Some January pictures

I think she's missing something...

It's January, it's Utah, it's snowy and cold. Alyssa wanted to go outside so she grabbed her boots and coat but something tells me she's going to freeze her little butt off! lol (1-21-10)

Another interesting outfit! (1-2-10)

While I was washing the sheets for my bed, the girls were kind enough to make it for me! See the tiny blanket...lol

Karah's didn't want to go to school...

So she decided to have Alyssa help her barracade me in her room so she didn't have to go.

They even brought up pillows from the couches downstairs

When I climbed over she frantically went into action, moving the pillows to another spot to block me.

Okay, it worked! You don't have to go because I'm stuck in here. Not! That's what she wanted me to say but she didn't get her way. She just really doesn't like her mean teacher. (On a side note: We just moved into my mom's for a little while and she started school at the school I went to when I was little. She was so excited after she met her NICE teacher and had a wonderful first day at school! I think this will be a lot better! I'm excited for her to see what Kindergarten is supposed to be like and for her to love learning and going to school again.)

Karah made some "homework" for Alyssa to do. If you look close, she tried to make dashes to create the letters so Lys could trace them... (1-7-10)

I just had to get a picture of Karah's crazy hair (1-11-10)

If she wears a headband to school, inevitably it will fall out or slide back so when she pushes it back on her head she gets a crazy muffin effect. When she came to the car after school, I just giggled and knew I had to get some pictures when we got home.

It's hard to really tell but it was all over! (this is one of Alyssa's favorite shirts...)

being silly with rollers

This is Alyssa's other favorite shirt. If one of these shirts is hanging in her closet she always HAS to wear it...sometimes I have to leave it in the hamper a little longer so we can rotate through her clothes a little more evenly!

Ready for school (1-12-10)

The frost on the trees was so neat this morning (1-16-10)

(1-18-10) "taking each other's temperatures"

being silly

'Teaching' Alyssa how to do some dance steps

>Me with straight hair and curly hair...

I have bunches of pictures and memories from November and December and maybe I'll get to them someday but right now, I am moving on... I was with my mom most of those months because of my surgery so she has it all on her blog...

2-12-10

I just got a text saying we have another showing today. I told the girls and my little 3 year old Alyssa burst into tears! She said "I don't want you to clean! Mommy, I really, really, really don't want to move out of my house! I don't want someone to take my house from me!" (Imagine the really really really sounding like woowy, woowy, woowy!) Sad!

No, we haven't sold the house yet. No, I don't think I got my job (no letter or phone call yet, but they said they called the person who got it and since I didn't get a phone call, I brilliantly deduced that it's not me!) Everything is still so up in the air... I am trying to be patient. I'm waiting for all the pieces to fall perfectly into place! lol

11-14-09 to 11-16-09

Alyssa playing in the snow Karah playing in the snow I love the little tracks in the snow! This is only part of our backyard and the whole thing was covered with little footprint patterns! Glove is off so she's cold...don't you think you should be wearing a coat too Lys? We dropped Alyssa with Grandma T and Papa Howie for her birthday weekend. Some silly pictures before they go.

Karah tried so hard not to feel bad that she couldn't go with. They had a fun weekend (seen here!)

This was the magically on the underside of a small pancake I made. It looked like a smiley face. The girls thought it was so cool.

Alyssa kept trying to make hers look like mine by putting small pieces of pancake on another one. Then she kept wanting me to take pictures. lol

Posing at the table

This is soo my girls. Karah cannot sit on her bottom, so she's always wiggling around in her seat. Alyssa is always standing. I swear she's going to fall on the tile one day! Also, the legwarmers and no pants? That's Alyssa!

She's showing me her new stuffed animal from her birthday weekend. They are both hiding!

These are the last pictures I have of her beautiful curls! It took her so long to grow them! So sad! So sad!

Karah got Kate on her birthday weekend when she turned three and now Alyssa got her new friend, Whitney, on her birthday weekend for her 3rd birthday.

She loves her and if you ask her what a bunny says she pushes Whitney's hand and it says "I love you! I love you!" So apparently bunnies do have a voice!

I've been working on the girls rooms. Now that I know they'll be back in the same room, I needed to pick which color scheme I would go with. I decided different shades of pinks and purples. Here's Karah's room. When we get to the new house, we promised to paint their new room.

See Kate sitting on Karah's bed

Alyssa's room. I found a great deal on KSL classified for these bunkbeds and mattresses so now the kids aren't in toddler beds-finally! Karah's head and feet were touching the top and bottom of the toddler bed and Alyssa always fell out so she would sleep on the ground each night. They are so happy with their new beds! (This was the beginning of November and they still love them!) By the way, if you ever need throw pillows, go to Ross! Seriously cheap prices for pillows!

Whitney at her new home!

The girls also have these polka dotted pillows at the bottom of each bed.... And when we move, I plan on getting this rug too (and probably some matching drapes...)

Home from Hawaii--November 10, 2009

After days of looking for seashells (and a starfish for Karah) and only capturing a small cup full, I decided to buy some shells. I justified that by adding it to the shells I collected and to some sand I was able to rescue from the beach! Remember how I said our private beach in Kauai had the coolest sand ever? I collected some (a gallon size ziploc baggie full!) It was so neat, tiny smooth rocks about the size of bird sead. I've never seen sand like it so I thought I'd be the best mom ever if my kids could play in the coolest sand ever too! (I don't want to hear any comments about possible bad luck! I weighed my options and decided that I have bad luck anyways but this way we can play with the sand together-so it's okay!)

For the flight home, I tried to hide it but that didn't work out very well. Apparently, a bag of sand in a suitcase looks like drugs. Oops! After the drug sniffing dogs, the swabs to test for drugs and the humiliation of being detained for sand thinking it was drugs, I was able to board the plane. I created quite the stir! Then I got to do the whole thing again in Seattle! This time I didn't try to hide it and I stood there proudly next to my sand with my head held high! I did it for my girls (and for me-remember, I like rocks?!)

They wanted to play with it right away when I got home.

Of course I had to buy the girls some bracelets and necklaces too! They love dressing up...

See how big the grains of sand are?! So cool! If I ever go back to school, maybe I'll be a geologist. If you haven't been able to tell in any of my previous posts, I like rocks! A lot! lol

The girls had a surprise for me too! Wow! How special! A chain of stones for me to clean up after they go to bed! Awesome! ;)

I actually think it was Alyssa that did it...if you remember, she likes to line things up!

I am so glad to be back home with my girls! (Yes, I know I've now been home for 3 months...that's why it's important for me to keep up on my blog! How am I supposed to write about stuff 3 months ago when I can't remember what happened last week?! Also, I should probably stop posting late at night...I don't think I am making much sense and I'm doing a lot of rambling! Oh well!) Hope you all are doing well!

Silence!

Finally! It is finally silent on my blog once again! I went through and just deleted my slide shows (that had all the music playing at different times driving me nuts!) If I get around to it I will make new slide shows without music to replace the ones I deleted... Probably won't get around to it but this is much better now than the chaos I fixed a few minutes ago. How did you guys stand it for so long?!! Hope everyone is doing well! Later! ape