Hard to Believe and Some Great News!!

Its hard to believe but hubby and I have been married for 4 1/2 years.  This cutie patootie dress little B is wearing is the same exact dress that our youngest niece wore to our wedding reception.  After we learned that Little B was a girl here they came.  We got all of the dresses that our nieces wore at our reception.  I think we have around 5 of them.  Yahoo!  People are going to think we are so poor we can't afford a new dress for her.  Anyway, this is what she wore to church yesterday.  I just had to post it!  Oh, btw... The cute shoes I got on Walmart clearance last year for $3.00.  I just love a good deal don't you?  It's also hard to believe that we now have a daughter old enough to wear that dress, and its even harder to believe that Bretts cute 7 year old niece once wore it!


Now for the Great News!  We are moving!!!!  We found a great 3 bedroom, formal living room, family room, large back yard with a garden house less than a mile away from our very small two bedroom no yard condo.  YIPPEEEEE!!!!  So, right now we are in the midst of packing up 4 1/2 years of stuff and sorting and tossing and trying my hand at reselling.  We officially move on July 15th. 
I will add  a picture from our wedding just as soon as I come accross the disk.  I just packed it over the weekend. Wish me luck with all of the packing!

Happy Birthday Little B

May 13th my baby turned two.  I can't believe how fast the time is flying right by us.  Honestly it seems like it was just yesterday we brought you home from the hospital.  I love you little B more than you will ever know. 

We went to Peter Piper Pizza and Little B rode every ride and played every game at least 10 times each, er, uh, well maybe daddy did but you watched and had fun.  We had a fun time, but I think your favorite part was the great big tube slide!

We got her gift last year on Black Friday.  I am cheap!!!  Bought it and stored it in our garage for her birthday to come.  She absolutley loves it!

 

Three Boys and a Girl

As I sit here typing, I can hear Toy Toy Twee (Toy Story 3) in the background, the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star high pitched tune coming from Little Bs riding car from last years birthday, One Little B asking wait no... Pleading for more Ceeeereeee (cereal) and meeeeok (milk).  I just got that for her.  I have had a brew of boys here for a couple of days and have loved it all.  Boys really are a breed all their own.  As well as girls.  M has been scouring my house for two days trying to find a garbage truck.  I told him that Little B only had girl toys and he probably wasn't going to find one, but feel free to keep looking.  Well it is with great delight to let you know that he found one..... Er Uh Well..... At least when he came to me late yesterday afternoon asking if the Sonic kids meal plastic truck was in fact a garbage truck... My response, "Why, yes it sure is" hoping this would be the end of the garbage truck seek and find we have been playing.  It worked, except he wanted, no wait needed to know if it was a front, back or side loader.  I told him it was a back loader, but he quickly informed me that it was missing some special part to make it a back loader then told me that it was a front loader.  I was okay with that.

Now, R on the other hand.  What a sweet heart!  He is a pleaser.  He has been driving Little Bs car for three days and with that comes the LOUD high pitched music.  I ask him to please stop pushing the buttons, and he does for a while, until he can't stand it any longer and has to give in to his need of playing the music.  Oh, wait, now little B is riding and pushing the buttons....  Now I hear them playing garbage truck.  They have tipped Little Bs rocking chair on its side and have dubbed it a front loader to empty trash into the truck which I believe is the coffee table.....

They have one more brother who is at school right now, and he is a sweety pie too.  K has been an absolute joy to be around.  And very helpful with the other two.  Thank you so much for this opportunity Amberlee, I think having a couple boys around would certainly spice life up around here.

Thank goodness MOST babies only come one at a time.

But today, I am tired.  I know I shouldn't have, but I couldn't not do it.  I stayed up all night long watching the Royal Wedding.  I was all alone as the hubs and Little B were sound asleep.  I thought Kate was absolutely stunning!!!  At 5:00 am I couldn't stand it any longer and finally succumbed to sleep, knowing that i was going to have a full day ahead of me.

