Our sick Lil Girl

At least one of us has been sick every day for the past three weeks. I got strep for the first time EVER, followed by the stomach flu. Brad has had a cold for awhile, and Ari got the stomach flu and is still trying to get over it. Anyway, she would go through these moments when she didn't want anybody touching her. She just wanted to lay down on the floor. I hated her being sick, because she doesn't understand what's going on. Breaks my heart!

Taking a nap on the floor. Didn't even want her pillow. She was so lethargic that day. We felt so bad for her. Our poor baby!
Another nap, but we put a towel underneath because of a previous 'accident'. Notice the bowl next to her. She HATED that bowl! She would just cry whenever she had to throw up in it.
Alright, so Brad stayed home with Ari on Sunday while I went to church. I walked into the living room and saw this make/shift slide. We were cleaning some of the cushions (that's why there arent' covers). He took a leaf from the table to make the slide. The things he comes up with.
So I walked into her room, and those two were knocked out! She has Brad wrapped around her chubby little fingers. After I took these pictures, I decided to check out the camera, and quess what I found...
He took pictures of Ari sliding down the table leaf. Remember that she's SICK! I thought it was too funny to get mad. Typical Brad.

Random Pictures

This Lil girl ALWAYS gets into my closet and tries on my shoes. My shoes are part of my daily clean up. They will be all over the closet. She's just too cute to get mad at, so I'm okay with helping her clean them up every single day! She'll walk into the kitchen and look at herself in the oven. My vain child.
I asked her to smile, but she just couldn't tear her eyes away from the t.v. That's about as good as I was gonna get.
Daddy got her a trampoline for Valentine's Day. It's every body's favorite toy. She loves it, because she'll jump forever and then lay down to watch a show, or color, or something. I love it because it knocks her out! About an hour after she jumps her little heart out, she's so tired she can't keep her eyes open. ... by the way Mommy was watching her show, so we set up one of the laptops for her to watch her movie. I'm so bad. :(

Ari's Valentine's Day

This is Ari's friend Macy. We went to a Valentine's Day playdate at her house. There are two little girls who are Ari's age, and they are all best buddies (the other girl, Emma, wouldn't let me take a picture of her).
This is Ari's future husband Blake at story time. They held hands almost the entire time. I had to inconspicuously take this picture.
I asked Ari if Mommy could take her picture of her Valentine's Day outfit, but she would not have it! What a mean face!

The Twilight Cast!

For all my fellow Twilight lovers, here are recent pictures of the cast for the movie. The top picture has the cast as they normally look. I don't like what they did to Rosalie and Jasper. They look like they're wearing wigs. I think they did a good job casting those people, but look at the dye jobs and cheap photo shoot? They need to re-do ALL of the make overs. Gah!

By the way... the guy who doesn't have a casting name in that bottom corner picture is Emmett. FYI

The best playground in the world...well where we live!

We have the best playground by our house. It's three levels! When Daddy comes home from school every day, he takes Ari to the park to spend time with her before he has to study, and so Mommy can unwind by herself. Today I went with them though.

This is her new smile. It's her pirate/see my Elkington gap teeth look. :)

Brad scares me some times! Ari will do anything he tells her to do. No hands on the teeter-totter? Killing me!

Future professional photographer

Ari got a hold of the camera the other day and took some great pictures! :)

My daughter blinding herself!
Ari's jeans and crocs shot
This is a very difficult angle to achieve. Our living room.
While she was sitting in the baby bouncer (she's way too big, but she asked for it, and of course Daddy got it out for her)...tv in the background
Another difficult angle of part of the bookshelf, Daddy's hat rack, and the entrance to our bedroom. I think I will submit these photos to a New York Gallery! :)

I've been purse tagged!

Okay, my sister-in-law Kerri 'tagged' me. I made fun of what she had in her purse before I realized what was in mine. So much stuff. I still carry around a diaper bag though, so that's my excuse. Let's see I have snacks, mine and Ari's cell phones, cough drops (I have streph :( ), I too have dramamine (love that stuff), a list of phone numbers from women in my ward (why?), note pad, lots of bobby pins, ...., oh,.... and I have to give kudos to my hubby, he bought me Chanel and Mac makeup for Christmas. I never leave home w/out it! What a good boy. My bag is boring!

Now I will tag Ashley, April, both Sara(h)'s, Katie, Heather, Bek, Tanya, Jess, Leo, Nicole, Aunty Dee, basically everybody. :) Is that allowed? Who cares? I wanna see those purses!

FUN!!

New First Presidency

Wow what a change in our First Presidency this past year. I'm very excited. I love President Monson. My favorite memory of him is when he came to Castle Dale, Utah, when I was little. My family was asked to sing 'Families are Together Forever' for him. Afterwards, he came up to me, hugged me, and told me that I had a very pretty dress on. I've loved him ever since! :)

I love ITunes

So the other day Brad was helping me burn and organize cd's for my Primary kids (I'm the Primary Music Leader). We were almost done when something happened to the ITunes program. I lost EVERYTHING! Every flippin song that I have purchased or imported; everything. I was so depressed. I emailed ITunes, and the next day, I received an email from Brenda (my new best friend). Apparently, it's my responsibility to back up all my songs; oops! But, she gave me a one time exception and re-sent every single song I have purchased. I almost cried. That's hundreds of dollars worth of music! So, I felt the need to publicly show my love and gratitude for ITunes. May they never go out of business. :)