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So I asked the girls what we should put or write on our website and here’s a bunch of answers. . .

Sierra says “Spiders” should go on our website, and “Pumpkins because they’re so Lightning”.

Hailey says “Why are you writing all that? That’s so Funny It’s like Halloween. We should write hearts for Valentines”.

“Baskets for Easter next”, says Hailey

“and Choo choo and dresses and clotheses”, says Sierra

“Pumpkins again” – Says Sierra

Hailey say’s, “I wanted to put Aunt MaryAnne on that”.(website)

“BUMS” says Sierra

“A balerina”, says Hailey

“or how bout a Tarzan?” says Sierra “How bout Tarzans. TARZAN!!” with a big smile

Hailey says, “She (sierra) does lot’s of bad thinking”.

Sierra says “ANOTHER ballerina”

“B for Balerina B Buh Balerina” – Hailey

“Pears Peary prears” says Sierra

“I wanna send it to somebody. I wanna send it to Aunt MaryAnne”. says Hailey

Sierrra wants to “wrap up one real ballerina to give to Aunt MaryAnne”

Hailey says,. . .no no no no, a play one.

HERE ARE THE PICTURES SIERRA AND HAILEY CHOSE TO PUT ON THE WEBSITE.

Love, Hailey and Sierra

WE LOVE YOU!!!

It’s only about 9AM and what have we found????

The Wonderful Princess Dry Erase Book we got for the girls has turned into a Dry Erase Dremland on the Sofa. And the whole morning Nathan and I had been talking about how good our girls are and ways to dicipline them. I was the bad guy taking away thier markers, new books and new posters. . .So that’s how Hailey’s poster is coming along (it’s not now). . It’s up in a closet for safe keeping until the girls are 8 and can be accountable for their mistakes!!! Aaarrrghh.

Good thing we have a 5 year warranty on the couch including mishaps like these. I scrubbed and scrubbed most is gone, but there are faint outlines here and there.



Here’s the beautiful artwork.

Haileys and Sierra’s Red Markers



Hailey’s Art



Girls Art



Sierras Art. Minus a few big lines on the seat coushin that were cleaned a little before the pictures.

These are pictures from 2/26/04

Hailey got a poster to color since she loves coloring and sittingat the table doing arts and crafts. So. . .Here it is. We woll be posting her progreass on it. She says it’s going to take a long time.

I got in the bath and put a little bit of bubble bath in it turned on the jets and it almost overflowed with bubbles. I told the girls to get Daddy to see what happened. Before we knew it, we were all in the tub playing in the bubbles. Making SILLY hats, playing find the belly button, and trying to keep slipperry Sierra from taking a full body dive. We spent and hour laughing at eachother. Daddy snapped some pics of us.

Today we have Shawn and Cara over to play while her parents go on an uninterrupted excursion. They are good friends with Hailey and Sierra and love to play together.

Got the Plane tickets to see family =) I’m so excited we get so see both sets of Grandparents and a BUNCH of Aunts and uncles!!! then when we get home we get to see more. Wow! 4 weeks of family FUN!!!

Loads of Love!!

Planned a trip to visit Family in Nevada will be visiting in March WOO HOO!!!!

THIS IS LONG BUT DON’T GIVE UP ON ME. IT’S 2 DAYS OF OUR LIFE.

Went to Tae Kwon Do make up practice with Hailey’s yesterday. Got $145.xx in groceries for $65.00 and $60 of that was what the 23 1/2 lbs of chicken and beef. – Got on sale with coupons. Pretty good for only having double coupons lately haven’t had triples for months(sad story) SO I saved $80.00 and I wasn’t even planning this trip this week.

Anyways about the pictures. . .went to Aunt Shana’s to have a Nintendo Gamecube Party Saturday night. We made tacos, fruit salad, and chip dip. The kids played and we talked and had fun playing a few rounds of Mario Double Dash.

Sierra and Hailey didn’t want to leave they had so much fun. But it was already past 9PM so we had to go.

