Knight in Shining Armor

"I'll be the mommy, you be the baby"

Dinner time!

These are our missionaries cooking dinner.  Nice huh!  We ask what they want and they make it.  They even put on the pink, flowery apron.  Thanks for cooking Elder Tolman and Elder Patterson.  It is a nice break!

Haircut anyone?

Chant is one brave man to hand the clippers over to the girls!  

Behind Bars

I love my smily little boy.  He is a such a joy.  I had to share these too cute pictures!

Blogging Slacker

It's the 18th and I have yet to post in the month of February.  I am a slacker!  Well, to be truthful, my free time has been spent reading.  It has been so long since I have actually sat down and read a book.  When I was in high school I would disappear to my room and read for hours.  I miss doing that.  So I decided to see how reading and three kids mix.  And you know what, it works out pretty good.  I started the Twilight series on January 28 and finished book 4 on the 13th.  I am trying to decide what is next.  Any suggestions?

Another excuse for my lack of posts is that I am having troubles getting my pictures to upload onto my computer.  Once my overworked husband has a chance to help me figure it out, watch out because I've got pictures to share!  Stayed tuned!

What they are up to now

I love my beautiful children!  They are so much fun.  I just wanted to give a quick update on what the kiddos are up to.

Brinnley loves oranges.  We recently got a clock that we turned into the "food clock."  We glued pictures of food over the times when we eat meals or snacks.  She now knows to look at the clock before asking for something to eat.  Otherwise all day long she is asking for snacks.  So far so good!

She loves Primary!  They learned a new song on Sunday and yesterday she was singing it in the car.  She loves her class and her teachers.  Thank you Brother and Sister Brown.  They sang happy birthday to her and gave her a bag of popcorn and she was the happiest girl alive.  

She started preschool with Miss Becca last week and she loves it.  She couldn't stop talking about the songs they sang and the things they did.  Thanks Becca.

She is very much the helpful sister and always volunteers to  "Keep an eye on Porter."

The girls love to pretend.  They are always playing Prince and Princess or Barbies.  They both like to tie bandanas around their necks and call them capes.  Then they will run around the house and capture the bad guys and save the Princess.  SO cute!

Their favorite movies right now are anything Barbie.  They have the songs memorized to their favorites, currently The Diamond Castle and the Princess and the Pauper.  (Yesterday Brinn asked me if "I could spare some bread and water" directly quoted from the Princess and the Pauper.  It made me laugh so hard!)

The new favorite non-Barbie song in the house is "Love Story" by Taylor Swift.  The girls go around the house singing "You'll be the prince and I'll be the Princess, it's a love story baby just say yes."  So fun!

Ainsley is just getting so big!  Her new favorite word is "acutally."  "Well, actually I would like some lunch."  "Well actually I do want to go shopping."

Porter Boy started getting up on his knees and rocking back and forth last week.  Any day now he is going to take off, I just know it.  And this week he has started babbling.  He sounds something like this "Blah Blah Blah."  SO fun!

Sorry to bore you, I just want to remember what my babies are like at this stage in their lives.  

Winter Wonderland

7:00 a.m. Wednesday morning 

7:30 am, ready to go play

Playing with the shovel and rake
It is finally starting to feel like winter around here.  The snow started coming Monday night.  School was cancelled yesterday.  It was nice to have an extra day with Daddy.  Last night the snow with so beautiful!  I got some pretty shots of the snow lightly falling.  When we woke this morning there was quite a bit of fresh snow.  So at 7:30 a.m. the girls were bundled up and out the door to play.  Ainsley loves it!  We got our her garden shovel and rake and she has been having a good time.  It's a perfect winter wonderland!