Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Random Bits

We were decorating sugar cookies. Cami is saying 'cheese.' She found my mixing bowl and announced it as her hat.
We went up to the Oakland temple to see the lights. They have a mini-temple square up there. It was a little weird for us Idahoans to see palm trees all lite-up, but it was cool. Emma was a bit cold this day. (Cold for CA)Our ward had family home evening up at the temple. They brought hot chocolate to keep warm and cookies! I think Cami had about 3 glasses!

The whole fam!

Confessions of a Three-Year-Old

The other night we were explaining what a treasure is to Emma. We explained that it is gold and silver and that she (Emma) was a treasure to us. There was a disconnect so we continued and I showed her my wedding ring. I told her it was a treasure and means a lot to me just like she is a treasure and means a lot to us. Emma then pointed at my ring and exclaimed, "Mom, what is that?" I told her it was diamond. She then says, "Mom, I really like diamonds." We'll tell her fiance that some day.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Confessions of a Three-Year-Old

So have you all seen the Disney movie Enchanted? Well Emma is obsessed with it. You know the part where Giselle takes a bite of the apple and it rolls down the stairs? Well the other day, I caught Emma dressed in her Sleeping Beauty dress at the top of our stairs. She was pacing back and forth and kind of fussing about something. She seemed to be checking around her. I couldn't quite figure out what she was doing. Suddenly she drops to the floor and a plastic apple drops from her hand and rolls down the stairs. She then sits up a little to make sure it rolled down the stairs and then falls back down pretending to be asleep. I'm sure awaiting true love's kiss. I love it!
We have also been playing a lot of Candy Land lately. At the end of one game Emma announces quite proudly, "I am the winner and you guys are all lost-ers."

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Thanks a lot!

Dear Mr. Jerk-
Thanks a lot for stealing my husband's bike yesterday. We really appreciate it. This wouldn't be as big of a deal if this had been a first offense. But alas, you were in Utah with us too and there confiscated a much beloved Gary Fisher.
I had hope that the 10 commandments were still alive and well, you know THOU SHALT NOT STEAL!!!! But apparently you are one of those people who thinks that 'its just my life, I can do what I want.'
Your charming decisions have affected our family. My husband was trying to save money by not having to pay to part at the train station everyday. And was getting exercise by riding a mile to and from BART everyday.
Thanks for stealing his graduation present. I hope it was worth it.
Sincerely,
A very ticked off wife!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

I love Thanksgiving. It is a day to remember all the many blessings that we have been given. I just want to list a few.
I am thankful for my husband. He is such a great guy! I feel so blessed to have him in my life. He works so hard to support us. I should also add that we are very grateful to have a job during these uncertain times. Kevin is such a great daddy. We love ya babes!
I am thankful for two healthy and beautiful girls. They are my joy! They always keep me laughing.
And as we are away from Idaho and both our families, we are thankful for family!!!! We are so grateful to everyone who let us live with them this last summer. We love you all and miss you!
We are also thankful for great friends. We miss all of you and wish we could see you and catch up!
We are so grateful for technology so we can keep up with everyone who is far away from us right now.
And we are so grateful for an awesome aunt and uncle (Cynthia and Byron) for letting us come and spend the holidays with them. We love having family close by!
Happy Thanksgiving!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Help fellow bloggers!

So blogging friends, I am trying to change my background and I am having some difficulties. Every background I choose shows up close up on my blog. It only shows a the middle section of the background. Does that make sense? For example, the background I have up now is supposed to have snowflakes around it. Does anyone know how to fix this? Let me know!

Random Stuff

Alas, my bathroom will never look like this.Instead, it looks like this. Camilla found my eyeliner pencil and drew all over the mirror. Gotta love toddlers.I have tried starting preschool at my house with Emma. Camilla has to do everything Emma does so I am doing it with both of them. I am not very good at it, nor persistant enough. This was our first day. We have started refinishing some furniture. We got two dressers for the girls before we moved. This one was painted all blue. Here is the finished project. Thanks Kevin for all your hard work. Only one more dresser to go. (It is green. :)

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Confessions of a Three-Year-Old

The other day Emma tells me, "Mom, I want a baby. (Meaning a real baby not a baby doll) You can get one for 5 bucks." If only....

And I keep forgetting to post that, our first week here, we had an earthquake! It wasn't a bad one, like a 3.1 or something. But we felt it and it scared me! Welcome to CA!

You know your cool when.....

You know your cool when....

You go to church an hour early (actually 10 minutes after the hour because we are always late) because you forgot about daylight savings time ending.

You go to a Halloween party looking like this.
Being a princess is all you ever dream about. Here Emma is being Giselle and singing ah ah ah from her tower. Love it! Below is Emma wearing her princess hair.

You actually have hair. Poor Cami is still called a boy because she has so little hair. This is what she would look like if she had hair.
You shouldn't have hair. This is my bro obviously having too much fun with my girls' play hair.
When you get to ride a horse for the day. (Even if it is fake)
When ALL you have been doing is vinyl. This is all the extra vinyl from doing my mom's Super Saturday. And I am done! So if anyone is looking for vinyl, I now have time. :)
Caught in the act! This is my sis, not me. Love ya Cease! You have the cutest girls in the world! Aren't they just fun princesses? We love them!

