I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Friday, February 27, 2009

Hailey's Birthday Party!

For Hailey's birthday we had a tea party. It was lots of fun! We had little flower shaped sandwiches, chips, pink lemonade, a veggie platter and a fruit platter. For her cake we had pink snowballs! It all tasted so good.


Brooklyn~Emma~Hope~Kennedy~Alli~Hailey Ashlynn
My Hailey Girl!

The girls playing
Hailey's new Ariel barbie

Hailey also got a pretty bracelet, a coloring book with crayons, some peeps, and a package a neon glow bracelets.

Singing happy birthday

Blowing out her candles!

The first bite

Opening Daddy and Mommies present

When Hailey saw what we gave her she exclaimed, 'A Lightening McQueen!' It didn't dawn on us that if you have two of the same toy with the same remote control that you can't play with them anywhere near each other or the one remote counteracts the other remote and neither stupid toy will move! What the heck do we do now?!

What's A Mom To Do?

When Hailey came up to me and said 'Mom, come look at my pichure!,' (picture) I had no idea that I would be so mad! She and Ashlynn had been coloring up to the table and I guess she decided that her paper was to small because she drew a huge person next to the bathroom door. (yes, that is how she draws her people, minus the eyes mouth and nose) Of course I wasn't so mad I forgot to snap a picture before I made her scrub it off the wall. It really was the perfect photo opportunity for her everyday behavior. She is always making some kind of mess that is just a little on the disastrous side!


Alyssa!

My sweet Baby girl is two months old today. Where has the time gone? It feels like yesterday a nurse laid her on my chest and I looked into her tiny pink face. Her little tiny toes and fingers are now chubby from Momma's milk and her cooing and smiles brighten up my day. I wonder how it is that a mother could fall so in love with such a little thing, but then all I have to do is look at her and I remember.

Spring Dresses!

Hailey & Ashlynn goofing around after church!

Ashlynn Posing

Hailey Posing

I think it"s so funny! Ashlynn, I guess, feels like she's getting older. It's sad really. She thinks somethings are for babies. Things she liked, I swear, last month. She wants to 'pose' for the camera now, not just smile, and she purses up her mouth like in the picture below. And not just for pictures, mind you! She does it when she is trying not to laugh because she's to big and doesn't want you to think that she likes that your paying attention to her, or she does it when she's trying not to laugh. What is happening to my little girl?

Thanks Grandma Vick!

Grandma Vick sent Ashlynn a pachage for her birthday and then we decided that we were coming down to St. George, so Ashlynn didn't get it until we came back a week later. She was so excited when we got home! And let me tell you, she was so excited when she saw what it was! She now has her very own baby doll that will cry and when you give it a pacifier, it stops crying and makes a sucking noise! Let me just tell you, Anthony wanted to scream!! He said, "My Mother is trying to kill me from 400 miles away." But Ashlynn loves it! I think that the blanket that Grandma sent with it made it even more special! Ashlynn wraps all of her dollies in it, and Grandma Vick made it just for that! Thanks Grandma Vick!