Cousin Fun

Last week Aimee and her kids were able to come down to Tucson and visit. It was fun to see them and my girls were insanely excited to spend time with Amea and Ty-Kell. They went shooting and were excellent arrow collectors...

We all jumped in Eleanor and headed to the zoo...

And we went to the Children's Museum. They especially enjoyed the little grocery store...

They all took turns being cashiers. Ty-kell's products were quite expensive. I believe he charged Grandpa $20 for cheese. But he was the one to go to for cereal you could get a killer deal.  Lydia on the other hand was a little salesman. Every time I came to check out she said I had to get more because I wasn't buying enough.

They had so much fun together and Sophie is already counting the days until we get to see them again this summer.

Funny Sophie

Sophie drew a picture of me the other day and I thought I would share. If your looking for a self esteem boost don't have Sophie draw you...she draws it how she sees it.

You may be thinking why are you wearing a bib? Nope that would be my stomach until she realized it "was too small to be your tummy mom" and drew the bigger circle. Now when she drew Chad he had arms and legs...apparently I am all tummy.

The other night she came out of her room and told me Lydia wanted me to sleep with her in her bed. "But I don't think it's a good idea mom because your too big and you'll break the bed." 

Thanks Sophie

Recent Happenings

A couple weeks ago my sister was able to quit her job. Which is awesome because she finally gets to stay home with her cute little man. We got to watch him while she worked and he was a lot of fun to have around. The girls definitely miss him. Especially Sophie she was such a little mom...

She would feed him and do baby talk. Both of the girls were just so awesome and helpful with him so I am pretty excited for Baby Roc to come. I think they will be too, they loved having a baby in the house.

Thanks to our tax return we were finally able to do something to our backyard!

 

 

Am I excited about rocks? Yes I am! No more dirt and thorns! The girls will actually go in the backyard and play now too! We put in pea gravel so it is much softer than gravel. Lydia likes to run around barefoot and lay in it. We also filled all of our planter boxes with dirt. Plants are to come :)
Goodbye dirt...we do not miss you at all.

Easter Dresses and a Little Easter Friend

I know Easter isn't for another month but Grandma and Grandpa Clayton brought the girls their adorable dresses and they could hardly wait to wear them. They even cooperated with me and let me take some pictures....

 

 

They of course Love the color! They know our girls well. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Yesterday the girls went to the backyard to play and a little friend followed them into the house...

Either that or Karl chased him in I'm not sure. I came in to the bathroom to find Karl going nuts trying to get something behind the trash can. At first I was terrified that it was a lizard, spider, or scorpion. But luckily it was just this cute little friend. No worries Karl did not get him and we were able to get him back outside.

Bet You Can't Tell

My girls like to pick out their own outfits. I try and intervene when the outfit is just too bad but sometimes my attempts are futile. Last week I had a doctors appointment and the girls got ready to go...

I bet you can't tell what each of their favorite colors are....

Snow in Tucson!

Yesterday was a pretty exciting day. My children got to experience what snow is for the first time. When it started snowing they were completely confused on what was going on. Sophie asked if it was rain. My poor deprived Arizona children...

At first they didn't like it at all. I practically had to push Lydia out the door. And Sophie said she didn't like it because it made her cold and wet. But then they just couldn't stay away from it...

And after I taught them how to make snowballs they were hooked.

It snowed most of the afternoon and then melted. Only to snow like crazy again at dinner time. The girls were dying to go outside during dinner. We were feeding the Elders and finally I just threw on their coats and told them to go play.

Hard to believe it was 70 degrees the day before...

Happy Valentines Day

Yesterday we had a good valentines day. We got to watch Jackson for the day and Aunt Sarah brought the girls some fun valentine balloons in the their favorite colors of course...

The girls made some valentine cards for Daddy.

And Sophie spent a lot of time writing her message in the card.

"Happy Valentines Day Sophie" Her E's always crack me up. It doesn't matter how many capital E's I show her and have her count how many lines they have she is insistent she has to draw as many lines as possible.

We also made some pink valentines cupcakes for Dad.

I handed Lydia a handful of heart shaped marshmallows to put on all the cupcakes and she proceeded to put as many as she could on her own cupcake.

Chad came home and brought us each a rose. Even one for Baby Roc...

And he gave me my valentine. A bag of hole punched paper that I had to decode.

This is as far as I have gotten and that is thanks to Chad helping me sort through and organize the numbers. There are 283 of them! All the girls at work gave him a hard time saying I would hate it because they would. But I love it!!! It is fun to slowly see the message and he spent so much time and effort on it! I'll take that over a box of chocolates any day. Pretty much the best husband ever.