April 2011- Strawberries and Rosalie's Birthday

I have been a bad blogger lately, sorry. Here is an update of what we did last month.

We went to the strawberry farm, and then made some yummy freezer jam. Rosalie hates getting her picture taken lately and will just not hold still.
She is purposefully not looking at me in this picture and is scowling to let me know she doesn't want her picture taken. Silly girl. She just never stops moving.
She was trapped, so I could catch her face on camera. And she was showing me her strawberries that she was eating. She ate a bunch of them and just wanted the whole bucket full.
Look mom a half smile, haha she is a cheese ball.

We celebrated Rosalie's 2nd birthday, I cried because my baby is growing up. But we had a really fun day with my family who drove down to see her. After Rosalie woke up the table was decorated with roses from Sean and a bunch of balloons blown up just for her and all of her gifts, she was so excited to see everything and everyone, but we did not get a picture of the display.

Opening a gift, she loves tearing the wrapping paper.
Here she has noticed that there are princesses on the paper, so cute!!!!

On her "car" from Grandma and Grandpa. She loves to press the button to make it go, but will no longer sit on it, she is terrified that it will move. So funny.

Rosalie's birthday dinner, one of the few times she actually sat at the table. She just wanted to explore the restaurant the entire time.

Rosalie was terrified of that bear at the restaurant, she just wanted to get away from it.

Watching Mickey cartoons on Aubrey's Ipad. She LOVED that thing, it was so cute.

Opening another gift, her makeup kit. She loves that thing because she can put makeup on like me and she loves to brush and play with the hair stuff. She is such a mimic.

Gammy and pops also sent her an amazing sand and water table which I don't have pictures of it being opened, but she absolutely loves it and I have pictures of her playing with it for another post.

She loved the candles on her cake, she blew them out twice, and we even made her pancakes with candles for breakfast. I think the candles were one of her favorite parts of the day.

Digging in before we could get it away from her.

Sneaking a bite of the cake first. She is so funny.

We had a really great rest of the month too, I just don't have pictures. My mom has them on her camera. We went to Austin for Stephen's Mission farewell and Easter and my mom's birthday, all on the same day. And then we stayed a week to hang out with Stephen and the family before he left on his mission. It was a nice week and Rosalie loved hanging out in the yard with Elvis and exploring. She loves outside and she loves dogs, so it was a perfect combination. Other than that we haven't been up to much. I will add more pictures and posts soon and vow to be better at this.

Happy Birthday Sean!!!

My love is 27 and he is the best and I can't believe I have him for my own. Happy Birthday Sean!!!!

I didn't have candles, so I used that pillar, silly me. And Rosalie thought it was her cake and wanted to eat the whole thing. A melt down ensued. Sean made us have cake on Sunday so that he can be healthy today. We love him so much and wish we could celebrate him all week long.

Lately

I have been a terrible blogger lately because I have been a terrible photographer lately. But here are a few from my phone.

Rosalie just loves to be naked lately, it is so funny.

She loves laying down like this to watch her movies.

Making faces.

She didn't want to do a photo shoot, but since I put her hair in pigtails and she insisted I do the same, I made her take some pics.

She wanted me to make that face.

Smiles.

Cute pigtails.

Sleeping Beauty!

She loves her Cinderella doll, she wants to take it everywhere with her. Thanks Grandma!

Rosalie is so much fun and we just totally love spending time with her. She is so talkative and knows exactly what she wants. It is pretty funny listening to her. She also sings and dances and loves watching movies with lots of fun music in them. She loves her snacks and she loves playing with her friends. She loves reading books. It was the cutest thing the other night, she made me read like 50 verses in the scriptures the other night, she just kept demanding that I read. As long as she has her own scriptures in front of her then she will sit still and listen. She is also really great about praying, it is so cute to hear her repeat us. She is just growing up so fast, and sometimes it makes me sad. She will be 2 in 5 weeks and I just can't believe how fast that has snuck up on us.

