Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

This is the day after Christmas with all the snow we got my brother-in-law Andy decided to take all the kids on rides behind his four wheeler. It was so fun!

Merry Christmas

These are just a few pictures of Christmas Eve with Derik's Family. We had a good time eating and reading a few Chrsitmas stories. The Adults got to bed too late but the kids were bright eyed the next morning (go figure).

Missing Diaper

We were at my Mom's church building for thanksgiving dinner and Adelyn's pants were all wet...I went to change her diaper thinking that she had soaked through and there was no diaper there. We looked all over the churchhouse wondering where she could have stashed her wet diaper, it was nowhere to be found. My parents were scheduled to help clean the church that weekend so I told them sorry if they get a surprise somewhere. Well as we were leaving my sister started to laugh and yell we found the diaper! I look over and the diaper is coming out of her pants! We laughed so hard!

Five Months Old

So this post is really late...Time flies when you are having fun! Aliya is now six months old but I never posted the Five month pic so here you go!

Baby Steps

So I thouhg that I would update on our small potty progress.....Adelyn went to the potty on sunday all by herself for the first time!!!! yay.. We had a small pee pee party:)
She was really happy and said 'I did it Mom!' So at least she knows that it is a good thing.
Thank you for all the encouragement (except for Gilbert who pretty much said it sucks to be you...someday you will have children too:)

Potty Training Anyone?

So, I know that everyone has a hard time with potty training and wishes that their 2-3 year old would just potty train themselves. This last week we have been trying to encourage Adelyn to go in the potty and it has been a frustrating and amusing experience.
First, I took her to Walmart and had her choose some 'big girl pants'. She chose Thomas the Train (which of course happen to be big boy pants but I won't argue). We went home and had a wonderful time sitting on the potty and using a half a roll of TP and never actually going pee once. Then after about 45 minutes she stands right next to the potty and pees all over the underwear and floor.....good teaching Mom!!!
We then went to Stake Conference this morning and wore a diaper for obvious reasons and apparently one of the sides of the diaper did not get stuck tightly becuase Adelyn stands there in the ilse and has a funny look on her face that says she is going potty. I ask her if we can go get on the potty and as I do she looks down at the foor as her shoe fills with pee and overflows onto the carpet. Awsome! I love being a parent...I took her to the bathroom and changed and washed her legs and then went back to the carpet with disinfectant and towels all the while thinking that I hate potty training and would pay money for someone to do it for me! I am sure that many of you have great stories like these, and unfortunatly this will not be the last of my potty adventures.

Four months Old!

Sorry about the pic...I have never professed to be computer savy...and well I am not. i could not get this pic to turn but she still is cute!

SMILE

This pic has no special meaning just a cute smile from Aliya!

Winter Wonderland

So I know because it has been a while since i posted pics that these are a little outdated...but they are still cute and fun. Conference weekend at the beginning of October we got this crazy snowstorm and adelyn thought that this was awsome. She went out in her pjs to enjoy our present. I had to drag her freezing body back inside for a bath, she was not ready to comne in yet but mom was!

Ladies' Man

This is Dawson, Jenna and Aliya. Dawson doesn't know how lucky he is that the babies have been mostly girls around here! Dawson and Aliya make Jenna look so small!!!

Things About Me From A-Z

A- Attached or single: Attached


B- Best Friend: Derik


C- Cake or Pie: Both please!


D- Day of choice: Saturdays that have nothing scheduled so we can hang out!


E- Essential Item: My family and diaper bag!


F- Favorite Color: Purple


G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Worms they seem to last longer:)


H- Hometown: Idaho Falls!


I- Indulgence(s): Sugar of any kind---I love it all


J- January or July: July, I love the sun and outdoor activities


K- Kids: Adelyn 3 in Feb, Aliya 1 in June


L- Life is Incomplete Without: Family and Friends


M- Marriage Date: August 3, 2002


N- Number of Siblings: 4 brothers, 1 sister


O- Oranges or Apples: Apples


P- Phobias or Fears: Fear os spiders and getting old


Q- Quote(s):
"Good friends are like stars... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there."
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R- Reason To Smile: Family,friends, nap time, girls nightsout


S- Season: Spring and fall...when it is nice enough to go outside but not too hot


T- Tag Three +: Natalie, Shauna, Kellie


U- Unknown Fact About Me: It is unknown for a reason! Just Kidding I cannot think of anything new


V- Vegetarian or Meat Eater: Vegetarian, but I really appreciate all food:)


W- Worst Habit: Procrastination


X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Ultrasounds so far have been happier events for me


Y- Your Favorite Food: I love food other people cook!