So now I am signing off and going to find some lunch for this gang and have a nice rest time probably in front of Tangled which we have now watched everyday since Easter, and I am going to somehow HIDE the blasted car!

Oh, by the way now the boys have somehow attached the rocker to the car and are now playing snow plow.  Don't ask me how a couple of kids from Arizona know what a snow plow is but they certainly have it down.

She's Growing Up

I don't like this one little bit!  But I have to face it.

Little B started climbing out of her crib last month but she wasn't climbing over the rails.  You see her crib had a changing table connected to one end of it and don't ask me how, but she was somehow scaling the solid wood foot board and getting out onto the changing table and sitting up there.  Twice I went to check on her and she was standing up.  I freeked and down came the crib and up went the toddler bed.

The first week was HARD!  But as the the weeks have come and gone she is really getting the hang of this big girl bed thing we got going on.

She likes to sit on her bed and read her stories and snuggle with her mankie and bunny.

Naptime however..... UGH I think naptime as I once knew it is over.  She just won't settle down enough to rest and relax long enough to fall asleep.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

OH HAPPY DAY!!!

Let it be known and heard through out the land, that on this day April 25th, 2011 Little B has enough hair for TWO {Count 'em TWO} piggie tails!! YAHOOOOOOOOO!

Happy Easter

We had a great day yesterday!  It all started with Little B coming in my room and waking me up telling me what the Easter Bunny brought her.  She was holding it tightly clenched in her little fist trying so hard to wake me up. All I could here was "I watch Tangled, I watch Tangled"  It really was the cutest thing!  Little did she know that it was going to be a R U EEEEEEEELY long day!  Tangled was going to have to wait.

We got up and quickly got ready for church in our new Easter Best, and then out to the front yard for some pics.  Too bad Little B wasn't going to look at the camera.

Dress:  Costco $17.00

Hat: Target Dollar Spot $1.00

Pearls: Target Dollar Spot $1.00

Immediatley after church it was off to Buggas (Grandma B) house so she could see her in her pitty dess!

After that we met up with the rest of the clan at the hubs brothers house.

FOOOOOOD..... you name it it was there.  YUMMY!  I made this yumy 12 layer jello.  It was a huge hit!

Egg hunt, and I think for the first time in Little Bs short little life she was really getting the concept of it all.   

She noticed there was candy in the first egg she found so she was off to get all she could!  She had fun, and it was more fun watching her.

Hope your weekend was amazing!

Oh, and just so you know.... She fell asleep watching Tangled!

I love this Girl!

I love this girl even when she makes a mess, which is daily, several times a day!

The hubs and I had a dental appointment and we took Little B for her first check up.  She kept a tight clench on her jaw, and was not going to let anybody see her teeth!  We will try again in another year.

 My parents came for a visit, and we had snacks one night.  The next morning Little B found the snacks we left out and helped herself.  It was so cute I had to take a picture. I like that she is lickin the creamy middle!  She said "Hi Mom, Snacks"!

 Another mess!  This time in my craft closet!  UGH!!!

 This girl LOVES her a swing and a slide! 

 She's a mover and a shaker!

One of her and my favorite times of day.  Rest time on Daddy's night night.



Happy Valentines Day

This is how my day started, if you don't count the hour and a half I got to snuggle a sick baby at 3:00 am

It was so fun watching her with her Valentines from Mommy and Daddy.

Little B has no idea that inside this "Shoe Heart" is chocolate.  We will save that for another day.

She has carried around Woody and Rex all day

I made french toast with strawberries, bananas and whipped cream.  It was a yummy sweet Valentines breakfast!

 Yesterday she looked too dang cute to not take any pictures.  If we could only get her to sit still long enough for the photo.  Oh well.  Better luck next time.

 And the weather was AMAZING!  Spring is on the way!

But Don't get me wrong.  I have a Valentine too.  Brett has to work late tonight, so we will be celebrating our love tomorrow.  We have a sitter for Little B for the entire day.  Its going to be a great day!  I will try to remember the camera so we can document the day.

