The Sweetest Things

There have been so many things lately that have made me smile and say "Ohhh, how sweet!" I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! :)

1. I have a 2 year old! Just seeing her getting so big puts little stars of pride in my eyes, as well as tears for the lost littleness. She is so perfect and sweet. Yes, she is still a 2 year old as proof of the birthday video :) But even the "No!"s and such have to make me smile. (I didn't edit at all so sorry it's a little over a minute.)
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2. Having a hard working, smarty pants, hunk of a husband! I so proud of Hayden all the time, but it's even better when he's proud too. He recently took a quiz that everyone did poorly on; even the professor commented on it with concern. And what was Hayden's score??? 100%!!! Yup he's pretty amazing! :) Plus he's an amazing dad to boot, what can I do but swoon! :)

3. Everyday Hallie! This is for a taste of the everyday sweetness that is Hallie. When she really wants something she adds words to her sentences ex. Sentence 1 - Mommy I want a drink. 2- Mommy I want a drink of water please. 3- Mommy I want my flower drink of water on the counter right there!!! I apparently took way to long in getting it, but couldn't help smile at this entreaty. She runs everywhere! Galloping and jumping however and the new joy. She loves to smell anything that is getting stirred, mixed or cooked. Hide and seek is a must. Singing songs like "Mr. Sun," "5 little monkeys," "ABC's" "On top of Spaghetti" and several more are a daily occurrence. Swings, swings, and more swings!! Little tables, chairs, and dish sets are hours of entertainment. She adores Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and all the friends. Each new stuffed animal gets a "Hello Mr. ____ (bear, bunny, kitty etc.)" She takes an animal, a book, and a water cup to bed each night. She changes their "poopy bums." She says things like "Swinging was super duper fun mommy!" and "That's a gigantic dinosaur!" Every night when I lay her in bed she asks for her water, I give it to her and she says, "Thank you mommy." She is my sweetie pie. I love her so much! I feel so blessed to be her mom and my heart expands with love as she grows; I feel it from the tip of my head to my toes! :) She is my little girl and my gigantic blessing!

4. Baking/Cooking. Literally. I LOVE to bake/cook! We had a fabulous green meal for St. Patrick's Day, so much fun! Green soup bowls, green sour cream on the soup, green jello in little lime cups, green juice and we topped it off with sugar cookies and green frosting! I loved it! The best part is it was Hallie's first time baking sugar cookies! She mixed and added flour and vanilla and helped me cut out the stars. That was fun of course until she realized that the little scraps left over after I took the stars out was delicious cookie dough. Her attention was completely switched from stars to dough. Before I knew it she had a mouthful of delicious dough stuffed in her mouth with all that wouldn't fit hanging down to her chin. I was a little nervous about tummy aches, but also thought it was cute. That is until she kept at it. I'm up to my elbows in flour and frosting and she's downing the dough, so I tell her several times "let's make those into cookies, the dough will give you a tummy ache." She responds by quickly grabbing more because of course that statement was just a warning that I was not going to let her eat more. So I try to take some out of her sticky little hands with minimal success. Then she looks up at me and wraps her sweet little sticky hands around my elbow and leans her head on my arm and says,"don't give me a tummy ache mommy. It's yummy!" Then she releases slightly and changes her mind giving me another sweet arm hug and head rest and says, "Mommy makes me so happy!" She let go and I was a ball of mush. Then to add to it about every 30 seconds she gave me that same hug and said that I made her so happy. She is such a sweet heart! I know she loves cookie dough, but I can't help but think it was more that the sugar rush that made her so sweet!

Review, Revise, Revist the plans

So...life's been busy of coarse, but I did get a minute to look over the plans I made several weeks ago. That always makes me chuckle. :) I must think I'm superwoman because it's silly to look at all my piles of plans; the lofty goals and expectations that I make and actually think I might accomplish. So I thought I'd get everyone up to date on what I am ACTUALLY doing instead of what I had planned on... oh the dreams.

1.Selling our house - did it, and done!

2.Martha Stewart... I'm slowly adding sewing to my diet, but it's a little tough to swallow. I made Hallie a Valentine's Day "heart dress" as she calls it. It's...cute. I don't love it, but I'm learning so what can you say. There was supposed to be a purse that I was going to make too, but that will have to wait until the next project.



3.Potty. Oh dear. This one is just silly. Hallie will be 2 years old in 20 days. What was I thinking?! Most likely I was wistfully dreaming of a one year old that would recognize the need to go potty, walk over in time, undress, wipe, dress again, wash her hands and come back over for a nice little chat with mommy. Yup, insane. So our first day was actually pretty good. Hallie LOVED her new panties! She was so excited to have stars and rainbows and Elmo on her new panties that she showed them off to everyone. We set the timer and went to the bathroom every 30 minutes until I was tired of cleaning up pee and upped it to 15 minutes. Hallie loves her potty so then we'd sit there for 5-10 min. Needless to say we spent the day in the bathroom.
Now to the fun part. Hallie hates messes. She shrieks at the sight of spilled water. So when suddenly her pants are wet with pee pee, all hades breaks loose. She instantly needs love and hugs from mommy, who is holding her at arms length so as not to get splattered with any more pee. (yup I felt horrible, but not bad enough to get peed on) So we ran, we cleaned, we repeated.
The good news is that she pooped once and peed 4 times in the potty. So exhausted and beaten I went to bed knowing that if I could just hold on one more day she'd be doing it all by herself. Oh ignorance is bliss.. So the next morning we're ready with our adorable panties, bags under the eyes and a hopeful smile. After analyzing every move Hallie made the previous day I got pretty good and determining when she needed to pee. So I see the look and excitedly say, "It's potty time!" Hallie starts crying and looking really worried, so I think, "Crap, I'm too late." I start getting her out of her chair and looking to see how wet everything is, but she's dry!? So we rush to the potty and I'm so excited to start the day with clean panties! She is still upset and it instantly escalates when we enter the bathroom. She sits for maybe 4 seconds then runs out. I know she has to go so I throw on a pull up, against her will. The next thing I know she's off in a corner with this guilty look on her face; she'd wet her pull up. I think I instantly woke up. She was having some serious anxiety about the potty! She was worried that she had to go to the potty more than that she was going to have a mess. Sad sad sad:( Right then I tossed the panties and pulled out the diapers again. I don't care if it takes until Jr. high, but I want her to be happy and confident and the potty insanity was not doing that. So we are officially saying good bye potty.

4.Marathon - this is still in the works, it's just slow and steady. I've been walking and jogging for awhile now. I just recently got excited again about the race. So the plan is 15 minute runs 3 times a week for 2 weeks. This week is week one. It's exciting to think of running again, and Hayden is on board to run with me so that makes it a million times more fun!

Chaos is good, chaos is good,.... right?

I feel like life has been a whirlwind for the last month, but now it is finally settling down.... sort a. We sold our house and moved to Utah County. Hayden is in a new job and a new school and loves every minute. We're looking for an apartment while we stay with my parentals. We're also looking for a new car so I can breath. :) And while we're at it let's potty train Hallie, start a new diet and exercise plan, get a new calling and plan a family vacation to South Carolina/ Florida. (Hawaii isn't out of the picture for me yet either; by the way fam!)



It's good, but sometimes I feel like I'm trying to breath underwater; like some frantic little fish. Of course all of the chaos if for good, exciting, moving forward things. The up sides are that we have gone on more dates the last month than we have for the last 2 years. Hallie loves being near her cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. Hayden LOVES school. The more I think about it, life really is good. I guess I just needed to vent a little and get it out there. We're happy and busy what more can we want. :)