THUD .... what was that!

I'm sure everyone who has a 2 year old thinks this many times throughout the day. To which when you find out what 'THAT' is the 2 year old reply's in the oh so cute voice only 2 year old's have 'I sorry'. Lately we have been having A LOT of these moments in our home. Just in the past week Charlotte has had me hunting online for a boarding school that will take 2 year olds. I love her to pieces but sometimes I need a BIG timeout from her. She desparately wants me to do glitter toes on her cute little piggies. But she is so small and will definately NOT sit still it would be a disaster. So what does she do? She takes matters into her own hands and proceeds to try to do it herself. This was a day I was trying to dedicate to cleaning MY room since it seems to be the room that all sorts of odd things end up in. As I am doing this, I thought she was downstairs watch Snow White. Oh, no it was just background noise. I head downstairs and she has all my products laid out just as I do when I do toes. I'm sure she would have hooked the light on to the little table if she knew how. But the best part was she had my gel poured on her toes and took one of my glitter bottles (of course it is the most popular red) and poured it all over her toes, her legs and the carpet. There is a phrase from Toy Story 2 that I thought of 'How shall she die? Sharks or Death by Monkeys?' I really considered these options, but then just sent her to her room.

Which then brings me to her next adventure. Being alone in her room. She is now in a big girl bed as we are potty training. I would hate to have her have an accident because she couldn't get out of bed. She does have a little potty in her room for just in case. Anyway, she is trying to give up naps these days but I still need those 2 hours of quite to clean up the tornado that she has done throughout the day. Some days she just looks at books and is quietly terrorizing her room for a few hours then knocks and yells 'Door!' when she is ready to come out. I LOVE these days. But the day I'm referring to, it was not so nice. She played for a bit and then climbed in her bed to sleep. I had to wake her up a little bit early to head over to the school. I enter her room and smell a familiar smell. This is a smell I haven't smelt in a while but if your a mom you know the smell. Ahhh ... Destin. Then I looked to see where it was smeared at. I didn't see it plastered anywhere and the tubes were on the floor, caps closed. Then I went to grab Charlotte. She was sleeping in her little bed and she had given herself a Destin facial. It was even on her eye lids and all. She won't have chapped cheeks for a while.

Other fun things have been breaking all the steams off the flowers Daddy got the girls and I for Valentines, taking a package of Ritz crackers dumping them all on the floor and smooshing them, pulling a DVD out of its case and breaking the DVD. Currently she is in her room and is suppose to be in bed sleeping. It is 9:45p. She went to bed at 8:15p, but no she keep jumping around her room and hiding in the closet when I come in to check on her.

So here is to reminding myself that I have a sweet little girl with a few cute pics.

Christmas in February

So I finally found my cord to upload my pictures. Thought I would share a few highlights of the girls from Christmas.

The TOYS are back in town

Charlotte loves Woody from Toy Story. We have Toy Story 2 on VHS and she watches it ALL the time. We finally saw a preview for Toy Story 3 today on TV. She was going nuts ... jumping up and down yelling WOODY and pointing at the TV. Needless to say we had to watch Toy Story at that moment.

We can't wait for it to come out this summer. Charlotte especially.

To see the new Trailer go HERE ( I hope it works) Then you can see what Charlotte was so excited about.

Valentines Day

As I am making the Valentines for Savannah's class party, it made me think about how much has changed since I was a kid. I remember that we had to make a Valentine box from a shoe box and decorate it all up. I loved doing this. My mom got the little paper heart doilies and we used construction paper and glitter. Then we had our box of valentines. We got a class list and got to write everyone's name on the envelops. I got to pick through my valentines to give out and decide which one I liked the best so I wanted my best friends to have, which ones looked more like boy ones to give to the boys. On Valentines Day we would go around the room and pass out the valentines. It was a ton of fun. If I had valentines for people not in my class then that night we would bring them over to their house. We would sneak up to the door set the valentines on the porch, ring the bell and RUN!! I think this is only something maybe done in Utah or at least in the sticks where I grew up, because I am finding out that others don't do this. But it was great if you wanted to give a valentine to someone you 'liked' then you can say from your secret admirer and they wouldn't know who it was.

I can tell how things have changed since with Savannah's party, they don't get to address the valentines. Just a note that went home saying they need 23 valentines and no names on the envelops. They will have bags at class and just go down the line putting valentines in. What a bummer. We decided to make valentines this year. We had lots of fun cutting/pasting & adding glitter. I figure it would save some costs. All we needed was a sucker. I got the template from Skip to My Lou (love this site)

I made some of these for my YW too since Valentines Day is on a Sunday. Hope you get some special treatment from your Valentine this year. If you happen to hear your doorbell ring and no one is there, but sure to look down to see your treats!

