Day at the FARM

My Little Artist

So, Annabelle loves drawing, painting, and works some masterpieces with her side walk chalk. Julia is her little sidekick erasing her pretty pictures, taking the caps off her markers, and crawling all over her sidewalk masterpieces. These two girls crack me up.

I love that Annabelle is so creative! I walked up to my bedroom the other morning and she had very carefully draped tissue paper around each one of my dresser handles. She asked, "Do you like it? I decorated" She is my little artista.. I love it!

My Chore Chica

So, Annabelle gets excited anytime I start to clean. She always wants to sweep or gets happy when I give her a wet rag to clean with me. She is my cleaning buddy around the house. So, I decided to make her a "Chore Jar" She has lots of chore cards and shakes the jar then picks cards out to accomplish. She thinks it's a game and gets really excited about it. The other chart I thought would be fun to give her stars for finishing her things for the day. Simple things like brush teeth, comb hair, show love, ect... Well, it worked for two days then I came down to the kitchen to see the chair pulled up to the fridge. Annabelle had climbed up to her chore chart and crossed off all the chores for the the entire week. HAHAHA (NOW THAT'S ONE WAY)

"Book of Mormon Stories"

Julia 10 months

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My sweet Julia is exactly that.. SO SWEET. Yes we still call her Baby June, Junie, and Baby Julia. She is seriously such a sweet little girl. Junie in a nutshell...

*smiles all the time.. and has the cutest little smile while she squints her eyes shut!

*Crawled one month later than Annabelle but is now on the MOVE! (both of my girls crawled during March Madness :)

*She can eat her sister under the table! she loves drinking out of a sippy cup all by herself.

*She waves hi and bye bye.. :)

*She grunts and does a little scrunched pig face.. it so "her face"

*she chases Annabelle all over the house.. when she catches up to her she will give her open mouth kisses!

*she always snuggles into my chest and is such a snuggle bug (so unlike annabelle)

*she goes upstairs now and cruises and pulls herself up on anything and everything she can find.. like I said she is on the MOVE!

SHE REALLY IS MY SWEET bABY jUNIE

The peep show

Faces Of Annabelle

Annabelle loves being in her "big girl room" She twirls and dances all day long singing her favorite songs

She has pretend friends.. Ariel, Belle, Kayla, and Jasmine. She makes me put them on the potty too and we clap for them when they go pee (technically I'm potty training 3 people.. Annabelle and her two friends) hahaha

Brad came and sat on Annabelle's bed.. Annabelle loudly said, "Daddy! your sitting on my fins!" Is she a mermaid now? I've been known to sit on Belle and Jasmine too..

Randomly during the day Annabelle will say, " Mommy I have a secret for you.. come here" She then whispers in my ear "I love you" Now that's cool :)

Annabelle bringing me something to fix.. I was in a hurry so as always, I say.. Annabelle Daddy will just fix it when he gets home. Annabelle, then says "Come on mommy you can do it. You have big muscles like this!" (as she flexes her muscles. I of course had to stop everything I was doing and HAD TO FIX HER TOY. Daddy is still known as the one in family with the BIG muscles.

"Daddy is my best buddy" "best buddy means love"---Annabelle

Annabelle loves to clean. She loves sweeping and cleaning with a wet rag. When she sees me get out the broom she gets so excited! She runs around saying "I'm the best cleaner, me and mommy... oh and daddy" I say, "what about Junie? "No, she is not a good cleaner she just makes messes"

Almost every day when Annabelle wakes up she will ask "Where is baby June? She holds her hand in the car, as they are sitting in their car seats. She will break up her nuggets into little pieces to give to her.

"BABY june likes mommy milk" "I big girl I drink chocolate milk" Annabelle blurts out and Grandmas house "when I was little I eat mommy's boobies" haha funny.

"I want my hair to touch the floor like tangled".. blurting out in the shower "Look! I'm eating my vegetables so my hair is getting long like Tangled!"

Annabelle will give me five every time she seems me sitting on the potty. She will even clap for me :)

She holds her pig tails every time we are outside. I asked her why.. "so, they don't blow away."