Flashback Camping

The summer started off with a great idea from Kevin's sister, Kim. Let's go camping! We went to Scout Mountain, a favorite place to camp in Pocatello. It was a lot of fun. And really cold! On the drive up, we went through some snow. That is camping in Idaho in May for ya. Needless to say, we were less prepared than we should have been. So we zipped two sleeping bags together and all four of us piled in. The kids slept and we layed there. :)
Here is Camilla playing in the dirt, a little unsure of herself. In our tent! The girls loved playing in the tent.

Cami in the tent. (She has grown up so much since then.) :(

Sitting around the campfire. I love Emma's smile (or fake smile) here.

Playing in the woods.

Cami hates to get dirty. So she is tolerating it. This is a typical face for Camilla.

A much happier Cami. How can you resist this face?

This video makes me laugh. Cami found a little hill and would crawl up it and slide down on her belly. Cami had a funny way of crawling then, we called it the stink bug crawl. She would get up on her feet and walk with her hands and feet. You will see in the video. The stinker just didn't want to walk.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Family Fun Weekend

Having girls is a blast. I turned the corner one day to find this waiting for me. Apparently someone wishes they were Sleeping Beauty. (Or as Emma says it, Sleeping Booty) My favorite is the wig and crown addition.

At a friend's suggestion we went to G & M Farms this weekend. They have a huge pumpkin patch and corn maze. And lots of other fun activities! Here we were posing at a height chart. I can't believe that Emma is probably close to 3 feet. (or maybe over)They had heads to pose in. Cami was mooing the whole time. It was funny.
Here we are at the hay maze. They have tunnels and a maze that you can walk around made of hay bales. My girls loved it.
They have a sandbox but it is full of big hard kernels of corn. So much fun! And not as messy as sand, but we still found corn in the diapers.
They have a play area that has kernals as the ground covering. Cami loves to swing.


We found a tire swing too. When Emma asked for another push, Cami pushed her shoulder. It was funny.

And they were excavating the corn.
The final event was Emma riding a pony. She picked the biggest one and had a blast! No fear, that's my girl!
That night we had a trunk-or-treat for our church. Our girls dressed up as princesses. Cami wanted to be a Barbie. Aren't we a little young for that? Emma couldn't decide between a nice spider and Sleeping Beauty. A nice spider? What is that? They had so much fun. Cami would hold out her hand and say 'peez.' And last, but not least, this movie is hilarious! Kev, reliving his past, decided to take the girls for a ride. This was an evening activity that was a hit! And no one was injured mom and dad. And the post below is a flashback from the summer. I plan on doing one post a week to catch up what we missed in 6 months.

Flashback Summer

Just before we moved from Provo, my mom and sister came out and went to Women's Conference at BYU with me. We had so much fun going to classes and hanging out! We got our workout running all over campus. We laughed in the concert as we all have the same taste in music (or maybe what isn't music. :) We decided that we need to do this again! The girls weren't too excited to pose in our all girl pic.

I also got a vinyl machine before we moved. With the help of Laurel, I was able to do these fun projects. I have also now done 2 Super Saturdays. (Well almost). More pics of projects to come.

I caught the girls in their room one day playing. I don't know what they were looking at. They are standing on Emma's headboard to her bed. Crazies!
Who can resist this cute face?
When we moved we had so much help from friends. One of our friends Rachel made these skirts for my girls WHILE BABYSITTING THEM!!!! Yes, she is amazing. Someday I hope to be as good as you Rachel!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Confessions of a three-year-old

Just tonight, Emma was saying her prayers and a few choice lines were:
"Please bless my grandpa and grandma that they can come and see me. Bless them to drive safe when they come to see me."
And our other favorite, "Please bless mom and dad that they will say (in a really high pitched voice) let's go trick or treating."
Awesome!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Alive and very much kickin'


We have made it to CA! After a very long and difficult move, we have arrived. So our moving day consisted of packing up in Idaho Falls at Kevin's sister's house, packing up at my brother's house in Pocatello and packing up at my parents. Then we drove 3 hours to UT to pack up our storage unit. A suggestion: when moving, have your stuff in ONE place. :) We are so thankful to everyone who helped us out during our move. (And thanks Wilkins for letting us show up late, late, late.) And thanks to my bro for all his help with the move too!

It was an interesting move. We haven't lived outside of Utah or Idaho while we've been married. There were tears shed as we left. We will miss everyone!During our move (which was 12 hours or more with potty stops :) we stopped at the salt flats. I thought it looked so cool. And the girls loved running around.

Once we got here, the unpacking started (and continues!) Don't you wish you were in this move?
My brother drove out with us to help with the move. My brother's last day here, we decided to do some sight seeing. We went down to the bay and saw the Golden Gate bridge. It was so cold, but we were excited to see the ocean!
Rich was a little scared of the CA traffic. :)
We drove ALL over San Fran to find the 49ers stadium. My bro is a die-hard! Thanks again Rich for all your help!
Since I have dropped off of the face of the blogging world, by suggestion, I am going to do a post once a week with random activities from my 6 month absence. So here goes:
The weekend before we moved was my mission reunion. I really wanted to go since I don't know when I will be in Utah again during conference weekend. It was so fun to see old missionaries I served with. I was disappointed that more of us can't get together. We are all spread over the U.S. now, so it makes it hard. I visited with the Bennions (one of the senior couples I served with) and Tasha. It was so good to catch up. And to all MIM the Bennions say 'HI!'
We also played at the park earlier that day with some Provo friends. I didn't get very many pics from the day. But here is a picture of Emma with Jacob. He is the boy that Emma says she is going to marry. :) I love it! We believe in arranged marriages and know that they would have NO in-law problems!
We'll keep you updated! (This time for real!)