Z- Zodiac: leo

Snow Soon?

I think that we were all really surprised to wake up Saturday morning to snow all over our yards. we all thought that it would melt by noon but

it stayed until Monday. Adelyn thought that this was the greatest thing ever!~

Halloween Bunco

These are fun pictures from our recent bunco night at Heather's house. It was a lot of fun. she had everyone come in costume! Here are the cute costumes. Kara's was the most creative. She super-glued smarties to her pants and was little miss smarty pants. Megan was also creative with her super mom costume wearing Ben's toolbelt with all the essential mom tools.

Halloween Bunco

Halloween Bunco

Aliya's Blessing Dress

So these pics are a little late but still really cute. Danielle bought this blessing dress for me and it is so cute!

Too Cute!

This is my sister Danielle and Adelyn. Adelyn loves Aunt Nelly she watches the girls for my when I work Thanks Danielle!

Quotes

So I am full of posts today.... These are some quotes That make me Smile:


"Things are how they are, and complaining doesn't help."
John H. Groberg - 2004 Oct. Gen. Conf

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother"
David O. McKay - Richard Evans Quote Book, 1971, p. 11

"The best way to get even is to forget."
unknown - unknown

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
unknown - quotegarden.com

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." Harmon Killebrew - quotegarden.com

I love to Sing!

This post is because I was listening to one of my favorite CD's today and as I was rocking out singing I decided that I should share some of the lyrics with ya'll. I Love all types of music, mostly I love songs that 'speak to me', or relates with something I've been through. Anyway this is a song that I really like:

It Passes All My Understanding By Cherie Call
I was sitting in a southbound plane
I was buried in a magazine
When the man in the next seat over
Wanted to talk to me
He talked about the universe
He talked about saturn's rings
He said "I might be an athiest
except for just one thing:
"It passes all my understanding
how it all worked out just right
The distance that we live from the sun
the stars that shine at night
We may prove that is was jsut an accident
But how did it begin?
It passes all my understanding."

I told him, "You are a scholar
You know things that I don't know
But I beleive a God in Heaven
Made everything below
And I know we are his children
I've known it since I was two
but when it comes to being struck with awe
I'm just like you

"It passes all my understanding
How the Lord knows both our names
And he made this world for everyone
That was sitting on that plane
And in spite of all men's distractions
He offers us His peace
That passes all my understanding"


I Skipped one verse but you get the idea...I really like this song and I hope you can get the messge from these words....Kind of goofy but I like it and it's my blog!:)

Three Months Old

Although this is not a great picture of her (she was really tired) Aliya is now three months old!!! We are moving right along.

Dutch Oven Cookin'

This is Derik and two co-workers on Friday at work. They were asked to cook the 'month end meal' for the thirty people in the accounting department. Derik said that it went over well, plus he got three hours paid just to cook lunch...AWSOME!!!

No Alarm Clock

This morning started out really bad....Derik woke me up with a start "What Time Is It?" I looked at the clock and my heart sank. It was 5:55am and I was scheduled to be into work at 6:00am. The alarm clock did not go off and my sweet baby decided that this would be a good morning to finally sleep eight hours at a time..Love it! I jumpd out of bed, threw on some clothes, slapped on the smallest amount of make up I could get away with and put my hair in a ponytail. Derik called work for me and told them I was on my way. I sped all the way and got into my seat by 6:30. AHHHH. Then, I got to work and messed up the first call I took my supervisor had to spend the next twenty minutes fixing my mistake....I felt so frazzled and dumb! The day got better after that, but man what a rocky start.

Love wearing Mommy's shoes

Adelyn loves putting on my shoes, these shoes were extra funny to me because they are so tall.

100 Things you may not know about me

This is a challenge given to a bunch of us girls in the neighborhood by our good friend Angie. It seems like everyone else has done it but me so I am going to give it a shot.

