Katie-isms #3

So Katie is constantly saying funny things so here are some of the new ones!

We are cleaning up the dinner plates when Katie says, "Mommy my tummy thanks you for dinner!"

Grandma has two pilgrims Mr. and Mrs. Pilgrim who are supposed to be on the holiday shelf but in actuality have spent very little time on it. Katie carries the pilgrims everywhere and takes care of them just like babies. These pilgrims have been everywhere that katie goes and Grandma has finally given up and given them to Katie. I don't know why these two stuffed pilgrims have gotten more love and attention than ANY other toy Katie has ever had, but it is sure cute! Anyway the other day I asked Katie if she loved her pilgrims and she said, "Mommy I do I love my pilgrims because they are the best pilgrims I have ever seen in all my whole life!" Well I don't know how many more pilgrims my two year old has seen but what an honor for those pilgrims! Super cute!

While katie was sitting down to lunch she asked me if she had to eat all of it and I told her yes that would make mommy so happy and she responded by saying, "If I eat my whole lunch I will be soo proud of myself!"

I don't know where she comes up with these things but it sure makes me laugh! I love this little girl with all my heart!

2009 Halloween Extravaganza!

We did a lot for Halloween. We had a carnival that we went to, a costume dress up story time, ward Halloween party, and of course trick or treating! All in all I was happy for November to come and to say good bye to halloween. We did have fun though and Katie got to wear her costume a lot more than I had thought which is always good. So I know it is super late for halloween pictures but due to baby number two I haven't felt that great and therefore my blogging has fallen behind! So here it is Halloween 2009!

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BIG news...

Well if you couldn't quite read the words on her shirt it says, "I have a secret...I'm going to be a big sister!" Thats right we are pregnant with baby number two. We are very excited to have a new addition to our family and Katie is very excited to be a big sister. My due date is June 6th. We of course don't know the sex of the baby yet but I am officially guessing that it is a boy. I am sick, sick, sick but it is all part of the fun. We have ultra sound pictures of the new little (very little) one but our scanner is currently broken so once we can scan them in I will post them.

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We had a lot of fun at the pumpkin patch. Katie loved riding the pony and picking out her pumpkin. We also went into a hay maze.

katie-isms 2

so katie and my mom and I are all sitting outside on the front porch talking about the dark rain clouds. We told Katie that it looked like it was going to rain because of the clouds and that we should probably go inside. Katie of course refused and kept chattering away about the pretty clouds. A few minutes later it started to sprinkle before we could say anything Katie said, "WE GOT TO GET INSIDE A BIG RAIN STORM IS COMING!" She ran inside covering her head with her arms and then turned to us and said, "Hurry Hurry!" Honestly it just makes me laugh because Katie speaks so well for her age and sometimes I am amazed at what she understands!

Katie's room remodel!

Here is katie's new room! It took us about a week to paint and put up the boarder and hang all of the pictures and things on the walls. It was a lot of hard work but I think it was worth it! I loved being able to organize and clean all of Katie's things. katie calls it her "pretty room" and she absolutely loves it! So anyway I was proud of all of our hard work so I thought I would share with you the finished product.

Cousin Love

Here are some cute pictures of Katie and Ellie playing and being the best of friends! I always enjoy it when Ellie comes to play because Katie is entertained by someone other than me. The two girls get along decently well but poor little Jacob always gets left out of the fun. Here are the girls decorating halloween sugar cookies and reading in Katie's bed!

Rainy day fun!

Yesterday it rained for the first time this season. The second Katie woke up she said to me, "Mommy it's RAINING! We need to get me an umbrella!" She is right about the umbrella last years didn't even make it through the entire winter. But we went outside and played anyway. she had a blast jumping in the puddles and getting soaked. Our fun ended with a change of clothing, hot coco, and snuggles on the coach. Who could ask for a better day?

Katie-isms

Stephen: "Geez I am sweating like crazy"

Katie: "Geez I am sweating like crazy"

Stephen: "Are you a little copy cat?"

Katie: "Yes I am.... MEOW MEOW MEOW!"

we both laughed out loud!'

Since Katie says some of the funniest things and I never write them down before forgetting them I thought I would share this one!

Just a thought!

