Entertainment

My girls entertain me a lot. especially recently. They are just so funny.

Sophie sings pretty much all the time. Her favorite is princess songs. It used to be "Mommy sing to me Mommy! Will you sing me a princess song?" Now she is starting to want to sing them herself. She actually knows quite a few of the words. Her favorite is Tangled songs.....

Translation:
"I've got a dream! I've got a dream! I just want to see the floating lanterns gleam! and with every passing hour I'm so glad I left my tower! Like all you lovely folks I've got a dream!"

Lydia was being a bum the other day she just cried ALL day. So what did I do? I vacuumed. I know it sounds weird but she likes the vacuum...and it worked!! Somehow she was magically cured of her crazy crying bug. Needless to say I vacuumed a lot that day.

Projects

We have gotten a couple projects done recently. I am tired of digging in a box for bows for the girls everyday to I decided to make this...

I am really excited about it!! I thought I was going to have plenty of room but as I was emptying their box more bows kept appearing. I didn't realize how many bows we had! Sophie loves it she gets so excited to pick which one she wants to wear. I still need to put a quote or something on the board I haven't decided yet...

Here is our blinds! I am so excited now you can actually see the cute valance my mom and I made!

My awesome brother gave us their old kitchen table so I could have a bigger desk in my office! My wonderful husband and father in law did their magic and added a keyboard pullout to it. We also hired a professional painter...

And it turned out great!

I used to be crammed in the corner. And after over 2 and a half years staring at the corner of the room I now can look at a whole wall! I know I am moving up in the world!

Goobers

Lydia has officially changed her name to Goobers...well at least in the eyes of Sophie.

She never calls her by her real name anymore. It kind of fits her though. Its cute now but I am sure Lydia is going to hate it when she is older.

Tuesday night at dinner we had Hawaiian Haystacks. Lydia was loving the rice, but she would get frustrated because she was having a hard time getting it to her mouth. The solution.....

Have you been watching Tootles Miss Goobers?

Who needs Toys?

Who needs toys when you have.......cardboard boxes!!!

If your wondering yes she is eating...she is ALWAYS eating

We finally ordered blinds for our's and the girl's bedrooms. We have had blankets hanging up for over 3 years haha. We got a great deal! They were half off online with free shipping! The ones we like are kind of expensive since they are the wood ones so when we moved in we just got them for the important windows that everyone would see. It is so nice not to have blankets anymore!  

Lydia kept trying to knock over the empty box they came in so I laid it down and voila! Instant toy that entertained them most of the day!

Childrens Museum

Last night was monsoon night at the Children's Museum. Chad and his dad went to look at pieces of an original 1929 station wagon so Grandma Clayton took us to the museum. It was a lot of fun!



 Here is Sophie ready to catch the bad guys and out them in "time-out" just like Uncle Mike and Uncle Brad.

She loved driving the firetruck like Uncle Jeff.

This floor was really cool. It had bugs that crawled around and we told her to stomp on them especially the scorpions. Then we read the directions and realized you were supposed to drag food over for them not kill them...whoops.

This screen was really cool I could have played with it all night. It records your silhouette and then plays it over and over again in one of the squares.

They had fun playing with trains.

And coloring. It was a fun night thanks mom!

Family Pictures

While we were in Idaho Chad's cousin Angie took some awesome pictures for us! I love them! Here are a few of my favorites...

This is how they really felt that day...so done

I am amazed at the pictures Angie got. Lydia was a emotional wreck and was broken out in a red spotty rash all over her body and Sophie was not listening at all. I was so sad thinking we didn't get any good pictures! But they turned out great! Thanks Angie your the best!!!

Sweet Prayers

Sophie went through a phase awhile ago where she always wanted to say the prayer. She would need help but she would get excited to do it. But the last few months we will ask her if she wants to and she replies "No my mommy say it." We haven't pushed it and just say ok Sophie you don't have to.

Last night when we were getting ready for bed she did her usual mommy say it and I did. And then she said she wanted to do it all by herself!

"Dear Heavenly Father....Peese bless the food...Peese bless prayers....Peese bless scrippers (scriptures)..........um....Peese bless Omah (grandma) in the name of Jesus Christ Amen."

We are so proud of her.