Lydie Lou

Here's a couple things Lydia has done this past month:
1) Developed a love for "pretties" (as she calls them). Whether it's necklaces, clips, or these adorable beaded socks my mom made, if she sees them she's gotta have them. Sometimes all of them. The other day I was just getting out of the shower and heard a little voice outside the door. It was of course Lydia pleading for help with her socks. She had gotten into her sock drawer and taken out all her socks then divided the non beaded ones from the regular boring ones and then brought all the beaded ones to me. She could barely contain herself as I was putting them on. As soon as I finished she jumped up and started running around the house... it makes the beads click together. So cute!

2) For the past couple weeks she's been taking her diaper off and I put her on the potty once and Brighton has been talking to her about how he goes potty. It's quite hilarious! Any way we were at church and Lydia says to me "Pappi", I thought she was trying to say puppy. I smelt something and took her out to change her. We went to the mothers room and I took her diaper off and there was nothing. Lydia then says "No. Pappi". I finally got it then and rushed to the bathroom and SHE WENT PEE. YAY!
3) Manners. This is something that is really important to me so a while back I started teaching Lydia to say "Thank-you". She now says it and it is seriously THE CUTEST thing ever. It's totally in her favor though because I keep giving her stuff so she says it again! Hahaha.
4) Love. So Brighton is pretty attached to his lil sister and isn't too fond of her going down for a nap. I spend a good majority of the time trying to distract him from their bedroom. Before they go to sleep every once in a while I'll put both of them in Lydia's crib to cuddle while I sing/ read to them. One night after I had sang to them I heard a little voice in the monitor. Saying something over and over. I went it there and Brighton was passed out but Lydia was in her crib trying to get Brighton to wake up saying "ton-ton" over and over. It was so cute and I love that they love each other so much!

I love you "little green machine"!

So a while back I received a "little green machine" for mothers day. I absolutely LOVE it. I have a micro suede couch that I worked my butt off to get and my children had pretty much destroyed it. I thought well can it get any worse and I tried the machine on it. I only went over it once and it looks BRAND NEW. I'm so happy! Now I won't be harboring any bad feelings towards my wonderful little monkeys and I have a nice clean couch again!

The sunshine is here and we are LOVING IT!

There is something about Spring that just gets me so excited! I think even more so now that I live in Winnipeg where it is Winter for half of the year. Sick I know! So now that Spring is here we are loving it! Going to the park and going for bike rides. Brighton has even mastered riding his tricycle. Lydia is very jealous and gets a little frustrated that her legs aren't quite long enough. Today we even pulled out the kiddie pool and played in there and got some sun. I have tan lines... well burn lines. But it's gonna turn into a tan though (well hopefully!). Another reason we are excited is because as of tomorrow at 5pm school is done for Andrew and we get to spend the next 4 months as a normal family. Well as normal as we can get. Plans for the summer? Enjoy our backyard, head over to BC to visit family, and make Brighton and Lydia bunk beds. Yes we have a garage now so Andrew and I are going to make bunk beds! We have been following www.knockoffwood.blogspot.com Here is the bunk bed I want to make. Seriously check out her site she has some amazing stuff on there and all the plans as well.

Easter Photos

So back at Easter Andrew and I decided to do a little photo shoot of our babes. I think it's a general rule now if we take over a hundred pictures we will most likely get one good one. Or at least that's what we do and hope for the best. Maybe one day we will get enough airmiles to get a good camera. I think we're half way there now. Only another 4 years to go... hahaha. Any tips on getting your children to stay in the same room that your taking pictures in? I wish we had gotten pictures or a video of the Easter egg hunt we did. Brighton knew exactly what was going on and was so excited. Lydia however after we showed her what was in the plastics eggs starting shaking in excitement. So hilarious!

ROADKILL RESCUE

So I've been following this blog Infarrantly creative, cuz she just has so much cute stuff for agound the house, projects to do...you know the stuff none of us regular people have time for. She's got this roadkill rescue contest thingy so I figured I'd get mine in there.
Unfortunately I didn't get a good before picture. This chair was andrew's grandpa's it's probabaly at least 40-50 years old and actually Laz-y-Boy brand, and we were given it when we got married. It was not the prettiest chair, but when I was nursing it was the best!!! So, since I loved the chair I decided to make it work with our nursery.

This took so much work, and as far as anyone knows I have vowed never to do it again, a couch would be way easier, and the original upholstery had millions (I'm not exaggerating) of stapples in it. It took weeks to get them all out. But I loved what I ended up with. We even lost a hinge for the back, for reclining, and we found and awesome furniture store that had about 10 of them and they replaced them for free. I bought the fabric on sale in Utah, and got the white stain at Ikea, we also had to sand off hundreds of layers of varnish, so don't every ask me to help you with one of these. Still all in all it was well worth it. We even found a few more of Grandpa Greens stray Peanuts in it!! haha

Enjoy the journey!

When we moved and got new family photos done I had to do some rearranging. It left a spot open and I put up a little plaque that was cute but just didn't go. Then for Christmas I got a "Silhouette" machine. Which I'm totally in love with! Any way this gift got me thinking about this space and a much needed change. After weeks of looking for the right paper and colors I finally found what I was looking for at Michaels. Tip: When looking through their paper look on both sides! So I cut a board into a square and painted it then modpodged my paper on. I used my silhouette machine to cut out the letters. Then a bit more modge podge and TA-DAA... my wall is complete! I'm so happy with how it turned out!

Disneyworld

We took the kids to Disneyworld this last week with paiges family, and here are some pictures