"I'm a balla weiner" ballerina
"President Monster" President Monson

"No one like a frowny face change it to a happy face" Turn it upside down and make it a happy face..and make the world a better place."

Saturday Family Fun

This week Brad was EXTRA busy at work.. so a family fun Saturday was so much needed:) After a zumba class at the gym and my first cycling class (yes, I'm still alive somehow) We decided what better way to get those calories back then head to CHIPOTLE! :) Annabelle is always so amusing to eat with.. she was having fun with her tortilla and "white dippies" sour cream.

We then headed to the pet store and got some new fish! We were looking everywhere for the perfect fish.. who was name "JIMMER" ANNABELLE KEPT ON SAYING, "WHERE IS THE JIMMER FISH?" We finally found a fish we liked and now we have a fish name Jimmer. :)

We came home and watched some of conference. Two talks that stood out to me were talking how we can learn from little children and we should learn to become more like them. I really learn from Annabelle everyday... her eagerness to learn new things, how quick she is to forgive and forget, her unconditional love, and her BIG KIND heart :) I love how at any moment I can walk around the corner and hear her singing Book of Mormon Stories or I love to See the Temple. She really brings such a sweet spirit into our home. The same with Julia, her beautiful smile and cuddley kisses are the best. The day ended with the girls palying hide and seek in Julia's room.. Julia was crawling around trying to fin Annabelle and both girls were giggling SO HARD! It was awesome.


Brad and I said during the first session of conference.."Yes! kids are in this year.. Oh yeah we have cool kids, we are so lucky!"

Annabelle and I had a fun afternoon decorating the "Easter Tree" Julia was trying to help also. She was crawling around and having a fun time with all the eggs on the floor. Daddy wasn't home tonight so this was our girl party! We were listening to some fun music, watching the thunderstorm outside and decorating our tree! We ended the night with some THAI PEANUT CHICKEN or "peanut butter" chicken.... Annabelle liked to call it :) It's so fun having these two girls. I'm so lucky!

Watch out BEYONCE....

One of my favorite things to do with Annabelle is turn the music on loud and DANCE! This girls has some moves:) I love when a song comes on and she yells... "YES! This is my favorite song!"

So, introducing my ZUMBA partner....

Organized Chaos

So, excited about my new bulletin board I made! Why do I get excited about a chore chart for myself?? Well, because I'm a MOM hahaha. Good thing it's cute and it fits perfectly on the wall the leads into the garage.. really what else would I put there?!? It helps keep me organized. It also helps me plan out my dinners and keep track of mommy groups and kid activities. So, YES...I guess chore charts are something that excite me these days...

Stats On Miss Julia-- 9 months!

My sweet Julia..

Loves to be swaddled when it's nap time or bed time. She takes 3-4 naps a day and wakes up once during the night. Girl loves her beauty sleep :)

She doesn't mind getting wet in the tub and kicks and splashes so much. Annabelle loves pouring cups of water on her head. She doesn't seem to mind.

She is sooooo tickilious under her chin! She doesn't really laugh out loud to often but has this cute inside belly chuckle

Has upgraded from the mushy baby food... she actually started eating most table food at 6 months. She eats anything I'm eating.. she loves grabbing for anything on my plate.

Has the most darling smile when she crunches her face and squints her eyes shut.. it's my favorite thing ever!

She loves to bounce and jump and when you pick her up. she shakes her legs and arms in a jumping motion. (Annabelle thinks she looks like a mermaid flapping her fins)

She watches Annabelle all the time! She will smile and soon as she sees Annabelle enter the room.

She is a little behind on crawling, as Annabelle was crawling at 7 months. I blame it on the fact that every time Julia gets on her belly Annabelle sits on her to "RIDE HER!"

Her first tooth came in at 6 1/2 months and her 2nd tooth took it's time popping out but made it's appearance 2 months later.

Julia likes to roll and finds this is the best way to get to places. She will get up on all fours and rock back and forth... then she gets frustrated she's not moving anywhere and does a high pitched scream!

I love how she gives me open mouth kisses and attacks my face with her little open mouth.. I'm happy she is still nursing and love that quiet time with her.

Julia is my little sweetheart.

A Whole New World...

Lately, Annabelle has been walking around sining... and I love it!