My funny, silly, smart little girl

I almost wrote baby... not a baby anymore. She is growing every day and seems to be far taller than I remember her being. She amazes me how much she grows and learns and how much she UNDERSTANDS!!!!

Last week we were drawing with our sidewalk chalk and I drew a sun and was talking about sunshine we then went walking as she is prone to do and we came to a sunflower. She looked at me and said " flower, flower" I told her she could go and see it and touch it gently so she did and she looked up at me and said " Sunshine flower :) ! " Oh my sweet smart silly girl how I love her :)

Her latest word or response when you ask her if she wants something " sure" Ha ha What? how funny.

Dan has expalined to her that somethings are bad to do so if she gets punished she tells us through and upset  expression "Bad do, bad do" He wanted her to understand that she is not bad but that somethings she does is not good.

Speaking of the getting bigger she can now open both the dishwasher and all the closet doors in our apartment... joy. Ah well part of life I suppose, it stops for no one.

And her understanding well... the house we are buy had some issues and she has heard as talking about it and while we were on skype with my dad she informed him "house bad" she had put together in her head that there was something wrong "bad  house" What an amazing little girl!!!

Now for some photos :)

Think she might be thirsty...

Elephant anyone?!

mmm Lime... want a bite?

Yep that's my lime...

Helping dad vacuum the couch...

Doing a good job!

I got it!

Love that face...

Happy Girl :)

I need to get a video of her laugh, best sound ever!

Another outside adventure! A Praying Mantis!!!

Monkey thought he was pretty cool.

She talked to him and kept asking "hand? hand?"

Mom decided to help him out, he thought he was going to climb the building...

His new home... can you find him :) ?

"O, O, O" Smart girl

This one she said "W!"

It is amazing how fast time passes. Growing up you heard all the "old people" tell you Oh enjoy life it goes by so fast. And being in middle school or high school you smile and nod and say uh huh but suddenly you have children and realize that time doesn't slow down and there is no getting i back so apparently I'm now an "old person" because I say Enjoy life because it DOES go by so fast!!!

Grandma came to visit!

Monkey being silly at Dinner... we ate at Big J's!

Eating her Pizza bomb and getting a sip of water

Trying to steal the Teddy we were delivering...

Getting some ice cream at THORES ICECREAM!!! Yum Only $1 a scoop tax included!

Samantha making the rounds to get icecream...

More grandma? Please?

Loves her Grandma Penny!!!

Sitting with Grandma

Getting teeth brushed

Making discoveries and Grandma's purse!!!

She loved taking everything out and putting it back again!!!

Adventures of a Monkey... lemonade anyone?

Lemonade anyone?!

 So we decided to use our lemons we got in our bountiful basket to make some lemonade!!! We couldn't agree on how sweet or sour but it was still good :)

 

Samantha decided she wanted to help so she got to roll lemons... or throw them in her case to get them ready to squeeze. She like smelling them too.

Straining out the seeds

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3 down and two more to go... it was really good lemonade :) Added some water and some sugar and there you have it!

Occasionally I have a snugly bug :)

The beginning of our sick day.... um EW!

Our sick day continued with LOTS of reading... and a few movies.

Trying to put her pants on...

Still trying to  get those pants on :) Getting to be such a big girl!

Climbing the stairs with dad.

Taking a walk.

Playing with the rocks.

Talking to the cows :)

And of course our walk wouldn't be complete without a little dirt!

We made a new friend

Isn't it pretty :)

She loved the cat and the cat loved her :)

We found a big bug on another walk of ours.

She loves story time at the library and coloring, craft time after :)

September 11th 2012

Here we are again at another September 11th... just wanted to say I was thinking about all tose people who lost their lives in New York and other places. Oh how many sorrows the Devi and his minins cause. We must have more charity more of the pure love of Christ. We must learn to love and lift and strengthen, learn to change our unkind thoughts and actions to ones of kindness and civility.  We must learn to lift and leave judging to some one who knows everything. I know none of us can achieve perfection in this life but may each of us be a ray of hope and look forward to that day when the Lord is our King, and peace rains supreme.
          I've been reading about faith recently in my scripture study and it reminds me how much sorrow and horror and misery are in the world and how very very important is is for us to have faith and trust in the Lord's plan. I am reminded of a quote from a friends dad

"It all works out in the end and if it hasn't worked out then it isn't the end."

I sit here looking at buying our house and can see the Lord's hand. My impatience to get the loan processed right then and there but the Lord had us wait a little while and we are getting a better interest rate. And we should be paying about $30 a month less. I am realizing more and more that if we are to find joy in this life that we must learn to trust. We may falter at times but I hope we can continue forward in faith. The day will break and the darkness of uncertainty will flee. What  a beautiful gift faith is... I hope and pray we each will use that gift and find the joy the Lord wants to give each of us.

"It is this principle, my brethren and sisters, that points us heavenward, that gives us hope in the battle of life. When we become confused, and find ourselves confronted by obstacles we, seemingly , cannot overcome, having faith in the Redeemer of the world, we can go to Him and know that our prayers will be answered for our good."
~George Albert Smith

A House.... Home Sweet Home

  So our latest big news WE ARE BUYING A HOUSE!!!! It amazes me how the Lord works things out! We make our own plans and suddenly the Lord gives you something better! Our plan was simply to pay off student and so a house was about 3 years away still but here we are. We were planning on just moving into a 3 bedroom  apartment but realized that is would be the same if not a little less to buy a house. So we started our search… the bank suggested the BEST realtor ever, his name is Ron Arnold and he has been absolutely great! So for three months we have been looking at different houses and finally decided to expand our search and look at two houses in a city called St Anthony. The first one we looked at Dan just LOVED it  but we still looked at the other one and size wise really liked it but it needed more improvements. So that was Thursday, Friday we put in an offer Friday at 4- 4:30ish and our realtor called us Friday night at 10:15 and told us they accepted out offer as is!!!!! He got us the corner table that fits perfectly, a window AC, and the dishwasher! And they are paying closing costs. WOW It has all worked out better than we ever could have expected!!! So in a month from now we could be living in our own house!!!! :)

What an amazing thought that I will soon be able to say home sweet home and that it will be MY home. My very own space!!!


I will try to get some picture of the house when I go and visit in about a week and 1/2 when my WONDERFUL Mother in Law is coming!!! I tried to put the ones from the MLS site but it wouldn't let me save the post, sadly,  but we are REALLY EXCITED!!!! Not where we expected to be city wise or house wise but the Lord is AMAZING!!!!