This past weekend we went to the cabin to do some sledding! It was a lot of fun. What a great way to spend Valentines day. The kids loved it. Lexi was a big fan. She did not want to stop, she was so cute. Hadley of course loved it too, but I think she loved riding on the rhino a bit more. She loves going on rides with Grandpa Carlson. It was so nice to get away for a couple of days. We were definitely in need of some family time.

I have to write about my little traumatic experience today.....I left my diaper bag with my wallet and my camera in it at Walmart today. I am such an idiot! I was putting the groceries in the back of my car and thought about putting the diaper bag back there too but decided I would keep it with me. I went to take the cart back where it goes and Lexi starting laughing really hard. It was the cutest thing ever. So I was all wrapped up in her, kissing her and telling her how cute she was and I left the diaper bag in the cart!!! Then I went to pick Hadley up from dance. I got there about 15 minutes early, so I was there for a while, then we went home. As soon as I pulled in my garage I realized what I had done. I knew exactly where I had left it. Just to be sure, I got out and checked the back of the car.....not there. I felt sick. I immediately back out of the drive way and started driving. There was a truck on the corner turning onto my street. I waved to say sorry for my craziness and the guy kind of starred at me. I wasn't sure if he was mad or what but for one split second I though that by some miracle maybe he was coming to bring me my diaper bag. That thought left as quickly as it came, I mean what are the chances and I was so upset I ignored the thought and kept driving. I drove as fast as I could back to Walmart, ran inside...with the kids, I would not leave them in the car and the guy at the counter told me they hadn't seen it. So I went over to the bank and put a hold on my accounts. I was desperately trying to hold back the tears and praying that there were still good people left in this world. As I was walking to my car I remembered that my social security card was in my wallet....it's not anymore. I could feel the tears coming and I was so afraid to tell Tyler. I'm sure anyone watching me thought I was crazy. As I was getting the kids in the car I heard someone yell my name. Sure enough, it was the guy in the truck that was pulling onto my street. He asked me if I was looking for a diaper bag and I instantly started to cry. He said he only opened my wallet to get my address so he could take it to my house and when he saw me leaving he figured I was going back to Walmart, so he came back and waited for me to come to my car. He probably thought I was crazy because I couldn't stop my tears. I thanked him a million times and he said he was sorry I had such a traumatic experience. Amazing! What a nice guy. I wish I would have at least asked him his name but I was so taken back I wasn't thinking. I know it was an answer to my prayers. My testimony has definitely grown just from that experience. I know our Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers and I am so thankful for that guy and for all those like him. I wish I was more in tune with the spirit and listened to the still small voice that told me he was coming to bring the diaper bag back to me. But he still went out of his way to find me because he knew I was having a panic attack. I will now try even harder to be a better person.

The Crazy Things Kids Say

Okay, so here I go again. I swear I could add a new story every day. Kids are just so funny!
On Sunday we were getting ready for church and Hadley came in with some playing house scenario. I was the neighbor and Tyler was the dad...then she gave us each a block and said "here is your literally" Tyler and I just looked at each other and laughed, then asked what that meant. She said "this is literally yours." She was so serious. I'm still not sure what that meant.
Then later we were coming home from church and Hadley asked where her dad was. I told her he went home to take a bath because his back and hip hurts. She asked why, so I went into the whole story about how he broke his leg when he was young and later had a hip replacement. Then she said, "so daddy's leg hurts because he has a fake hip?" I said "yes," when we got home she went over to Tyler and said "daddy, your leg hurts because you have a fake booty?".....again I'm not sure why...
Lexi has actually said some things too! Yes, Lexi. She's not as funny but I am still excited every time she decides to talk. We were walking into Target the other day and she pointed to the big red balls they have outside and said "mama, ball!" She was so excited and kept saying it. It was a great day, I didn't even tell her to say it. That gives me hope that one day she will start talking. When we got home later that day she also said puppy and Stitch. She still won't continue to say them but at least I know she can.

Haddy May

I thought this might help some of you to get your kids to eat all of their food....if not, I'm sorry but it's working for me.

