Love Day, Snowride, UFC, Family Pictures, and 6 Months

I have a problem lately!
I make a post and never publish it, I write an email and never send it.....
and now I've found another week has come and gone. I wrote my last post last Wednesday, right after we got back from our busy weekend down with our families.......finally last night I dowloaded my pictures so i could finish this darn thing!
Last week I got sucked into a book and just couldn't pry myself away to download the pictures. I will blame my laziness on that and the OLYMPICS! GO USA!
Anyway... my point is, if some of it sounds like this was the past weekend, it's not. It's from the weekend of Valentines Day and President's Day.
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Back from an awesome 4-day weekend! Luke had Monday off and since school had Monday's schedule on Tuesday (a day he does not work) we didn't have to be back to Logan until Tuesday at 2:30 which meant a LOOOONG weekend to enjoy our families!

On Friday as I scrambled to get us all ready to go, I also got to rip up the carpet in one corner of our bedroom.  For some reason when you run a humidifier constantly for several days the water has to go somewhere besides into the air. Huh. What a novel thought! I don't know what I was thinking... but to make a long story short--- It was a good thing we were leaving for 4 days so that our stinky soggy carpet could air out! YUUUUCK

Saturday was the ALMOST ANNUAL SCOFIELD SNOWRIDE! I'm so grateful that my Mom watched Adelia for me so that I could go on the ride. Also, thank you Jana and Val.  Especially because Adelia cried and screamed the entire time. Apparently we need to expose her to others more often. She's around other people a lot but I'm always holding her so she only wants Luke or I to hold her.......... AND no one else. OR ELSE.  By the way, she turned 8 months and got her second tooth this weekend..

 

  

Yes that is her tongue. She just couldn't resist that little tongue hole! 

 

Tianna went on the ride with us. It was her first real ride and I was impressed with how well she did.  I mean, a 4 hour ride is a long time for anyone, especially a 3 year old.  Everything went great and Luke and I took turns with her so we each got to play a bit as we rode too.  She enjoyed it until the last 1/4 when it got really bumpy and she fell asleep and then woke up really ornery. I loved the ride though! It was great to get out on a ride. Sadly, this may be the last Snowride.  The route has had to change and it's just so much work..... nearly 200 people signed up for it this year! My dad thinks it's time to retire from it......... we'll see what happens! It's been such a tradition for my family for almost as long as I've been alive so it will be strange to have it come to an end. I really do hope I have Snow Rides to blog about in the future.

Saturday night Luke and his dad watched some local UFC cage fighting in Price.  He witnessed as my sister's brother-in-law smashed in his opponents face, breaking his own hand and well... breaking the other guy's face.  I don't get the joy of such things... but he had a great time with his Dad. I teased him that it was like a date because afterward they went out for HOT LAVA FUDGE CAKE.  I took the girls to Grandma Belinda's house.
This picture was so cute.  I couldn't resist a shot of Tianna giving Uncle Chris a humongo hug.

Adelia was happy to have someone smaller than her for a change! This is Mr. Raleigh who is almost 3 months old. Won't be long before she can't say he's smaller than her anymore!

Sunday--- LOVE DAY--- was pretty low key.  Since we were at his parents house, it was Sunday, and we're saving up for a trip, we decided to have a $5.00 limit.  Luke was so cute about my surprise! He told me not to look under the bed and that he would need some time on Sunday to put my gift together.
So I got locked out of the living room for awhile while he put together the cutest little thing for me. He wrote stuff he and the girls love about me on little Tinker Bell Valentines and formed them into this:

For him we got him what he wanted most--- CHOCOLATE! We showered him in "KISSES"... of the Hershey variety and gave him ALL OF OUR HEARTS-- of the Dove Dark Chocolate variety.  We spent the day at church, his parents house, and his grandparents house. It was a nice day and  I'm so happy I get to spend LOVE DAY with my Eternal Valentine forever!

