April 8, 2009

"Built In Entertainment"

As many of you know, Chloee lives in her own imaginary world...she is a princess, a ballerina, a chef, a mommy, variety of animals, a fairy...basically whatever she sees fit. It is very normal to hear her carrying on a complete dialogue with different characters all by herself. Being an only child, she has it down to a science!

Which brings me to the above picture...this evening we were coming home from her dance lessons when I hear her saying "No, no you bad bad wolf, stay away from my Grandma...she is SO SO SO old...all she can do is sleep & bake cookies! If you don't, I'll give you my karate punch!" (followed by an enthusiastic hi-ya!) I had just taken the exit off the freeway & turned to see this! Very industrious, I know...yes, that is her ballet skirt tied on her head. I busted up laughing & had to capture it on my phone...looking at it, I smile again....she sorta has a little Amish thing going on!

For the record, as soon as I had taken the picture I then got after her for not wearing her seat belt correctly...so PLEASE don't call CPS!

April 7, 2009

Sweet Little Weekend...

My brother, Chace and his family came down from Phoenix for Conference weekend. One of the BEST things about living in beautiful Arizona is that they also live here!

Of course, the weather was perfect...(salt to the wounds for my loved-ones in Idaho!) and Chloee & Jensyn basically LIVED outside. Chloee's favorite part was when the "parents" as she so graciously put it went out on a date and left the cousins to party with the babysitter! She then proceded to tell me that we should do that EVERY night!

For some reason, I always feel like when people come to my home I need to rush around Tucson and seek out all the sites and that if we don't do something extraordinary then the time is somehow a wash. I have realized how far from the truth that is, sometimes it's just the good company of the people we love most that makes for the best of days. I'm so happy that they came and look forward to MANY more weekends just like this one!



March 25, 2009

What?... We Have a Blog?!

Apparently, I took a little break from the blog world! I can't possibly begin to go back & try to cover everything since FALL...so my goal, to start fresh! Some monumental changes have taken place however, that I feel are worth mentioning, so here goes.....

Jared, along with his partner Richard are now happy owners of the Big O Tire Store here in Oro Valley! The contract went through in November...woohoo!!! We are really excited about this new journey and are happy to know that sunny Arizona is where we are putting down our roots!

Chloee is LOVING Kindergarten & doing so great! I'm pretty sure that her sole purpose is to bring me 24 hour entertainment! I am certain that she HAS to be the smartest, funniest, most beautiful 5 (almost 6-in May) year old in the world! We had a normal follow up EEG on her done in February, to see if she could be winged off her medicine but there was still some abnormal activity, so we will be keeping her on it. She does really well with her medicine & we have seen no side effects. She is really a little trooper, she just rolls with whatever tests or medical procedures that are thrown at her like it's nothing! Funny to think that just a little girl can be one of my biggest examples....oh, how I adore her!

And, finally....no. Still no new little additions, to this family. Jared and I would love to give Chloee a sibling, but I know Heavenly Father makes all families different sizes! We are just taking things one step at a time and see where it leads us...I believe EVERYTHING happens for a reason!