Elf yourself

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Rainbow

We were outside working in our yard in August and we saw this beautiful rainbow.

New family pricture

Teaching project

For nursing school I had to do a teaching project with some of my friends. We taught Hailey's preschool class how to stay healthy and how to wash their hands the right way.

Pictures by Hailey

Hailey loves to get the digital camera and take a million pictures. Here are some of her master pieces.

Here are pictures of the girls on Halloween. Mark took them to our ward's trunk-o-treat. Mark sprayed Hailey's hair black to be more authentic, but by the end of the night she had a beard!

Halieys' Halloween performance

Halloween

This year on Halloween, I was gone to another clinical in Chandler. I was sad that I couldn't be there, but I did get the opportunity to dress the girls up a couple of times before the big day. Hailey had a performance at her preschool where they sang a few songs and recited a few poems. We also went to a Halloween party at the library.

Apple Picking September

For an Elder's Quorum party in September we went to Angle's Orchard and picked apples. We had a great time. The girl's loved picking the apples right off the tree. The Apples were huge and they tasted delicious. We of course got way more than we could eat. I had high hopes of making apple sauce, but it never happened.

Hailey's first day of Preschool August 11

Here is Hailey on her first day of preschool. Can you tell she's excited? Since she just had her birthday a few days before she got to bring the treat for the day. We did cupcakes which I dropped on the way out to the car. (They were in a container so they didn't touch the ground!) They didn't look as good as I had hope, but the kids liked them anyways.

kissing=Germs

Last night we were watching ELF, when it got to the seen where Buddy kisses Jobie, Hailey turns to me with a smirk on her face and say, "Mom they'll spread germs!!" I thought to myself "Good girl Hailey, I hope you think that way for a long time."

Nightmares

Last night Hailey woke up screaming and then ran into our room bawling. She said"Mom, I had a bad dream and it was about you." I thought, "Oh she must of had a dream that I got hurt or something." Well no I was way off. I asked her what happened and she said (crying hysterically) "You cut of Audrey's fingers and then you cut off mine!" I have NO idea where that came from. I've never threaten to cut off anything. Man it makes you feel like a great Mom when you're the cause of your children's nightmares:)

Arizona

Well we've been in Arizona for about 3 weeks now and there are many things I love about Arizona: mountains, no humidity, family close by and many other things. HOWEVER, there are a few things I can do without...Scorpions and Black widow spiders. AHHHHH We have seen 1 dead scorpion and 1 alive and we have seen numerous black widows. We are trying to get our house sprayed by a professional, but it's taking a while to get things set up. So I told Mark he needs to go and get something right now!! I'm not afraid of very many creepy crawly things, but those are two of the things that creep me out.

Audrey's potty training

Well for at least the last month Audrey has been telling us that she wants to go potty. She pulls down her paints, sometimes takes off her diaper. She also lifts up the lid and puts the little potty training seat on the toilet. She also loves to wipe. She looks to little to be wiping her tiny tush. Lately she's been going about 4 times a day. She was even dry one night and dry all through church one day. Even though she is really into it right now, I'm not getting my hopes up. Potty training was not a good experience with Hailey.

Just some little tid-bits

A few nights ago when Hailey was taking a bath she poked her belly button and then looked up at me and asked, "Why did Jesus poke a whole in us." I tried to explain what a belly button is, but I don't think I did it very well. She kept asking more and more questions.

Another little thing about Audrey, after we brush her teeth she says, "I wanna spit." and then she proceeds to try to spit in the sink. It is pretty funny.

Audrey has also begun to ask, "what is it?" She just points to different things and says ,"what is it". I think maybe I ask her that question a lot. She also says, "Bless you" when ever anybody sneezes. It's pretty cute.

More pictures from the 4th

more pictures of this is the place

This is the place

While we were in Utah we visited "This is the Place", pioneer village. They had dancing, train, wagon and pony rides. We also got to pet goats and other small animals. Hailey took a little break a one point and stuck her feet in the water. While Hailey was riding her horse it decided to kick the horse behind it. Hailey didn't even get scared. She just held on and kept smiling.

4th of July family trip

For the week of the 4th of July Marks family got together in Midway Utah. We stayed in a beautiful cabin. We went to the Lake one day and rode on a jet ski. It was my first time on a jet ski and it was a lot of fun. I was a little scared at first, but once I got a chance to drive it was a lot more fun. Hailey even liked it. We got to watch the fireworks from the porch of the cabin. We had a wonderful time.

Long time... no post

Well it has been a very long time since I last posted and quite a bit has happened. At the end of May we moved out of our apartment in San Antonio Texas. We moved our furniture and most of our stuff to Arizona where we will be living in August. Right now we are living with some friends in San Antonio while Mark finishes up his finally semester of school!!

My first Triathlon

Yes I actually entered a triathlon (what was I thinking?!?!) and I finished it. I didn't set any records or anything, but I did better than I thought. I never stopped during the 11.1 mile bike ride and I never stopped jogging during the 2 mile run. (my jog was barely over a walk, but hey it's still jogging right?) The swim was definitely the hardest thing for me. The 300 meter swim was the first event and to put it nicely I looked like a drowning monkey. It is a lot harder to swim in open water than it is in a pool. Plus never sticking my head in the water made it a little more difficult to swim fast. I am just not a swimmer. I don't have good form and I hate getting water in my ears. At least I wasn't the last one from my heat out of the lake.

Never in my life did I ever think I would enter a triathlon. Two months ago some of my friends said that they had entered and they convinced me to sign up. I figured that if I signed up I would motivated to workout. I haven't really exercised in about 4 years and 2 months isn't really enough time to train for a triathlon. As you can see from the pictures I'm not in triathlon shape, but it did get me exercising again and I'm grateful for that.

I was so completely out of my comfort zone. I never thought I would be caught dead in spandex let alone wearing them for all the world to see. Well I am glad I did it and I am glad it is over. For the last 2 months I felt like I had a test coming up that I hadn't studied enough for.

I'm so grateful for my family, Mark and the girls got up early to go with me. I loved to see them cheering me on. It really made a difference knowing they were there. I know it wasn't easy for them standing around waiting for me to finish, but I really appreciate their support. I'm also really grateful for my friends, Mandi, Erika and Megan they helped calm my pre-race jitters and I never would have done it if they hadn't done it with me.

I did it....Audrey's first Haircut

Well I did it, I finally cut Audrey's hair. I've wanted to for awhile, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. So during her bath tonight I just decided to do it. It took me 4 times of putting the scissors up to her hair before I actually cut it and then once I cut it I almost starting crying. I cut a little more off then I meant to. It was a lot harder than I thought both emotionally and physically (I was trying to take pictures, hold her still and cut the hair). I don't know if I am happy about the cut. She looks cute, but it just doesn't look like Audrey. I cut off all her dark baby hair so now her hair looks so much blonder.

Teething

Well Audrey is getting tooth number 6. She has her 2 bottom teeth, the 2 top teeth, one tooth on the side of her top teeth and then a molar in the back. Weird! I kept checking to see if her 4th front tooth was coming in, but nope a molar instead.

Wlid Flower Farm

Texas is big on its wild flowers. When the area's gotten enough water during the winter, the wild flowers flourish in the spring. Last year there were so many beautiful blue bonnets. I wanted to take pictures of the girls in the flowers, but Audrey was little and I wasn't motivated enough to do it. Unfortunately we didn't get enough rain and so there aren't near as many wild flower this year. So when my parents were here we drove up to Fredericksburg and just out side of Fredericksburg there is a Wild Flower Farm . We some pictures by the flowers. You have to pay $5 a person to walk through the meadows so we just looked from afar.