Happy 1st Birthday Sophia!

Sophia her first day of life Feb. 1, 2010
Wow this year has been the fastest year of my life it seems! I can't believe that Sophia is already 1 years old! Crazy but true. She is such a precious little doll that has blessed our home so much! None of us can even describe how much we love her and how glad we are to have her. Calvin says all of the time that he can't imagine his life without her. So cute.

Poor little doll is sick too with sinus infection and virus as well as cutting her top two teeth so she's pretty miserable. We're having a birthday party for her Saturday, Feb. 5th at 2:30pm here at our house. I was trying to think of what kind of cake to do for her because she loves books (she's always looking at a book doesn't care about TV at all this was taken this morning) and music but I might just do a heart cake instead. I'm not sure yet we shall see. :o) I made her a cute little tutu that she will wear to the party and will get her 1 yr old professional pictures in also.

She has taken a few steps usually 2 then eases her way back to the floor and crawls super fast. She is getting more and more brave though standing up in the middle of the floor for a long time which is what she did this morning. :o) Poor little red cheeks and snot nose baby with a fever but still smiling for the camera this morning. She started clapping when we all sang her happy birthday before we headed out for school.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SOPHIA!!!!

We sure love you little girl and hope you feel better very soon!

I love making crafts!

Here's some wet wipe cases I made today...my friend from work wants to buy one for her daughter and another co-worker wants one for a baby shower gift. At boutiques they cost $45-55 which is crazy but I thought they were so cute that I wanted one so I figured out how to make me one. Yesterday when I was at the supply store I saw them selling for $28-35 depending on what glam products they used on them but so I told her I would charge her $25. The materials are expensive but so darling and mine has held out now for a year and still looks great. :o) I'm not sure why the flower looks off centered on this hot pink one because it is not. :o)

This is a holiday wreath for a front door that I made our friends. Just simple.

This holiday wall star I made with cup cake papers. I thought it turned out cute. I gave it as a gift as well to Will's Mom.

This big wreath well you might not be able to tell but it is pretty big I made out of coffee filters and it was a labor of love for my Mom. My dumb hot glue gun got so hot it was boiling and I didn't notice and not only burned two of my fingers really bad but it burned my jeans and then my leg underneath. I couldn't believe it. I had a huge blister on my finger but since my Mom said she loved the wreath it was worth it and the hole in my jeans well it's the in style look right now so I'll keep them. :o) Yes I did get rid of that stupid glue gun after giving it two more opportunities to cool down it burnt me again and again.

I wish I could do crafts more often it is such a relaxing fun activity for me. I have lots more coffee filters and the tan colored ones are going to make a pretty wreath and topiary soon. :o)

Family Update

I was finally permanently transferred from the Business Office to the Curriculum Department on 1/3/2011 at Maricopa Unified School District and I'm so thrilled. My two new boss ladies are awesome! I get to do a whole bunch of fun new things and am always so extremely busy. I'm so happy to not work for my previous boss anymore!! I'm still learning but it is soooo much better.

Will is busy with real estate the short sales and foreclosures take forever so he is also helping Toma a couple days a week with his plumbing company and installing shower enclosures and mirrors etc. He still does BPO's but they are much less than before.

McKenna has straight A's and never seems to have homework I would think that in 7th grade she would have more because it is very rare for her to have any. She is piratically as tall as me these days and can now wear all of my clothes and shoes. She is a beautiful girl! She is considering trying out for the cheer leading squad and still goes to 4-H doing sewing and ceramics. It helps that I'm the teacher of ceramics class :o). She adores Sophia and is a lot of help. She looooooves young womens and the leaders love her.

Calvin has all A's and one B. His teacher absolutely loves him. His best friend Jacob for the past 2 years is getting ready to move next week and he is pretty upset about it. He is getting tall and is very thin. He is a great boy with the best personality always looking at the positive side of things and he still is his Daddy's shadow. He goes to 4-H also but isn't quite old enough so he comes to my ceramics class. He goes to Boy Scouts every week and is getting ready to do the pinewood derby. He is Sophia's favorite person for making her laugh no matter what he does. He is a neat little boy and likes his room clean which I appreciate. He constantly is telling Sophia how beautiful she is and how much he loves her.