Sorry about the Dora's showing! :  ) 

And Tianna loved that she got to make Valentines for people and spent weeks covering papers in stickers and coloring and recoloring, and recoloring them.  She is a big fan of Valentines Day. A week and a half later she' still handing out Valentines to people! Love her!

Monday-- Frandsen Family Pictures. The day went like this: Got up, got ready, went to Price, took grandkids picture in the outfit my parents gave the kids for Christmas, then changed their clothes for the large group photo. Then changed for our little families picture. Went in the house and got Adelia asleep. Then took Tianna out for her pics, then had lunch, then got Adelia's pictures, and her and Tianna together. Then Tianna got hit in the nose with the prop and got a nose bleed.

Here is an interesting picture of my brother, Garth holding Pyper (his daughter) and Adelia. They are 2 days apart and were matchy matching for the pictures. It was cute how he was holding them both and so I snapped a shot..... come to find out you can't use a flash on a camera when you are standing next to the photographer's studio lights. Imagine that. But it actually looks cool in my opinion! 

After pictures we went to the Price Cemetery to visit Vittoria's grave. Can you believe it's been 6 months?! It's amazing how quickly that time has gone. In a way at least.  When you see how raw the pain is on everyone, especially her parents it's hard to believe it's already been that long...On the other hand, it feels like a lifetime ago that we heard her sweet giggle and saw that beautiful smile of hers. We miss her dearly and are just so grateful for our Heavenly Father's plan.  If we didn't know that we'd see her again some day I don't know how anyone could get through such loss!

Tuesday we drove home instead of Monday. Luke had a funny schedule for school, so he didn't need to be back until 2:00.  It was so nice having a extra time with everyone and really nice not traveling at night for once! We were actually able to make a stop at In-N-Out Burger for lunch! YUMMO! A perfect way to end a perfect weekend!

Playing is Exhausting

Just after I posted the previous post, I noticed it was awfully quiet next door in the girl's room where Adelia had been playing.(Don't worry she wasn't unsupervised for very long)  This is what I found.  Her first time falling asleep while playing. Isn't she cute?

 

Reminds me of the first time Tianna fell asleep while she was playing.
 

From May 2007 when she was about 8 months too.

Our Princesses

Wow...... it's been a lovely few weeks with one sickness after another. It seems like one of my kids gets sick and recovers just as the other gets it. Then we have a small window of time (say 4 days or so) before another round.
Adelia got really sick the latter end of last week and is finally starting to feel better. It was just a bad cold but settled in her chest (not good) and gave her 2 ear infections.  I never knew how nice it felt to see her smiling and crawling until I didn't see her do either for several days.
Tianna's home remedy to make Adelia feel better was to dress her in a fairy costume. She must have been inspired cause she loved it!

 For FHE this week we made some Valentines Cookies to take to some of our neighbors and ward members. I had the best helper! I told her to take off her princess dress (her? princess dress... whaaaaat?) so she could help me make cookies and this was the ensemble she came up with.A skirt, her PJ shirt, and her apron-- Love her fashion sense!

 Then we went and "heart attacked" their doors with hearts and gave them their cookies. Can I just say, we have made such wonderful friends up here in Logan. We love our ward and neighbors. We definitely have been blessed!
I have to throw this pics in just because. Last night Adelia had her first taste of orange and couldn't get enough of it. Check out those cheeks! I could just kiss them all day!

Love Month!

HAPPY FEBRUARY!  I've always liked this month... I think that is largely because of the pink and red girlie decor. Not to forget, usually flowers, chocolates, pink-frosting and date-nights are involved. It will also include a trip to see our families and going on the Annual Scofield Snowmobile Ride! This year, I think the best thing about February... it's one step closer to SPRING!!

I have to apologize to my readers for my last post. I think I have misguided you into thinking I'm a cool mom that always does fun stuff with my kiddos. IF ONLY it were true. Truth is, my kids probably think I'm a super boring Mommy, and there's NO question that I let Tianna watch way too much TV and/or movies. I think we've seen just about every episode of every show that plays on Disney Channel and don't get me started on how much DORA we've seen.

