Easter Dresses

I couldn't resist getting multiple Easter dresses this year. As many times as I told myself that they could wear their dresses from the wedding for Easter, I found these other dresses and fell in love. (They actually have 3 Easter dresses each this year--but they are also for the whole summer, right?)
Here are some pics from this morning. Libby kept changing her mind about if she wanted her picture taken, so she would lay down.

Why is Libby posing with the garbage can? I don't know, but it is such a cute picture of her, I had to post it.

Picture this

Libby, wearing only a diaper perched on the library step stool in the corner of the kitchen. She is holding the little brown leather hymn book and asking me to come listen to a story. What else could I do, it was so cute. So I sat down on the kitchen floor at Libby's feet and pulled Sarah in my lap. She gravely told us she was going to tell us a story, then admonished..."Now don't be silly guys! Don't be silly." (I did, actually keep a straight face...but after the 5th time she told us to stop being silly, I almost cracked.)
She finally "read" us the story. It started with Captain Hook, then wandered to Joseph Smith, with a lot of "So"s to start each part. It was hilarious.

I came out of the shower to discover Libby in the pantry. It looked like a cornmeal tornado had come through. Libby (aka the cornmeal tornado) was covered and so was the pantry, spilling out into the kitchen. I had never been so glad that Derek had come home early....

Until a few minutes after he got the cornmeal cleaned up when Libby came out saying "Daddy, I have POOP on my finger!" And you know what? She did. She had taken off her diaper and stuck her finger in to investigate. Luckily she didn't sit down anywhere before she ran to tell us about this cool substance. She also didn't eat any. Thank goodness for small miracles.

I had to bring Sarah home from church today in a diaper and jacket. I will spare you the long explanation as to how that happened, but will say that I realized she still doesn't hold back when she has no diaper on.

Sarah's First Haircut

I had to do it, since we didn't have time while we were in Utah. It was just a little mullet trim. She did a pretty good job of holding still.
I decided to take a picture of the little locks of hair, rather than trying to save them. Not a great picture, but proof.

Sarah!

Sarah is starting to amaze me with her vocab. She is saying whole (short) sentences. Yesterday she said, "Daddy eating lunch," and "I don't want to."
She is getting more adventurous too...I don't necessarily love this part, but it was fun to watch her at Pump it Up! She would climb up the ladder of the big slides and go down all by herself.


She has had a growth spurt and is almost as tall as Libby. She probably outweighs her for sure. We will find out in a month at Sarah's 18 month check up.

My girls...

My girls are so much like me it is scary.
Check these out.
They love to dance...

and work out!

Trip to Utah

It was a serious whirlwind 10 day trip to Utah and back. I couldn't choose which pictures to put in...so I made a slide show of most of them. It has music, just to warn you in case your kids are asleep when you start reading--check your speaker volume (this happens to me all the time.)




Here are some other great videos from the trip:

Congrats Bryn and Brian!

Libbyisms in Utah

We are loving our time in Utah. The girls were absolute angels for the long drive. We only had to stop for gas twice and to eat once. Amazing. Here are some of my favorite Libbyisms so far on the trip.

The first morning here it snowed. Libby loved it, especially eating the snow. It has since warmed up and melted.
Yesterday we had this exchange.
Libby: "Mommy, where is the snow?"
Me: "It's all gone."
Libby: "Did I eat it all?"

The other night we were driving home from Provo after a delicious Chuck-a-Rama dinner (a family favorite, I am in it for the scones). Rachel was putting in a DVD for the girls, but the DVD player was having a bit of trouble.
Libby: "I want the Little Mermaid!"
RAchel: "It isn't working."
Libby: "I want the BIG Mermaid then."

When we arrived at my parents after the Chuck-a-Rama extravaganza we beat my parents by about an hour because they had to drop off a few things for the reception, move a couch, and some other stuff. I will give you a little more dialoge to lead into the Libbyism.
Trish to Rachel as we pull into my parents driveway: "Do you have a key to the house?"
Rachel: "No, I left my keys in the house. Do you?"
Trish: "No. Crap."
Rachel (after checking all doors and discovering they were all locked.) "Well, at least we have the DVD player so Libby can watch Hercules."
Libby: "I want to watch Hercules IN THE HOUSE!"
Trish: "Oh well :)"
Luckily my dad made a spare key the next day to avoid future incidents.