That's my girl!

This past week we got to dogsit Molly! Hunt was in heaven, Pais adored getting lots of kisses, and I liked having someone else to help entertain the kids. Since Molly was at our house Chris thought she should try her hand at raccoon hunting which she could care less about. Huntley on the other hand was a hard core little hunter and wanted to shoot the gun really really bad. Yep she is definitely our kid.

The End

Today is the end of life as we know it, at least our wonderful life during the winter. Chris went back to work today and we are officially stuck in the county. Last year at this time I was kind of excited for this day and the new adventure our life was taking. This year I'm only dreading the next 7 months and everything they bring. Although I'm not pregnant, I'm not working, and we only have one dog so it can't be worse than last year.

Anyways the past few weeks we've been cramming in as much fun as we can in order to get as many smiles as possible out of the girlies.
I'd say we are doing a pretty good job at making them smile but with a daddy like ours that isn't hard. So here is a picture overload of some of the stuff we've been doing.

We had three different Easter egg hunts this year, our neighborhood, with Grandpa Davis, and at our house. Huntley finally gets the concept of finding the eggs but her favorite part is still opening them and eating as much as candy as she can right away. Next year I'm doing non-edible items to avoid her sugar melt down and me gaining 5 pounds by eating all of the candy that didn't fit in the eggs.



Another thing we've done is explore the Book of Mormon Children's exhibit at the Church History Museum. Huntley was being extremely shy and not really into doing all of the neat stuff. We were able to get her to help Nephi build the ship. Afterwards she of course had to use the ship to go fishing. She's kind of a professional fisherwoman these days.
I am so out of order here picture wise but blogger is not cooperating with letting me move them so bear with me.

Here is our lovely Easter morning picture. Huntley is two for two on refusing to wear her pretty Easter dress and attending church looking like a homeless child on Easter Sunday. This year she even refused taking a picture. Luckily I reacted a lot better than last year and didn't let it bother me. Probably because I was able to focus all of my attention on Pais who can't talk back to me.
We spent some time dyeing eggs where I learned it's not a good idea to buy your egg kit on clearance the previous year. For some reason the dye stops working and we got several of the same color instead of a variety. Huntley loved displaying her eggs for all to see until she discovered she could smack them against things and crack the shells. Which was hilarious the first few times but not so much a few eggs later when I realized we were going to be eating egg salad sandwiches the whole day.

Back to the Church History Museum. Huntley was scared to do everything but Chris on the other hand had a great time trying everything out. He also enjoyed the thrill of using the escalator instead of the elevator with a stroller. Fun times I tell you.


Paisley also enjoyed watching us play at the museum. So much that she left a little present in the stroller they let us borrow. Talk about most embarrassing moment ever when I took it back to the nice little missionary, lift her out, and we both see a nice little puddle. Word to the wise bring your own stroller and don't borrow one when you go there. The missionary was nice enough to point out to me that she wasn't the first child to do that which did make me feel better but was also a little disturbing.Afterwards we took Hunt to her own personal heaven and let her walk around temple square and pick flowers. Anybody know if temple square has a motto like the forest of "leave only footprints take only pictures"? Either way we aren't very good at keeping that policy.
Huntley also had her first ever kite flying experience. It's always windy when we go fishing so Chris had a great idea of bringing a kite for Hunt to play with. She loved it and he loved not having to constantly get her line untangled from her constantly having a bite.
Are you still awake? I'm sure this post did put most people to sleep but I'm now caught up and can go cuddle with this little ball of cuteness.

First Fishing Trip

Actually it was our second but since we didn't catch any fish the first time we are counting it as the first. It was perfect for our no patience family. Huntley constantly had fish to reel in and Chris constantly had lines to get ready. Paisley and I had a grand time chilling on a blanket enjoying the view.

Worries

One if the downsides of being a mom is the worry that comes with it. There is always a little voice in the back of my head nagging me about the "what ifs" concerning all things related to my girls. As the years go by I'm sure the things I worry about will change, but today I experienced one worry I was hoping to avoid for another 10 years. Huntley talked her little buddy into hopping on the back of her bike and took off down the road. I'd be really concerned about her taking off with a boy if his face didn't assure me that at least he is still young enough to worry about cooties.

Sunny Days, Chasing the Clouds Away

Or more like kitties for us. Saturday was finally warm enough that the girls and I were able to join Chris and see what he's been up to all winter. We did a training exercise with our Maze dog that ended up being a really long hike with two little girls right through the middle of a paintball war zone. That and the fact Huntley had to pick up every single bone she could find made things a little slow going. Now she's got her daddy dreaming of horns and trying to squeeze in a few camping trips before fire season starts. As long as we have beautiful weather like Saturday we'll do anything that let's us be outside!

