"If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled will disappear all too soon and that you will -- to your surprise -- miss them profoundly."

--Thomas S. Monson, 2009







Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Lately...


A sight like this makes my heart melt.  They had just gotten home from the library and sat down to read together...


Chloe lost her first tooth!  She was so excited.  She already has 2 more loose ones.  She wrote this note to the toothfairy.  It was so cute. It reads, "Dear Tooth Fairy, Take care of my tooth.  Please give him lots of Caesar salad and cinnamon.  Please sign _____. From Chloe."



Here is our niece Emma and the girls' cousin and awesome babysitter!  She has babysat for us a lot since we moved here and we love it!  It is nice having her live 10 min away.  We go to watch her basketball games from time to time.  She is awesome!


Olivia was a little obsessed with these glasses and book for a while.  She came up to me and asked, "Mom, do these glasses make me look cool or smart?"  She would always frantically say, "Mom where is my book and glasses!"  Too cute.


Izzy did this FHE for us one week.  She created it at Activity Days one week.  She did a great job!  The girls were all ears and very attentive that night.  It was an adorable little puppet show on good manners. 


Izzy's been participating in floor hockey at school at lunch lately.  Parents are invited to come watch and cheer on.  She loves it and is pretty good!



She received Student of the Month for February!  She was chosen by her classmates as the most caring student in her class.  We are so proud.


These were their Valentine's  this year:


I've been playing in a volleyball league since Jan and it has been so fun!  Ben and I joined in a tournament one Sat, got a babysitter for the whole day.  It was so fun to play together again.  It had been over 10 years since we played together. Our team actually got 4th place.  Excuse the horrible photo, we were all sweaty from playing all day!  It was fun.


I found this adorable little note Lily had written about her and Chloe.  It's titled, "The Lily and Chloe Paper."  It says things like, "BFF's.  GIRLS'RULE."  It has their initials which are CLA and LCA, they LOVE to point that out all the time.  And the fact that, "Chloe was born in 2007 and I'm seven, and I was born in 2005 and Chloe's five."  That is a neat coincidence, and it is not the case anymore since Chloe turned 6!  I wanted to record this, I thought it was so cute.