She's now 3...

She's three.  Two was nothing.  I struggle with her newfound sass, some days.  Others, I laugh at it, which is probably not in my best interest, but if I don't laugh, I'll get mad.  What can I say, she's funny.

Something I could Never Do:

The Military.  I recently have been watching The Guardian.  It came out in like, 2006, I think.  I think I watched it once when it came out on video, but I despised the ending so much that I didn't watch it again and said it was a horrible movie.
I borrowed it from my family just to give it another shot.  Phil was working late nights and I was tired of our movies and nothing on TV.  Still don't like the ending.  Phil would tell you that I must be obsessed with this movie.  I think it has stayed in our VCR for like, two week now.  Truth be told, I'm too lazy to find something else to watch.  But I do suddenly enjoy this movie now.  There are other movies similar that have made me feel the same, but I have a tremendous support for the people who actually do this!  Not just Coast Guard swimmers, but ARMY, Navy, all of them.  This is something I could never do.  And I'm so glad that there are men and women out there who are willing to do it, choose to do it.  I'm pretty sure boot camp would put me six feet under.

Today:

I feel like there's a lot to do.  I've recently stumbled on so many good ideas and projects that I want to do.  Particularly having to do with archiving, organizing, things to do with my kids, home improvement/decorating, family time.  Some of it, needs to be done now, some will have to wait until we are for sure moving or building on.  Some of it, spurred by events that have taken place recently.  We found out on Monday that another family friend has passed away, way to early in life.  This will make the sixth death of a family member or friend in a year.  We can't decide if this is just part of growing up, or if this is truly unusual.  Anyway, that night, I went and bought an accordion file, and I've named it our 'I love You' File. Inside it will eventually be, a will, and any other information that would be important for someone to have in the event that anything should happen to us.  Stuff like that.
I've learned that I thrive on lots to do.  If I have nothing to do, it makes for long, boring days.

Meet WALL-E.  We recorded the movie a few weeks back for Ella, and who knew she would love it so much.  But she did.  And one night I pulled the rice cooker out of the cupboard to get to something else.  Well, she swiped that thing off the cupboard and squealed, "It's WALL-E!"  She dragged that thing around for an hour.  Pretty funny.  I love that she has such a great imagination.  Creative girl. Ever since, she's been on the hunt for the perfect EVE.  I'm sure she'll come up with something.

Nothing but...

LAUNDRY!  Of all the house chores that must be done, why can't laundry fold and put itself away?!  I've never been a huge fan of laundry.  And yet, I can't really tell you why this is.  Not like its hard.  You pull it out of a machine that did the hard part for you.  Bless my dear husband that puts up with finding the laundry on the couch most of the time.
  I'm working on turning my house into the 'magic' house.  You know, the laundry magically finds itself folded perfectly in the drawers it goes in and the bed is always made, the rooms are all picked up, the dishwasher is always ready to go, the toilets are clean.  You know, that kind of house.  It may take me a while.  I do have the beds made most of the time, but that's all I have to say.
  But last night, right after I finished getting the girls fed, and found my husband was going to be later than he had planned and was going to miss Bishopric meeting, my cell phone rang.  The number didn't look familiar, but I picked it up anyway.  It was a really nice lady.  And she and her husband wanted to come look at the house.  In about mmmm, twenty minutes.  Can you panic attack?  I put in the movie for the girls, put them in their jammies, and ran.  I mean RAN!  I was sweating before they got there.  But, I must say, waking up to a clean house, was wonderful.  But then I came downstairs and saw the overflowing basket of clean, but now wrinkled clothes.  I meant to fold them last night, I really did.

It's Been a While...

I can't believe how fast life gets away from me.  It's been a busy last couple weeks.  To follow up on my last post, I did get some new pictures taken of the girls.  Still working on getting a family picture.  I enjoy photography.  I love having this camera that allows me to capture my girls whatever they are doing.  And having those pictures to look back on whenever I want.  What a blessing.

Needing to Update...

I'm feeling the urge to update this week.  Clean out and update the filing cabinet, take current pictures.  I want a picture of me and my hubby.  We haven't had one taken of just us since we were engaged.  Need new pictures of the girls, and family pictures, on both sides of the family.  I feel like I could make a list a few miles long, and yet there never feels like there is enough time for any of it.  Is it just me?  Time used to pass so slowly, and now it just flies!  I can't believe how much can happen in so little time.  For instance, all of a sudden, this one, to the right, is walking everywhere.  She's not even one quite yet and she is cruising.  Today, on the way home church, Ella sang five little monkeys to me in the car.  She's never done that before and it was awesome!  I can't believe that in two short years, she'll be close to going to school.  Oh!  I can't even talk about it.