As for Sophia in a couple of weeks she will be one already! Time flies by so fast! She is always happy and one of the best babies I've ever been around much less had of my own. :o) She's slept through the night since she was 2 months old. She has two teeth on the bottom. She took her first steps yesterday....let go of the coffee table and took two steps then eased her way down to the floor to crawl. She did that twice yesterday. She can say the following: baba, no no, go go, momma, dad, dada, getup, num num, nn ahh, mmm and a lot of babbling. She cracks us up because anytime she see's someone with a drink she goes n ahhhh. She loves music and books. She is trying to sing now along with her dancing. She still loves her binky but only wants it for naps or going to sleep (Calvin & Kenna didn't like them). She started kissing on the mouth usually she dips her head down for you to kiss her on the top of her head when you say give me kisses. She will kiss the mirror, pictures, stuffed animals and now me every now and then. She has a temper and if she doesn't get what she wants she will slap and yell. McKenna was playing with her while walking down the stairs and bonked Sophie's head on accident and she got so mad that she slapped her, pinched her and then bit her shoulder. We have no idea where that came from and was about 2 months ago! Little turkey. She finally stopped spitting up all of the time about 1.5 months ago and that's wonderful because it was all of the time. She does not like oranges or orange juice. She prefers formula or pop. She loves sweets especially chocolate anything. She still likes to eat bland baby oatmeal and hasn't ventured to try a whole lot more as her tummy has a difficult time with dairy still and she is funny with textures. Sophia weights just under 19 pounds and a little over 30 inches long and her cheeks are the only chubby thing on her. She brings all of us joy and happiness every day! We all feel so very blessed to have her in our lives.

So life is all wright all wright. :o)

Gogo Boots

Sophia looking like a cutie pie last night! Calvin adored her "Gogo boots" along with everyone else that saw her. We all love this little doll!!

Our Star...

Our little super star McKenna isn't so little these days...sadly she's 5ft 6inches already at 12 years old. This was a red carpet even for the Young Women's Night in Excellence so they were instructed to dress and look red carpet ready with ladies doing hair and makeup for them like they were celebrities. McKenna was setting up her table and was disappointed she couldn't find her volleyball at home to bring and display. Her setting up
The finished product...included a basketball, basketball pictures, her scriptures, her green with white stripe karate belt, her 4-h hankie, her barbie ballerina book, her 3rd place white ribbon for Pinal county fair that she won for the displayed pink apron she sewed. We were surprised she didn't bring Bunny the stuffed animal bunny rabbit that she has had for 13 years and still sleeps with nightly. :o) She had just walked down the red carpet and was greeted by paparazzi, Shannon Williams a wonderful photographer in our ward. The girls had to work it and get two pictures there. :o) Kenna was a great sport and struck a pose, as most girls almost frowned or slumped like they were miserably embarrassed. (I don't blame them I would have been embarrassed also) :o)

After the red carpet and award were handed out the leaders had them stand behind their tables so all of them and us could walk around and ask them questions etc.



Here's some of the leaders all dressed up looking beautiful as well!

The young ladies all looking at each other's tables. Notice how tall McKenna is and she is only 12 some of these gals are 17 yrs old.

McKenna is such a beautiful girl inside and out! She constantly amazes us and we are so very blessed to have her as our daughter, she truly is our super star!

Change is coming....

Change is coming to this sad un-updated blog! Soon very soon :o) I hope in the next few days. I miss you blog and how else shall I journal??? Life has been so busy and stressful that it has taken me away for far too long....and who am I kidding facebook hasn't helped!

3 Cute Kids and a Croc.....

3 cute Kids + a crocodile = good times

We met up with Mandy my cousin's wife and their kiddos at The Rainforest Cafe in AZ Mills Mall last week...kids loved all of the scenery, I loved chatting with Mandy she's like one of my best friends and then fun shopping at the mall afterwards. I didn't realize that I had my camera until we were leaving the mall and Mandy and her kids had long sing taken off so I tried to re-create the Rainforest fun with these few pics. I love these three precious cutie pies!!!!!!