Lately, Sophia like to go up to Jane's room when she hears that she is awake from her nap. Then she climbs into the crib with her and they have some sister time.
Cute.

Jane likes her Tinkerbell wings she got for Christmas.

Sometimes she shares.

We celebrated Jane's 2nd birthday last week. She loved having a special day for herself. Lucky for Sophia, Jane is good at sharing her new presents because someone, (Sophia), had a hard time not getting presents.



We made an ice cream pie had pizza and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

I was a little under the weather and I didn't get her presents wrapped. But, she seemed to enjoy the whole, "close your eyes and reach into the bag!"


Jane, (and Sophia), love her little make-up compact.

Sophia says, "hey, I can see my nose!"

Happy Halloween

The girls loved Halloween. We had Chad, Elisa, and Eden here with us to celebrate. That made it extra special fun. The girls love their little cousin.
Silly me didn't take any pictures of all of them together, but Elisa did, (with her way nicer camera), so after she gets her pictures uploaded, I'll see if I can borrow a few of all three little girlies together.

Sophia was a peacock, Jane was a flower, and Eden was a ladybug. All three of them out together was to die for cute.

We also did something productive and went and got all the kids H1N1 vaccines. My we walked right on in, no lines at all! We were happy, but the kids, not so much.

Cookie Party

I love sugar cookies with butter cream frosting.

Sophia's two little friends Savannah and Claire, plus siblings, came over this morning to decorate Halloween cookies.
They wore their costumes so we could take some pictures, but then we stripped them down for the cookie part so that they wouldn't get frosting all over.

Sophia isn't actually wearing her costume, but when her friends got here and they were all princesses, well, she wanted to wear a princess dress too.

She is actually a peacock, (sounds funny, but it's really cute), but I'll get pictures of her in that on actual Halloween.

Pumpkin carving with power tools

Leave it up to Dad to turn pumpkin carving into an excuse to use his power tools.


The girls were really excited to carve, they were loving watching Daddy use his jigsaw.


Sophia was NOT liking the smell of the pumpkin once it was cut open.
She didn't help clean them out.

Jane is drunk with fun.



I'm so yellow next to Jane, it's the Asian part of me.


They were really loving to watch Dad use the jigsaw the second time.
Lots of screaming.


Sophia, who made it very clear earlier that she was not interested in trying a toasted pumpkin seed, just commented on how good they were smelling as they baked in the oven.

Jeff said, "I thought you didn't want any, do you want to try some now."

After a moment of thought, she said, "I meant that they smell good for you."

Little Sickies

Fevers fevers. Little lethargic sickies.

We've been eating a lot of Popsicle and watching a lot of tv in over the last few days.



Ahh the cold and flu season.

Jazzy Bug

Sophia is now taking "dance classes". I use that phrase very loosely. She really loves it. It's with The Little Gym.

She's a Jazzy Bug. They do a ballet, tap, and tumbling/gym activities.

Tall Monster

The other day I found a tall monster, giving birth to Jane.

Linder Farms

Last Monday, the girls and I took a little trip to Linder Farms for some fall festivities. It's only about 10 minutes from our house, but, because I wasn't paying attention when I looked up the directions, we went the wrong direction and took a 45 minute detour. Lucky for me the girls were very patient.

They loved looking at the little petting zoo.

Both of them took a short pony ride.


They attempted to do the smaller of the mazes, (we skipped the huge corn maze), but they mostly just ran around having fun until they got tired, then they came over to me and I lifted them out over the short little straw wall.

Saturday

Yesterday we made rainbows on the back porch using chalk.


It makes for messy hands, and clothes.


Daddy mowed the lawn for what he is hoping is the last time until spring.


Sophia helped Mom fold the towels. She did all the wash cloths by herself and put them in a neat pile. I was thrilled.



Daddy pulled out all of the dying tomato plants and put them in the back of the van for a trip to the dump.

Sophia Says

Yesterday Sophia was in the bathroom with Jeff while he was, ahem, taking care of business. Sadly, the days of her being able to hang out in the bathroom with Daddy are numbered.

