I Know What You're Thinking...

Hey Lindsay! You changed the look of your blog after 3+ years. (I know, I know. I can hardly believe it myself.) This must mean that you are committed to this blog again!

I make no guarantees.

Baby Julesy is skeptical too:

Going Public

Ok. Let's pretend for a minute that it was still 2008...people were still reading blogs like crazy...I still lived in Utah among people that would read my blog and have access to my children...and I didn't get the same 5 comments from the same 5 to 7 of you who still even read this blog. Then I would stay private. But I really can't say that I'm too afraid about people reading my blog and knowing how to get to my kids when I'm 2000 miles away and NEVER run into anyone who knows me from Adam. I never write anything good on here anyway.

So welcome world!

P.S. Don't you dare steal anything off my blog. My husband is a lawyer...a good one. And we will come after you!!

Oh Lucy!

I think that I have mentioned Lucy's naughtiness at church before. Well, she's not as bad as she once was, but her need for shock value attention is still there. For example, today I was trying to get her to use her whisper voice. She looked right at me and said quite loudly, "I just want to be myself!!"

Later Paul had her because I took Julia out and he told her to stop picking her nose (something she still does while sucking her thumb) and again she said, "But I want to pick my nose!" and again it wasn't quiet.

Another person in the foyer told me that during sharing time Sabrina watches Lucy like a hawk, and when she acts up, Sub will just look at her, shake her head, and Lucy will start to behave.

We never go a week in our ward without people commenting on Lucy. Of course, they all chuckle, and tell me how cute and funny she is. These are always people without kids. I hope they are blessed with "cute and funny" kids too.

A Report on Christmas 2011 and Some Recents

I so wish that I had some pictures of our Christmas morning or even more of our Christmas break, (which was spent mainly in jammies for all of us), but I don't. We opted to take video footage of Christmas morning and since one person has to man the video recording and one person has to help manage the opening of gifts and one person has to feed the hungry baby and then both people have to get the three other people ready for church; well, we didn't have enough hands to also take photos. It was pretty picture perfect though. Trust me. Sabrina and Lucy got a bundle of things, their favorites being a Rapunzel Tower and Cinderella Castle. Julia got a Bumbo and a floor gym. Paul got an IPad, and I got some luxury slippers, which I reluctantly take off from time to time, but mainly I wear them 24/7. Christmas Eve and Christmas Dinner were spent with Kyle and Noelle and family where we ate to our hearts content and some (not me and Julia...sick) went to see the Christmas lights at the Temple.

The break was great. We played board games almost every day together, stayed up too late, and slept in too long. On New Year's Eve we decided to drive to Delaware to check out possible neighborhoods to live in next year (Have I mentioned we're moving to Delaware in August?) and just to have a little getaway. We ate lunch at a little pizza joint where we got advice on Delaware from our pizza maker. He was surprisingly informative. Then we took the girls to a park to play while I fed Julia. We had crazy good weather here the last month or so, but...

It finally snowed yesterday. It was a weak excuse for a snow storm, but the girls were so excited that I let them go out to play in it.

Updates on all the kids:

Sabrina: Is still loving school. She really is such a pleasant kid at this age. She is always trying to help me with Lucy and Julia. She loves to sing songs and for the most part she sings her own compositions. She loves to draw and write stories (and I love reading phonetic writing again...it's one of my joys in life) and is picking up on reading rather quickly. Her teacher told me the other day that she told the class about "reverence" (a family home evening lesson we'd had) to which she said to me, "I guess you use whatever works!" I don't think most kindergarteners talk about reverence very often if they aren't of our faith.

Lucy: Is 3. She has an iron will right now. Sadly, her world came crashing down once again when Sabrina had to go back to school. She had a rather tough beginning to Primary which she thought was going to be her going to class and sitting by Sabrina the whole time. Her parents didn't prepare her correctly. I am happy to report though that last week went 20 times better and she sat with and went to her own class. She is still funny, she loves to rhyme, play pretend and make up her own words (noganer and bowyah). Her favorite thing to play is puppy or kitty. We have signed her up for gymnastics and dance which start in a few weeks.

Julia: Is just getting so big. She sits in the bumbo, and has started to grab at toys a little bit. She hates her tummy, but she loves to lay under her gym. (Funny story: Sabrina and Lucy outfitted her gym with every link toy that we own so as Sabrina put it, "she could have an extra challenge"). You can see them all dangling in the pictures.) She is becoming a happier baby overall, and slept 12 hours last night for the first time. We're hoping it's a trend. She's darling; I can't get enough of her cheeks.

And then there was January. Enjoy the pics!