To Crust or not to Crust, that is the question?

What is so wrong with the crust, especially when I spread the good stuff right to the edges? These were the girls plates after breakfast the other day. I had to laugh when I saw them all. Abigale and Preslie have been funny about crust for awhile now but I've never seen Adalynn do that before. Is it possible- her being younger than two that she's learned this from her sisters or does she just think the crust isn't worthy of being eaten either. A serious question to ponder...

Abigale's Plate

Preslie's Plate Adalynn's Tray

Valentine's Day went a little like this...

Alan and I have never made Valentine's Day a huge deal, especially when we started having kids but we do like to do small things for eachother. Alan brought me these pretty roses with the sweetest card attached. It said; The happiest times in my life begin and end with you." I thought it was super sweet and it meant a lot to me, he even got a few happy tears out of the deal. I wrote him a card and gave him a favorite treat.

This is what the girls found at their spots at the table for breakfast. They were most excited about the cotton candy lipsmackers. We definately have girly-girls which we love. They also enjoyed pink pancakes, and pink milk for breakfast which I seemed more excited about then they did, oh well!

Preslie and Abigale decided to make Alan and I this special Valentine's Day dessert. Very, very sweet thought, really. It was milk with soooo much strawberry syrup in it that I could not physically drink it. Alan drank it was was super sick afterwards. The other delicious thing they made was bread with peach jam on it. Again, super sweet thought that we had to politely throw away when they weren't looking. What was really funny about it was Abigale tried some of Alan's and said; "Wow that's really gross after Alan had drank most of it and was sick." I was laughing pretty hard.

We finished up the night with some take-out and a movie. I love my Valentine!

Good Morning Hair!

This is how Preslie wakes up every morning. I love it!!! She calls herself fuzzy head and we think it's funny. Sometimes it's even crazier than this. Her hair is great and has a personality all it's own. We love you and think you're beautiful, little fuzzy head.

Lunch With The Mayor

Abigale had a very exciting day! She was so excited to go she woke up early and had her outfit and hair all chosen and ready to go. She got chosen out of all the kids in second grade to go enjoy lunch with the mayor of the city. You had to have perfect attendance for a certain length of time to qualify for it. She went with the vice-principal and a small group of kids from her school. She got picked up in a police car, rode in an abulance, and got taken back to school in a firetruck. She was in heaven. They enjoyed a pizza lunch with lots of city officials and the mayor talked with them about making good choices. I thought it was an awesome thing to do for the kids, Abigale could not stop talking about how cool she thought it was.

We're so proud of how well Abigale is doing in school. She is such a smartie! She's an awesome reader, doing great in math, and loves science. Way to go Abigale, we think you're awesome!

Our Fashion Model

Fashionably modeling...buckets! Adalynn cracks us up with this bucket. She wears it lots of times a week for a long time. She honestly acts like it's part of her getting dressed. Quite the look, especially with her awesome, cute chubby cheeks that I can't seem to resist.

Happy Valentine's Day

My super awesome friend, Emily took these cute pictures of our girls for Valentine's Day. She's an awesome photographer, check her out at emilybaileyphotography.com

Thanks Emily!

Preslie turns 4!

Our big girl, Preslie turned 4 this last week. She was sooo excited for her birthday but most of all she was excited for her Ariel cake which she proudly chose. She has seemed like such a big girl lately, it's freaking me out. I kept asking her in vain if she was sure she couldn't stay 3 forever and stay little. Her response was a super annoyed, "No, way mom." So it happened and she seemed to grow up a bit overnight, sigh...
I felt so bad she was really sick all week with a bad cold and spent her birthday not feeling any better. So instead of going out to dinner for her choice of McDonalds, daddy brought dinner to her. We promised her a rompin' good time at McDonalds when she is feeling better. She loved her big-girl booster chair & tic-tacs most of all but got lots of fun presents to enjoy. I loved her silly smile in all of the pictures we took. We love you sassy pants and are proud of the good helper you've become. Happy birthday!

Fun at the Jazz Game

Our good friends, The Bailey's invited us to the Jazz game with them. We had so much fun together. Alan and I took Abigale and The Bailey's took Morgan. Those girls were so much fun to watch. I wish I had brought my camera inside because they danced so hard to try and be shown on the Jumbo-tron it was funny. They ended up being shown on there twice and all the friendly old people around us were as excited about it as the girls were, it was sweet!

Abigale had never been to a Jazz game before and she was soooooo excited! Emily caught a basketball for Morgan and Alan caught a shirt for Abigale. It couldn't have worked out better. Can you tell that Abigale is totally thrilled with her shirt? Thanks for a fun night, we really enjoyed having a night out. Here's to good friends...

Super Reader Party for Awesome Readers!

We took the girls down to the Super Reader Party that PBS KIDS puts on. It was so much fun. Abigale had to read certain requirements to be able to go and Preslie & Adalynn tagged along for the ride this year. Anyway-they did science experiments, watched a star show, got free books and treats, did art projects, did reading projects and crafts and got to get pictures with some of the fun friends they see on TV. Totally worth going to, already excited to take them again next year they had so much fun.

Goodbye, Big Brown

We sold Big Brown today because we bought a new car which we are sooooo excited about. Why then did I find myself crying when the new owner (a cute little old grandma) drove it away today. I thought I must be crazy to be crying not only over a car but this particular car. The more I thought about it I realized exactly why I was sad to see it go. This car was the hugest blessing to our family, only we didn't realize it at the time.

Admittedly we were a little bit embarrassed when Alan got his new job and we bought this old car. We joked about it not being the image we had in mind. Now here we are five years later...This car hasn't broken down, not once in the last five years. We have never been left without a car since we bought this car. Not only that but I think we learned some life lessons from this car. The first one, being humble. This car taught us to be humble as we drove around as it developed more and more little funny quirks over the years for us to laugh about. This car also taught us to be grateful. We got everywhere we needed to be because of this car. This car gave us something to depend on while we went through some pretty tough but special times over the last few years.

When we felt prompted to adopt and we knew the cost was far above what we could afford we were scared and very unsure. Alan's dad gave me a blessing and we were promised that if we did what we felt like Heavenly Father wanted us to do that we would have enough money and that our temporal things, our possessions would outlast their regular functions and life expectancy's. This has been recognized time and time again and we know that big brown was one of those blessings for our family. We know that Big Brown was a blessing from a Heavenly Father that truly loves our family. So now realizing all of this I don't feel quite as crazy for crying about big brown leaving. I'm humbled and very grateful...