Annika's Birthday

Annika turned 5!  CRAZY!  I asked her before her birthday what she wanted to do and if she wanted to have a party.  She said that all she wanted was to go bowling and to Texas Roadhouse, and have a family fun day!  :)  She had preschool in the morning, and she helped me make and decorate some cupcakes to take to her class.  After preschool she really wanted to open her presents.  So she opened her presents and then we headed out to Texas Roadhouse.  After lunch I took her to get a manicure and pedicure.  She chose purple polish with glitter over the top.  So cute!  After her pedicure my family got here and we all went bowling together. 
After Bowling we came home and waited for Jen and Mike to get here.  Then we headed to the lights at Thanksgiving point.  She liked the lights, but I think that her favorite part was seeing the reindeer after.  She loved them.  Then we came home and had some dinner.  She got to open her presents from my family and enjoy some cake!  I think that she had a fun day, and hopefully we did everything that she wanted to.

Last year I asked Annika some questions and this year I asked her the same ones.  I am going to have to go back and see how much her answers have changed. 
What is your favorite color?  Purple
What is your favorite toy? Pillow Pet
What is your favorite fruit? Oranges, Apples, and Bananas
What is your favorite TV Show? Disney Jr. Jake and the Neverland Pirates or Dr. McStuffins
What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Peanut Butter and Jelly
 What is your favorite Outfit? Purple Sparkly Shirt and Leggins
What is your favorite game? Princess Yatzee
What is your favorite snack? Popsicles
What is your favorite Animal? Dog
What is your favorite Song? I am a Child of God
What is your favorite Book? My new book from Miss Heather
Who is your Best Friend? I have tons of Best Friends I don't know. "Morgan, Shaye, Joy, Elizabeth, Kanani"
What is your favorite Cereal? Chex
What is your favorite thing to do outside? ride bike, play basketball, play hide and seek
What is your favorite drink? Milk
What is your favorite Holiday?  Christmas
What do you take to bed with you? Princess blanket and unicorn pillow pet
What is your favorite breakfast? Toast with Butter
What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Texas Roadhouse
What do you want to be when you grow up?  A Doctor probably

Annika is such a sweet girl.  She really cares about other people's feelings.  She is a wonderful big sister, and loves Ady so much.  I love her so much.  I am so glad she is mine!  I love you Annika! Happy Birthday!

First Haircut

Well Ady is now 2 1/2.  It is probably about time that she got a haircut.  She just didn't have hair for so long.  It has grown a lot longer, and she was sporting a little bit of a mullet.  So on Saturday November 24th after we went and chopped down our Christmas Tree we took ady into Alli's work, and she got her first haircut. 

It was so cute.  She was excited about it.  She sat up in the chair, when alli started cutting ady thought that it tickled and she started to wiggle. 

honestly Ady did so good.  Alli is so good at her job, and she did a great job!  I think that Ady's hair is so cute and she looks so grown up.

Thanksgiving 2012

For Thanksgiving this year, we went and spent the day in South Jordan.  We started the day by playing some basketball.  Then we ate some food!  All of the food was delicious!  After dinner we watched Brave, and played some ping pong and darts.  It was such a fun day!  We were so tired the next day, but the fun didn't stop. 

On Friday we drove up to Logan and had a wonderful dinner with Brian's whole extended family.  All of his family was there.  Except for Scott and Allison who we missed a lot!
 After the dinner with his family, we headed to my parents house.  We played some farkle.  It was so much fun, and we played until late in the night.

On Saturday we woke up and headed up to Idaho.  We went to cut down our Christmas Tree.  It was kind of an odd year.  We got up there, and there was no snow. We had the snow mobile in the truck ready to use it and then there was no snow.  We hiked up the mountain, which was already better than last year. Last year we ended up sitting at the bottom of the hill, and we had them pick out a tree for us.  So we walked up the mountain.  By the time we were half way up the hill the girls were complaining that their hands were hott.  So we had to revamp the outfit.  But after some more hiking around, we found our tree.  The girls had fun, and we made it back down the mountain.  So it was great!

It was a wonderful weekend full of family and fun.  I am so grateful for all of my blessings! 

