New look!!

I just wanted to thank my very good friend Sarah for giving me a makeover;) I think she did an awesome job!!

It's starting early

We found this in the den last night. Apparently, Makenna's phone needed charging;)

Four, four, four, four

Four random things I love about my husband:
1. He's an incredibly spiritual man that takes his family to church. I love his knowledge of the gospel.
2. He's so funny. He makes me laugh all the stinking time!!
3. His beautiful blue eyes.
4. The love he has for our girls.

Four jobs I've had:
1. Massage Therapist
2. Physical Therapist Tech
3. Pizza Hut delivery driver
4. Snack bar at a softball field
(I guess all I've had is four!! I don't count the one and only day I worked at the mall;)

Four movies I've watched more than once:
1. Back to the Future
2. Star Wars
3. Princess Bride
4. Enchanted (because my daughter makes us watch it everyday:)

Four TV shows I watch:
1. Medium
2. Dog the bounty hunter
3. Ghost Whisperer
4. CSI (Las Vegas)

Four random places I have been:
1. Nauvoo temple
2. Zion
3. Carthage Jail
4. San Francisco (49ers game!! Yay!!)

Four of my favorite foods:
1. popcorn and M&M's
2. barbecue chicken wings
3. snow crab
4. anything chocolate

Four places I would like to visit:
1. Palmyra, NY
2. New York, NY
3. Hawaii
4. Scotland

Four things I'm looking forward to in the coming year:
1. Jordyn's very first birthday
2. Possible trip with my parents back east from Kirtland Ohio to New York and Washington D.C.
3. Makenna's gymnastics and dance classes in the fall
4. Finally losing this baby weight;)

Four people I tag:
1. Jessica
2. Debbie
3. Bernice
4. Yvonne

More cute Kenna

Makenna is so observant and has the best memory. She knows exactly which streets we are supposed to go on to get to a lot of places including Grandma and Papa's and Grandma and Grandpa's. And if we go a different route, she gets upset because she thinks we aren't going there. We were running errands a couple of weeks ago when we drove by the cemetery that my grandpa is buried in. As we drove by, I said, "Hi Grandpa!!" Makenna started freaking out wondering where her grandpa was. I told her that it was where my Grandpa was. Today, we drove by that same cemetery (I wasn't going to say anything today because I didn't want to confuse her) and Makenna yells out, "That's where Grandpa lives!!!!"

Doofus of the week

I was at work today and had to do a deep tissue on this old guy. He was very hard to talk to because he mumbled really bad and I just couldn't understand him. I had to keep asking him to repeat it. It was one of the times where I wished he was just quiet. So anyway, he starts fidgeting because he is having a hard time putting his face in the face cradle. I give him a rolled up towel to let him lay on thinking that would make him happy. Nope. He keeps lifting his whole upper back up while I'm trying to massage it. So annoying. Then he asks me probably the stupidest question I've heard in a long time.

Ron: Could you massage my back with me laying on my other side?
Me: What? (thinking that I had to have heard him wrong since it was hard to understand him)
Ron: Could you massage my back with me laying on my other side?
Me: While you are laying on your back?
Ron: Yeah.
Me: Massage your back while you are laying on your back?
Ron: Yeah.
Me: Um.....no. (Me thinking.....What the.....?)

Seriously??? How are you supposed to massage the back while the person is laying on it. Let me just crawl under the table and with my super human strength massage you through it.

On a cuter note:
(Makenna and Travis watching Misty May and Kerri Walsh playing beach volleyball in tiny swim suits in the olympics)

Makenna: Daddy....What are they wearing?
Travis: Um...those are swim suits honey.
Makenna: Nu uh......those are bras!!

I think he's done.....

with projects this summer. Travis has been a busy bee painting and doing baseboards and a chair rail in the den. He finally finished with that and decided to redo the fishtank to match our painting in that room. I must say he did a great job!!! But I'm also glad the projects are finished. I'm tired of my house being a mess;)

This is what it looked like before.

And this is what it looks like now.

My parents got us a numbered original painting of the Nauvoo temple when we went there last year that is beautiful. I think the fish tank goes very well with it now.

Now if I can only get him to clean the garage;)

I finally let her paint....

I'm not a big fan of messes so it's taken me this long to let Makenna play with paints. I'm glad that I finally did though because she absolutely loved it.

The only problem is that she also decided to paint herself. Of course!! She had to make sure there was something for me to clean up;)

What's up with Disney???

I have been trying to get Makenna to watch different Disney movies lately from Bambi to Aladdin to Lady and the Tramp. They are classics but what is up with all of the violence??? And why do they always have to kill off the MOM!!! Seriously!!! I think they are trying to give our little ones nightmares. Travis put on Monster's Inc yesterday to try to get Makenna to watch something other than Enchanted and the whole beginning was about trying to collect as many kid's screams as you could. And of course the monsters are under the bed. Travis turned it off and put something else on but not before it got in her head that there are monsters under her bed. She was worried about it when I was putting her to bed last night. And there is always some witch wanting to kill the beautiful maiden. Snow White gets chased in the forest, Ariel almost gets knocked off by the evil witch, Sleeping Beauty gets cursed. I know they have to have a plot but geez!! Even Enchanted has a "mean lady" (according to Makenna) who wants to kill Giselle. Do they always have to want to "kill" the beautiful chic??? Do we really have to go there? But I guess I still let her watch these shows so I guess that is on me. I do fast forward Snow White though until she is safe in the forest. She is not watching some man running after Snow White trying to kill her. It scares me!!!Ü

Just a bit of random

Makenna is just a sweetie pie. Last night she sang to each of her Einstein's dolls and put them to bed. What a love bug.

She also loves to put in her own "pretties" in her hair. I let her do whatever she wanted this morning and this is what she did.

As you can see behind Makenna in the above picture, there are chairs lining the wall to try to prevent this.....We can't keep Jordyn off of the stairs!!!

I put Jordyn in Makenna's dolly stroller the other day and Makenna had too much fun pushing her around all over the house. And of course Jordyn looked too cute in that small thing;) The wheels looked like they were going to buckle.

There have also been some new milestones for our Miss Jordyn. She decided to take her first couple of steps on Friday. She goes back and forth between Travis and I a couple of times, but after that, she is done. She buckles her knees and won't do it anymore but I still think she will be walking sooner than I'm ready. She also started clapping her hands today. I was feeding her lunch and she just started doing it. She was so proud of herself. It was adorable. She's also a big love bug. When she wakes up in the morning, I bring her back to bed to nurse her. After she has had her breakfast, she climbs up on Travis and lays her head on him and gives him a love. I thought it was absolutely adorable the first day she did it and she keeps doing it everyday!! She is such a daddy's girl that I think she is going to have a hard time when he goes back to work. She'll probably keep looking for him that first week;)

It's been awhile...

My mom informed me that I haven't been posting lately. It's partly because my den was torn apart while Travis painted and put in a chair rail and base boards (with my poor computer stuck in the middle of the room totally blocked). Partly because I couldn't put Breaking Dawn down and all I wanted to do was read. And partly because we haven't been doing a whole lot to blog about;) Just enjoying each other and friends. Enjoying the last two weeks before Travis gets back to work. Of course he's on to another project....redoing the stand to our fish tank. It might be nice to get back to some kind of routine when he goes back to work. At least my house will be clean;)