Go Away Sickies, Go Away!

WARNING! Do not come near our house, you're sure to walk away with a mysterious fever, and/or strep, and/or cough, headache, OR SOMETHING! We have had one "bug" after another after another!
That has consumed our life lately!


On to other news: Luke's been so bogged down with school this semester. It's been really awful. So bad that we're starting to rethink Grad School.  So the plan now is to stay enrolled, but begin a serious job search and start interviewing. If something pans out, GREAT, if not, he'll do school this fall.  It really is such a toss up as to which route is better in the long run and without a crystal ball...... or a serious revelation :  ) It's just hard to say which will be the best  for us. So for now, that's what we shall do.  And we know the right thing will happen, whichever it is.

Adelia has continued her endeavors to walk all over the world.  She's getting quite good at it! I wish my blog had the little video icon like it use to. I know there are other ways to upload video but i'm too lazy to really work hard to get one up) but trust me, she's SO CUTE with her toddling.  She can go several steps before she has to crawl a few rotations and then get back up and walk a few more steps.  Basically, she's adorable!
Her little personality is so sweet! She loves to smile and smile and smile (except for when she's got a fever of 104. YIKES!) but she's just really happy and loves to grab anything within reach. She has two bottom teeth and 4 on the top.  Her well-check the other day said she's still in the 3rd percentile for height and weight. She's 25  and (something) inches in height and 15.4 lbs.  She may be little, but she can take down Daddy!

 Now on to Tianna: Oh my little girl, what can I say to sum her up?  She's just so.....LIVELY. That's the best way to describe her! All day I'm either laughing at something funny she has just said or wanting to wring her neck. : ) She's still very into anything GIRL and loves to mother her little sister. She is constantly bossing Luke and I around and is such a perfectionist. Everything has to be just "so-so" or she just can't handle it.
She's the best shopping buddy and loves clothing.  Sometimes her ensembles get a bit strange though :)

She is also mommy's little side-kick. She's a great helper and loves to help me make dinner, make my bed, take care of Adelia, and do a myriad of other things while Daddy is gone for 10 or more hours each day.  She's a GREAT cleaner and is so good to clean up after herself when I ask her to. I love her! She really is like a great girl.  Tianna is very grown up and mature for her little age so  I often forget when she is acting especially 3, that she's suppose to.  It tests every ounce of my patience and I hate admitting that sometimes I just want to strangle her! But immediately I want to squeeze her guts out. It's a good thing she tells me, "I love you, Mommy", 300 million times a day because sometimes it's the only thing saving her life! : )

Some of my favorite things she mispronounces lately are: HuckaDonalds (McDonalds), Daisy's (Wendy's), chicken nuddets (a step up from when they were Chicken NUTS, hhahaha).... wait, all of the examples coming to mind have to do with food.  Anyway.... she just cracks us up all day. Love her! I came across this old picture of her today and I just HAVE to post it. She's such a pretty little thing!

For as for me... well... I've been taking care of sick kids. 'nuff said. No, really... I've been doing a lot of things too. Being stuck at home has forced me to do some things I just kept putting off.  I have rearranged several rooms in our house, kept it cleaner on a more consistent basis that usual, joined a card making group with some friends from my ward, started working out with the treadmill Luke's parents are loaning us, and I am currently keeping up on my filing of icky mail.... amongst other things. I'm excited for spring and can't wait to plant my garden. And I revamped my sad attempt at making an Easter wreathe last year. NOW I like it... and decided not to hang it outside, but in my stairwell where I can enjoy it all day long!

 

(With flash. Oooo pretty!)

Luke and I are also preparing for our first VACATION since Tianna was a baby.  We went to Hawaii when she was 5 months old and she came with us. This will be our first trip without her... and without Adelia. (that part is going to be difficult!!!) We are going on a backpacking trip in June to Havasupi with some of our friends.  We are so excited!!!! I've never done a backpacking trip before, and it's been a long time for Luke. It will be a great way to celebrate his GRADUATION with his Bachelor's degree. Wooooooooooooo!

Other things we've been up to lately:
The weekend after I posted last we went to Salt Lake to pick up Tianna from the grandparent's houses.  Since it was Luke's last day of Spring Break he took Friday off and we left early for SLC and went to REI and Gardner Village.

That night we stayed with my friend, Janelle and her husband, Ed, and had a jolly ol' time with them as usual. Thanks for hosting us guys! Saturday morning Luke went to the REI garage sale to pick up some stuff for our trip. Later we met up with my family and Tianna! (WE MISSED HER!!) I went to the mall with my mom and Val and everyone else went to the Outdoors expo.  A noteworthy experience:  Tianna got away from the group and they spent 15 minutes searching (and freaking out) until they found her at the opposite end of the expo. Awesome. Luckily she refused to tell anyone her name.... which is different than usual since she usually tells anyone who will listen her name and everyone else's name that she knows!

On March 22nd we got to go to a viewing party for our friend in our ward who IS AN AMAZING cake decorator and was on TLC's "Ultimate Cake Challenge"  We went to the party and ate YUMMY food. Sadly, she didn't win but she totally should have!. Go Amelia!!! It was so fun to cheer her on in person. 

 Last weekend, we again went to SLC on Saturday so that we could go to another REI garage sale. HOLY HECTIC! Whew. I was glad when that chaos was over with. Afterwards we met up with our friends, Robbie and Sarah and their adorable little boys. We haven't seen them for a long time so it was great to see them.
On our way home we stopped at Trolley Square where Sarah works at Pottery Barn Kids and then ate at the Old Spaghetti factory. Of course we couldn't get by without some sort of  "Tianna incident." She took a topple head first out of the trolley car. So we had to give the manager our information for insurance purposes.... not that I wanted to. I knew she was fine but what do you do?

 So there's the rest of our March wrap up. Now, STOP SNOWING OUTSIDE and bring back my Spring. Easter is in a few days and yet I'm looking at a winter wonderland!