Randomness

This post is full of all sorts of random.

Very Random.

The randomness ball got rolling when I was spotlighted on Wendy's blog to answer random questions about myself. Wendy's my cousin, actually my grandpa's cousin but we are your typical Utah family where it's like it never ends and you have cousins upon cousins that I guess are your 2nd, 3rd, 51st, whatever cousins. So the other day when I was on facebook and trying to figure out how to classify Wendy as my relative I got really overwhelmed about if I should put cousin since I think she would be my third cousin and does that count as "cousin" on facebook. I eventually quit trying to figure it out in my brain and just put "unknown." I now think facebook needs to add "I live in Utah and have lots of relatives" classification to their relative app, or whatever that is called.

Anyways here's a whole lot of randomness about me:

1. If you could be a superhero, what would your super powers be?
-To read minds. Not other peoples but my kids so that I could figure out how to help them when they don't know how to tell me what is wrong.

2. Hot dogs or hamburgers?
-Both, hamburgers more but there is nothing like sitting around a bonfire eating a hot dog.

3. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
-Patience, I wish I had a lot more of it.

4. In the next life, when we are all perfect :) what age would you be?
-Probably 25ish since that is when I was in the best shape and I didn't hurt when I woke up in the morning. Either I'm getting old or I need a new bed.

5. Tell me your favorite movie and why it is.
-The Man From Snowy River, when your name came from a movie it just has to be your favorite. That and the part where Jim jumps off the cliff on the horse scene is pretty cool.

6. What would your dream vehicle be?
-I loved loved loved my Xterra until someone stole it. :( Now that I have another kid I think my dream vehicle would be an Armada since it's the same just bigger but it's hard to tell since I've actually never driven one.

7. If you won the lottery, what would be the first thing you'd do with your new found wealth?
-Quit my job and have Chris do the same. I've always wished we were independently wealthy so we could just hang out and spend as much time as possible with each other and the kids.

8. If you could spend an hour with anyone (alive or dead) who would it be?
-Chris's Grandma. She passed away before I met him and had such a big influence on his life that I can't wait to meet her some day.

9. Where would you like to see yourself in 10 years?
-Pretty much doing the same thing of raising my kids in hopefully a little bigger house with a lot bigger yard.

10. If we had the "beam me up Scottie" technology- where on earth would you travel to?
-Disneyland!!! I'm still having withdrawals.

11. If you had to change into either a dolphin or a falcon which would you become?

-Falcon for sure! I can't even handle bubbles in the tub because I'm afraid of something coming up the drain and joining me in the tub.

Now the next part of the spotlight is I'm supposed to spotlight 11 more people to answer 11 questions. Instead of spotlighting 11 specific people I'm spotlighting everyone who reads this. Paisley is still up every 2 hours all night long and I really need some new stuff to read from people I actually know. If you don't want to take the time to answer 11 questions than just answer 1-How do you make a baby sleep for longer than 2 hours?!?!

Now to end the randomness, here is a random picture I pulled out of the archives.

This is My Life

Being a stay at home mom is hard and for me it's a whole lot harder than being a working mom. Especially being the stay at home mom who is stuck at home helping their kids and themself adjust to life after a vacation. Yesterday the day ended with lots of tears and I told Chris that I wasn't any good at the whole stay at home mom thing and I wanted to go back to work.

So I did.

I've been working from home a few hours each week so today I decided I would go back to work.

It was wonderful.

Everyone was excited to see me and everything I did was noticed and appreciated. I was able to start and finish something, several somethings. I had lots of conversations with others and none of them included the word why. And the best part, not once did someone bite me when they didn't like what I told them to do.

Then I came home and life was pretty much the same as it had been the past few days. We cleaned up several messes, answered the question why five million times, had arguments over clothes, changed several diapers, and I got bit once.

But I was different.

I did enjoy my day at work and feeling like I accomplished something but in the long run I realized that was only a temporary joy compared to the joy I get from spending time with my girls. Mixed in with our not so good moments were some really great ones. Like having Huntley help me make lunch, cuddling Paisley before she went down for a nap, and traveling under the sea while we pretended we were mermaids during bath time. My paycheck as a mom might not be much according the the worlds standards but in the eternal perspective I'm going to be one rich lady.