BTW: Am I the only one who does Valentine Ditching?

Here fishy..fishy...

Well after lots of tears due to the kindergartners not getting the announcement to go to the music room to get their parts (which resulted in Savannah coming home saying she was not good enough and didn't get her part when EVERYONE else did) we FINALLY have her part in the school musical.

She is not a Who so I don't get to do a fun Who hair Do. But she got cast as the roll of the 'Yellow Fish' & a 'Circus Animal'. She is super excited and I'm sure I can somehow make her hair look like a fin.

I hope she has a great experience doing the musical and that she will want to continue to be part of school productions.

When it rains it POURS!

Well Phoenix is getting pounded with water that just left San Diego soaked. It is such a nice change of pace. We broke the 24 hr rainfall record Tuesday that was last set in 1917. We are expected to get 1/2 of our annual rainfall in this one week. WONDERFUL!! I love the smell of rain.

But I wish my title had to only do with the weather. We got a letter in the mail on Tuesday that stated that our landlord has not been paying the mortgage since September and our house goes up for auction in April. Oh joy! We just overcame the great trial of Chad losing is job since he started a temp job (but good paying one) on Tuesday. We didn't even have ONE day of breathing room. I really want my past rent money back from October til now because she is not holding up her end of the bargain. I pay her my rent so she pays the mtg. We might just wait it out until the bank comes with the sheriff to do 'cash for keys' and collect the $1500. We don't think we will be getting our deposit back if she is not paying the mortgage, even though we can go after her legally for it. It would cost us $ we don't have to do the legal mumbo-jumbo and if she files bankruptcy or something we aren't guaranteed to get it anyway.

In the meantime, I am a little grateful since I really don't like the layout of this house. I am hoping that one of our outta state resumés will get an offer and we will have to move outta state anyway. Who knows.

After reading one of my roommates blogs from good ole Dixie College, I am just amazed at her faith. I thought my faith had grown leaps and bounds but she is able to have true blind faith. She is truly an inspiration to me. She knows that some of their journeys have been longer or a little more odd than normal but she has had some of the most amazing experiences. (singing Christmas carols in a field in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve!!) All the while having her children experience these too. All things happen for a reason and I think it will all be for a greater good as to why we have had these countless trials. Ask me again in 3 months but I am hoping things will have worked themselves out for the better in the end.

Seussical Jr - The Musical

Savannah school is going to be putting on Seussical Jr. When she brought home the paper that talked about the school musical (at this time we didn't know what it was) she was so excited. She said she wanted to be in it. I told her she would have to be on stage in front of lots of moms and dad. I explained she would have to sing to the music teacher to audition. She was all for it. We went to the meeting last night to learn what play they were doing and also the parts. She is going to audition for a Who. She is super excited. Plus 2 of her little friends from school want to do it too. I am excited to be able to make her have 'Who' hair. What fun! We will learn next week when her audition is. Since she is not going out for a big part she will just have to sing along with some scales.

What a great way for her to see if this is something she enjoys. I think Aunt Mel has definitely rubbed off on her because she does not get this need to be on stage from my blood. :)

Chores in your home.

Do you have chores for your children? Do they actually do them? We have a few set chores for our the girls. They are still young but have things such as making beds, brushing teeth, cleaning rooms/toys. Savannah has to feed the dog as well. But sometimes these simple chores do not get done. I can across a great website, My Job Chart, that will have their daily chores on there for them and they even have their own log in so that you know they did it. You assign points to each chore and when and also have rewards. Rewards are things you want to set up, dinner out, making cookies, time with mom or dad. You can even set something bigger like, camping, Disneyland or anything of that nature. When they reach the set point level for that reward they can cash in their points. What a great concept and idea.

I really think Savannah will like that she has her own log in to go on and report if she has done her jobs. Plus I can go in if she actually doesn't do it and remove points. I think it will be really helpful for our family this year.

It is free to join and just might help get your family back on track this new year. Be sure to check it out. myjobchart.com

From the mouth of babes

So this morning I was working on the computer doing finishing touches to our new babysitting club schedule. Chad and i were saying something about age. Charlotte is in her chair eating her cereal (which she would eat for all meals if she had the choice). Chad says 'Yeah Mommy is 28'. Charlotte puts her spoon down and yells, '9!' It was pretty funny because I am in fact 29 not 28. She just cracks us up.

Happy New Year

Wishing you and yours a year of
belly laughs…
tears of joy…
fairy tales…
hot cocoa…
iced lemonade…
snowflakes…
fireflies…
fairies…
puddle splashing…
full bellies…
open arms…
peaceful rest…
and the chance to wake up to wonder 365 times and do it all again.

Here's to making 2010 BETTER than 2009.

I hope you all have a fantastic New Year!