Monday, January 31, 2011

a brown crayon

sometimes when you go to the store and leave your kids with daddy, this is what happens...


and if you're a really mean mom like i am...


you'll give them a box of baby wipes and make them clean it up themselves ;D

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Saturday, January 22, 2011

christmas pictures

christmas pictures are finally here!

gingerbread muffins with whipped cream and christmas pears for breakfast on christmas eve. yummy!

every year my dad makes crepes for dinner on christmas eve. i'm not sure why we started doing this (it started when i was really little), but i'm glad we do it, they're delicious!

christmas eve cookies, christmas morning stockings, and henry's tush ;D

just a snippet from christmas morning. the girls had so much fun opening their presents and playing with their toys. i can't wait for next year!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

little artist


abbey drew this cute little self portrait for the sacrament meeting program today :D i was home with sick kids today, but danny grabbed about 10 of 'em for me! i'm so proud of my big primary girl!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

christmas card


i ordered our christmas cards the second week in december. i still have not mailed them. yep, i'm that person. so i'm throwing a copy of it up on the blog, enjoy.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

i see you!


henry found his sweet, chubby fingers tonight!

Friday, January 7, 2011

i'm blind!

the girls have been really sick this week. coughs, runny noses, fevers and pink eye. abbey has pink eye in both of her eyes. we went to the doctor last night and got a prescription for an eye ointment to clear it up. (the appointment in and of itself was an adventure. she wouldn't open her eyes or talk to the nurse because she thought that she would get a shot if she did.)

i was supposed to wait until bed time to put the ointment in her eyes, but they looks so awful (so "pink" and swollen, poor little girl, i wish i'd taken a picture.) that i put the stuff in her eyes right after lunch. abbey was super brave and held her little eyes open while i put the ointment under her lid. as soon as she blinked, however, she lost it.

imagine putting neosporin in your eyes, because that's pretty much what i was doing to her. doesn't sound awesome, right? now, imagine trying to see with neosporin in your eyes. you can't, because that stuff is greasy and gunky. that makes sense to us, but not to a four year old.

abbey started blinking and freaking out because she couldn't see. "everything's blurry, get it out of my eyes!" i told her i couldn't get it out and just to blink, it would go away and things wouldn't be blurry anymore. "no it won't!" she cried, "i'm...i'm BLIND!", she screamed. this is when she started bawling and nearly hyperventilating.

my poor little girl really thought that she was blind. it was the saddest thing i'd ever seen. i told her that mommy would never do anything to make her go blind. i'm pretty sure she believed me, she seemed to calm down a little. i told her to close her eyes and i rocked her while she cried. luckily, all those tears cleared things up pretty quickly. when she could see again, she decided that she had been pretty silly for thinking that she'd gone blind.

now i see why the doctor told me to put these in at bed time. in the dark. just before she falls asleep. that's what we're doing tomorrow. and next time someone gets pink eye, i'm getting the eye drops, this ointment stuff is more drama than it's worth!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

happy 1.1.11!

happy new year, everyone! it's going to be great!