A Few of My Favorite Things

So, this week, I was asked to sing that song from Sound of Music, "My Favorite Things."  They asked me like a week before.  It would've been fun to put an ensemble together (and less scary) but it ended up being more scary thinking about the practicing with others to pull it off, figuring out harmonies, etc. so I just sang it myself.

Then I looked at the words.  What the freak is "schnitzel with noodles?" I ask myself.  And really, "wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings" may be a pretty sight, but it's definitely not my favorite.  So, because I'm super dorky, I came up with a second verse.  Mind you, this was for the Relief Society Activity (the birthday one), so I made it R.S. appropriate and wrote a few things that would get a few laughs from all...

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad

Coconut cupcakes and anything chocolate

Husband that cleans and keeps crafts in the budget

Relief Society Presidency

These are a few of my favorite things

Family Home Evening and scriptures on Monday

Baby that turns 18 months on this Sunday

Making a meal for a sister in need

These are a few of my favorite things

Neighbors and sisters and friends that just stop in

Babies with humongous bows on their noggins

Kids that are tied to my apron strings

These are a few of my favorite things

When I can’t get onto Pinterest

When I’m feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don’t feel so bad

So now my posterity can see how dorky I am.  But there were a few laughs, and it made it worth it :)  Besides that, I also witnessed a mini miracle in my life...seriously.  The activity was held on Wednesday night. Tuesday night I started to feel a sore throat coming on.  Then Wednesday morning it was a sore throat and a massive headache.  I took ibuprofen and prayed really hard because I knew I had to sing that night and a sore throat wouldn't exactly facilitate the process.  Oddly enough, the sore throat went away by mid-morning.  

Chalking it up to just a cold/sore throat, I went to the activity and sang, etc.  That night, I got the sore throat again, and it did NOT leave this time, and the next morning I scheduled a dr's appt.  Yep, it was strep.  I'm pretty sure that prayer made a difference because the sore throat doesn't just go away like that.  Antibiotics I started yesterday morning take it away :)  

Now Claire has an ear infection. Poor thing.  Quite a week!  Glad Anya hasn't come down with anything. Crossing my fingers!!  And I hope I didn't infect anyone at Relief Society!!

I Live On the Winter Side...

Is this CRAZY or WHAT????

I am the BEST Driver EVER.

I kinda thought it was the road.

Valentine's Day 2012

The actual Valentine's Day was very uneventful since Jordan had to work all day and night and go to school etc. etc. I know...wo is me.  But anyway, it was pretty fun for the kids and we managed to have a good time after the actual day!

 Here we are at the most stressful play group of the year ;)  Usually (every Monday) we moms just sit there while our kids (hopefully) run around or ride around and play.  This time we had card making, cookie decorating, and all kinds of things for THIS ONE BELOW to get into :)

 The little monkey.  Mommy made her that shirt, of course :)

 Claire is sitting next to Ella, her idol :)

OK, then we ended up deciding to do a couples "thing" for Valentine's Day.  It started with my friend Jen and I talking about how we should make a "gourmet meal" for our husbands for the day.  It didn't end like that :) Then it grew to some of our other friends. It was so fun, we'll have to make it a yearly event, of course!

Um, all we had to take pictures was Natalie's iPhone.  Yeah.  so they're AWESOME...

 Rachy and Homeless Man...I mean, Jonny.

 Jordan and me.  Yeah we went to the dollar store to get those snazzy headbands.  You can't tell from the picture (um you can't tell a lot in these pictures, actually...) but mine says "Kiss Me" on each heart...or "hearttenna!"  I kill me. I'm so funny.  The boys were worried we'd wear those bad boys to the movie afterward.  We went to see that Reese Witherspoon movie, "This Means War."  It was naughty but funny too... not tooo naughty but a little :)

 Matt couldn't NOT make dorky faces at the camera all night pretty much.

 Awwww....the sweetness...

Woah, you guys are dorks.  Seriously.  That's why it was a cheesy Valentine's Dinner.  It's all about the cheese.  PS.  I'll be missing Rachy and Jonny sooooo much.  They are moving :(

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Sledding Weather!

Finally we got some snow that lasted the whole day instead of just the morning :)  So we decided to find a hill and do it!  We found one in Herriman.  It was the perfect size!


Daddy and Anya


Claire and me


Anya was loving the snow!


She actually spent a lot of time on the ground like this, digging in the snow. It was cute :)


You like all the color combinations going on in her outfit?  Haha


The view from the hill.  There's Anya! It's getting darker at this point...


Claire and me


Edited this one lighter that's for sure! Haha  Claire is such a goof. She was having the time of her life!!!


Daddy and Anya


This was Claire's first descent.  She was a little nervous I guess--didn't know that until I saw this picture though because she didn't show it!  Later she even went down all by herself!!




Little cutie.


More little cutie.


Claire wasn't exactly "posey" that day.  There are a lot of pictures of Anya!


It was a fun day.  We lasted about 40 minutes but it was perfect!

Update on the Crazies...

So, this is how pathetic I am lately.  Anya JUST HAD her 12-month appt. She is almost 16 months.  And then I forgot the little packet thing that has the charts on it that says what her percentiles are, but I'm totally off anyway, since I don't have a 12-month stats thing.  This is a 16-month one.  Anyway:

Weight:  50th percentile
Height:  70th percentile

Can't remember the head, or the actual weight and height, but she's pretty normal.  But yeah, pretty tall for her weight I guess!  So annoying when it comes to her fitting into pants, but Claire was even skinnier so it is easier at least with Anya.

Here are some fun recent pics from my phone, so they're all crappy, let's be honest:

 The little couch potatoes at my in-laws.  I think they both of cups with ice chips in them.  Watching Dora, most-likely!

