Abby 18 months!

Abby is such a sweetie! This is seriously her favorite face to make. I love it...It is my favorite too! Her new things to do are she goes and gets a diaper when she has gone poo in hers and hands it to me and lays down so I can change her bum. So cute! Maybe soon we will be able to potty train...She also loves to talk. Her favorite things to say are "Mama, Dada, Baba, Mymy. I have heard her say other things like gamma once or twice and she says. Ma for more. She is growing up so fast and loves to CLIMB everything. She loves to do whatever her sisters are doing and it is truly so sweet to watch her process everything..our nickname for her is Luka. Mike wants to change her name to that because it fits her so well. It came from Halle, actually. Halle would call her Abbyluka and then just luka nad it stuck. We love it! We love or LUKA!

Mylee's Kindergarten Spotlight

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

I had to create a poster for Mylee to be spotlighted in kindergarten on Friday and so I created this and I am putting it on a poster...I thought I would share it with you all! Enjoy! Oh and Mylee is LOVING school!

Growing Up is hard to do....

So Mylee had her Kindergarten orientation and we are so excited that she is going to start school soon. She is going to Adams Elementary, where Mike went to school. She is so excited, in fact her teacher has been teaching there ever since Mike went there. Pretty crazy...

While I was sitting there half listening to all of the rules and expecations and whatevers...I kept thinking.."Holy Cow!" I have a Kindergartener!! I am old..I don't feel old...I even am a member of the PTA..oh yeah..I have absolutely no idea what I am doing or getting myself into at this point. I have such mixed emotions about her starting school. She is growing up way to fast. She will be six on Sept 5. I mean, this is nuts. I was freaking out inside a little. I know from here on out time is going to fly and I want to remember these moments and cherish these times. My little My My is getting big. It is harder to pick her up and carry her to bed. She is so big now. She is my little buddy and I am totally excited for this new step in her life. Mike was in the meeting and he was totally bored. I am not sure if he is thinking the same way as me. Our little girl is in Elementary school. It is just crazy. I remember when I was pregnant with her. My water broke and as I am walking into the hospital to deliver, this lady is dealing with her 2 year old little girl's tantrum and she looks at me and says, "Are you ready for this?" I remember thinking' "Well it's too late now...ready or not." Then as I was alone in the triage room while Mike was dealing with insurance stuff I started to cry, huge tears, I was scared. I am a kid having a kid. I was 22, but I was still a kid. Mylee, Mike and I have really been through a lot in the six years of her life. She has taught us so much. We are so blessed to have such a sweet spirit in our home. She is my little helper through and through. I love my little blessing. She is my sweetie...

Halle, Halle, Halle, Halle...

Halle is the sweetest, most energetic child I have ever met. She is always surprising me with the things she does and the things she says. She has always loved to sing and often times she sings herself to sleep. Her songs are hilarious...she always just kind of fills in the words with whatever she sees fit. So her current obsession is "Book Of Mormon Stories" She says "Book of Mormon stories that my teacher tells to me...Are about the lady who lives underneath the sea...." I am not even kidding. Mike and I overheard it and we didn't want to correct her, because it was so funny. I hope she never learns the real words, because it is seriously the cutest thing we have ever heard.
Something not so cute that she said to me today while visiting her favorite little cousin Averie, who she LOVES and hates all in the same minute...anyway she kept saying
"Mom I want you to leave and go home....Leave me here."
so I said "Halle don't you love me and want me to stay with you"
Halle: "No I don't love you."
me: " Oh that is not nice that makes me so sad, Halle."
Halle "well, Cry then."