Sean is busy working, it is busy season you know. He seems to like the work, the stuff he does is interesting and challenging to him and he enjoys that. He has started doing some stuff in Austin and we might be going there for his work every once in a while. He has also enjoyed spending time with Rosalie and playing at home and reading to her and playing piano and guitar with her.

I have been busy baking. I have learned to make cinnamon rolls/orange rolls, dinner rolls from the Lion House, whole wheat bread, tarts, and a few other things. I just love food and baking and decided to try out new things. I just love doing things around my house and making it a better place and improving my skills at those types of activities.

Rosalie and I also keep busy hanging out with friends at the park, going to the zoo, going on walks and anything we can to enjoy the beautiful weather here. We will probably spend the summer in the pool once it starts to get hot, so we might as well enjoy the cooler air now.

I promise I will be better at blogging and picture taking from now on.

Book Review

http://www.quinnheder.com/2011/01/sample-preview-book-1-search-for.html

For all of you who love to read you should really check out this book. It is a cute cute cute novel and easy entertainment. I would recommend this over the Twilight series any day. It is not mythical vampire crap, but about the old west, but not in the dirty cowboy movie type sense. It is great, I really think it is fun. The best part about it is that Sean's Uncle is the author. Go check it out, you won't be disappointed.

Christmas

We had a really awesome Christmas, here are a bunch of pictures to document it.First night there.
Christmas Eve, being goofy.
In her Christmas Eve Jammies riding around on the plasmacar.

Here she is dancing, you can't tell from the picture, but it is pretty hilarious.
Opening presents, didn't get very many.
Hanging out with Grandpa.
Wearing Christmas gifts and brushing her teeth with her new banana toothbrush, while watching a Christmas movie. All instead of opening presents. Silly girl.
Tent.
Disneyland...

Walking in her new heels.
Hugging cousins, at the animal park. Rosalie loved that little petting zoo. She went crazy.


The girls loved the train, they were laughing so hard.

We had a really fun time visiting Rick and Linda and seeing M&M and their family, and Mimi too. It had been too long since we were all together, and it was a blast. We were really glad to have that time to be carefree and enjoy ourselves and enjoy the season. Rosalie loved being there and having Lucy around, we were so happy that she pulled through her pneumonia (from eating chocolate) and that everything was fine. Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year, I was grateful to be there and have a little escape from real life. We can't wait for our next California vacation.

December

(Unfortunately the photographer took it right before she smiled and wouldn't take another, so lame)
December was a busy month, which was really good. Rosalie enjoyed everything that had to do with Christmas, the tree, the lights, the candy canes, even Santa. We attended Sean's work party and Rosalie got to see Santa, she was so excited that she ran right to him and sat on his lap. I think all she really wanted was the candy cane though, she is obsessed with them. I am grateful that we had the season to help heal us after a rough November. I am not saying we were better, but we had things to look forward to and that helped.

Rosalie enjoyed playing PS3 with Sean, his early Christmas gift. She holds the controllers and presses the buttons and everything, it is so cute.

The dynamic duo.
Making cookies with me, she jumped right in there when she saw me bring out the supplies, I had to finish them when she was asleep because I couldn't get anything done. I thought it was really cute how much she loved it though. She only eats the frosting though, haha.
We also went and spent a weekend with my family and had a mini Christmas with them. They babysat Rosalie and we were able to go to see Harry Potter 7, it was awesome. Rosalie loved to go and walk the dog while we were there.
And steal baked goods from the counter, she only really licked the frosting off.
We went to see the lights on this crazy culdesac that goes all out for Christmas, one house even had a snow machine. Rosalie loved being with "Ama" and "Bapa."
Then we came home and gave Rosalie her Christmas gift from Santa at our house. She loved the slide and sat on it to watch her shows, slid every toy imaginable down it, and slid down it in all directions.

After that Sean had a busy week at work and we headed out to Cali for some time with the Hartley clan. We had a blast, and I think that deserves it's own post, so until I have more time, I hope this will make you guys happy, and feel a bit more caught up with what is going on.

P.S. Rosalie is growing so much and talking so much, I almost would have to do a daily update to keep up with all of her shenanigans.