I wish I could be one of those mom's that wakes up at 6 am and plays with her children on the floor until nap time... then they all settle in for a good nap while Mommy takes care of her household duties . When the kids wake up she resumes playing with them until it's time to prepare dinner.  That is when the real fun starts because the kids all help mix, stir, measure WHATEVER healthy, well thought-out meal she's preparing. Then once dinner and dishes are done it's time for bath time, stories, good night kisses and everyone is tucked into bed by 8:00.
TIS NOT SO Folks! Not at my house.... Maybe someday.

 

Until then, I'll just post pictures of the occasional fun activity we actually do. Then I'll LOOK like Mommy of the Year, but you now know the truth. I'm kind of LAME Mommy much of the time.  I think I'll blame it on this though... it's been so stinkin' cold and frosty here. When it's not storym, everything is covered in a nice layer of frozen frost.... which don't get me wrong, is gorgeous and FUN for a little while, but we're talking over a month of this now. It's hard to entertain your family all day every day when you can't even go outside.

(This pic was taken at Second Dam up Logan Canyon. You can literally see the sudden end of the Valley's fog if you drive just past this)

Saturday night we shipped the kids off to Luke's uncle's house while we went to a USU hockey game with some friends. Tianna was thrilled to go play at Uncle Mike's house and we were thrilled to have a night out.  And we enjoyed a FREE night out in more ways than just free from kids! As Luke E. is a Pepsi guy, they get free VIP seats and catered dinner which this night, happened to feature Dominos! It was an exciting game and so much fun!! Thanks Luke and Stacey and GO USU!!! 

What to do Mid January

What to do mid January when the weather is bad, and your kids are sick and YOU are just sick of staying inside?
A: You hold Pre-School in the bathtub..What's better than a bath AND a lesson? (These aren't even incriminating pictures of her in the tub because the camera came out after the fact!)

Just for Journaling purposes- Tianna is getting pretty good at recognizing letters and can sometimes put them in the right order in the alphabet.  She must be more like her Daddy though because she is REALLY good with numbers. She counts beautifully and can recognize any number (well... up to 10 anyway).  A recent development is that she can spell her own name!  While we were learning that, we went through our whole house finding every T we could.  Now we can't watch "T"V or drive anywhere without her exclaiming, "I found "T!" It's so great! She is very bright and a quick learner... I'm really glad Santa Claus brought her these foam letters and numbers so she can practice her skills!

B:  Build a fortress! 

C: Take in a good nap (yeah.. wouldn't that be nice?)

D:  Build houses out of Bristle Blocks. 

Tianna is also very creative. Today she built this house and even added windows and described to me where each room from our real house was on her model. My room was the blue square on the left.

E:  Dance

F:  Learn how to crawl, pull yourself up to a standing postion, and get your first tooth! (it broke through on January 21)

This week was a busy one for Adelia. She learned how to crawl... or the equivalent.  For some reason Luke and I must have some unsaid rule that our children cannot crawl normally. Tianna would always have one leg in a crab-crawl and couldn't really crawl right until well after she could walk, run, jump, etc. NOW that is exactly what Adelia does. I'm still holding out hope for her that she'll learn to crawl correctly and be content with it for awhile.  We'll see.  She enjoys pulling herself up so much that I see walking coming very quickly.

G: Make a SNOWMAN!
Or should I say......... snowWOMAN. Tianna can't have a boy anything, that would just be silly! So we made our chick have long wispy hair.  Isn't she lovely with those BLUE milk lid eyes? 

H: Take lots of pictures and post them on your blog

We have NEW TILE! WOOOO HOOO!