The First 5 Years

Sicely & Heidi did a great job teaching this class at our Women's Conference last Saturday.  I didn't want the class to end.  I just sat there absorbing it all.  We got a 4 page handout copied front and back. 

They spent most of the class touching on these topics

Speak with love
Touch with love

See with love

Listen with love

Sing with love

Play with love

Work with love

Create with love

Teach with love

Read with love

Discipline with love

Love, Love, Love

This poem was in the packet given and boy is it a good one for me these days!

Excuse This House

Some houses try to hide the fact that children live there...
Ours boasts of it quite openly, the signs are everywhere.
Four smears are on the windows, little smudges on the doors...
I should apologize I guess for the toys all over the floor. 
But I sat down with the children and we played & laughed & read.
And if the doorbell doesn't shine their eyes will shine instead.
For when at times I'm forced to choose the one job or the other.
I want to be a housewife, but first i am a Mother.

I have been feeling like a failure lately, when it comes to the state my home is in.  I mean some days there are toys spread out in each and EVERY room of this this tiny 2 bedroom condo.  The sink is full of dishes, and the floor is littered with who knows what.  But hey, I have a great relationship with my sweet precious gift from heaven, and hey, because its a tiny 2 bedroom condo, it doesn't take too long to pick it all up.

Now, look what I found today.

She really didn't get the fact that coloring on her belly was naughty.  All she wanted to do was see herself in the movie.  What a stinker!  Oh, and yes, that is a Santa Clause shirt she is wearing today on Feb 2nd.  It was the closest one with long sleeves I found.  BRRRR its cold today, the high here was 44 the normal for this day is 68 - that's a 24 degree difference. 

I have had several different jobs in my life.  But being a mom has been the most rewarding, and enjoyable, and above all else hardest one EVER!  A friend of mine posted on Facebook last week that her 3 year old daughter colored all over her sofa with a blue felt tip marker.... Her comment was "Now I get a new sofa.... When she graduates from high school"  I absolutely loved that.  What could she do? The damage was done.  Yee haw, now she has something to look forward to in the next 14 years!

One of Those Days

Its been "one of those days".  Don't you just hate seeing a sick baby?   Little B is sick and needed mommy to hold her all day long, that wasn't the bad part.  That actually was the best part!  Little B has really never been a snuggler, so any time she wants a little mommy time is a great time for me!

By noon she really was not well, and of course I got worried.  I called the Dr. office to see if I could bring her in.  They were closed for lunch til 2:00.  UGH!  Right at 2:00 I called back.  They said I got the last appointment.  It was at the Power Ranch location at 4:30.  Double UGH... Do I pack a lunch and head out now?  Do I wait and fight rush hour traffic?  Well, the GPS said it was only 17.4 miles away, but I knew better.  I used to drive to that same corner ever day for work when I worked at Andreasen Chiropractic (if you actually clicked on the link, YUP, I'm famous!  That is me sitting at the front desk in the commercial)  I knew this was going to be a long night.  We left at 4 and I was 15 min late for my apt.  It didn't matter though.  I waited for an hour in the waiting room, and that was before they called me back to the room where we got to wait some more. Its all good though.  Little B was tested for Strep and RSV, good news both were negative! The doc just said its a cold a bad cold, just keep an eye on her.

Anyway, thankfully I put dinner in the crock-pot earlier so at least dinner would be waiting for me.

I am quite certain I am the only one who does this, but in between cuddles and hugs I changed out the laundry and the stuff from the dryer is now on my sofa... and not even layed out nicely so it won't wrinkle.  Yes, there are 4 loads of laundry all piled up there, just waiting for the new magical attachment to your washing machine (i am inventing while I type this) that not only folds your laundry it puts it away too!  Actually I was informed today by a good friend that I must be an amateur if there were only four loads on the sofa.

How soon can I start teaching Little B to fold clothes?  Actually, I'm thinking if she could learn to fold laundry and take the dishes out of the dishwasher my life would be pretty easy.

Here's a little something to remind you that I like keepin' it real!

Yup, its 11:30 at night and its still right there where I left it.  Sorry its so blurry, but it was dark