Last night I made some super easy Voila meal from the freezer which my kids will usually eat just fine. But last night Hadley said "mom the broccoli is good and the carrots are good but the rest of this stuff is gross so I'm done" I told her she had to at least eat the broccoli and carrots and she said "why will they be sad?' I said "yes" so she ate her veggies while singing "there's a party in my tummy and you're invited!" Then she said she better eat the rest of it because she did not want her food to be sad. She even had to get a spoon and scoop up every last piece of rice. She started asking about her food being sad the other day. Now she will not let any of her food go to waste. Thank goodness for that stupid show Yo Gabba Gabba....I seriously hate that show but that is where she got that song and during the episode there is some food that didn't get invited to the party so they were sad.

One more thing....I thought this was funny but I'm still debating if it I should write it or not. Oh well. The other day I was getting Hadley ready for dance and noticed a scratch on her chest right above her nipple. I asked her what happened there, she did not see the scratch and said "I don't know mom, it's probably just a little boob or something" I died laughing.


Ok, one more thing I forgot. Sorry, most of what I'm writing is for me and I know it is boring to most who read it. Today we took Hadley to the Open House at the Draper Temple. She loved it. Her favorite part were the pictures of Jesus and she loved the chandeliers. She asked if Jesus lived there and said she couldn't see him. Funny how kids think. She thought the baptismal font was cool and when I told her she would be baptized someday she said she does not want to get baptized because she is afraid of the water. She was so good through the whole tour and I'm glad we had the opprtunity to take her. When we went to Temple Square to see the lights during Christmas time she was very dissappointed that she didn't get to go inside the Temple so she was really excited when we took her today. It was also her first time riding a bus so she thought that was pretty cool too. I forgot my camera and was real bummed, I wanted to get some pictures of her outside the Temple and on the bus.

January

Hadley and her friends at Alyssa's birthday party!
Hadley and Lexi playing at Arctic Circle

Hadley and some school friends

The girls like to make up dances and put on a show for us. This was Hadley's ending pose!

Fun at Chuck E. Cheese!

Lexi was very afraid of the rides!

Best Friends

I can't believe January is already over! Here we go again in a new year. We have not been too exciting this month. We've been over at my parents house a lot trying to help them finish their house. My mom has some weird thing going on with her hands and my dad slipped on the ice and fell. He had surgery this past week, he tore all the ligaments away from his bone on his elbow. So basically they're out of comission and their house is so close to being done but there is still all the finish work and that always takes forever. It feels like we've been living there lately.
So I think we're all over being sick, it felt like it went on forever cause we're never all sick at the same time so it drags on and on. Tyler actually never really got too sick so I'm hoping he gets away with it for this round. Lexi hasn't been feeling well for the whole month it seems, but I think most of the time it was her teeth. It still isn't fun though.
Lexi did have her 18 month check up this month. Here are her stats: 22 pounds .05 ounces and 31 1/2 inches tall. So she's grown 1 inch and gained almost 2 pounds since her 15 month check up. She's still such a little squatter! Hadley was still 3 pounds heavier at 12 months! Lexi still isn't saying a whole lot. She can say Gama, Pampa, Titch, Haddy, Ow, Dad, and No but all she really says on a regular basis is Mama, and Hhiii. She has to drag out the word hi and she always says it with the cutest little smile you've ever seen. Especially when she knows she's in trouble. She is so cute, I just love her. She has got the funniest personality, I love to just watch her. She gives the best hugs and kisses ever. I love when she wraps her little arms around my neck and she learned how to pucker now so she loves to give kisses. She loves to crawl all over me in the mornings when I'm trying to sleep and kiss and hug me. No matter how tired I am I love it every time. She loves to run around and play with her big sister, they have gotten into some pretty good fights, neither one likes to give up. I like to watch them battle it out. Lexi is such a little sweetheart, we are so lucky to have her.
Now Hadley on the other hand.......just kidding. She is a sweetheart too! She's trying so hard to be good lately because she wants to go on Thomas the Train. I'm not sure why but ever since we took her on the Polar Express she has been asking to go on Thomas. I'm not sure how she knew you could go on Thomas but lately she asks every day. So I made her a deal. Thomas comes in May, so I told her if she is good for us and does all her chores we ask her to do without complaining than she can start to earn some of her own money to pay for Thomas. She doesn't earn a lot and I'm sure there will be plenty of times she will not earn any so hopefully by May she will have enough to go. So far she has earned 2 dollars and she has a special envelope for her Thomas money. She's really excited about earning her own money for now, let's just hope it
lasts. She also had her 1st real sleep over this month. She wanted to stay at my parents house with my sisters and her cousin. I thought for sure it would be a disaster but my mom said she was great and she never heard a word out of her all night. She is getting so big. I cannot believe my baby is having sleep overs. She even slept over again this weekend. She thinks she's so cool too when she does it. Lately she's been asking me when her new baby sister is going to get here....I'm really not sure why but she asks about twice a week. I asked her what she would do if she had a baby brother and she said she only wants a baby sister so she's going to get one! She's probably right, but when the time comes to have another baby, she will be pretty devastated if it was a boy.
We did do a few fun things this month. We've been to Chuck E. Cheese a couple of times. One time with some friends and another with the cousins. Hadley loves that place. Lexi likes it too but she's scared to death of all the little rides. Hadley also had another field trip. This time we went to Arctic Circle. The kids went on a tour and got an ice cream and then played on the playground. It was so simple but they had a great time. Lexi loved it. She thought she was one of the big kids climbing up the stairs and going down the slides.