Last weekend we were lucky enough to have my sister, Jana, and her family come to stay with us and help us lay tile in our bathroom.  I say "help" when really, Casey pretty much did it all with Luke's assistance.  We appreciate them soooooooooo much!!! The bathroom looked much better after we painted it but NOW it looks finished! Plus now I don't need to try and hide the water damage from the previous owners. I tried to go back through my pictures and find a pic of the hideous floor but couldn't find one.... I was sure I had pictures of it... basically around the wall adjacent to the bathrub was a 2 + foot blackish purple circle where water had leaked under the linoleum and bled the colors together.  Trust me. it was UGLY! But the new tile looks awesome! Thanks boys!!

While they worked, we girls PLAYED! We went shopping and made bead watch bands. We are so spoiled! At least we took care of the kids though.... most of the time! ; )

For Family Home Evening last week went bowling. It was the first time we've been bowling up here in Logan together and possibly the only time we've bowled since we've been married.  Tianna thought it was just about the coolest thing int he world.  She loved the black light and she LOOOOOVED rolling the ball down the lane.  Several times she pushed it so slowly that it didn't even make it down the lane though..... sadly, even with that she STILL BEAT ME! Of course, I didn't get bumpers either. But still, I had pretty much the worse game of my life.  Luke didn't do too shabby though.  Even with losing, it was a very memorable night... mostly because of how excited Tianna got! Every time she rolled her ball she'd jump up and down screaming with delight and giving everyone Hi-Fives!

And just cause I have to put this somewhere, this is what happens when you turn your back... your baby becomes a human sticker book! At least she thought it was funny!

Quarter of a Century!

Upon re-reading my last entry I think it sounded a bit whiny about people only looking at my pictures. I didn't mean it to sound that way... I don't care if that's all you do.  :) There are so many to look at nowadays that I often do that too.  Especially when someone posts 30 + pictures! I really didn't expect anyone to read my whole thing... but thanks for those that did! You're so sweet! Mostly I was just putting in all the details for my own journal purposes.... On that same note though... I do appreciate comments once in awhile. I said that I don't think anyone reads my blog anymore on Facebook and I only say that because my comments have gone down to hardly any these days.  I think that has a lot to do with googlereader and the fact that there are so many to keep up on. I myself don't often leave comments just for the fact that I am holding my baby and can't really type. So I will l try to do better! And if you ever feel the desire, don't hesitate to drop me a line.
Now...
I've always looked forward to being 25.  To me, it seems like the best age! You're old enough to be a woman (or man) but young enough to still be "young."  A lot of my friends freaked out on their birthday's this year but I could not wait! It's gonna be a great year!!!
So far it's lived up to expectations! My birthday was perfect.  It fell on a Saturday (the 9th) so I was able to go to Salt Lake and spend the day with my long time best friend, Janelle. We got mani/pedi's at the mall.  It was my first time and I loved it! They even played one of my favorite movies, "She's the Man" while we got pampered.

Then we just hung out there while Luke and the girls met up with his parents at the Gun Show.  (worked out really well for him I must say!)
After our girlie-time we all went together to CHEESECAKE FACTORY! Soooooooooo yummy and sooooooooooo worth the wait. I've been wanting to go there since it opend since I Luhuv cheesecake.
It was really nice spending time with Janelle and I'm so glad I got to spend some of my birthday with my in-laws. They are so good us!

Gotta love that I look like a dork in all my pictures from my birthday.

One birthday surprise that was extra special was getting a call from my Germany sister, Julia, on the phone! That made a perfect day even better!
On Sunday we did a bit more celebrating.  After church we (mostly Luke) made my favorite kind of cake.  Let me just tell you... Yellow cake, pineapple, cream cheese, vanilla pudding, and whipped cream. There is a reason I call this cake "Heaven on a Plate."   IT IS DIVINE!And to help enjoy our cake, we invited our family friends, The Smith's over.  We forgot to blow out candles while they were here so after they left we made up for it... don't worry. I ate that piece too!

Thank you everyone who celebrated with me or called, texted, or wished me happy birthday.
Now I just realized today is also a special day... Miss Adelia Rose turns 7 months old! She's getting so big and very full of it! She loves to sit up by herself, eat everything she can (well except for baby food, that would just be silly) and she is still just full of smiles and fun!