Little Lady

(my shirt she wanted to wear)

Dear Belle-

I just have to write you a letter and tell you how proud I am of you!! For the last three weeks at church you have sat through all of sacrament!!! I can not believe it. I want to tell you all about yourself. You are the most hilarious sweet little girl. When you were born you were the best TINY little baby. You slept all through the night. But since you were so small we had to wake you up every two hours to feed you. You would spit up all over everything! You were beautiful. You seriously melted everyone's heart. You got older and became very sassy! Haha which is a good thing. You had to have it your way. At 8 months you loved to hit, bite, head bang people, scratch, you name and you did it! You were very picky what you would put in your mouth. You didn't even want my milk- You were so strong willed you would not drink so you had formula! You would not eat veggies or some fruits. You always wanted babay mac n cheese or bananas! But you were so sweet. You always wanted your Mom and Dad. You were definately a daddy's girl. Whenever you would see him you would get all excited and try your hardest to get to him. You both would play together, eat together, nap together, watch TV together...etc. We loved taking you everywhere! You made our lives so much fun. Hahaha you were pretty violant... If you could not get your way you would pull your hair out, bang your head on things, scream, just get really mad. I had to apologize to a Mom in nursery because you made a little girl bleed. Oh man!!! But you have come so far. You are always saying please and thank you! You are always trying your hardest to listen. You love to help me clean. You will fold clothes, sweep, wash windows, pick up your toys, and you help Cash learn too! You love to read... You memorize every book and you can say it as if you were reading it! You sing!!! A LOT! You love to sing primary songs but your favorite songs to sing are lullabies and songs from movies like "the grinch" oh and yours and my favorite song to sing is FIREWORKS by Katie Perry! We go crazy whenever we here it. You are a dancing fool... Music comes on and you and Cash are the first on the floor. I love watching you. You love to dress up in the most crazy outfits! Even my shirts (Like in the pictures)! You are so kind to Cash. You call him TASH! When you hurt him you feel so bad and say sorry Tash like 50 times! You have a big heart... if anyone is sad you will do anything in your power to make them smile. I accidently cried when you were in the room and you just could not stop hugging my leg and you kept kissing me and telling me to feel better. You love to talk..... Like I can carry a conversation with you and you are two years old! I think that is so impressive! You love to learn and you learn so quickly. You do not like the toilet. You do not want to be potty trained but you always try sometimes when you feel like it. You love your nursery teacher... Sister Bell!! You can't get enough of her. You have lots of friends. Your best friends you said are Elena, Lilly, Clarie, Tash, and your grandparents. I know you have so many more but thats all I could get out of you. You love to call Grandma Jones and sing Happy Birthday to her or I am a chid of God to her ... like everyday!! You always want to go swimming with Grandpa Jones. And you always want to sleepover at Grandma/pa Mullin's house! You can say your ABC'S and count to 10. You love to eat things that you like SWEETS haha and you have trouble trying new foods. You lick them and say, "No I don't like that!" I love when you remind me to pray. You love to say your own prays... Your first Pray you ever a said on your own was...

You started it and then you said "Thank thee, bless the food (then you leaned over a whispered to me I am going to bless Jesus)... Bless Jesus, Bless cookies, Have heart cookies, heart cookies, have a good day, thank thee! and then you finished it and said AMEN."

You love the scriptures. You pretend your reading them to us. Your favorite stories are Moroni, The good Samartian, and the fish one.... Where Jesus Christ blesses the loaves and the fishes. You love reading about baby Jesus. You love church you beg me all week to go to nursery! You make your parents so proud everyday! I know I haven't even scratched the surface about telling you how you are. But if I could use one word to describe you it would be BEAUTIFUL. Everything you do is absolutely Beautiful. I love you Belle, so much! You better always remember that!

Love,

Mom

We are MOVING!

This is our new place!!!! Bigger, Garage, two floors, and CHEAPER don't ask me how it is cheaper but it is!!!! we move April 15th and we are soooo excited!!!

