a nEw tRiCk...

The other day we noticed that when we were playing 

with Cici and sticking our tongues out at her...

she would do it right back!! 

Now she'll just sit and stick her tongue out at us 

and wait for us to do it back. It's pretty dang cute!

i aM...

i am: a mommy of the two cutest girls
i think: way took much!!
i know: that God lives!!
i want: to move back to Utah
i dislike: cantaulope (however you spell that)
i miss: my family :(
i fear: losing someone I love
i feel: frustrated, hungry and tired at the moment (not a good combo)
i hear: the football game
i smell: nothing...got a stuffy nose
i crave: gummy grapefruits, Smartie blizzards and Cafe Rio
i cry: more than I'd like to lately
i usually: talk to my mom a lot
i search: for cute clothes and great deals
i wonder: how we are ever going to pay back all that loan money....ahhh!
i regret: STUPID mistakes and forgetting how to play my guitar
i love: my husband, my girls, my family and friends
i care: too much about what other people think
i always: want a diet coke
i worry: about anything and everything...and then something else on top of that
i am not: good at being on time
i remember: sitting in the meadow in Christmas Meadows...and that makes me happy
i believe: that we are bigger than anything that can ever happen to us...I just have to remind myself that a lot
i dance: when I am cleaning and with my Ilie-girl
i sing: Old McDonald, If You're Happy and You Know It. The Wheels on the Bus...etc, every day
i don’t always: "just say no" to shopping
i argue: with myself a lot (never said I wasn't crazy;)
i write: email to my friends
i win: at NERTS (ha, yeah right...that's McCall)
i lose: my patience more than I should
i wish: I was more laid back and a little less OCD...Mom, Dad...your fault...ha, ha--luv you
i listen: to mt cute girls jibber-jab, scream and sing all day
i don't understand: when life doesn't seem fair...oh, and wht I can't ever buy a can opener that works
i can usually be found: cleaning, fixing, feeding, showering, stressing, playing, loving, eating and when I am lucky...shopping
i am scared: of spiders (the big Nova Scotia spiders) and deep dark water
i need: a house!!
i forget: how to get to places
i am happy: when I am with my hubby and my girls
i tag: Amber, Sonja, Melese

dOn't leAve yOur kiDs aLone...

So, you've probably seen this photo in an earlier post!! 

Well...Ilie just LOVED having her FACE PAINTED. 

So...the other day she was WATERCOLORING in the kitchen 

and then she came into the family room and said, 

"Hey, look at me!!"...

Well, she loved having her face painted so much 

that she decided to 

DO IT AGAIN HERSELF!! 

Gotta love two-year-olds!!

ciEnna iS tHree mOntHs oLd...

Our little Ci-monster (as Markus calls her) is THREE MONTHS old now. She is getting so BIG so FAST! She still is a little CHUB and she still is the cutest little baby around!! She loves to SMILE and is LAUGHING a ton! She loves to stand up on her LEGGIES and she's doing pretty good at starting to SIT by herself. What a CUTIE!!

cOrn bOiL...

At the annual Halifax 1st Ward's corn boil. We ate YUMMY corn and hotdogs and played at the park!!


Our cute girls in their CUTE outfits from Nana.


Ilie was very excited about getting her face painted like a kitty-kat!

oUr tRip tO iSlanD pArk...

This is a little overdue...seeing that we went on this trip about a month ago!! This was our fun adventure to Island Park with Mark's family. We did lots of fun stuff...fishing at the pond with the kids, exploring the town of Yellowstone, iMax movies, Mark did lots of (much needed) fishing with his Dad and brothers and on the way home we stopped at Bear World. That was Ireland's dreamland, and I quite enjoyed it too!! We were able to drive our car through the park and have bears walk right up to us...pretty cool. The second time we drove through, the feeding truck came by...so about every bear in there surrounded our car to go and follow it...it was AWESOME! The park also had cute little bear cubs, a duck and fish pond, a petting zoo and a mini amusement park. I thought Ireland wouldn't be daring enough to do the rides...but she surprised us and loved them. Even more to our surprise...she wanted to go on all of them by herself with her cousins. It was a fun trip!