Thankful Turkey

Tonight for family home evening, we made thankful turkey's.  We traced the girls' hands and feet.  We cut them out and then asked them what they were thankful for.  It was a really fun activity. 
Ady said that she was thankful for hands, feet, family, crown and stick.  She was just looking around the table while I asked her what she was thankful for, and apparently that is what she saw. 
Annika said that she was thankful for family, pillow pet, clothes, bed, and her blanket.  She wrote all the the things on her feathers. we might have to work on writing a little bit smaller! 

I am so thankful for my girls.  They bring me so much joy!  I am thankful for Brian, he is such a wonderful husband and dad.  I am grateful for all of the family we have.  There is so much that I am thankful for, and this doesn't need to go on forever.  But I love this time of year!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Hawaii Day 3

On Thursday April 12th we got tickets to the Polynesian Cultural Center.  It didn't open until noon, so we woke up had some breakfast and then went down by the pool and played some cards.  It was a very relaxing morning.  We left at about 11 and stopped at the Temple visitor Center. 

We got to the Polynesian Cultural Center, and the first place that we stopped was at the Samoa Center.  It was so entertaining to watch.  He showed us how they peal a coconut, and then they climbed a coconut tree.  It was all amazing to watch.  I really enjoyed the show at Tonga as well.  They do a great job teaching you about their culture.  After a hot day of watching shows we got to enjoy a show at a luau.  It was fun watching them dig the pig up out of the ground. After the luau we had tickets to their show "breath of life".  We had front row seats.  It was an amazing show.  All of the students who put on the show do such an amazing job.  The whole day was so much fun, and it was a great experience learning about all of the different cultures. 

We went to Hawaii

On Easter Sunday we met my parents at Jen's house.  When we left the girls went home with them, and Brian and I headed home to pack.  I warned Brian that I was going to be a mess when we said good-bye to the girls.  I did a lot better than I thought I would but it was hard knowing that I was not going to see them for the next 9 days.
On Monday April 9th we woke up, went and picked up BJ and Neisha and went out to Breakfast.  We got to the airport and they told us that our flight had been delayed an hour.  We were supposed to leave Salt Lake at noon, but now it would be one.  At about 2:30 we got on the plane.  we headed out to the run way and they turned the plane around and took us back to the gate.  They decided that the plane needed a new part, and the closest one was in Atlanta.  Needless to say after a long day of sitting in the airport we finally got on our plane at about 8:00 pm.  We missed out on the whole day in Hawaii.  When we finally got to Hawaii we got our rental car.  We went and checked in and told them that we just wanted a compact car.  we walked out to the lot and the guy said well the lot is really full.  do you guys want something funner to drive, you are in Hawaii you know.  So long story short we got to upgrade our car to a 4-door soft top black jeep.  That was nice.  by this time it was about midnight, which in Utah time is 4 am.  I was exhausted.  and we still had to drive an hour to get to the resort.  The drive up was crazy the speed limit on the freeways in Hawaii is 55 mph, and on the other roads it is 35mph.  way to slow when all you want to do is get some sleep.  BJ and Neisha were ahead of us, and we came down a hill and there was a cop and they got pulled over.  :(  Seriously it was a long not very fun day!  All I could do was hope that this wasn't going to set how the rest of our trip would go.  We got to the hotel and got some sleep.

On Tuesday April 10th we woke up and went down to a wonderful buffet breakfast.  After Breakfast we decided to go for a walk along the beach.  It was an overcast kind of rainy day.  We decided to go for a drive and see some of what we missed on the way up to the resort in the dark.  We decided to go to Pearl Harbor.  Pearl Harbor was an amazing experience.  I learned so much.  We paid for the audio tour, so we looked like really cool tourists listening to our headphones.  It was actually really fun and I would recommend it to anyone.  What an amazing place. After Pearl Harbor we were starving so we found an awesome sushi restaurant.  It was so much fun.  We don't have anything like that here in Utah.  On the way home we drove up the East side of the Island on the Like like highway, and we stopped at a macadamia nut farm.  We also found a food truck that Neisha had seen on the TV show, "The best thing I ever ate" so we had to stop and try some of their donuts.  :)  they were good. I don't know if it was because I was still trying to adjust to Hawaii time or because we had a late night the night before but I could barely keep my eyes open that night.  It was a long fun day!