 Lipstick.  She just can't get enough of it.  And can't get it on her lips, for that matter.

Anya just being a cutie in her jacket.

Claire's favorite outfit, courtesy of Grandma & Grandpa Gollaher for Christmas.  She wears it almost every day.

Claireisms...

-Around Christmas time, we loved talking about Baby Jesus.  One night, during prayers, Claire was like, "Thank thee for Baby Jesus and Big Jesus too."
-Jordan likes to make shakes for the girls in the morning.  Claire wasn't really drinking hers and said, "Mom, you want mine?  Apparently, I don't want mine, so you can have it."

 -Going to get Anya from her nap (Claire likes to go up first a lot of times, to say hi to her, before I have the chance to go get her).  Claire says, as she's going up the stairs:  "No no, ghosts, you can't get me. I'm going to rescue Princess Anya, and you will leave me!"
-"Claire, what's your baby's name?"  Her answer:  "Baby Kern-pops"  Then she changed her mind:  "Baby Krispy."  Then she later said, "Baby Anya."
-In the car with Grandma Taylor:  "Grandma, I don't see your hands driving!  The car's just driving by itself!"
-Family Home Evening with Claire.... we did a lesson on the Holy Ghost, and I was supposed to put little objects into a sock for her to feel, describe, and not tell us what they are...because you feel the Holy Ghost, but can't see it. Anyway, she had a hard time not pulling the object out, and an even harder time finding words to describe things.  We'd have to say, "Is it hard or soft?"  "Is it scratchy or smooth?"  "Is it cold or hot?"  Etc.  Anyway, when I put a plastic bracelet in there, she finally said, "It's soft and braceletey!!!"  Nice.

 -Jordan was talking to Claire the other day, and said, "You know I just love you so much?"  And Claire said, "Yes, Dada."  And he said, "How does that make you feel?" And she said, "It makes me feel happy in the temple of my heart."  How sweet is THAT???
-"Dada, you're scratchy. You should shave yourself."
-"Hey, Claire, can you sing your ABC's still?"  It had been a while since she'd sung that song.  She says, "No, my brain doesn't work."  I said, "Where did THAT come from?"  She said, "The toy box."  Random.
-Claire likes to protect me from things.  She said the other day, "Mommy, I'll protect you from the dinosaurs.  They are afraid of me because I am naughty to them."

-Claire likes to sleep with her furry rice pad...this time she was feeling "sick" (who knows if this is reality??) and put it on her head :)

 -Of course, with my in-laws across the street, I say the word "in-laws" all the time with people. Claire the other day was like, " Are we going to my in-laws??"
-OK, so with Claire's latest eyebrow stitching episode, the other day, she was jumping on the couch at Grandma and Grandpa Taylor's house, and Grandpa was telling her to stop because he was worried she would fall and hurt herself.  She looked at him and very matter-of-factly said, "It's OK Grandpa. I cover my eyebrow."
-Claire likes to hold my hand when we cross the street or parking lot...so "I--not she--will not fall down or get hit by a car."  She protects me always.

-This is how Claire sleeps nowadays.  I LOVE IT!!  It's so cute how she puts her hands up to her cheek.  Hard to see, but there's drool too lol.

-Wearing my sports bra.  That's how she thinks she should put it on.  I'm OK with that.  She's three.

-The little monkeys being silly in the tub!

 -So this is funny.  I have Claire some butterscotch pudding.  She said, "Mommy.  This pudding makes me SO HAPPY!! I LOVE IT!"  I give a spoonful to Anya and right away it's as if I gave her arsenic.  She was gagging...in a scary way.  Guess she doesn't like pudding??  Does the same thing with frosting and whipped cream.  She is SO NOT my daughter lol!


Anyaisms...

-Anya likes to walk around with fish lips.  Too bad I haven't gotten a picture yet! It's so cute!
-We read a book about what babies say, and the only page in which she says anything is on the page where the baby is being naughty and she says "uh oh!"
-Anya loves saying "ouchie"
-The other day, we went to get a "baba" for her and as I opened the cupboard for the Quik, she said "I need coklate."  It was so cute.  She's obsessed with chocolate milk.  Claire is too. They have it every morning for breakfast :)

-Caught in the ACT!! I HATE IT when she pulls bows off the ribbons hanging in her bedroom!!  Worst idea ever to hang the bows...
-Anya does animal sounds.  She can do the duck, tiger (she's the best at the growling of course), and the cow (she says "mmmmm" for "moo" though)
-If Anya has anything in her mouth (food) and you offer her something different to eat that...well... MUST look better... she promptly unloads the food from her mouth all over herself so she'll have room for what you have to offer.  It's so awful!!

-More couch potato moments :)

-Anya absolutely LOVES giving "loves" to anyone and everyone.  Especially her big sis.  She does this by laying on top of her like so :)  In church she goes over and nuzzles her head in the chests of little babies, etc. to give them loves.  It's so cute...and a little scary when the babies cry lol.

-She's just a cutie.  What can I say? We just love our little Anya-poo around here :)  But I shouldn't call her Anya-poo because Claire likes to turn that one into a potty language excuse.  It starts going from Anya-poo to Anya poop to Anya poopie and giggles and giggles.  It's bad.

Until next time!

Resolutions...Just putting these out there for all to see

This way, I will be more inclined to do them??

1.  100% visiting teaching.
2.  BofM reading DAILY.  No exceptions.
3.  Gym three times a week.
4.  Fit into skinny jeans (yes, you know who you are, skinny jeans....)
5.  Stop procrastinating laundry.
6.  Temple attendance once a month.

OK, there you have it.  I've said it.  Did visiting teaching this month already. I figure that if I just stress over it from the get-go instead of at the end of the month, by the end of the month, I should have done it already haha!