Cuddles

Tonight Clara was having a hard time sleeping.
She has a fever and just feels yucky.
Lucky for me, she loves to cuddle all the time.
When she is sick it is just a little extra.
As much as I would love to think that she will never stop cuddling with me,
I know that there will come a day when it will stop.
So I will take it all in now.
Also, I will snap pictures to prove to her when she is a teenager that there was a day when she didn't find me annoying;)

February Phone Photos

The only photos I have from the past few months are from my phone.
Sorry for the overload, but I need to document somewhere.
Thanks to Instagram, I'm keeping up with picture taking.
If you have an Iphone and haven't joined Instagram, you should. It is wonderful!

1. Thai food date night 2. First PB&J 3. Taking turns turning pages
4. Clara, future piano player 5. Precious 6. Girls karaoke night
7. Watching bball from bleachers 8. Daddy reading 9. Long way down

1. Sweet Bree 2. BBQ date night 3. Clara filling her belly before bed
4. Rick and his mom at UofU bookstore 5. Intently staring at Gpa's beard 6. Cuddling with Gma Cami
7. Me, having some alone time 8. Bree takes over remote 9. Showing off their pearly whites

Playing

Since Bree and Clara were born, I have been asked often how they interact.
People are curious if they have been aware of each other and interacted a lot from the beginning.
It is funny because really they haven't seemed interested in each other at all until recently.

I absolutely love when I catch them playing and talking. It is the best thing yet.
Here is a little glimpse into our lives lately...
Bree even goes in for a kiss at the end. So keep watching:)

Girl's Trip

January was long and gloomy so my mom and I decided it was time for us to
take a little girl's trip down to St. George last weekend.
As I'm sure everyone does, I badly needed a break from our day to day routine.
We had so much fun just getting away and as a plus it was my mom's 52nd birthday while we were there.
I always have fun with my mom and we are grateful for her and all she does for us.
I'm lucky to say she is my best friend.
Even though it was her birthday, she left for a minute one day and came back and surprised me with a certificate to get a one hour massage. Love her!


We quickly found out this trip that the girls are not easy to take to restaurants any longer.
Let's just say people really got a show.
Every time the girls got out of hand, I would just start laughing out loud so hard because it was nuts.
Probably not the best reaction, but I couldn't help it.
I guess it's better than breaking down and crying.
We were at Red Lobster for my mom's bday dinner and the girls were particularly rowdy.
Finally we decided we had to just leave and I apologized to everyone as I walked out.
There were some polygamists there a few tables away and they were the only ones that looked at me with their thumbs up and said, "Don't worry, we love it! We love kids."
Oh my, of course they do.
At least there was somebody who didn't care in the restaurant. :)

The trip was just what we needed to get a boost.
We were able to do plenty of relaxing, eating, birthday celebrating,and talking....just what girls do best.
Perfect girl's getaway.

VDay

Our love day was a little different this year. The girls and I spent most of the day
traveling back from St. George where we had a great girl's weekend with my mom.
It didn't seem at all like Valentines Day until I got home at around 5pm and Rick welcomed me with a flower and a card. Then we seemed to get into the Vday spirit.

It was a little rushed but after we got home I went and picked up a heart shaped pizza, some treats, and also got the girls their first little valentine.
We threw together a nice Valentines pretty quickly.

It ended up being a perfect, low key night loving on our girls and relaxing.
Rick was happy Bree and Clara didn't forget him while we were on our trip.
In fact, at one point last night I was holding Bree and she was really unsettled.
She reached out for Rick and he grabbed her. She instantly nestled her little head on his chest and cuddled with him.
This is not typical of Bree and she is not one to cuddle much.
Needless to say, it melted Rick's heart. Such a priceless moment.

So happy that there is one day a year dedicated to celebrating the ones we love. ♥

A Dad's Duty

Isn't it some kind of rite of passage into daddyhood that a man makes his kids pancakes for breakfast?
Rick fulfilled his duty and made the girls their first pancake breakfast last Sunday.
The pancakes were specialized for each girl with a "B" for Bree and a "C" for Clara.
We are having fun introducing the girls to table foods.
The girls loved the pancakes so much, in fact, they ended up having the leftover pancakes for breakfast on Monday and Tuesday. Yum!

After breakfast, we got ready to go to church.
My mother-in-law was in town and snapped a picture of our family before we headed out the door.
I am amazed at how big our girls are getting.
They are starting to look more like little girls and not babies every day.
Can you believe next month they turn 1?!