Easter Pictures

I took the kids to the studio and got some Easter pictures.

Follow the Prophet...

Claire: (in song) Follow the prophet, follow the prophet, follow the prophet he knows the way.

Me: Claire who is the prophet? Do you know who he is?

Claire: blank stare

Me: President Monson is the prophet.

Claire: (in song) Follow the Monson, Follow the Monson, Follow the Monson he knows the way.

Well Checks

The kids went in for well-check-ups today. They are both just about 60% for height and weight. They look good! Claire had one shot today and she didn't cry, she did very well. I bribed her with a prize - and it seemed to work. That's about all. I'm off to watch "Horton hears a poo" as Claire calls it.

Organic Makeup

This month at Walgreen's there's a mail in rebate for $10 worth of the Organic Physician's Formula makeup. I tried the bronzer/blush, it's pretty good. There are no parabens, and it is the first line of certified organic makeup in the U.S. They have quite a few different things to choose from that you can get for just about free.

On my mind.

Well I've just been thinking a lot about Fargo seeing as how they've had the worst flood in over 100 years. Most of you know I grew up in Fargo. I just wanted to let all our friends there know that I'm praying for you, and maybe I can get a few of you reading to pray along with me. Many people had everything destroyed in the flood of 97 and luckily our family escaped without much damage, and amongst the turmoil we saw a lot of people come together for a greater good.

On a lighter note... I got something in the mail today...my BLURB book! As one of my "young" woman recognition requirements I worked on my blog and turned it into a book. If you haven't heard about Blurb and you are a blogger - you must! It slurps all of your blog posts into a book with all of your images and everything! It's great, and my book turned out really nice. It's really making me see what I should be putting in my blog. Anywho - just excited and wanted to share.

Also, I started renting a Studio, I share it with a bunch of other people, so it really isn't that big of an investment, but I'm so excited because I'll be able to take my photography to the next level. I'm sooo excited. So if you live in Idaho Falls, I'd love to take some pics for you!

Oh and Jake is in this really funny stage where he'll copy things we do. It's crazy. He waves, has said hi, mama, dada, cracker, ball, bye bye. I don't like this whole - getting older business, where has by baby gone?

Okay that's all.

Things

Well I had a few words from Claire I wanted to write down, so I wouldn't forget. She has been saying some weird things lately and some funny prayers. I also wanted to post a few things that Claire is really into right now so I don't forget.

Last night at prayer she said "please bless the Lamanites that they won't fight, and please bless that nana will come and we can take a walk in the forest"

Then I was telling her about her sunglasses and how they keep the sun out of her eyes. and she said "can I put them in my pocket so my pants don't get hot?" I guess that makes sense, if they keep the sun out of her eyes, why not her pants? She's always saying that her pants are hot... not sure about that.

I had Jake in his snowsuit, this giant thing that he can't move in and he looks very fluffly like a teddy bear, and Claire asked if she could "hold Jakey the bear", when he's not wearing his suit, it's "Jakey the boy".

Right now she just loves girl things, she loves skirts and dresses - nothing new for her. She got a water doodle book from her Granny, basically you paint it with a water pen and the color shows up, she calls it her journal, that's probably her most favorite activity right now. We've been going to story time at the Library since she turned three and she loves to look at the fish they have there and she loves to do the read along books on the computers. Her favorite shows are on "pbskids.org" she calls it, they are: curious george, super why, sid the science kid. She tolerates Sesame street - which makes me a little sad. And she still really loves Dora the Explorer and Diego. She loves singing songs that she makes up, they're pretty silly. She still loves her disney princesses and tells me the story of each one while we're in the car, and sings the songs to each movie along with it.
She's finally saying her "r's" and "l's" correctly, well at least when she's focusing on it. I thought that day would never come. She loves bath time with her brother and asks for a bath everyday. Right now whenever she says something it always ends with "or something" while she shrugs her shoulders. She seems so old when she does that.

We are so excited for summer time, it's supposed to be like 70 degrees here today. I love warm weather. I got my tomatoes planted, Chris is even itching to do some yard work - strange.
We've got well visits for them next week so I'll be posting again about height, weight and all that fun stuff. I guess that's about all for now, I'm just so glad I've got two healthy children, who are only a little strange...

It's that time of year...

So if you haven't already, it's a great time to start planting your veggies for this summer's garden. This is the best and cheapest way to eat organic! I can't explain it, but I get a lot of pride and fulfillment out of my garden - not to mention the fact that it saves me lots of money. So much fun too, my daughter loves to help me weed and pick the plants, and she even helped plant her own tomato plant this year!