Daddy-daughter ball!!!

I went to enrichment tonight and Brian got the girls to bed, or at least I thought. Isa went to sleep peacefully by herself which was a nice change. Then when I walked in the door this is what I saw. Little Layla having a ball with her dad (her Prince) Incase you can't see she is holding her dress just like Cinderella does when she is dancing with the prince. I guess they just put the part of the movie where they dance and sing on repeat for a half hour. So dang cute. When I had a short dance with layla before putting her to bed she could hardly hold up her head. I think we are going to have to break the kids up more often so that instead of listening to them talk, sing, look for Addie out the window for a half hour we should seperate them and put one to bed early. We will see but for now these two keep me smiling!

Must come clean...

A few friends have said that they like the music on the blog and visit just to listen. I too just turn on the blog to listen to my selection. But I can't take credit for having great taste I must give that to a show on TV One Tree Hill. I really like the show and watch it all the time. Every time I hear a song I like a jot down the episode and look up the song. I don't think I could ever find so many bands that just have that little something I like if it wasn't for TV. So yes I watch TV often just to find new music I like. But hey that is why the pay someone so much money to write the music script for these show right!?!

C.S.Lewis

I was reading the other day and came across one of my favorite thoughts by C.S. Lewis. Summing up what he said would not do him justice so here it is...."The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone, you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him less. There is, indeed, one exception. if you do him a good turn, not to please God and obey the law of charity, but to show him what a fine forgiving chap you are, and to put him in your debt, and then sit down to wait for his 'gratitude', you will probably be disappointed. (People are not fools: they have a very quick eye for anything like showing off, or patronage.) But whatever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least, to dislike it less." Mere Christianity pg 131There is a whole chapter on this some topic of charity toward people you may not like. He talks about how not liking someone isn't a sin just the way it is. However not doing charity toward those you don't like is. You can't help what you feel it is simply a natural instinct. It is what you do with those feelings that is important. True charity comes from doing good because as he said, they are a "self" just as we are. I really needed to be reminded of this because at times I have let those who have let me down because they lacked charity and I needed their help to really get me down. I am learning more and more that charity is hard for most people. Not to say in anyway that I am perfect but to be told that someone could use help and turn my back is something I simply can't do. I hope that this little inside look at charity will help me grow to do charity toward those I don't like. (This area I really suck at!) Just a thought that was on my mind yesterday!

Can you tell they are sisters or what!

When the girls are not together you can tell that one looks like me and one looks like Brian. (I think it is easy to tell which belongs to which.) Isa really is Layla a year ago with brown hair and not sickly like she was at that age. I really have no idea what these two are going to look like when they are grown up but they sure are going to turn heads!

Little Isa and her new hairdo

I don't know if every parent is as proud as we are but seriously I think she is the cutest little kid in the world. Her sister is just as cute but she has to have her hair fixed to see her face. Isa just has a cute tiny round head that is always smiling all secretive at us. The best thing she does is when I am cross with her and tell her to look at me she bows her head down just looking up at me through her bangs and then puts her forehead up against mine while I talk to her. She as learned that this just melts me and makes me laugh ever single time.

New Haircut.... what a cutie!!!!

Here are the good pictures of Layla's new haircut... she is getting so grown up!

Guilty!!!!

I tried to get a good picture of Layla's new haircut to put into my portfolio of hairstyles to display when I try to get a job and then work as a stylist again. I got a few good pictures but this one is my favorite THE MUG SHOT!!!!!! This week she is guilty of not keeping anything she thinks in... she says it all. I am not sure where she comes up with the things that come out of her mouth but it is funny. One of these days I will post a list of the funny things she says!

Mystery continues...

Well Isabel has now had some horrible tummy problems the last 12 hours which looks like she got sick like we did. However i did not give her the same dinner that we had. However she did have some of the pork the day before and I don't think Layla ate any. Now this leads us to think the pork was bad... but we aren't sure! All I know is I am totally sad that something we ate was bad. First you can't eat canned goods because they can get you sick. Then you can't trust meat for all sorts of reasons. And as we all know there is always a new fresh vegetable that is giving people food poisoning... I guess I just have to deal with the fact that no one especially me is immune from getting sick from something you eat! But I am glad to say that over 24 hours have gone by and we are all feeling a lot better!!!

Food Poisoning

So I really pride myself on the fact that I am a good cook. I have really only made a few meals that we didn't really like. And I don't follow recipes all that often because I like to experiment. Well Sunday I made a dinner that used half of the pork I had. So I found a new recipe that I thought I would try for a change, get some new ideas. We worked at the temple that day so it went into the crockpot and we ate it later that night with friends that helped babysit the girls. Well needless to say as you can guess from the title we all got food poisoning. Luckily I was too lazy to fix it for the girls I just gave them spaghetti. Thank goodness. It was hard enough having Brian and I in and out of the bathroom all day long. But I think we are over the worst of it and feeling a little better.

The Fabulous Sledding Girls!!!!

Daniel's Birthday Party!!!!

Saturday the family went to their friend Daniel's Birthday Party. This is Daniel in the picture with Layla. The girls had a great time and absolutely loved playing on the gymnastic equipment. We got a few good pictures and videos to share! I think that once Brian starts working and making us some money we are going to invest in putting the girls into classes here! Nothing beats a tired and happy kid that sleeps 14 hours after playing! I mean really can you put a price on that?!?





So funny story to go along with this post. Layla is a smart kid and really gets most of what we say now which is fun. However she gave us an update on how clueless she can be this week. As we were getting ready to go to the birthday party she asked if it was her birthday. I said no her birthday is still far away. So she got out a stool and was looking out the window when she said this... "Where is my birthday? I can't find it, I think it went to far far away. Do you see my birthday? I just don't see it!" Somehow she decided that a birthday is something that you can see. Funny the things she comes up with!

New Year and a crazy one at that!!!

So I think that we have started the year off in a way only we could. On New Years eve we of course had grandma babysit so we could break out and be social and go to a party. On the way out the door with food in head we locked ourselves out of our house. Poor Sophie was stuck inside so we couldn't just wait until the morning to call a locksmith. We tried ever window in the house and finally came to the conclusion that our bedroom window was the only one that was unlocked and we could get it. Of course without a massive ladder this is impossible. But our kind neighbors tracked one down and brought it over with their H3. While trying to slide the window over Brian put his hand through the glass. This not only hurt but dumped glass everywhere. Of course we were thinking at least we got in. YEAH RIGHT, our windows are double paned and we still had to call a locksmith at 11:45 pm and pay for him to open the house and now must replace a window too.

Incase that wasn't a good enough way to start off the year i think we have changed our college plans on what Brian is doing about twenty times in ten days. I am still not completely sure on what we are doing but I have decided that the temple at the top of the hill is the only thing that is going to keep me sane while we try to figure it all out. So Happy New Year to all our friends and family and we hope you have a less eventful year then us... avoid the drama as much as you can!