Happy birthday to me!

Friday was my birthday. I turned 27. I'm not happy about it, but I'm trying to embrace it and be happy for all the wonderful things I have in my life at a young age.  It was a great day though! Jonathan went to work at 7am, but then surprised me and came home at 1.  I took advantage of that and left him home with the girls so I could get a pedicure.  Then we went and dropped off the girls at Melody and Tom's house so we could go out to dinner.  Back and Melody and Tom's we ate yummy banana cream pie and opened my gifts!

Melody and Tom got me this adorable wall hanging for lost socks (and money so I can treat myself. Yay)

My parents and Jonathan went in together to buy me this esthetician chair! Woo Hoo!

Thanks to everyone who made my day special.  Just think, only 2 more years until I stop aging!

Over the river and through the woods...

...To picture time we go!  Can I tell you that I never ever ever ever ever ever get tired of getting pictures taken?  I told someone that the other day and she said, "You know what?  You'll never look back at a picture and think 'I wish I wouldn't have taken that'" And I totally agree.  I've recently even thought about asking for one of those really nice cameras and the photoshop program for myself, but then I think I wouldn't love it as much anymore, so I'll just keep letting people take our pictures for  us!  My friend Raenie asked a group of girls if we would drive up to Beulah State Park with her so she could practice her photography skills and of course my answer was, "DUH!"  They turned out so cute!  See for yourself:



Could she get any cuter? (Bias much?)  :)

Amelia's new favorite thing is to show us that she's 2

For Mother's Day this year we decided to have Amelia make something for her Grandma Melody. From the beginning, Melody said she wanted to be called "MeMo" which are the first letters in her first and (maiden) last name.. Melody Monett. Here's how it went:

We taped out her name

Blue fingerpaint

Painting away

Halfway done (taking a bread break)

Took off the tape.. All done

Great job, Amelia! Thank you, Pinterest, for the idea!  I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day.

Best Wife Ever

Yep, that's me.


When it comes to money and me, some words that come to mind are: Frugal, thrifty, OCD. For the most part it's been a really good thing. Sometimes I think Jonathan would like it if I let him spend more money, but most of the time he's very grateful that I handle our finances really well. Last week he had his annual review at work and found out that he was going to bonus from inventory AND bridal numbers! I am so proud of him and I think he does SUCH a good job as a store manager, so I thought I'd surprise him and not put his whole bonus check into savings (BORING ol' me). So I splurged!

His new iPad3!

Sketch

The other day Jonathan decided to do something he hasn't done since before we got married: Draw. I thought I'd show you his work, since I think it's beautiful. Espeically since it completely boggles my mind when people can see a person (or picture of a person) and draw them and make it actually look like them!


First, here is the real picture:

Now here is his drawing:

He turned up her lip on purpose to make it look like she was smiling at me. Pretty good, huh?

Older and Wiser

Addilyn is getting older and Amelia is getting wiser. We took Addilyn to her 6 month doctor visit on Wednesday and here are her stats: 13 lbs 9 oz. 24 1/2 inches. 40 cm head circumference. To compare to Amelia, who we thought was the smallest child ever: 16 lbs 3 oz. 25 inches. 41 3/4 cm head circumference. Addilyn is SO tiny! Which is odd because she eats like a champ! But she's getting cuter by the day :)

Here's a recent story about Amelia: She and I were driving to Taco Bell for our regular Wednesday lunch. She told me that Dad was going to take her to the zoo, which I thought was odd because I had just taken her the day before. While we were eating I said to Jonathan, "Did you tell her you would take her to the Z-O-O?" He said, "No, but I was thinking maybe later I could take her on the B-I-K-E." To which Amelia immediately responded, "I wanna go on a bike ride to the zoo!" Jonathan and I just burst out laughing and I said, "Amelia, what does B-I-K-E spell?" and she said, "bike!" Holy crap, how does she already know that?? We're going to have to start spelling out entire sentences!! She's just as cute as ever these days too:

Milk

YOU GUUUUUUUUUYS! Amelia finally drank milk! (I'll just go ahead and start with the punchline.)

For a quick recap, Jonathan and I decided one day (a year ago) that her special sippy cup needed to go, so we threw it away while she was napping. Literally, when she woke up from that nap she would not drink milk out of ANY other sippy cup. And never would again. LESSON LEARNED.

Fast forward to Friday.. She and I were eating lunch together and I started having a little heart-to-heart with her about milk. I asked her all kinds of questions like, "Tell me how you feel about milk. (I'm a psychologists daughter.) What is it that you don't like about milk? What if I just take your juice away completely? What if milk and water were the last two drinks on Earth?" To which she replied, "I'd just drink water, Mom." Dang it. I finally said, "Well, it's about time you give up all this juice. Starting tomorrow your options will be milk and water." That night I went to the store and bought that delicious, extremely expensive, pre-mixed chocolate milk. All day Saturday I bribed her to no end. I offered candy, new toys, new shoes, anything she wanted. Nothin'. Same story today. Until tonight, when Jonathan played a little game with her about drinking chocolate milk in exchange for a piece of chocolate. (Bribery WORKS). She took one sip... and she liked it!! Then she ran into the living room to show me that she liked it, and she took another drink! Jonathan and I burst in to celebration and told her to hurry and get ready to go to the store to buy some new toys! She took another drink before we left, and these pictures were taken before bed when she had another glass! I'm so so so happy right now. I think we'll ease her back in but definitely make it a priority that she keep drinking it. Wish us luck.

Learning how to give a thumbs up