Stories

So I'm trying to figure out where I can get my blog printed and I am very frustrated!! But the reason I am posting this is because it is the cute stories about my kids that I put on the side of my blog, not in a post. I am finding out that kind of stuff does not transfer over when you print your blog to a book. So the whole reason I wrote them is so I won't forget them. As a result, you get to see this dumb post. Sorry about the complaint! I will get to a better post soon.




The other day we were listening to Hadley's primary songs in the car. When we got home she gets out of the car and is singing "I am the Prophet, I am the Prophet don't go a stray" it was so funny.

I'm a little late for Father's Day too, but Happy Father's Day!!I am so thankful to have such a wonderful father for my kids. Tyler is absolutely amazing. Life has been so crazy busy with my new calling in Young Womens and working a couple nights a week and Tyler has totally stepped up. He takes care of the kids, bathes them and cleans the house and he does it all without complaining,which is far more than I can say for myself. He is so good and patient with us and I am so thankful to have him in our lives he is a great example to me and our children. I love him with all my heart, he is the best thing that has ever happened to me...well him and our beautiful little girls. Thank you Tyler, we love you!

Hadditude
One day I told Hadley to put her shorts on all by herself, so she did and of course they were on backwards. I told her to fix them and she insisted they were on the right way. After arguing about it for a while she said "well maybe I just want to wear it like this mom so why don't you just take me a break!" I said "by the way, it's give me a break!" so she said "well give me a break then!"...that's our little Hadditude. Now that is her favorite phrase and she uses it quite often when she is talking back to me like a freaking teenager.



Lexi loves her dog
Today Lexi picked up Stitch's bone and was feeding it to him like a sucker. It was so funny, he just let her do it and was patient with her. He lets her do whatever she wants. He is definitely her dog! My camera battery was dead so I didn't get a picture.




I know this was already on here once but I lost it somehow so I'm writing this again so I have it recorded....anyway, funny story about sunglasses. One day I was cutting onions for dinner and Hadley started rubbing her eyes so I asked her if it was burning her eyes. She said "no it brights my eyes, I need my sunglasses" so I gave them to her and she said "there that's better."