She is starting to notice things are different. This was obvious when she said to him, "Your private parts look like a stick."

I thought it was funny.

Today while we were watching conference, we kept pointing out President Monson to Sophia and repeating his name to her in hopes that she would remember who he is. At one point, Jeff pointed to the tv and asked Sophia, "who is that?"

Her response?

President Omonson.

Nash Cousins

In August the girls and I took a trip to Washington where we stayed with my parents. My brother's wife, Natalie, and their two kids, David and Daniel were also there. The kids got to spend lots of time reconnecting after having not seen each other for a whole year.

We missed Jeff, (we were gone for almost 3 weeks), but from what I can tell, while we were reconnecting with cousins, Jeff did found time much needed time in the evening, after a hard day at work, to reconnect to his friend the Wii.,

Change of Plans...4th of July !

I've decided to have a change of plans. (Only post number two, but I might have to give up on the post titles.) I'm going to just do a handful of smaller posts. That way someday when I'm try to go back and find things, hopefully it will be easier.

Over the 4th of July we went to Idaho Falls to stay with the Parry family. It was great because everyone was there. Sophia and Jane got to spend some time with their cousins, which they love.

Speaking of cousins, last night, Sophia was talking about Christmas, Halloween, and the Easter Bunny, (why not), but then she stopped for a moment and said, "Oh, but Kindin is better than Christmas and Halloween, I love her."

SO CUTE.

What else is cute? Jane and Jack. Has a cute ring to it.

Hopefully the girls don't inherit my ability to get seasick while sitting in a boat the is practically docked. For real. The first year we went to Lake Powell after I married Jeff, I had to get off the docked house boat and sit on the beach in a lawn chair because I felt sick.
Jane REALLY loves her Grandpa. She is all about the male figures. We'll have to keep our eye on this girls as she gets older. Jane got her hair cut by her Aunt Elisa. Jane had this really bad orphan hair that I desperately wanted fixed. I decided that a pixie type cut was the best way to go. Elisa actually only cuts Chads hair, but we figured that a boy hair cut on a girl is basically a pixie. I thought it turned out really well.
Jane loved to jump on the tramp
Tea Party!
Here are Kindin and Sophia's glamor shots.

Billions of Pictures

First of all, everyone notice that I'm putting titles on my posts again. Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of titles with blog posts. I don't exactly know why, maybe I think that they are usually something repetitive, like a line taken from the first or second sentence of the actual post.

Now that we have gotten that out of the way, here are my billions of pictures, (also the title of my post), taken from April til now. Yes, it has been that long since I last downloaded photos from my camera.


This is what my house looked like when our Bishopric from our new ward showed up unannounced at our house. If you are wondering what I looked like, all you mothers out there, just imagine that you've had one of those days where you didn't get dressed


Notice the fast food carnage that is the top of my kitchen table. I looked even worse than my house did. Maybe this night explains why, six months later, I still don't have a calling.

Baby Jane girl


Sophia's new favorite place to sleep. Seriously. We can move her back into her bed 10 times, and for some reason, she usually ends up out there.


Dad and his little girls.


Now we have arrived at Sophia's 3rd Birthday. It was the first time that we did a part with friends. She had 3 little friends come over and they played in a big blow up pool in the backyard while the rest of us ate lot's of food inside.

She loved, loves, this shirt. She wore it all the time. Actually, I think that she might have just asked me about it yesterday.
She really liked the carrots and the dip from the veggie tray. It was WAY too many veggies for our little party, but I think I made taco's later that week and used all those peppers.

I'm Back

I've decided to blog again. I took a little long break. But, this morning I was making grocery list of the things I needed to get this week, and I wanted to make White Chicken Chili, but I needed to list of ingredients. I knew that I had posted that recipe on my blog last fall, so I came and looked it up. Then I started to look at some of my other older posts and I LOVED looking at the pictures of my kids that I had posted a year ago. So, I'm going to give it another try. Hopefully there are some relatives out there that also want to look at pictures of my kids and hear about what we are doing. But if not, at least there is something for me to look at later. However, first I need to get all the pictures off of my camera. My memory card is full, so, when I finally get Jeff to hook up our new computer, (this one is too ghetto for me to put pictures on), then I will put up a zillion with all the stuff we have done this summer.

