Yet another "TWOsday"

Today is my beautiful Lily's birthday! She is two years old and her birthday fell on a Tuesday! Just like William's did. Coincidence? I think not... I just wanted to write a post about Lily and how precious she is to me and to our family. She was a surprise that came to us. When we moved to Tennessee, Matt told me that he had a feeling that something great was going to happen to our family. Lily was that great gift. Heavenly Father saw the greater picture and I'm so happy that He sent her to us.
She is such a fun little person. She has a whole slew of different personalities and they all come out depending on her mood. What can I say? She is such a girl!
Lily has such a fun sense of humor. She makes me laugh just by laughing or smiling like in this picture above. She laughs at the smallest thing. One of the things she laughs at the most is me shaking my head no. I don't know why, but she laughs hysterically.
Hmm.. If Lily ain't happy, you know she isn't. Although she is usually very happy, we have our days.

Lily is sort of my free spirit. Lily has been the one to strip (numerous amounts of times) in the bed. Sometimes she uses the bathroom in her bed... or bathtub. She doesn't mind being naked. Lily is completely different than Will. She is her own person.


Lily has ALWAYS been a great eater. She is my child that eats practically everything I give her. She loves candy and snacks, as well as fruits and vegetables.
Since Lily has been born, she has been attached to a pacifier. As you might have noticed in past pictures, she rarely has it out of her mouth. Well, this is the pivotal year! We have been limiting how often we give it to her. We have pretty much weened her from it. Which is exciting! She's talking more and laughing more. And it's wonderful to see all of her face all the time. Lily's such a pretty girl.


William and Lily are very close in age (as of right now, I have 2 two year olds) and also very close as brother and sister. They do fight (and this is increasing) but, they play together so well. They love each other.

Lily is such a blessing to us. I love her so much. I enjoy spending time with her. We have fun doing hair and she wears my make-up sometimes. Lily loves to wear perfume also. It's so fun to have a girly girl. She's a sweetheart and I can't believe how fast she's growing! She's a light in my life.

Happy Birthday Lily!!
We Love You!

Disney on Ice

Carrie and I took our little kiddies to Disney on Ice last week! Actually, we made a whole day of it. We went to the Disney store and Carrie (thank you, by the way) got the kids a t-shirt, mouse ears, and a stuffed animal each. Then we rode the trax downtown and went to the show! We had so much fun! They showed the Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Lilo and Stitch, and Peter Pan. AND, they had Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto there throughout the whole show. William and Lily LOVED it! Here are some pictures of the adventure. I have A LOT more, but I didn't want to bore you with ALL the pictures of the show. They did a great job. My personal favorite pictures are two fold. #1- the picture of Peter Pan with his shadow. That was the funniest part of the whole show for me... aside from Grown up Simba's mane, which (boohoo) I didn't get a picture of. #2- Tessa. No matter what I do, I can't get a smiley picture from that girl. She makes me laugh. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the slide show. And I recommend going to Disney on Ice! It was a fun show and the kids love it!

Girls Slumber Party!!! ...And Will!

Carrie and her girls came over last Friday for a Girls Slumber Party! William tagged along. Matthew went to his parent's house to sleep. And we partied! The kids had McDonald's for dinner and the adults had yummy Chinese. We made princess/Will wands and princess tiara's. Then, the kids all dressed up and we had a princess/Will dance party. No, your eyes are not fooling you, we did put wings and a crown on Will. He wanted to be apart of the party. Princes and Kings wear crowns, right? It was hilarious to watch Will make his blue wand and decorate it with stickers. They were all so into making these wands and they turned out really cute. Once the kids went to sleep, Carrie and I stayed up, turned on Gilmore Girls, and made wands of our own. It was so much fun! Carrie will probably put up some good pictures of our eventful night too.

Below is a video of Lily at the dance party. I highly recommend watching it! Her and Justin Timberlake are pals.

Mmmm....

So a couple of days ago, Matt and I were laying in our bed and William and Lily decided to join us. Will was next to me. I pretended that I was biting his neck, which tickles him. Then, he turned on me and took two HUGE pretend bites out of my face. He looked at me and said

"Mmm... Mom Cake!"

What a funny boy! I can't get enough of him. He is growing up so much and so fast. He's getting this great sense of humor and I love to spend time with him. What can I say? He is a mama's boy. I'm blessed to be his mom cake.

Doo Doing

I came out of the shower yesterday and stumbled across these little treasures. Yes, my children, and I mean BOTH of my children, did this to themselves. Oh, and please excuse the background toilet shots...

Boy, Did I Leave You Hanging

Wow! I haven't posted anything new for over a month. What has happened during my leave of absence? Well, for one, Matthew did recover and of course we all got strep or an ear infection and we have all recovered. I have a few pictures of things that has happened. The top picture... Lily didn't want her picture taken. I couldn't help but post up her dark go-to-where-the-sun-don't-shine look. She pulls it off perfectly.
Something exciting that happened is that I cut Lily's bangs! Finally! Above is the before picture. Yeah, they were driving me crazy. Below is the finished product. I can't believe how much older she looks. She's growing up to be a little girl and not a baby anymore.




Valentine's Day! Matthew and I LOVE Valentine's Day! We met the day before this lovely holiday four years ago. We always go out of our way to celebrate it and make it a big deal. I got Matt a set of new scriptures that he has wanted with his name on them (perfectly straight, might I add) and a book that he has wanted since his mission. Matthew, being the sweet guy he is, got me the following items. This beautiful compilations of novels by a great author...
He helped make me this bookshelf (thank you, Madera Mill). He got this for me because he knew that I wanted a shelf to put my personal favorite books. As you can see, I don't own many of my favorites yet, but I hope my collection will grow. He did a great job with it!
And last but not least, he bought me four roses. It has been a tradition since our first Valentine's Day for him to buy a rose for every member of our family.

These are just a few things that has happened this past month. I'll be better about updating this next month, I promise!!!

Lovable Lily

Okay, so I know that I have already posted today, but I figured that I should take advantage of the opportunity! I've been wanting to put these pictures up of Lily. She got a tiara from my mom and dad for Christmas and she loves it. When she puts it on herself, it's usually upside down and backwards. Sometimes, it's just backwards. All the time, it looks really funny and she kind of looks like an elf from the Lord of the Rings. She's adorable.



I wanted to put the video on here too. Lily will do this if you do it to her. She's a funny character.