Egg-static!

Steve and I were in the office chatting the other night about this and that when we didn't hear anything!  Usually in our house that is a sign that something is about to be in disarray or worse.  A while back you may remember a post about Abigail getting into a whole dozen eggs and smashing them on the kitchen floor?  She thought it was SOOOOOO neat to be able to crack eggs.  I don't blame her, I still like cracking eggs myself.  Well, I asked Steve to go check on her while I finished a few emails I was sending.  He started to laugh and said "go show Mom!"  She came in with this!  One of her little bowls with an egg perfectly cracked in it....no shells or anything.  She had gotten into the fridge, cracked an egg leaving no shell pieces in it and had thrown the empty shell away in the garbage!  She amazes me by what she does on her own.

Here she is showing us how proud she is of the egg in her bowl!

The Happy Couple!

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to attend the sealing of my cousin Natalie Pond.  Her husband Omar is the sweetest man!  The sealing was wonderful and I am happy that Natalie now has an eternal family of her own!  The Rexburg, Idaho Temple is just as beautiful as I remember it being at the open house.  I brought my camera just in case and ended up being the only one that had a camera with a charged battery.  LUCKY!  I snapped probably too many photos considering the weather outside had to have been around 10 degrees.....but you can never get too many pictures of a happy family right?  I am definitely learning how to even use my "new to me" Canon EOS Rebel...if that is even the official name of it.  It has an SLR something in there somewhere also.  Anyway, I enjoy taking photos, but really need to take a class or read up on some of the functions.  I thought some of them turned out well.  Natalie called me today to tell me that they went to get some of them printed and that the retailer gave them a fight about the  photos being copywrited and they weren't going to sell them the photos.  Those of you that are photographers, is that some setting I have put on accidentally to cause that to show in the file or something?  I had to laugh when she told me that they weren't going to get them because they were copywrited by a professional photographer!  HA!  I didn't even know what I was doing, I was just snapping shots.....lol!  Maybe I am better than I thought, or .......maybe not?!!!

Generic Happy Birthday!

Several of our family and a few friends have birthdays in January.  We have been a little 'off the ball' and have not sent cards to any of them!!!  So, just to cover a few bases here is a 

Happy Birthday!!!!

to all of those that we have missed already.  I hope your birthdays were/will be fabulous.  Love to all!

Steve, Katie & Abigail

Let it snow AGAIN!

Last week it seemed like we were having an early spring here in Idaho Falls.  I quite liked the weather!  Then, last night it just dumped again.  The snow is very wet and heavy and perfect for building snowmen!  Emily called and invited Abby and I over for a play day for the kids and ourselves.  We dressed the kids up in their snow clothes and sent them out to play.  Meanwhile we got busy making hair bows for the girls.  We both took a little break and put our snow boots on to help the kids build not one, but two snowmen.  So here they are playing the snow having a grand old time.  Sadly to say that my camera battery died before the snowmen were built so I don't have a shot of them.  Hopefully Emily will read this and post some :)  She has them all on her camera!!!

Princess Luncheon

Today most of the kids didn't have school so Abby hosted a princess lunch.  Pictured here from Left to Right are Amelia, Abigail, Olivia, Rebecca, Isabel & Shayleen.  They all dressed up in princess clothes and had a sack lunch.  My friend Bonnie brought all her fun colors of nail polish and painted all of the girls nails.   In the picture with Abby getting her nails done, there is a silver tray with petit fours on it.  Abby helped me make them for all of the girls to enjoy after finishing their lunch.  Isabel also brought a very fun treat to share while we watched our princess movie!  The girls ended up choosing Barbie and the 12 dancing princesses to watch during lunch.  We had a very fun time!  

Here are all of the girls taking a bite of cake.

Bonnie painting Abby's nails with cakes in the background.

All of the girls with their nails painted.

Here they are having just finished lunch and watching their movie.  I think Abby is in mid-spin in this shot.  She LOVES to dance along to movies with singing and dancing in them!  A characteristic that her parents admire and love also!

This slideshow has Abby in her element.  She loves to 'dips' with her Dad (dancing, with a dip at the end), so there are a few pics with her in her cinderella dancing shoes doing dips.  She loves to cook in her kitchen.  The other night we got out her tiny but real bake set and put her to work in the kitchen.  It was awesome how much fun we had together!  She is a natural little baker.  There are also some in here with today's fun hairdo accompanied by a ladybug clippie.  She loves nothing more than to see the finished hairdo with something frilly like a bow or clippie.  She actually sits in front of the mirror for 5 minutes telling me how pretty she looks!  I love that she does that, but realize that may turn into a bit of a problem in future years :)

TWO DREAMS!!!!

I had 2 dreams yesterday and one of them actually came true!!!!  Dream #1 - Steve and I have been wanting to upgrade our car to something a little newer so we took a spin yesterday in the Volvo you see here.  It was NICE & we WANT it, but we will see!!!!  Dream #2 -  that Abigail would actually go to bed at a decent hour and sleep in her room all night long!  About 6 months ago, she was very sick so we kept her in our room for several night to monitor her health during the night.  The habit stuck and we are just now making a break through to stop it.  She went to bed at 7:30 and I woke up this morning at 8:00 wondering where she was and what had happened to her because she wasn't in our bed.  I lay there thinking about how nice it would be for her to actually still be sleeping in her room.  I waited 10 minutes before getting up and by that time was worried that maybe something HAD really happened to her.  I slowly started up the stairs and saw a glimpse of light coming from her room.  It was very quiet, and then the stairs creaked and gave me away.  I hear a sweet little voice shout Mommy?  I asked "what are you up to in there?"  "I am having a party with my babies in here Mom!  I found ALL of my blanket and I love them!"

It was fun to have her actually stay in her room ALL night, and then to wake up and play in her room with her babies was even better!  I need be less anxious when I wake up with a childless bed and be thankful that my daughter is learning a growing EVERY minute of every day.  She is a darling child and I love her SOOOOOO much!

Anyway, one day we will own this beauty!  It has really great features.  It is a 2005 Volvo XC90, has 7 seats and the 5 in the back all lay flat for cargo.  There is SOOOO much more space than in the Jeep.  Abigail is always kicking one of our seats in the Jeep and I am ready for something larger.  Here's to dreams!

CHEESE!!!

Here are a few pictures of Abigail creating things in her kitchen and also of our family trip to the ice rink.  Abigail has been begging and begging to go ice skating since we told her what it was.  Once we got there she was so excited to get her skates on.  As soon as we hit the ice, she cried the entire time.  "I just don't want to ice skate mom" she said.  "I don't like the ice"....I had to laugh at that.  We ended up just putting her boots back on and dragging her a bit and then carrying her as we skated.  She enjoyed that much better because she had more control over her feet :)

Oh, I forgot to add this little bit of info that Steve reminded me of today.  Later that night Abigail was having a nightmare and was actually screaming the words "I don't want to ice skate, get me off, I don't like to ice skate" in her sleep!  It was priceless.....I think she will wait a few years before venturing that route again!

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