Today We went to Church and spent the afternoon together with with family or talking on the phone to family. Quite nice. I had an amazing day at church. Many people talked to me and actually had important things to say. I found out that just from one of my comments about what I do I changed someone’s life. I do not get the Sunday papers delivered to my house because it causes someone to work on the Sabbath. . .I know, I know I coupon religiously, but I do not get any Sunday papers. Well anyways this older sister put her arm around me today and said, “THANK YOU!!!. Thanks for helping me realize what I was doing on Sundays. I stopped the Sunday delivery of newspapers to my home.” Then I told her an experience I had when the only Sunday while couponing I actually went out to get the paper for 1.50 out of a machine I was re-taught that I shouldn’t even be doing that. The machine took my money, I opened the door and all that was inside was the front cover of that days paper and no coupons in sight $1,50 down the drain. So Lesson learned Don’t make anyone work on the Sabbath and Keep it Holy even if you are visiting a machine. Now anyone that calls me to get the newspaper delivered I tell them I’d only want the Sunday paper for the coupons but I do not want anyone to have to work to get it to me so I’ll have to pass it up.

We pulled out 2 leftover brand new Barbies from Christmas today and told the girls they could open them after their naps. I spent an hour or so after the girls nap playing barbies with them and helping them decorate a skirt the bead and beauty barbie. The girls played their keyboards with Daddy.

And Danced to the music he played. The pink keyboards are the Valentines presents from him. Had Dinner, I tucked the girls in bed and read Chapter 4 of Charlottes Web, had family prayer, packed up some chicken to freeze, Nathan is watching his Sunday shows folding laundry – a task of mine that he seems to be taking over very nicely. He also does the dishes. . .Sometimes I wonder what I do around here anymore. He’s a sweetie and if he likes to do the laundry, dishes and pay the bills, then I can spend more time with my girls and journaling it in Blogs for you. Thanks for reading!!!

Today we had a slow start today. We were invited to a friends house for a playdate I dropped the girls off to play. Then ran to the Gym to get some exercise. It was a nice break. Then went back and played for a while and visited with my friend. I took the girls home because most of the time they (Mostly Hailey) cried. So I figured they needed a nap. I took them home carried Hailey up to bed meanwhile, Sierra threw a fit on the kitchen floor because she couldn’t watch Cinderella. So I gently scooped her off the floor, took her to the formal living room to the rocking chair and sang many many lullabys to her and the little sweetie fell asleep. It’s so rare to have one of my kids fall asleep in my arms so I cherish every moment. I gently carried her up to her bed and crashed in mine for 45 minutes. Then did the usual. Get the girls out of bed at 5:00 make dinner have family dinner. then read some email. Found out that one of my friends lost her best friend in an accident at work and my Mom finally called after a good 2 weeks of no phone calls and I had to go. Then my Visiting teacher stopped by we talked, the girls showed off and now it’s bed time. SO I’ll drop the girls in bed and see if I’m up to taking myself to girls night out to do Scrapbooking at the church. Gotta go. The girls Keyboards from Valentines day are too loud to be getting ready for bed. Sorry no pictures today.

Devanie

Had Joy School here – Teach every third week. The girls are learning about trying to do new things and trusting other people. Went to Tae Kwon Do. Hailey did well. Sierra would probably like to be someplace else. Ran with Nathan over to the Auto Body shop to get his car. Ran home to iron clothes and get dinner ready for the Sister Missinaries tonight. Sister Hollingsworth and Markov visited with us and the girls kept them well entertained. They read a great story about the Ant and the Contact lense. I’ll have to get a copy or find it on the internet to share with Enrichment Night for the “Enriching Ideas Table”.

Goop, Fun Dough, Handsoap Dough, Tornato Bottle, Hair Gel Squeezie Bags, a VOLCANO, and a day with cousin Megan.Priceless!!!! When we told Hailey and Sierra the volcano was going to explods/errupt they freaked out. Hailey didn’t want to come into the room. We told them it would just fizz over and they watched. Although Sierra was hesitant and coverd her ears for part of it.

Joy School today. Here are the pictures. We learned about trying new things and read the story of The Little Engine that Could. Then we tried new things, worked on kindergarten readiness made a flat 4 layer PB, Honey, nutella and rainbow sprinkle sandwich for a snack and let the kids pour their own drinks. We had to bribe the kids with marshmellow to get them to go home. Guess you can call today a success.

Compared to other days lately todays JoySchool was a success.