I am not taking it personal. I know she loves me, Children are so in the moment she was willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants. Even though I know she loves me. She was trying every trick in the book...it was funny.
It also has caused me to reflect a lot about Halle and her personality. Mylee is a lot like me in a lot of ways and so i know how to handle her and I can understand what makes her do the things she does. Halle is completely different. She likes to figure out for herself just why she shouldn't do something or why she should. I have a hard time disciplining her because she will sacrifice everything for the thing she wants in the moment. A perfect example of this is the other day she was very excited to go to her friends house the next day and had been talking all about it for days and reminding me and everything every two minutes. Well, when bedtime came around she had it in her mind that she was going to sleep with me. Well, i tried everything and she kept getting up and coming in my room. So finally as every good and tired mom does, I brought out a little thing I like to call "BRIBERY" Now this tool is highly effective for big sister...although other things such as time outs and yes even spanking does not make Halle flinch...in fact she will ask for a time out and say OK if you tell her she will get a spank. I decided to try it on Halle. I said "Halle, if you stay in your bed you get to go to Becky's house, BUT if you choose to sleep in mommy's bed then NO BECKY'S house." Halle looked up at me with perfectly clear, calm and distinct words and said: "OK Mom...I guess I won't be going to Becky's house tomorrow...because I am sleeping with you."
grrrrrrrrrr...........
In response to this statement made by my precious 3 year old, I threw my hands up in the air and said something like, "I GIVE UP!" So Halle got to sleep with us that night, but she did not go to Becky's house. I am still not sure if she has made the connection. I still think she may think she got the better deal, She did cry about not going to her house but she also got to sleep with me....I LOVE HALLE BEAR...

Dance, fun and 4th of July!!

We had a blast on the 4th!!! Some of the highlights were, Mike and I running the 5K in Clearfield. So fun! Mike actually got 1st place in his age division. male 25-29. GO MIKE!!! Then we had the really sweet Clearfield Parade. then we had the ULtimate 4th of July PARTAY in our neighborhood. We blocked the road off and had a jumping house and rolled our BBQ out to the front and just played all day. Our neighbor knows how to juggle fire and he put on the coolest FIRE show that night. He even ate the fire....SWEET!! It was a blast. Everyone had so much fun!! OH and the little girl with the chicken costume is our neighbor. Her mom couldn't get her to take it off...Abby loved it. I couldn't capture it as well on camera but she was following her around and hugging her and kissing her...it was so cute









Abby absolutely loves to play at the park and it is impossible to get her to come down once she is up there. She is so cute with the little faces she makes. I love it. We have been doing a lot of swimming when the weather is nice and the girls love it. They will play for hours in the sun and water. Halle got her purple face from her lovely big sister Mylee. I was sitting right nest to them and they were playing with the make up and all of a sudden I look over and Halle is purple. it was so crazy I had to take a picture. I made Mylee clean her up.





Abby has been the cutest little stinker lately! She absolutely loves this little car of our neighbors and she begs to ride on it everyday...it is so cute! Mylee and HAlle have been invited to a lot of birthday parties and they just went to the cutest little party at our neighbors who made them these cute little skirts and outfits so Mylee and Halle came home looking so cute.




Mylee really loves to dance. She takes dance from a really fun studio in Clearfield called Shaw dance. She had a lot of fun this year and actually got to take dance with her really good friend, Taylor. She danced to the song called LOVE it was so cute. Anna, Grandma Sue, Frank and Grandma Pat and Grandpa Steve all came out to see her perform at the Egyptian Theater in Ogden. Really Fun and really nice! Go Mylee!
Sorry for the long post...it has been awhile...no time and now I am off to Girls Camp in a week...fun!!!

Dreams really do come true...

We have been so busy...it is so crazy. We decided to take a trip to disneyland this year with the girls. We went the week before Mother's day in May and it was so fun. The girls absolutely had a blast and so did we. Anna my sister came with us and shared in the magic. Some of the funny moments we had there were when Halle went on the Tower of Terror. Yes! Halle went on the tower of Terror and she HATED it...lol. I felt so bad for having her go on it. She was shaking she was so scared. Then she lost all trust for us and we had to make it up to her by going on a thousand little slow fun rides til she could forget. She would ask us over and over. Is it going to go fast? Is it going up and down? Because I don't like it. We also splurged and went to the Princess lunch and they got to interact with all of the princesess and have an amazing yummy lunch. It was so fun and magical. Mylee was so star struck when she saw her favorite princess Aurora. And Hall e was so cute...she stole the show and was talking up a storm to all the princesses. She would ask them "Can I hold you? and Where is the Beast? or Where is the faires? Or where is Gus Gus? It was so cute. She is the sweetest. She loves interacting with people and this was her little piece of heavan. Abby also learned how to walk in disneyland. She had lots of time to practice and it was so cute when she figured it out. We had a ton of fun and we want to go back...What a magical place. We also visited the beach and it was beautiful of course...so much fun!