Wide Awake

Savvy wasn't feeling too great
or acting very nice this evening
so she went to bed a little earlier than normal.
She woke up after an hour or so quite upset.
I calmed her down in the hopes that she'd fall back to sleep
but no such luck.
She was
WIDE AWAKE.

When Savannah is wide awake and happy
she can't stop talking.
She talks about everything around her,
everyone she's ever met
and every bit of random information that
floats through her little brain.

She tried laying down with daddy,
sitting on the couch with grandpa
and going back to her own bed,
but alas,
here we are at 11:52 pm
hanging out together.
Savannah is currently repeating to me,
"Guess what?! I love you."
And now she's asking to play games.
Here's to the night!

Laugh Out Loud

These two definitely keep me laughing!

Crazy Faces, Crazy Clothes

I have lots of pictures to share

but that's what happens when

the girls change their clothes every few hours

and like to show goofy faces for the camera.Vanessa ate it big time right before we left for Utah.
She fell off of the hammock swing right onto the concrete.
I was a little worried her nose was broken,
but she was only covered in bruises.
She scraped a layer of lip off too, which is still healing right now.
And crazy enough, Enchanted is Vanessa's
all-time favorite movie.
She takes it very seriously:
When in the world did Savannah grow up?
She's no longer a toddler,
that's for sure!So I figured that if I really wanted to get the girls to smile,
I'd have to bribe them in some way.
Since they like cool clothes so much
and really like Disney characters,
I made something special for each of them.
Check out those smiles:

Rain, rain, go away!

We had to play inside way too much this last week.
This was the scene almost all day long
every single day:


On Monday we played dress up.
Savannah wouldn't stop yelling, "Yee-haw!" all day long.On Tuesday we made marble towers.
Vanessa added a new word to her vocabulary
--marble--
which she would shout repeatedly while stomping her feet.
On Wednesday we went to the Clippers game.
Vanessa finally decided to be Aunt Myrna's friend.On Thursday we played in the rain again.And by Friday we were so loopy from staying inside
that the girls did this all morning:
It's time for some sunshine!

Singing' In the Rain

The rain has been pouring down here
all night and all day long.
So what better thing to do than
play in it!Savannah had a blast
standing and jumping in puddles
and moving her umbrella from over her head--she was soaked to the bone when we were finished,
but still had a smile plastered across her face!

26

So I had a pre-midlife crisis
in my head the other day
as I thought about being closer to
age 30 than age 20.
I did turn 26 today.

A list started forming in my head
of all of the things I haven't experienced,
haven't seen, haven't tried,
and haven't accomplished.
We only have 2 kids.
I chose not to get that doctorate degree.
I don't do wholesome educational activities with my kids all day long.
I can't eat anything I want anymore.
We don't own a home yet.
I can't stay up all night long and still function the next day.
I don't like my children some days.
I don't have a thriving stay-at-home-mom online business.
I don't take every opportunity to teach my kids the gospel.
I don't even own a cool cell phone to text message with.

The ridiculous list kept growing in my head
until I realized that
it doesn't matter because
I'm Happy.
I love my family and they love me back.
I try my best and that's enough and
I just keep going each day.

Happy Birthday to me!

Oh, Vanessa!

The girls got into a little trouble this morning
for dumping water out of the bathtub
all over the bathroom floor.
I started 'lecturing' them at which time
Vanessa looked me straight in the face and

plugged her ears.