Josh captured this great moment with Edith last night. In his words...

Funny moment of the night: Edie was not content with me putting her to bed and wanted another story. Charlotte was sweet enough to read her one. When I went up to spread her blankie (for the third time), Edie said: "Ellie read me a story." I said "No, Ellie is sick, she needs to go to bed. " Edie replied: "Not Eleanor, the one with the short hair." I'm not convinced that Edith knows what her sister's name is.

Oh dear.

Hazel de Wazel

That's what we call her sometimes. The darling is quite literally, darling! A few days ago she packed up her Princess backpack with an array of outfits to take to swim lessons so she could change afterwards. So cute... until we realized upon further inspection the panties didn't make it into the backpack. I politely suggested maybe she put on the shorts instead of the skirt. The darling will not be deterred. The skirt it was. Luckily she chose the long skirt over the short one.

Other recent happenings. Yesterday I was complaining to Josh that I thought I might have TMJ (which I really do think I have) when Josh bantered, "Too Much Josh? Yah, I think you probably have that too." What a goof.

The influence of older brother and sisters has its pros and cons for the two year old in our home.

Pros:

"Mom, I lub you."

"Edie, I lub you."

"Mom, you ook bootiful!"

Cons:

"Mom, you're stupid."

"Mom, I pooomise I will!" 

"Mom, I need a dandaid for my owie."

Bum shakes

I'd love to say the pros outweigh the cons on this one, seeing as we can't exactly dispose of the offenders in this case--but you see the evidence before you.

Catch up

Finding out I don't always have the time to write something cute and witty, but still want to capture the kids being cute and witty. So, here's some of the fun we've had in the last however many months, weeks, etc.

PINE TOP

Could you be any cuter, Hazel?

Char, Ellie and Bubba dressing up snowmen.

Charlotte

Jonah and Edes

Ellie

Mom and Edes

Ellie showing Hazel how it's done. Incidentally, Hazel loved the snow this year!

"Oh yeah, I'm the coolest sledder ever!"

 EDIE GETTING BIGGER

CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON

On our way, a stop at SLC temple lights.

Columbia River Temple

Grandma and Grandpa fun!

Mom and Dad fun!

 I think that's good for now.

Did you Vote?

When Ellie got home from school today she excitedly asked, "Mom, which prophet did you vote for?" Well maybe Mitt's as close to a prophet as we're going to get in the Presidential Election. Hope he wins for Ellie's sake :)

Welcome to Fairyland!

Ellie had a Rainbow Magic Fairies party for her 7th birthday this year and it was so much fun! There's a chance I may have become slightly obsessed in the planning of said party (Josh wondered if I spent that much time planning our wedding), but it was so worth it! Ellie had the time of her life and I decided I'm in no real danger of going too over the top in the future...I'm just not that talented. Phew!

Here are some pictures from the party.

 The Candy Buffet

 The cake was a near disaster! I tore about two layers off it trying to do something else before finally salvaging it with this idea I got online. Never mind it only took all day to accomplish. Yet another reason I won't be going overboard on parties any time soon. 

 

The girls each got to choose which Rainbow Fairy they wanted to dress as. There were twelve girls and only seven fairies so we doubled up on some but everyone seemed pretty happy with their selections. 

 Waiting for the guests...for only the tenth time that day!

 Our twelve exquisite Rainbow Fairies! They even got themselves in rainbow order...so cute!

 Decorate your fairy and wand craft.

 Popping the balloons to find out where the goblins and the jewels they've stolen are at.

 Casting a magic spell to be rid of Jack Frost.

 Wish I'd gotten a close up of this. Ellie wanted to play "Pin the wand on the fairy" so she drew a life size fairy that was adorable!

The pinwheels were thought of and created by Jonah, Ellie and Char. Super cheap. Super easy. Super cute.

Another couple activities we did that I didn't get pictures of: Dress up with clip in hair extensions, jeweled rings, bracelets, wands and lots of hair and body glitter! And we did a crystal rainbow necklace craft that was very fun and cute! To give credit where credit is due, most of my ideas came from a blog I found online. If ever you find yourself looking for Rainbow Magic party ideas...she's the real deal! Amazing presentation. Most of the supplies (tutus, wings, wands, etc. )came from Halo Heaven, an online store I only discovered when researching for this party. I'm totally hooked. Their stuff is very affordable and pretty darn cute. A little blingy for my taste but perfect for a fairy party :)

It's all over now and I found myself struggling to remember what I spent all my time on pre-party. It didn't take very long to remember. Choir potluck, organizing book club, trying to stay awake to read book club books, and the usual homework, unsuccessful attempts at keeping the house clean and if that's not enough there's always sweet Edie that takes her fair share of me. She's  worth it!