Thank You Abbey......

Abbey is my OCD organized friend who has sterilite boxes all over her house. She inspired me to organize my pantry. Thanks Abbey!

My Five:

1. Women's Conference

2. A new babysitter

3. Sterilite containers

4. Mac and Cheese....the best lunch for kids

5. A husband that is willing to serve

Week 4........

Week 4 and still going strong!

19- Started our kitchen makeover
20- A historic day for America. Barack Obama is the
1st African-American President
21- Dominos: Sophies new favorite game
22- Poor Sophie is like her Mom. Sprained her foot.
Notice the ace bandage + Band-Aid
23- Bodi started a Facebook account. Now this is
where we find him every night
24- Laynie has started singing. She’s a star
25- This is what happens every time she gets her
diaper changed. She just wants to be free

My 5:

1. Having my husband be the food natzi once in a while (making sophie eat)

2. Girls night watching Miss America

3. No more smog

4. reading "Confessions of a Shopaholic"

5. a 3 hour nap today

Valentines Wreath..........

Thanks to my super crafty blogging friend Auti I found this idea to make a valentines wreath. I think it turned out pretty cute. It was super easy and cost less than $10!

Sophie you melt my heart.........

Bodi had his cub scouts over tonight and Sophie introduced me to one of them.

She put her arm around my shoulders and said

"This is my cute, little Mama!"

I had a flash forward to when I am 80 in a nursing home.

So Cute!!

Laynies baby book.....

I've been busy catching up on Laynies baby book. I have really enjoyed scrapbooking again. I had to take a break to work on my Cards for a few months. Enjoy!

PS I have a few more pages that are in my slide show.

My 5:

1. Enrichment Night

2. A great husband that loves to watch his girls.

3. Digital scrapping

4. Listening to my girls giggle in the backseat of the car.

5. febreeze.

365...week 3

Week 3...enjoy

12- Sophie's new favorite thing to play is dog. She even has the leash!

13- I made burp cloths for my friends with my sewing machine.

14- The girls love to play together before bed. Yee Haw!

15- Laynie started walking with her toy.

16- We took a trip to the Living Planet Aquarium with the family.

17- Laynies vampire teeth! Look out!!

18- We love to grill all year long!

Laynie or Renesmee............

I knew Bodi was HOT like Edward, but I didn't know that we would have a little vampire! I love her little fangs!

Aquarium fun.........

My sister Rachel came in town on Friday and it gave us a good excuse to get together. We went to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. We went along with my cousin Emily, her kids, my sister Hannah and my aunt Jan. It was our first time to the aquarium so we didn't know what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was so fun! All of the kids had a great time looking at all of the fish. Bridger, EJ, Jaylee, Jett Laynie, Hannah, Sophie

We got to pet the sting rays. They were so slimy.

Sophie was so brave and touched a starfish. She said "Mom it's bumpy!"

Laynie loved to look at all the fish!

I would definitely recommend taking a trip to the aquarium. We had a great time! Thanks Rachel for getting us all together!

My Five:

1. Bath and body works lip gloss!

2. Being able to go to the mall by myself.

3. Date night with my hubby

4. Having an organized pantry.

5. Sugardoodle.com (can't plan my primary lesson without it)

365...week 2

Monday-Sophie got lots of new dress up stuff for Christmas She loves to dress-up with Daddy!

Tuesday- Laynie started giving kisses!I just love to get slurpy wet kisses from my baby!

Wednesday- We have the next singing sensation on our hands!

Thursday- Sophie is just like her Dad! Whenever she gets the chance she gets a full body scratch!

Friday- Bodi finally got his snow mobiling stuff out.

Saturday- We finally got an awning on our back porch this week. Can’t wait for warm weather so we can enjoy it!

Sunday- Sophie had her hair straightened for the first time today. So beautiful!

My Five:

1. Sophies long hair

2. My new sunbeams

3. playing domino's with Sophie

4. Our new awning! Can't wait till spring!!

5. 24 starts tonight!!