Today John and Jeff spent ALL day setting up our new playground. I'm SO excited. The girls are going to LOVE it. The temp was around 100 degrees today, so they were sweating like crazy. Neither Jeff nor I thought about putting sunscreen on Jeff until it was way too late. Hopefully he won't be too miserable over the next few days.

Right now we have Renee, John, Jordyn, her friend Dusty, and my sister Bethany all staying with us. Until yesterday we had Chad, Elisa, and Eden with us also. Jordyn has a tennis tournament here this weekend, so that's why they are here. Chad and Elisa flew out from here to Seattle yesterday. The kids and I are going up to Washington for a few weeks and my sister is going to drive with us, so that's why she is here.

We went to Bear Lake last week with the Parry's. The kids had a blast going swimming and playing in the sand. They really like to be with their little cousin Eden. It's fun for me to see how they can actually be really nice with her. I think that because Sophia is so close in age to Jane, she was and is, not always very nurturing with her. (But they are really great friends.) It's just different to see her with a baby. Different in a good way.

There is a really good beach at the lake that has a bunch of sand. I brought some sand toys with us and they girls spent some time each day down there playing. The water was really nice too. The incline of the ground once you get into the water is really gradual, so you can go out really far and the water isn't very deep. I really liked it. Sophia is really good about "swimming" around with her life jacket on, so she would go out with me and doggy paddle around. Both of the girls took a spin on the jet skis with Jeff. I think that Jane actually like it better than Sophia did. She seems like she might be a little braver than Sophia is.

Today we had some friends come over so that we could all bake cookies and play. We have a slip in slide that we put out in the backyard for the kids to play on. The kids all stayed inside while we got the cookie dough made, only then did they go outside. I swear, I don't think that any of the kids even cared about the cookies because all they wanted was the dough. There were three of us mom's and then 7 kids. It was a bit of a mad house, but it was really fun. I'm really enjoying my new ward and getting to know other girls and their families.

Everyone has left now, but Sophia and Jane are still running around outside. Jane LOVES to be naked, but I don't really indulge her too often because she doesn't have any idea that she can't just pee whenever she wants to. So, whenever we are going to be do any water activity in the backyard, like today, I don't even bother putting a swimming suit on her, or a diaper for the matter. I just let her run around butt naked. She loves it. When I try and get her clothes back on her later, (I think she's been naked for a few hours now), she is going to put up a huge fight.

I think that the girls and I are going to sprout fins and tail and grow some gills because we have been swimming so much lately. Yesterday we went to the pool from 3pm until just after 6pm. I was a little bit worried that Jane might be getting sunburned. She doesn't have quite the skin tone that Sophia and I do.
Sophia loves going to the pool. She wears a life jacket and then she just "swims" all around the pool by herself. She won't put her face in the water yet, but next summer she'll have to because that's when I'm going to put her in swim lessons. We got some noodles yesterday and she really liked to have that. She doesn't really need it to float around the pool, but she was still really happy to have it.

I got Jane a life-vest yesterday. Until then, I'd just been holding her, but she was getting really restless so I thought I'd give the life jacket a try. Since it's late in the summer the selections was sort of lame, but so I had to get this new thing that is sort of a mix of water wings and a life vest. But it's Coast Guard approved or whatever. She did really well. She would float around and kick
her legs. I still stayed right by her in case she tipped back or something, but she really liked it.

Yesterday we went to a little block party pot-luck. Our neighborhood is really large, so this just included the house in a smaller area surrounding our house. There were about 10 families or so there. It was actually really nice because now I know the names of all the people in the houses nearby. Also, Sophia met some other girls her age. In fact, the only other kids in the area are 3 other girls that are ages three, two, and almost two, so it's pretty perfect for my two girls.

Just now as Sophia was peeing, she said to me, "I'm peeing...it's like milk from cows." Not exactly my dear.