Wordless Wednesday

The many sides of Bella :)

Long Lost Blog!!

Sorry for the serious lack of blogging. I blame it on being a single mom for 5 weeks, the holidays, and pure exhaustion! Other then totally flaking on some blog updates I feel like the 5 weeks Jourdan was gone went really well. Sure I had a couple moments of wanting to bang my head into a wall but I refrained from doing so. (barley) But for the most part all was good. The kids and I had a good time with each other. If it is at all possible I feel like we even got a little closer. I did learn some things about myself while he was gone. I learned that I can do it. It is funny when your spouse is gone you just grin and bear it, get the job done, because nobody else is legally obligated to come over and do the dishes, laundry, cleaning, butt whipping, gift buying, gift wrapping, car pool driver, .............. I also learned that I only shave my legs during the winter for my husband. :) (TMI??) But once we had him back it was great. The kids and I enjoyed having him home for Christmas very very much!

So some holiday pictures. I will start with the day before Christmas eve. My brother and Uncle have started a tradition of going snow boarding that day and they bring home a ton of snow in the back of my bothers truck. All the kids love it! My cousins are the same age as my girls and the 4 of them had a blast! I am hoping Brent and Joe keep up with the tradition even though I got my brother pretty good in the ear with a snow ball and he said he wouldn't. ;) It was totally worth it!

Ewan was pretty confused by the whole thing. After about 10 minutes we had to bring him in because his fingers were frozen!

December?????!!!!!

Oh my gosh! It is already a week into December! I love this time of year and always want it to last! Before Jourdan left we were able to take the kids to see Santa. I was expecting Ewan to be a little nervous. He wasn't at all! He practically jumped from my arms to his arms. Bella was so cute with him also! She kept asking if he was the real Santa and if he really knew who she was. :) Mady was just excited to talk about gifts......

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Bella singing about her gymnastics teacher Mr. Flavio. Who she is in love with. :)

Field Trip

Last week Bella and I headed to Bishops pumpkin Farm. I had never been before..... WOW! It is huge! It was fun getting to do something with just Bella. Her favorite part was the pig races mine was the apple pie. She did not want to share with me. :)

Bella with possibly the sweetest boy ever, Trey. :)
After this picture was taken the lady commented on how much Bella looks like me.

Papa Time!!!

Sunday dinner's have been at papa's house. We had a super yummy dinner last week. You should hear Jourdan talk about my dads cooking. He may have married me because of it. :)

Pre-School!

My little Bella started school last week. (ok 2 weeks ago) This is her first year ever in school so she was more then ready. She is loving it. She loves pretty much everything about it. Everyday she comes home to tell me what she has whearned. (learned) :)

Check her out ready to get in the van.
Her buddy Trey was the only person she knew. His big sis Haven and Mady are in the same class and are best friends. :)
All ready to go. She was so cute and excited!! I am enjoying a couple of hours with just one child at home! :)

New Park

With Mady back in school Bella, Ewan and I have been heading to a very cool new park in Roseville. It is geared towards younger kids, so they LOVE it! We have been having lots of fun and look forward to hanging out with friends:).

Bella's 4!!

I finally have a working computer!! Yeah!! Bella turned 4 on the 31st. I can't believe she is already 4. I feel like it wasn't that long ago that she was born. She has been doing so much growing up lately. She is a great big sister and a great little sister. :-) We had such a fun time celebrating her birth. 

At our house on her actual birthday. 

Check out my brother in this one. Dork!

Pinnate fun. 

The birthday girl opening her gifts. We didn't get many pics. Mady took most of the ones we did get. 

Easter part 3

(I know easter overload) 

We headed over to my Grandma and Grandpa's house easter after noon. The kids got to have another egg hunt, which they loved. We all enjoyed the yummy brunch my Grandma made. After my Grandparent's we went to visit Jourdan's parents. At the end of the day we were all beat. :-) 

* Notice how I am not holding Ewan... That is because he LOVES my cousin Emily.

Easter part 2

Easter Morning at our house started VERY early! For some reason Madysenn was more excited that morning then she was on Christmas. :-) Ewan was so excited to get his two eggs. One for each hand and he was done. He had no idea what was in them but he had fun.

Easter part 1

The girls and I had a good time dying Easter eggs on Saturday. I think it may have been the first time we had ever actually died eggs. (i know bad mom) I did learn today that if Bella thinks she helped make something she will eat more of it. I had the hard boiled eggs on the counter today and she ate the whole thing because "it was her egg". Bella eating anything other than crackers is always a good thing. :-) 

* Mady took it all very seriously 

Dance Time

Bella, Ewan, and I all rocked out to Michael Jackson. It is so cute to see him dancing. I don't remember the girls dancing so young, but he has a blast. He seemed to want to prove his man hood after dancing and ran over to his "big digger". (tractor) :-) 

I am clearly NOT the film maker of the family since I filmed the whole thing sideways. 

Snow trip

The weekend after Christmas Jourdan took the girls to the snow. I missed the trip. :-( I do 

plan on bringing the whole family back up sometime soon. This time I will invest in some 

water proof pants for the girls. Apparently after 15 minutes they were soaked and ready for

their change of clothes. I just hope I will be able to find them some warm clothes in the 

stores, I have been seeing a ton of spring clothes! UM it is January! 

We had such a good Christmas! The kids loved seeing family everyday for 5 days! :-) Bella was on cloud nine when Santa brought her a pink trycicle. She has been ridding it everyday since she got it. 

  

Ewan had a blast with his "Big Digger". He now has a tractor just like his Papa Tom. 

On Christmas Eve Uncle Brent was a hit when he brought the kids snow in the back of his truck. He has a tradition of going snow boarding with my Uncle on Christmas eve and this year they thought the kids would have fun with the snow. They did! :-) And let me just say that if you are ever a little irritated with your husband snow balls are a good thing! I just need to work on my aim! 

I love this picture of Ewan. He is walking now. And climbing :-)

ps. I have no idea what is going on with the font at the top of the page. 

Cookie time!!

After school today The girls got to decorate some sugar cookies that we had made. They had a blast. I know my cookies look pretty amazing. :) Gretchen if you ever need any tips....:) 

I told the girls to say cheese and check out what the ham in the back did. You can see him cracking a smile under his paci. :) 

Bella trail

So I went up stairs to take a shower and when I came down I found all of this......

Bella enjoying an apple...

Next to a pile of toys and crumbs....

The remains of a pumpkin muffin......

Crumb trail.....

She must of scaled up  onto the counter and dug this out.....thanks grandma Sheryl for bringing it into the house. :)