Just another day

We are so blessed to have great weather here in Phoenix that we can go outside and play in January. We enjoyed a few hours with our friends the other day. Talking and playing and pulling fresh vegis from the garden. I'll take that any day.

Today, allisandria ran into the van when I picked her up from school and quickly shouted to me that her tooth was loose. She wiggled it and sure enough her front bottom right tooth is wiggling. Yay! I got a little sentimental thinking here she is in all day kindergarten, just turned six and now her first tooth is loose. My baby is growing up. She thought it was awesome until she accidentally bit down on it and pushed it a little too far. It started bleeding. She begged me to pull it out. "I can't, it's not ready yet. It will hurt more and bleed a lot if we do that. We got keep working on it". She kept crying here and there. Accidentally biting it. Wow dinner was interesting too. I had to feed her one little bite at a time. I hope this puppy comes out soon.

Birthday for PIA continued

Zoo birthday

While at the zoo we ran into a friend I grew up whit and played volleyball with back in Washington. Small world! Thanks Megan for the fun little visit. It's weird now to see us bin married and with are children trailing behind. Our two oldest checking each other out. Ha ha ha. The girls enjoyed camel rides and seemed to be pros. We ended the evening at red robin restaurant where they sang to her and gave her a birthday sundae. What a fun full day. Happy birthday allisandria!

Zoo birthday continued

Jan 4 2014

Calling all ghouls! Monster high is in full session. Our sweet baby girl just turned 6! What??? Where sis the time fly? I remember dancing with her in my room just a few days old to john makers "heart of life" crying and singing to her. Feeling completely overwhelmed with such love and passion I had never felt before. Then how she would dance to fresh beat band like every move was a dance off. What a star she is. Loving the spot light. So talented and crafty. Independent and stubborn. She has a strong and powerful personality and it will get her far in life. Now six years later she is the one that still made me a mom. She is my first baby.
She requested pink pancakes and a day at the zoo. We had to much fun making her day special.

Christmas 2013

Baking and naughty elf, fantastic fake fireplace. Christmas decor, sugar dipped marshmallows and Christmas program that grandma and grandpa did FaceTime...these were a few a our favorite things. This Christmas was filled with lots of exciting and fun filled events. Cinderella our elf came back and did more naughty things than I'd prefer, but the kids loved it. Dave and I enjoyed making some changes to our holiday decor by adding a vintage and rustic touch to things. We were even blessed to have a fake fire place built and installed by a good friend. It make the cherry on top of the icing. I had made new stockings this year and needed a place to hang them. This was perfect. Besides the Christmas tree, the mantel scene was the best. Christmas branches hanging out of my hello sign made everything more rustic. I looooved it. Made the anticipation so great for Christmas morning.

Thanksgiving with the Nelson's

Thanksgiving is always fun to prepare for. I spent he whole day before baking some delicious apple bars and pecan pie tarts just like mom makes. The sweet aroma o fresh cranberries melting into the fresh sweet potatoes slowly cooking in the crockpot filled my kitchen the morning of. We were definitely ready to feast. We gathered at the nelson family household. Lounging around was top priority as well as catching the latest football updates. I enjoyed looking in the family room and seeing our two families become one once again. We couldn't have asked for more. Delicious food, thanksgiving and Black Friday adds, naps, and dessert, then a later movie and popcorn to top it off. That's my kind of holiday.

Gigi

Meet Gigi. Daughter from North's third and final litter. Marideth ended up purchasing her after love at first sight. I had the puppies (2of them were in the litter) come to the house when they were old enough to run around. They were maybe a pound of fluff sliding around on Hague tile. Teeth just starting to come in. Marideth came to see them and fell in love with his little girl. She has been loved and part of he nelson family she lives with her great grandma, Pretty, her aunt, Baby girl. It's neat to see three generations trotting around the house. Well his particular day we were at marideths just getting into the car to come home and Gigi followed us out. She hopped right in the van and started a play date. Marideth laughed and I said I would bring her back later. North has calmed down so much since he got fixed. He played with her for a second then found her annoying. Lol. The kids loved having her over. I need to do hat more often to get their puppy obsession worked out.

November fun

I have such sweet girls. Allisandria is quite the crafter and can do some amazing things. Bella is just sweet and goes with the flow. Now that they are getting older I am tryin to get hem to understand why we celebrate certain holidays. So we made thanksgiving turkey's and wrote on each feather what they were thankful for. It was cute.
They are greatful for their family and friends and their toys. We were lucky to score a heaping pile of books and coloring books froma garage sale. For $10 I got close to 100 books. In great condition some brand new. It has been fun taking more time go read to them.

This is Greyson at dinner time

Greyson

This kid cracks me up. He is starting to like the swings now. There is nothing like he giggle that comes with the first successful swing ride. The way your stomach flips and turns to butterflies. Too cute.
He also thinks he is pretty cool putting on his sisters helmets. Safety first!
The one thing I wish I could change is that as soon as I start makin dinner is he attacks me. He clings to my legs and cries and screams. He steps on me he head butts me cause he is hungry. He always ends up getting hurt from it because he presses his whole body against mine and I move and he plants right into the floor. Sometimes he hits his forehead. Dinner making at my house has become such and anxiety getter :(