Lexi was cheesin' it for all the cameras! Christmas was great. It was so fun to watch the kids open presents. Well, Lexi didn't open very many after she found her chocolate Santa sucker. She has a very big sweet tooth! After Hadley opened each of her presents she would say, "I've always wanted this!" Then she had to put them one by one on the couch after she opened it. I thought we were going to be there all day. We left a little earlier than planned because we thought we were going to be snowed in so that was really hard on Hadley to leave all her new toys. She finally agreed to leave only because she didn't want to miss out on more presents at Grandma and Grandpa's house. It was a fun day. It is so fun to watch the magic of Christmas unfold in the eyes of the kids. Tonight for New Year's Eve we are going to Tyler's parents house. I can't believe another year has already past. I am so very blessed to have this wonderful family that I have. 2008 was a great year. We did a lot of fun things and I am so grateful that we have the opportunity to start another great year. I have the 2 cutest little girls ever and an amazing husband. We are very blessed, we have a roof over our heads in a great neighborhood. We love it here. Everyone is so great, we have a lot of good friends and there is always someone available for a play date! We have great families on both sides who are always there for us no matter what. We really couldn't ask for more. Although sometimes we do, but in reality life is pretty great. Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a fabulous 2009!

Hadley loved her new salon and Lexi loved her chocolate sucker!

I just freaking love my girls!!!

Our little family

A Busy December...and Christmas hasn't even come yet!

Hadley and Mrs. Clause!

Lexi enjoyed her hot chocolate!

Hadley loved seeing Santa again.....again Lexi not so much

The Polar Express! Hadley has been asking for months to go on a train ride. I'm not sure where she got the idea but she wouldn't let go of it. So we decided to surprise her and take her on the Polar Express up in Heber. She was really excited about going on a train ride when we got there but when I told her it was the Polar Express she got really nervous and wanted to get off. She's seen the movie a hundred times and it is kind of a scary ride in the movie. I convinced her that it was not going to be scary and after a little while she started to like it. It was definitely over priced and I wish we would have left Lexi at home but it was still fun. We sang songs and ate cookies and hot chocolate. Then when we got to the North Pole, Santa came on the train and gave all the kids a bell. Hadley was really excited. Before we got off the train, Mrs. Clause came on to say hi to the kids. It was a fun night and no matter the cost, you can't put a price on the excitement on the kids faces.

Cute winter hats! my aunt Melanie made Hadley her hat during the summer. She said it was a rough draft, she wanted to see how it would turn out. We just happened to be at her house one day so we got away with the cute hat. When it turned cold enough for Hadley to wear it, I decided I had to have one for Lexi too. So Melanie was nice enough to get right on my request. They are so cute. Lexi just got hers last week so I had to take pictures. Oh yeah and the scarfs to match. Thanks Mel, we love them!

Hadley and Emma making snow angels.

My little girls!

Hadley and Emma ready to go down the hill

Daddy and the girls!

SLEDDING!!!! Hadley has been asking to go sledding since the first day it snowed just a tiny bit. Every time it would snow she would look out the window so excited and ask to go sledding. She had so much fun last year sledding at the cabin and hasn't forgotten about it. So the day finally came that she got to go. We just took her to the neighborhood park, it has a perfect little sledding hill. All the neighborhood kids were there. She found her friend Emma and hung out with her the whole time. Lexi went down a couple times but she just loved watching Hadley go down. She would laugh hysterically every time.

Gingerbread Houses are a must every year. Hadley loved it! Tyler kind of feels the same way about it as he does pumpkin carving, although I think this is a little better. Lexi slept through the construction and woke up just in time for pictures.

We did get to see Santa this year after the disappointing Christmas party when he was suppose to come and didn't show up! Hadley was all about Santa this year.....Lexi not so much. Hadley is asking for a salon this year and so far that is pretty consistent so we are in good shape. Now let's hope she likes the one Santa got for her because it's not the one she's seen on TV. Lexi wants everything Hadley has so she'll be happy.

My grandma's birthday was a couple weeks ago, so we went to spend the day with her. Hadley was really concerned because there wasn't going to be any other kids there and there was no actual birthday party. But she was on cloud nine with great grandma Kunz. She has her wrapped around her little finger. We had a good time and Hadley even got away with some treasures before we left. It was a fun day. A couple days before that, my grandma went to the doctor because she hadn't been feeling well and he told her she could have a stroke at any time because her blood pressure was so high. She's doing better now and is concentrating on taking care of herself. We love you grandma! Take good care of yourself, we still need you!