This is so true. I love the gospel! This conference weekend was wonderful and left me feeling energized and ready to do and be better. Even though this wasn't from conference I really enjoy this so I thought I would share it.

Terrible...Horrible...No Good...Very GOOD Day!

Sometimes being a mom is hard! All of you moms out there I am sure can agree with that. Being a mom is hard. You have days where it seems like nothing you ever do is right, where patience is gone, where you are counting down the minutes until nap time; only to discover that today is a "no nap" day! I know that I am only the mother of one so I probably have no right to complain. But today (and yesterday) have been not my best mommy days and sometimes I feel like I am living in the book "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"! (Which if you haven't read is a super cute children's book.) Sometimes I feel so inadequate to be my beautiful daughters mother. I get so upset with myself for not having enough patience and for not showing her enough love. I worry that she doesn't always get the best of me and I am always praying for strength and guidance to be a better mom. Well, tonight I took the welcome break and left the kiddo with Daddy and went to the Relief Society broadcast. After the broadcast my stake had a dinner for us which was yummy and also gave me the chance to talk to other adults. While talking Katie's great Sunbeam teacher told me how much she enjoys katie in Sunbeams. She then told me that every Sunday at some point during Sunbeams She and Katie have this conversation:

Katie: "Where is my mommy?"
Teacher: "She is in her class"
Katie: "I LOVE my mommy! Do you love my mommy?"
Teacher: "Yes I love your mommy"
Katie: "I LOVE my mommy too!"

Well it made my whole day to hear that! Even though I am FAR from perfect Katie must know that I love her. Regardless of anything else I want her to know how much I love her! So instead of today being a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day it turned out to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very GOOD day! "Even in Australia"

Summer 2009

Not that my life is all that exciting or entertaining but I thought I would do a quick post remembering the Summer of 2009. We went to Arizona twice, spent many days at the zoo feeding the giraffe and watching the bird show, Katie turned two, Every Wednesday was "Bounce U" day, every thursday is library day, every Friday we go to another story time at a super cute book store as well as go to our favorite park (the bear park) and get a cookie at the cutest cookie shop I have ever seen! We went to the beach twice, we went to the towns AAA baseball team many times where Katie got to sing "Take me out to the ball game" and ride the merry-go-round and where Stephen and I have both developed a love for the game! We also went to the water park many times and loved watching Katie splash and play. I think that about sums it up! We had a great summer and it zoomed by. I simply can't understand how we are nearing halloween already. I am in a really reflective mood right now and I feel a rush of sadness as I consider how quickly my daughters life has gone by... thankfully I still have more time but I wish that sometimes I could stop and smell the roses more often! Below are some pictures that sum up our summer!

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Part 1 of Arizona Trip Summer 2009

We went to Arizona to spend time with the family for over a week! We had a blast playing games and watching the cousins play! Here is the first installment of Arizona pictures! We miss you already!

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Katie Turns 2... let the good times roll!

So considering it is August and Katie's b-day was in JUNE I am behind. Better Late than never. We had Katie's party at an inflatable bounce place called Bounce U. It was really fun to have all of the family come and celebrate with us. Katie was lucky to get many fun gifts. Among her favorites were a homemade stuffed animal frog from Mandy and a kid size broom, vacuum, and dustpan from Aunt Amber. She is definitely two but in all honesty she is still a pretty amazing toddler. Katie loves to sing songs, jump, dance and play all day. She knows the words to so many songs I can't even count them. Currently she loves to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" and "How Much Is That Doggy In the Window". (Please don't mind all of my rambles on here it is mainly for me because this is basically the only time I write stuff down about Katie's development.) Anyway it has been a great two years and I am blessed to be her mommy. I wouldn't trade these last two years for anything!

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Katie's first time at the beach~

My whole family went to the beach a while ago. We went for memorial day weekend and we had a great time! We found a perfect spot on the beach with swings and a slide and it wasn't that crowded. The water was cold so katie didn't really play in it that much but she loved to dig in the sand! We buried her in the sand but she got out before I could get a good picture of it. In the last picture katie is flying a kite with Uncle John.

Grandpa came to California!

