Hosting Thanksgiving

Ahhhhh I am hosting Thanksgiving, and I am sooooo nervous.
I keep seeing myself like Chevy Chase taking out a gorgeous turkey only to see it deflate before my eyes. Will let you know how it all turned out. :0)

Primary Program Oct 2010

Ariana participated in her first primary program!!! She was wonderful. She had her part memorized and didn't need any help when she got up there to give her part. I loved that when she got up all you saw was her hand raise up to pull down the microphone, and you couldn't even see her as you heard her little voice say " yo se que vive mi salvador". I made all the girls these flowers for their hair and I made the boys little boutonnieres. It was such a fun day. I loved how Ariana would dance while she was singing. Seriously she would dance during all the songs. Luckily she just danced in her spot. Below are some pics that we took before. She is in a stage right now where she loves to be silly, and make silly faces. This is a really fun age.

I'm a Big Boy Now!!

Viggo has been announcing every time that he goes pee and poo poo's. And when he is bathing he asks to be taken out to go potty all the time. Can you tell how proud he is. I am not going to take his pampers away till he turns two. And then there is no going back. But for now I just want him to have fun thinking that the potty is fun, and come April we go into potty boot camp mode. No going out for a straight week until we get it down. Or two or three depending on how this method works with boys :/ I don't do the whole pull up thing. My relief society president from agua fria Lili Quintero taught me you just take the pampers away. For the first couple of days you run around cleaning up after their accidents but by day three they are almost as good as gold. At least Ariana was. And by the end of the week you got yourself a potty trained kid. This worked great with Ariana but she is a girl. We will find how long potty training boot camp goes for Viggo.

Project #1

We moved into our new home and realized that we were tired of our huge Ikea corner desk. It just took up way to much room. So we went to goodwill and looked for an old desk that we could fix up. And this is what we found. I loved it!!! All it needed was a fresh coat of paint and some new hardware. I loved the storage space on the side of it that had sliding drawers.

Here is my little helper. While Viggo sleeps we get to work.

Here is a fresh coat of paint, and it's new hardware.

It looks really purple here, but in my room it looks perfect. I wanted a pop of color to go against my light grey furniture. Project #1 is officially done.

What makes a home?

Nothing makes my home feel more happy than having my kids running around half naked, just being silly!! Nothing better than hearing laughter in the home :0)

Birthday Girl

Guess who is four now. I can't believe that I am blogging about her birthday, it feels like I was just blogging about her third. She was so proud about turning four years old. We had planned to throw her a friend birthday party this year, but with all the changes we weren't able to do it. But I don't think she minded at all that she just got to celebrate with just her family. That's what I love about kids and my Arianita. They find joy in anything.

This is really embarassing to blog about, but I did almost forget her birthday. Not that I forgot but with all the packing, moving, and unpacking I didn't realize that the next day would be Wednesday her BIRTHDAY. Lucky for me my daughter is brilliant. That night as I was putting her to bed, she said "mom when I wake up tomorrow I am going to find the whole house decorated, I am so excited, (giggle)." And I just smiled and said yup tomorrow is your birthday. Inside my head... " How could I have forgotten that tomorrow is my little girl's birthday.... Ahhhhh.... I am such a bad mom." Well at ten at night I took off to walmart to buy decorations. I think its so cute that she remembers that I decorate the house for her, where she finds her presents waiting for her. Anyways I got it done, and she had the biggest smile on her face that morning.

David and I bought her a little tink outfit, and we thought it would be fun to place her little tink slippers that we bought her at the foot of her door. We told her that tink had left her slippers like hers because she heard that it was her birthday. It was so cute when she came running into our room saying mom, look I think tinkerbell gave me her shoes. I love how kids can still believe in magic and fun. I feel so lucky to be this little girls mom.

This is Ariana waking up and posing with all her presents. She is so big now. She seriously was talking about her birthday six months before her birthday. She is just in this stage now where she looks forward to everything. Always asking about her birthday, and memorizing which holiday comes first, and which follow after. Right now she is so excited for Halloween. This is such a fun stage.

This is my little Arianaita. She wore her tink outfit all day!!

David serving the kids pizza. Can't go wrong with pizza and cupcakes. I love cooking for my family. It makes me so happy when I see how much they love to eat what I cook.

To my Arianita. I love you so much. You bring so much life and joy into my life. Never loose your ability to believe and dream. I love seeing how much joy you have for life. You go to bed, and I know you are already dreaming about what you will get to do tomorrow. You always look forward to the next, day before it even arrives. So much so that even when you have a late evening you never allow yourself to ever sleep in because once, the sun is up so are. "Se desperto el sol mama." Is how you enjoy to wake me and your dad up. I love you Ariana and I hope you never stop laughing and smiling, it is so contagious, you light up our home with your beautiful spirit everyday. And we thank Heavenly Father every night that we get to have you for another year. Happy fourth birthday Nanita. Te quiero mucho mucho mucho mas. And normally you would say no mama you te quiero mucho mucho mucho mas, and then I would say it back at you but I am glad I get to win this one, because I want you to know I will never stop loving you, my heart would break without you in my life. :0)

First Sleep Over

Ariana had her first sleep over the night before we moved back down to phoenix. I know that three is a little young, but her room was all packed up, and she was sleeping over at my good friend Audrey's house. Her daughter and my little girl have so much fun together. And I was so sad that they were not going to get to play together every week. So I let her sleep over. Can you tell that she had no problem with leaving us. She is so independent. She didn't even cry when it was time for bed or anything. I don't know where she gets all her confidence from, it must be from by husbands side of the family. Because, as a little girl I can remember not wanting to got to nursery, and my little girl was like "see ya mom". I am so lucky to have her. She is such a joy.