Project 365

I am so excited about this new project that I have started. It is called Project 365. The basic concept is to take a picture of a specific moment everyday and scrapbook it. It is a way to capture what really happens with your family. It is not just scraping a birthday and Christmas over and over again. At first I thought that it would be too much work but as the days have gone by (all 7 of them) I have realized that I am looking for those moments to capture. There are lots of ladies in the digital scraping world that have started doing this and are providing templates for every week. ( If you are not a scrapbooker just blog your weekly pictures ) There are lots of ideas out there to help you get different photos for everyday. Here are some ideas:

* whats for dinner

* breakfast

* places you go

* bed head photos

* games you play

* funny things kids do

* the view from your windows

* your yard in the spring

* favorite things in your home

I have posted my layout for the first week. As you can see I am still missing a picture. I am not going to get discouraged because I forgot one day. ( I am just going to cheat and put something else in it's place.)

I hope you guys have liked my new project. Let me know if you are going to do it and if you have any great ideas! Happy Scrapping!

Disneyland.............Part 1

I finally talked Bodi into going to Disneyland! We went with our friends Abbey, Tyson and their son Jackson. We had such a great time! Our trip started out a little slow. It took us 9 hours to get there from Cedar City. With 3 kids under the age of 3 you can imagine all of the potty breaks we had to make! We were determined to get there no matter what!

Don't think I am crazy but I used a dog leash to keep track of Sophie. I attached it to her belt loop. She never got lost!

Sophie loved the princess castle. She wanted to walk through it every time she saw it. She also loves her dress ups. Her Grandma Debbie gave her this Aerial dress for Christmas and she wore it the whole day!
Mikey was her first character she got to see! She gave him a big hug!

Little Laynie was so happy at Disneyland! She just smiled at everything and everyone. We had so many oriental people stop us and ask for her picture because she was so smiley. I was a little worried about taking her but she was an angel!

I got my chocolate covered banana!!!! Yummy!!!

We took Sophie on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride not even thinking of how scary it is. She was terrified! (today she can't stop singing "yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me)

Both the girls loved the parades! They were so fun to watch!

Of course we stayed to watch the fireworks show. It was amazing! The best was the "snow" at the end.

12 hours of pure bliss! Back soon with day 2.

My After Disneyland 5:

1. Spending time with my family

2. Seeing my girls so happy!

3. Portable DVD players

4. Clean gas stations

5. Great friends!

Happy New Year...

We made it back from Disneyland and had a great time! (more about that to come) I hope all of you have a very Happy New Year!

Christmas........

We have had a very eventful week leading up to Christmas. We all got sick. Laynie on Monday, Sophie on Tuesday, me on Wednesday & Bodi on Thursday. We all got the yucky flu bug. I even had to cancel my Christmas Eve party. (sorry everyone!) Laynie and I spent Christmas Eve at home while everyone partied at my Moms. Sophie decorated cookies for Santa and played a shepherd in the pageant.

Christmas morning was lots of fun. Santa came and brought Sophie her pink boombox and Laynie a basketball hoop. After we opened presents we went to my Moms house for breakfast and more presents. When we got home everyone was so tired from all the excitement that they slept for 4 hours. Even though we were all sick this week we had a great time spending Christmas together! She is such a happy girl! Laynie loved all the wrapping paper!

Sophie was in total shock that Santa actually came and brought her a pink boombox!

Sophie and Daddy playing with the new dress ups!

Christmas Pj's

Remembering the reason.....

Bodi and I had the opportunity to play Mary and Joseph for a nativity movie that our ward put together for our Christmas party. I have enjoyed having these pictures and have had a chance to really reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. Here are a few of the pictures that I love. They really to put me in the Christmas spirit.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

My Christmas 5:

1. My Savior

2. His Mother Mary- those feelings she must have felt.

3. The Plan of Salvation

4. My Family

5. Almost time for Disneyland!