1. I love being a mom
2. I call myself a stay at home mom even though I do two jobs outside the home
3. One of my jobs I get to take my girls with me
4. I am happy when I have things going on everyday
5. I often feel guilty for being too busy
6. I also feel guilty for giving up nursing my two month old
7. My favorite color currently is purple
8. I like listening to other people's experiences
9. I have 5 nieces and 3 nephews
10. It is a great blessing to be an aunt
11. I (like Angie) am a recovering pack rat. I inherit this from my mother and have to fight the urge all the time.
12. My sister is my best friend and is always there when I need her
13. My family (both born into and married into) are my prized possessions
14. I think of my friends as an extension of my family
15. I love to shop for great deals (garage sales and clearance are my favorites)
16. I really want braces....someday when we have extra money (haha extra money?!)
17. My goal is to loose 20lbs to get to my pre preg weight
18. I am deathly afraid of spiders
19. I cannot play any sports very well, but I still like to play them
20. I love it when my two year old has a conversation with me
21. I am very unorganized
22. My favorite thing about holidays is the decor
23. I have a grandpa that lives in Germany and I have never had a conversation with him
24. I have only five cousins all from the same family
25. I have never been to a family reunion
26. The most disgusting thing to me is when people burp
27. I want to go on a mission for my church with my husband
28. I was in student government all three years of high school
29. I sucked my thumb until I was nine
30. I love to sleep with socks on in the winter and Derik hates it!
31. My favorite childhood cartoon was "Cities of Gold"
32. I love to read good books
33. Harry Potter is my current favorite read
34. I love food, all food :)
35. I took a weightlifting class in high school, and it was the first PE class I loved
36. I went to Germany when I was in third grade to visit my grandpa
37. I ran away from my husband for nine months before he convinced me to marry him!
38. He is the love of my life and I am grateful he was so patient
39. I think that pizza is good any time of day
40. I am scared of the dark
41. I am scared to go in the basement at night
42. I am always cold
43. I think that children only get more fun as they get older (so far)
44. I love twirly dresses
45. I have to go somewhere once everyday to feel like I have done something
46. I have the best neighbors I could ask for
47. I have five brothers and one sister, my oldest brother died as a baby
48. My favorite person to buy for is Adelyn (I love girl stuff)
49. My favorite animal is a horse
50. My parents owned a horse while I was growing up, we rode him every Saturday all summer
51. My husband is converting me into a Jazz basketball fan
52. I hated wearing dresses in elementary school and although I like dresses now I still don't like wearing high heels
53. I had a crush on Jonathan Taylor Thomas in elementary school
54. Now my celeb crushes are Matt Damon and Will Smith
55. My favorite show to watch is Biggest Looser, it gets me motivated
56. I would like to be an RN someday
57. When my house is a mess I feel yucky
58. If I had a lot of money I would travel
59. I love to get my hair done
60. I love all games
61. I like having long fingernails, but long toenails disgust me
62. When my mom said that we were Mormons, I told her "no we're not we're Worle's". That was my maiden name and I was four at the time.
63. Ice cream of any kind makes me happy
64. Seeing a baby smile makes me happier than ice cream does :)
65. The first car drove was a Toyota Tercell, I was the fourth teenager to drive it
66. When I was a sophomore in high school I was in three car wrecks with other people driving
67. My dream car right now is a white suv with tinted windows and a DVD player.
68. Singing and dancing to the radio is my favorite activity with my two year old
69. This list has taken me weeks to finish
70. I love to walk in warm rain
71. I played with barbies until I was twelve
72. When I was pregnant with my first baby I craved hot dogs and McDonald's Double Chesse Burgers...I ate them at least one a week all nine months
73. I cannot watch scary movies, they give me nightmares
74. I love to dress up on Halloween.....and I love lots of candy too!
75. My favorite thing about Christmas is that it seems to last all month long
76. I have a hard time staying up past 11:00
77. The Hawaii temple is my favorite because it is so different on the outside
78. My favorite thing about my husband is he makes me laugh
79. I love to learn new things....I would like to take more college classes for fun when the kids get older
80. I am very scared to move away from my family
81. I love to bake sweets...but I love to eat them more
82. I wished it would only snow in December
83. I love playing in the water, but I hate wearing a swimsuit
84. I am trying (not very hard) to like video games for my husband
85. I don't like to drive...I would much rather be a passenger
86. Salmon is my current favorite food...this also changes a lot
87. The person I would most love to meet is President Hinckley
88. The place I would most love to go is Hawaii
89. I hate to get up in the morning, but I feel good when I get up early
90. I love to meet new people
91. I always worry that people don't really like me and are just being nice
92. I have always been insecure about my legs (they are tree trunk legs:)
93. I feel like I am not old enough to be married and have children
94. I am obsessed with brushing my teeth
95. I love country music
96. I love it when people comb or play with my hair
97. I own more than thirty pairs of shoes
98. I like mowing the lawn (mostly to get a tan)
99. I still own the first car I ever purchased myself (a 1998 ford escort)
100. This was a ton harder than I ever expected

Derik is Surrounded by Girls!!

These are Derik's two sisters...we had a lot of fun being all together this past weekend!

Adelyn Loves her cousins!!!!

Adelyn rarely will slow down long enough to pose for a picture....but she was rather found of her oldest cousin and sat for quite a while with him by her side.

Aliya's Blessing day