Family Sleepover "Campout indoors"

This weekend I decided it was time for another Family Sleepover! Lately I have wanted spring, bonfires, flowers, warm breezes, picnics, birds, and camping..... So I decided to have a camp out! When I was little my Mom would take Jaclyn my sister and I to Chatfield resivor and we would set our tent up and blow up air mattresses!!! We would go for walks and learn about the birds, trees, rocks, etc! My Mom would make camping so fun for us. She would make the best food on the camp fire! Dinty Moore soup and biscuits, hot dogs, burgers, pankcakes, eggs, bacon, you name and we ate it!!! So I decided to try to make our day half as fun as my Mom did. We packed a picnic and the kids and I went on a hike. I tried to teach the kids about birds and bugs.... haaha I didn't really know that much. So I just said random stuff. We found lady bugs and boy did they find them fascinating! Cash could not close his mouth... WOW!!! Hahah the lady bug ended up on Cash face he was laughing so hard we all were! Belle loved the sticks she would march in front of us saying, "follow me"! She found a rock and kept calling it the brocilli rock and she also found a tree that was knocked over and she was so disturbed.... She kept trying to pull it up. It wasn't budging so he forgot about it! The kids played in a hollowed out tree trunk. We then had our picnic! Our hike was a blast. We were wishing Monkey could have come but he had to study for his two test coming up. We went home and made my sister Natalie's bread!!! I have never made bread with yeast before and holy cow it was so good!!! Thank you Natalie! Then Monkey finally got done studying and we roasted turkey dogs and had a total camp fire dinner. Belle would eat the whole turkey dog and not her bun!! Then we made a tent and Belle picked out "Dispicable me" from the red box and we rosated marshmellows and had hot cocoa and smores! We had so much fun and I love camp outs! Even if they are inside!

February 2011

So I have decided to blog about the whole month once a month and if there are birthdays and holidays or something special I will blog seperate for those. I am doing my blog books and I found it's better this way. Anyways on to February.... I feel like this year already has been so full of emtions! A emtional roller coaster.... It has been really hard to handle somethings that have happened but at the same time an amazing joy to handle others. I just am so thankful I have the gospel in my life because without it, how on earth would I be okay?? I don't handle things very well. I wrote to my Mom that if something happens to me it's like whatever!!! But if something happens to someone else- even people I don't know I cry till I can't anymore and after that some how I cry more. It's ridiculous! So with the gospel it somehow makes me come back to life and realise things will be okay.

February has been the month of picking up Belle's clothes constantly.... She plays dress up 100% of her day. Every time I look at her she is wearing something totally different. I love this picture of her in her swim suit. This is crazy but I feel like that pictures describes how I feel at times this year. I am stuck inside but just open the window and the sun is waiting. It is funny how a picture can make you think.

This is my little gangsta! I don't even get how she comes up with these outfits! But she makes me laugh all day long!

I am so grateful for days like these.... Beautiful and not raining.... All the kids in my apartment complex ring my door bell like 50 times till I finally get the kids dressed and come out and play. They are all older but seem to love to play with Belle and Cash. Belle always seems to find Jordan and play on his skate board. I think Belle is going to be a "girly punk" when she is older. She is in love with black nail polish, skate boards, dirt bike looking tricycles "NOT that pink one Mom that cool one instead!", music with a hard beat and sweet guitars.... but she loves tutu's, dresses, lip gloss, tea parties, and cute stuffed animals!!! Haha I am excited to see what she is going to be like when she is older!

We went to our park in the beginning of this month and Belle said, "Mom look at that cloud way over there- I want that one for my pillow!" Hahah She kept trying to get Cash to look at it but he was too busy laughing on the swings.

I love how the sun is shining through in this picture.

Oh Cash hahahaha he was not happy touching those sticks!!! He just kept crying after I put him down! He has turned into such a funny boy! He has learned to do peek a boo, blow kisses, clap, fold his arms, drink from a cup (kind of), and feed himself (kind of) by himself! He also has learned to stay in time out for 30 seconds (Belle didn't like that she went in time out and not Cash when he was not nice... so he learned time all about time out!! ha!), he loves playing hide and seek, he is getting so picky about what he eats now- he spits his food out just like Belle! He learns everything from Belle. But Belle did teach him how to share, they spend forever handing things back and forth to each other! I just love these two! I love hearing Belle say, "Come on Tash, follow me Tash!"- "come play Tash, come on little boy!!!"  Hah I hope they stay close!

Belle trying the splits in another "interesting" outfit!

February is over and I am ready for a new month. It almost feels like a fresh start. We are still sick but hopefully by the end of this week we will all be better. You know maybe I should talk about Monkey's life a little. Monkey is a champ! That is all I got to say. He gets up everyday goes to school, comes home at night eats dinner, plays with the kids, then studies, then puts the kids to bed with me, then he studies some more. I am so impressed how he deals with everything. He never complains- he just knows what he has to do and he does it. I am so amazed what he can do! I just love a respect him so much!