Saturday may be a special day...

Saturday may be a special day but I really enjoyed my Sunday. It was very laid back and fun. I caught up on some stuff...I guess including my blogging.

This is our family time today, making banana bread. She had fun and it was fun to cook something without Elise crying at me and trying to squeeze between me and the counter.

Not today, but recently I finished my Valentine bags. Thanks for the help guys. You really got the ball rolling. I ended up choosing a phrase that means a lot to Ryan and me.

This one is just plain cute isn't it? This moment may not happen very often for a while cuz busy season is ramping up but I took it just to document some of the day to day that I will forget in the future.

Her hair is getting CRAZY fun! She's getting to the point where I need to decide if I should cut her bangs or start pinning them back.  What are your votes?

Just in case you didn't think I was serious about the playing of video games, I got proof. She loves "playing" with dad. We make shooting sounds when she pushes button, and vroom vroom noises when she touches the joystick, and various phrases thrown in the for fun like "it's a me, Mario"

Valentine's Decoration Take 2

Another cheap(ish) idea to decorate for V-day. I found this print online from this website eighteen25
I printed it for $2.99 at Walgreens and got the frame for $4.oo Michael's. The glass container I had around and it's filled with cadbury hard shell covered chocolate ornaments from Christmas, I just took out all the green ones. I thought there would be equal parts of each color but sadly there were more green ones that the other two colors combined. So this is a pathetically fourth full glass container of candy but oh well. It makes me happy.

I got something done!

Seriously, I think I'm giving up scrapbooking until all my children are old enough to not pull everything I'm trying to work with out. I need some sort of creative outlet though, so I started sewing little projects and recently I've been trying to make some Valentine's decorations so my house doesn't look so bare. And even though I've had this to contend with....


The Ribbon Maniac

I've mangaged to make this...

 Cute huh? It's pretty cool though if I don't say so myself because the hearts are made from pictures of my family. Take a closer look.

Fun stuff right!? So for a very low price of three photos, two sheets of scrapbook paper, and some black ribbon I ended up with a cute wall decoration. (this idea isn't mine it came from this website who got it from this website) 

Some Help, Please.

My house looks so sad without any Christmas Decorations. When I lived in Utah I had this whole box of snowman decorations that I left up through January, but they just feel wrong when the weather has been sunny and 78 degrees. I decided I need some Valentine's Decorations, cuz I have zero. Well we just got pre approved for a home loan so I'm cracking down even harder on spending. Working with what I have is easy, coming up with the ideas has been harder. So I ask for your help. I made these bags out of some scrapbook paper the other day, but they need words or something on them.

I was thinking like MINE or LOVE and then I thought maybe a saying would be cute so I was trying to do like LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED but that's one word too many and LOVE ONE ANOTHER is a word too short. Now is the part where you give me your opinion and ideas so I can finish my project. Thanks in advance!

ALSO there are nine blocks on the above shelf that I have plans for writting LOVE BIRDS across, but since we were sick all of December I never got Christmas' saying on a side. Would love your nine letter ideas that as well.

Would life just get back to normal!

We had a plan, a marvelous plan of spending time with family right before we would take off and go to St. George and spend the night at my Aunt's. We would leisurely wake up, get ready to go again and make the rest of the journey home and have some hours to unpack and get ready for the next day when Ryan would have to go to work.

Instead Elise got croup, she got croup bad. She kept me up the night before we left with crying and coughing so that I had to cancel breakfast with my family because I was just too exhausted as was she. I woke up Ryan and told him Elise wasn't feeling well so that we needed to pack and go the whole way that day so that if she needed a doctor we could get her to one.  I figured I would be safe, get her the chance to go to a doctor and she wouldn't need one. Silly me. I thought the same thing when she was born too. Find a hospital with a NICU so that she wouldn't need it.

Ryan got straight to packing while I steamed the bathroom up and tried to play with Elise in there. She sounded really bad to me but I kept thinking about how people and doctors say that it sounds worse than it is and how her cousin Atlee sounded bad too and she didn't have to go to a doctor. We made it home around midnight and I ran over to Super Walmart and bought a humidifier and medicine and frozen pizza so we would have something to eat the next day.

Sunday morning I called my sister because Elise was practically gasping for each breath. I wanted to know if she would go to the doctor. She's my mommy ask all because she's been there recently for all this kid stuff I run up against and she's an awesome mother too. Elise was so bad that Trish told me to go to the doctor right away, that I wasn't overreacting and she would take her kid if they sounded like that. (Elise didn't have much of a cough but her poor little chest was heaving for each breath).

After all morning in an urgent care (her own pediatrician was working that morning, it was AWESOME), two breathing treatments and a steroid shot Elise was still heaving although not nearly as much. Her doctor called the ER and expedited our way through the wait there and she got another shot and breathing treatment. What a little angel. She wasn't happy about the breathing treatments but she fell asleep for each one that she had. Her shots barely phased her. The part I was really scared for was the two and a half hours they wanted us to wait in the ER room with an oxygen monitor on her foot so she couldn't walk around. But she happily watched cartoons with dad and played with her stacking cups for that whole time. We were released since we live so close to the hospital and were told what to watch for and to come back immediately if we saw the same thing again.

So, again I didn't sleep well because with every cough I was scared to death. She did really well but still had some croupiness. We took her back to the doctor on Tuesday and he gave her a by the mouth steroid because she still had some strider (ie gasps or raspiness).

After all of that, a blessing, a friend bringing us dinner and my sister bringing us lunch in the hospital, I think I'm finally unpacked today and ready for normalcy to kick in. I cannot wait for this week to be OVER!

She's doing way better, I took some video today to prove it.

She didn't get it from me...

She may look like me but some of her personality is all Ryan.

Her love of shoes is definitely Ryan taught because I've been learning too since we've been married.



Her love of video games, well the controller anyway. I haven't let her play. She doesn't need to learn quite this early.



She's so stinkin smart! You can see her figure things out in her mind. She's all ready for school and I still have nightmares about college.

and this video shows how much she loves to dance and lately she's started to sing too. Definitely not me at all.

One of my Projects

Before we went to Utah in November I decided I wanted to make the carseat she would be riding in a cover. I didn't have a pattern and I couldn't begin to tell you how I managed to make it. In the end though it turned out way better than I could have hoped for really.  This is a picture of her in it as we drove into Utah county on Christmas Eve.