Snapshots of Life

I feel a terrible sense of guilt that I don't keep up with this blog as often as I used to. It is like an old friend that carries a lot of my memories, but that I can't keep in touch with as often as I would like. I especially feel bad that Jace and Flor's childhoods are not being recorded nearly as well as Hallie's was in the beginning (and well, I guess that means that hers is not being recorded now very well either). 

Anyway, here are a few snapshots from February of life. These pretty much encompass what life is for me right now: 

Devin working on my Primary Sharing Time lesson. Isn't he the greatest? Yeah- him working on my lesson. It works well that way.

Can't get enough of this handsome face. The attitude, however, I can do without. I gotta admit though, Jace is a funny one. One small story for posterity's sake: Jace has a really hard time sitting still at church. We have to pull out all the tricks for him, especially because our church is during his nap time this year. Last week, he was sitting on my lap and he told me that he wanted to play with my hair. I told him that was fine since I thought maybe it would keep him quiet for am minute. He started pushing the back of my hair over my eyes and said loudly, "Mom, I am going to make you beee-u-teee-full!" There was a full four rows of laughter behind us. What a ham.

I love the nighttime routine with the kids. It is really sometimes the only quality time I have with them in a day. No matter how busy the day is, though, I make sure that we eat dinner together, read scriptures, read stories, pray together, (sometimes listen to music or sing and dance), (sometimes play games), and talk about our days. I love this time with the kids. Recently, they have requested to go outside and look at the stars for some reason, so we have done that a few times too. I am one lucky mom to have these three, eh?

My awesome and amazing sister-in-law cut my hair (and everyone else's in the family-- what a saint!) and she gave me bangs! Aren't they cute? I have struggled some days to get them to look quite as good as Alisa does, but I am getting the hang of it finally, maybe. Two + weeks later- no big deal! 

This girl. Not even sure what to do with her naughty-ness sometimes, but we won't go there. Instead, I will tell you that we are working on vocalizing sounds and that she is quite good at it! If she really tries hard, she can make what sounds like "dada". She gets very proud of herself and thinks it is great that she gets so much praise and attention for it. 

Hals at the Kindergarten fair at the doctor's office! She is almost a kindergartner...what?! She loved getting her face painted and playing carnival games. It totally made getting shots worth it. She was brave and didn't even cry. The doctor asked her to count to 10 (10?? Don't most two year olds know how to count to 10) and to say her full name and say the abcs. She passed-- the only thing she didn't know is her address. My fault- we have never worked on that. Hals is a little smarty pants and is really getting the hang of reading now. She can read simple kids books and likes to read to Jace if he will sit still long enough. Some days she really wants to read a lot and other days she cries and throws a fit if I ask her to read to me. Can't figure that out...Oh and she was 90% for height and weight at the doctor's. No surprise there.

When I am watching movies for one of my online classes (Yes, movies, I know it is such a hard life)- I have been doing puzzles still and I love it! It is so relaxing for me. I don't have a whole ton of down time, but when I do-- I might just be doing puzzles all.the.time. Who knew?

My fellow UAS workers and I made a trek down to St. George (well Koleen, Lauren, and I did- Krystal lives there) to help market the area. We took brochures and business cards around to a lot of attorneys, doctor's offices, infertility centers. etc. We had a really positive response and that was encouraging! So hopefully Krystal starts getting a ton of business down there! :) I love these ladies and I feel so blessed that I get to be part of this project with them. Also, yes, I know I am the only one not wearing a skirt. I did not get the memo....

And that's life. Only 9ish more weeks of school. Not that I am counting down, but it sure will be nice when it is over!!