Princess Wishes

This week Scott and I took Bailee on a date to see Disney Princesses on Ice. We don't get to do little things like this alone with her very often, and it was fun to be with her one on one, even though we did miss Jackson. I loved seeing her get so into it! Earlier in the day, we took her to pick out a new princess dress and jewelry. I think I had just as much fun as she did getting her ready to go. We did her hair and makeup, and I put mascara on her for the first time. It kind of felt like we were getting her ready for prom or something. I know that some people might frown upon putting makeup on a 3 year old, but I couldn't help myself. I'm pretty sure I was born to be a pageant mother.

This picture is one of my favorites. They weren't even posing for it, but it's so freaking cute!

It was funny because out of everything she got, she was obsessed with this cheap little ring that came with her necklace.

She was really funny all night, she definitely got a princess complex from everyone telling her how pretty she was. The best story happened after we were done eating. Bailee and I started walking out while Scott finished paying, and there were 2 little girls about her age that were waiting to eat. They came up to her and were telling her how cute she looked and that they liked her dress and stuff, and we eventually walked out to the little entrance area where there was a window, and the girls came over to the window and were looking at her. So that little stinker walked over to the window and started doing little poses and holding up her new ring and her new wand to the glass to make sure they saw it, and then she would look at her reflection in the window and poof out her dress. She was such a little snot, she knew exactly what she was doing, she wanted those girls to be jealous of all her new stuff. I couldn't stop from laughing the whole time, even though I had to tell her to stop showing off.

The show was really cute, and not as cheesy as I thought it would be, even Scott enjoyed it. Bailee kept gasping and clapping, and she got really into it during all the "bad guy" scenes, but every she saw me trying to get a picture of her, she would stop smiling.

She was in heaven the whole time, she keeps asking me when were going to do it again. I definitely recommend going if you have a little girl. Or even if you don't.

Time for a Post...

I realize how pathetic it is that its been a month since my last post. I could come up with many excuses for this, from "nothing happened this week" to "I forgot to take pictures at the big soiree we went to this weekend". While the second excuse is actually true, the real reason goes much deeper. And so now I will reveal my big secret:

I. Hate. Blogging.

I put too much pressure on myself to come up with something interesting to write about, and I end up doing nothing instead. So I've resolved to do better. I'm terrible about keeping a journal too, and now I'm worried that I'll have nothing to document my childrens early years, and they'll grow up to hate me because I've robbed them of their memories. So from now on, I promise to provide at least two posts a week, although I can't guarantee that they won't be boring. Maybe I'll spice them up a little by changing up the fonts and colors a every now and then a la' Shalyse(though Shalyse's blog is quite adorable, and nobody could accuse it of being boring.)
And so without further ado, I give you my first post of the week.

Mother Daughter Weekend

This past weekend was the 24th annual mother daughter weekend for my dad's side. And no, I didn't take any pictures(I forgot my camera, of course) Since my mom took off for Hawaii, it was just me, Carlee, Whitney, and Amylia, plus 12 or so extended family members.

It would have been fun if Jackson hadn't decided to get the flu the day before we were supposed to take them to Scott's parents house in Logan. Keep in mind that I had been looking forward to this weekend for at least a month. It was supposed to be my first kid free weekend in a looong time. Me and my sisters were planning on getting a hotel that weekend instead of staying with everyone else at my aunts house. So Jackson got sick, and I couldn't bear to leave him at Scott's parents house, even though they are great, because he is such a mommy's boy and how sad is it to be sick when you're little and missing your mom, and have to sleep in a strange bed in a new place?

We ended up leaving Bailee, but I had to drag Jackson around shopping with me all weekend and sleep at my own house instead of in a hotel. Needless to say, I was bummed. Luckily Scott was able to take him Saturday night up to his parents house to pick up Bailee, and they stayed the night, so I got 24 kid free hours. Poor Scott was stuck with 2 barfing kids up in Logan because Bailee ended up getting really sick Saturday night too.

We ate at Gardeners Village Saturday night and then went to the play "Big River", which was actually kind of cute. Whitney and Amylia couldn't stop drooling over the hottie who played Huck Finn. I tried googling him, but I couldn't find a picture. He's not bad if you're into the scrawny, voice-still-changing type of guy.

Sunday we went to see the Mormon Tabernacle choir, and then ate at my favorite, The Cheesecake Factory. Somehow it didn't taste as good as usual, maybe it was my guilty concience for eating out on a Sunday. The chocolate coconut cream cheescake was quite delicious though.

So there you have it! I did enjoy my few Jackson free hours!

Cute little heads

2 Sundays ago, we spent the night at my parent's house just for fun, and because Scott wanted to be close by for the super bowl since our church gets out at 4 and he didn't want to miss any of it. We woke up the morning to a huge snowstorm! Bailee and Jackson were so excited, and were looking out the windows all morning. It was so cute to see them snuggled up together under a blanket with just their cute little round heads showing. Even after Bailee started to lose interest, Jackson just kept staring out the window saying "Oooohhh!!" Pretty cute. The best part of the day is when church was cancelled. It wasn't cancelled anywhere else, so we were quite happy with our decision to be in Highland that day. Would it make me a bad person if I said I thoroughly enjoyed my day off from church? Because I didn't...



Later that day, some of our cousins came over to watch the super bowl and they brought their new little puppy, Nelly. Bailee loved her and kept calling her "Melly". Scott is now more convinced than ever that we need a dog (snort).

Some early spring cleaning...

I have been wanting a new dresser for sooo long. Our old one is a piece of junk. We finally found one that I LOVE, and I'm so excited about it! While cleaning out our old dresser to make way for the new one, I was inspired to clean out all the bedroom closets in our house. I cannot believe how much JUNK we have! Old clothes and toys that we don't use, plus tons of other crap I can't believe we held on to for so long. This is just a sampling of what we took to D.I. on Saturday:

There was more stuff not pictured here, plus I still have to go through the downstairs closet, kitchen, and storage shed. But I have to say that getting rid of stuff is possibly the best feeling in the world! Scott better keep an eye on his golf clubs...

Our lovely new dresser:

It's huge, but we needed a lot of space since our closet is tiny, and I figure we wont be in this place forever. Now I just need to decide on some nightstands. The ones that go with the dresser are really cute, but I'm worried it will be too much wood for our small bedroom since our bed is also wood. I'm leaning towards mirrored nightstands, but Scott is adamantly against them, he thinks they would look ugly. What do you think?

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I'm finally putting up pictures from Christmas, because I have nothing else to blog about! We started out at Scott's parents house on Christmas Eve. The kids had a blast with their cousins and Santa brought tons of presents. Christmas afternoon went to my parents house, where we got even more presents and had even more parties!

A couple of days later was Noah's blessing. They did it on a Saturday, it turned out really nice and Spencer did a really good job with the blessing.

Jackson in his first tie! He looked so cute!