started to think about ALL the things I am going to miss when we leave. Here are a few of the things I will miss most.

THE CABIN....

in the summer &

The Winter.

The mountains! We really live in an amazing place. I love all the beauty that surrounds us and I am really going to miss seeing the mountains everyday.

Utah Football Games. We will always bleed RED. The only saving grace is we have this to look forward to this fall...

Of course our families. I would have to say that Jon and I would do just about anything our families asked us to do. We sure do LOVE you guys and it is going to be so hard to be without you. Thank you for being our Best Friends and please come and see us whenever you want.

We have made so many wonderful friends and I hate to admit how bad I am going to miss them as well. I feel like a little girl who is going to cry because my parents are making me move away from my friends. It sure is going to be really hard. I want to thank all of you who have been so nice to our family. We sure love you guys!

Last but not least... since we have a couple months before we head out I am starting to make a list of "must sees" before we leave. For example call me crazy, but I have never been to Arches or Zions (I know a little pathetic) but I would love your input on fun places we need to go before we head out to the mid-west. So keep your suggestions coming and I will try to not think about how we will be leaving so soon. Love you all and have a fabulous afternoon!

2 Reasons why having kids is soo worth it

Reason 1.
When you are so sick you can't get out of bed, they tell your sweetheart that they have to go and get you these and make this:

Reason 2

How could that smile not make you happy?

At least it is Snowy

Today. That makes being sick a little better. Little Claire is one lucky duck.

She has a snuggle buddy, and someone who loves to read to her to make her feel better.

Feel better soon!

Valentine's Day

This year was a lot of fun although we didn't do our regular festivities... of a fun dinner with the girls.... but Jon made up for it this year. He got the best present for Marcella. It seriously made her day. If you were lucky to come over after he gave it to her you were able to see what I am talking about. I think she told everyone she knew that her daddy got her some perfume and flowers. It was so cute. I hope you all had a fun day, I know we sure did.

What were you doing at 2 am?

I seriously have some issues. I love doing cute little things for holidays. I think it is so fun to celebrate. The only problem is, I always think about these things late. So when I saw this cute idea yesterday, right before I had a million things I had to do for YW's and our new beginnings last night, I knew I had to make it. So while I picked up the bread for our dinner I decided to grab a few extra things and then do this little project after YW's. I would have plenty of time.... Until I just couldn't miss the fun exercise while we watch American Idol party afterwards. Long Story short I did most of this right before I went to bed last night and then I rushed to finish them this morning before Marcella went to school. I think they turned out so cute and I thought I would share.

** Side note... while I was finishing these this morning, Claire was trapped. She could have gone and played in her room, but instead she sat here and let us know how mean we were. So Sad, but at least I had her contained for more than 2 seconds! Thanks Shana!!

My Little Claire

This cutie pie also known as "little stinker bug" has been filling our house with lots of excitement lately.

She loves getting lots of attention. Playing games and singing songs is a must.

Laughing has been a huge thing lately. Marcella can get her to full on belly laugh for minutes on end. It is my all time favorite sound in the world!

She also loves anything you don't want her to get into. 9 times out of 10 she finds a way to get it. We love you Claire Bear!

A Picture says a thousand words....

I thought our parents would get a good kick out of what happened during our dinner tonight. Merry Christmas everyone!

As Marcella would say.."we are Twinners!"

I just wanted to let you all know I have lots to blog about since I have missed a whole week of posting all our fun things we have done. I was going to do it right this minute and I can not seem to find my camera, so you will have to wait another day. In the mean time, though, I hope you enjoy these pictures of the girls. They were just adorable on Sunday, and after church we had a little photo shoot. We finally got Claire to smile in a couple. They had a lot of fun. Merry Christmas!!

Just a little Something...

we never said to our parents when we were 4...
The other day I told Marcella I didn't know what something was. She looked at me and said, "well Mommy if you don't know, we can look it up online. Then you WILL know. Just go look it up!"

23, 22, 21...

We have been pretty busy the past couple of days, but they have been filled with lots of fun exciting things. Wednesday night we went to Marcella's Christmas Party at her school. It has been confirmed she is still afraid of Santa, and I am not sure if she will ever in her life sit on his lap, so when she calmed down enough to realize we weren't going to make her sit on Santa's lap, she had a fun time. They had lots and lots of yummy treats. We made a really cute ornament, and we got to listen to Marcella sing three songs with her classmates. I am really in love with her school. She has so much fun and is learning a lot.

This little one is usually asleep when we do our fun crafts. I am sorry to say that it is mostly planned that way, but if you ever want to come over and try to stay one step ahead of this girl I will have you over any day. It would give me a wonderful break. She has been keeping me on my toes and has been wearing me out. Her new word is up or "ou" for out. It is super cute to hear her say it and she has been picking up on her signs really well. The best is her snuggles lately. Just looking at her makes me want to go wake her up and squeeze her! Don't worry I know better than to do that!

This is Miss Farrah Marcella's main teacher. She is so nice and Marcella loves her.

This beautiful little lady has saved my sanity more than once the past couple weeks, and I was glad to be able to hang out with them the past couple days. This is Caroline before her commencement, and...

...after. She did it. She graduated and is now officially a Master Gardner. I know this is a little cheesy, but thanks for letting me come with you guys to see you get this achievement. I am super proud of you and am excited to have you help me figure out how to make my little piece of flower bed look nicer this coming spring. Way to Go!!

The past 2 days of our countdown I haven't taken any pictures and I am sad. While we were up with the McCann's we made these Christmas Wreaths out of tissue paper. With the scraps Owen and Marcella got creative and made some cute pictures. Thanks for doing a craft with us. We had so much fun!

I made Fridays on our countdown the days that we watch Christmas movies. Marcella can invite a friend over, too, if she wants. She also earned a Dessert Bar from her job chart, so we combined the two activities and had a fun time eating yummy banana splits and watching Mickey's Christmas Carol. Thanks for coming over Hallie, Marcella had a lot of fun. We aren't getting less busy so I will try to keep up. Merry Christmas, and I hope you all are having a fabulous one so far.

23 more days to go..

Today we made card garland. It was perfect! It has just been one of those days and this project took about 5 minutes and it was the first 5 minutes of Joy today. (not really, but it felt like it)

We hung it up and put our first card of the year on it. As you can see we have plenty of space and we are eagerly awaiting your Christmas Cards.

What a silly goose! Thanks for the fun laughs today, you sure know how to make me smile!

24 days 'til Christmas

It started out that we were suppose to be making cute rick rack cards today, but it turned out a little differently when all was said and done. We got everything out and then it just evolved into something completely different. This year for Christmas I asked Marcella to tell me 5 reasons why she loves her Daddy and then we thought of a gift for each reason. I am sad that I can't give away what she said, but it sure was cute and Jon is going to be getting some interesting yet fun presents. We ended up making a gift tag for each of the gifts and we wrote on the back the reasons why she thinks her Daddy is the best in the world. I will have to post a picture when we get the presents together, it sure is going to be cute.

It is a little hard to read, but it spells out Daddy. I think Marcella would be the happiest girl alive if I just let her play with glitter all day long. She loves the stuff. Have a Merry Christmas!