Pat came to CA for a job interview and so we went to go and spend a few hours with him. We went out to dinner at Chevys and I was telling Stephen and Pat how my old friend Stephen Scholle used to come here for his birthday every year to get the free birthday hat. Well our waitress overheard us and she surprised all of us by bringing Katie a hat and some fried ice cream as well as half of the staff to sing a version of "Happy Birthday"! The look on Katie's face when they placed this huge hat on her head and all of these people gathered around her unexpectedly and started to clap and sing was priceless. Sadly I didn't have my camera with me to capture the moment. The funny part was that our waitress told me later that to bring out the hat she had to lie to all of her co-workers. she told them that it was Katie's one year old birthday. Needless to say this was right before Katie's second birthday so I really doubt that any one believed her! Why our waitress decided that Katie needed to have the FULL Chevys experience I don't know but it sure made it a fun and memorable event! Now every time Katie plays with her hat she talks about Grandpa Smith!

Three generations


Katie and Grandpa


The infamous hat!

I know Easter was.... four months ago!

Here is My Katie Bug at Easter... She had a blast looking and finding Easter Eggs. The looking for them went on and on because as she put them back we (Stephen and I and Grandpa) would hide them again! This Easter was really a blast because she understood (for the most part) that the "Easter Bunny" came and brought her toys and candy! We also tried to talk a little bit about the true meaning of Easter but that part of Easter was a little more difficult for her to grasp.

This is Katie with her Easter baskets- One (her real easter basket) had some candy, crayons, coloring book, a stuffed bunny and a chocolate bunny which we have decided is Katie's Easter tradition to always get a stuffed animal bunny and a chocolate easter bunny in her basket because both years she has! The other basket was just what she used to find easter eggs outside!




Here is Katie posing with her basket after she found it. It was hiding in Nylah and Miranda's room under a chair. We had to give her some hints about finding it but she did a good job


The rest of these are of Katie finding Easter Eggs. We had such a wonderful Easter (four months ago!)




here is Katie in her Easter dress with her super cute cousins!.

HORRAY!!

Ok so I am finally back into the blogging world. BYU-I finally discovered that I am not a student anymore and so they deleted my e-mail account with them which was the same account I was using to blog with. So I went and created a new e-mail account and then whenever I tried to log into my blog it wouldn't let me. I had changed my e-mail address with blogger but it still wouldn't let me. So i have finally figured out how to fix the confusion so I can blog again! I will be going back in time to blog past events to try and catch up! Soon more will be coming!

Katie's 2 year old picts!!!

Here are Katie's cute picts from yesterday. They turned out pretty well. Although we had an embarrassing moment at the picture studio.... In the pictures of Katie in her swim suit I took off her diaper so that it wouldn't look lumpy down there in the pictures. I thought to myself, "She won't pee for the few minutes she doesn't have her diaper on." I was wrong! I had my backed turned and was talking to the photographer when I heard Katie say, "Mommy, Oh no!" I turned around to see her sitting in an abnormally large amount of urine! I was so embarrassed. Apparently my little girl is not the first to do this though because the photographer just grabbed the clorox wipes and together we cleaned up the mess. Other than that the picture session went pretty well! I can't believe how much she has changed in a year. I was looking at her one year photos and comparing them to these I can't believe how much she has grown... except for her hair which is still non existent!

It is official!!

So officially my "baby" turned two! All I have to say is that time is a funny thing I feel like it was just a little while ago that I gave birth... weird. Well Katie is beautiful and basically my entire life. I am so thankful to have her sweet spirit in my life! The past two years have been filled with some of the greatest joys I have ever had in my life. We gave her a little birthday celebration on the 16th which is her actual birthday and then we are going to BOUNCE U for her party in about a week. Pictures and videos of her little celebration are coming soon. Along with pictures of her at the water park we went to on her birthday to play! LIfe has been busy and going......ok. Not much news to report but I will get some pictures posted soon!

Bye Bye Baby... Hello Toddler

Well these are the last pictures of Katie in her crib...


Katie was able to climb in and out of her crib so about a month ago we decided it was time to move her into a "big girl bed". It was tough on me to think that my baby was too big to be in her crib but no matter what I do I can't seem to make her stop growing! If anyone out there knows how to do that then please let me know! The good thing is that Katie loves her new bed and she stays in it when we put her to bed (thanks supper nanny)! So here are some pictures of Katie enjoying as she puts it, "Katie's toddler bed!"

Katie is pretending to be sleeping


Still "sleeping"