Pictures from Spring Break

Whew! That last post was a biggen. I don't know why I always write so much. I just get behind and I jabber on a lot.... so the end result is always SUPER large posts. This one will be short!
Here are some great pictures Luke's sister, Monica, took while they were up for Spring Break.We had so much fun while they were up here and we are so glad we have a photographer in the Peacock family!

Starting from left: Aden-3, Raleigh- 4 months, Adelia-9 months, Tianna 3 1/2

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!

March Madness (No BBALL involved)

Is it really St. Patrick's Day?!?!?! WHERE has the time gone? March is half over and I feel like February just barely ended. We've been busy and it seems like we're always going out of town lately..But Life is GOOD!

This post has a lot of random things, so there won't be a whole lot of order to it.

But first and foremost..... I think we have a TODDLER! I don't know that someone so small should be allowed to be called a toddler, but Adelia thinks she is

Once she started crawling about a month ago she really got into pulling herself up on things. Before we knew it she was starting to let go for several seconds at a time and just balance on her own. A few days later while I was staying down in Price (more on that in a minute) she got braver and braver. After a day or two of that she could stand up from a complete squat without holding onto anything. Then after a few seconds she'd either grab onto something or fall.  She looked like she wanted to just take off walking but I was doing my best to keep her grounded until Daddy could see her in action!

I was staying down there from Sunday, February 28th, till the next Sunday when Luke's sister, Monica's, baby boy was blessed. Adelia was having serious stranger anxiety (Stranger in a very loose sense... more like anyone but Luke or I looking at her) so I felt she needed some good exposure to other people. So while he had work and school, the girls and I went down to Price until that Thursday and then spent the rest of the time in Castle Dale with the Peacock's.
It was GREAT! But back to my "toddler" that week she got braver and braver. My dad wanted her to start walking so badly so he'd help her practice but I was trying my hardest to hold her off a few more days until Luke could see her take her first steps.
By Friday.... just minutes after he arrived she took her first few steps! That was March 5th (for the record)
Now we're a week and into that and she's getting pretty comfortable at taking 5 or so little steps each time. CRAZY though! She' still just so small that it looks like a 6 month old walking. She just thinks she needs to do everything early.
Now we're dealing with all her teeth coming in at one time. She has her two bottom teeth and now her top front are breaking through the skin and any day now at least 2 more will be out! That was at least 4 at one time!  OUCH!

It's currently Spring Break! YAAAAAAAAY for no school! Luke was in dire need of a break. This semester his "lucky" hour where his homework all comes together seems to be 5 am. He's stayed up that late probably 5 times now and it's only half way through!
So besides a much needed break, we have been enjoying some company.  His mom and Monica, as well as her 2 boys, came up Sunday and stayed until yesterday evening. It was really nice of them to come! While they were here we "attempted" to take some pictures of all 4 kiddos....  then we shopped till we dropped at craft stores on Monday and yesterday we took the kids to Tianna's gymnastics class. It was nice that Aden got to participate too! They were both SO CUTE! After that and a good breakfast at Angie's we went to a park. I LOVED that we had good weather while they were here. Oh I love Sunshine! Then sadly they had to leave... but since we were suppos to go down (yet again) this weekend, they took Tianna with them. Now we aren't going so we'll have to work out some other way to get our baby back.

So it is quiet here! Well.... its quiet when Adelia isn't shrieking. She's learned to shriek when she wants something. it's awesome. She has also caught a nasty little bug and is miserable... hopefully Tianna avoids it since she's not here... and hopefully Adelia gets well soon! She sure gets sick more often than her sister ever did. Maybe it's just that they pass stuff between them now and Tianna had no one but us to share with. I just don't know.

One day a few weeks ago the girls and I had a picnic inside.  I had promised.. well, bribed... Tianna with chicken nuggets if she'd be really good and listen really well during gymnastics that week cause it had been rough lately.  She was really good that day and so we got McDonalds. It was NOT nice weather but we were aching for some, so we pretended.

 Now I'll expound more on our trip to Price and Castle Dale:
One fun thing Tianna got to do was attend a dance lesson from Aunt Tori.  Her and Camryn were so cute and Tiannna is still doing the dance steps weeks later! Thanks Tori for letting her come!

 

I also got to work out for the first time in a long time..(thanks Mommy for watching the kiddos while I did).. it's so hard to do it with kids! I know I could wake up earlier, but Adelia still wakes up so much at night that I can't do that, and while she's napping so many other things take precedence.  I would rather just go outside but that's not much of an option... (okay so I'm just full or excuses) BUT now I don't have one! We came home with Luke's parent's treadmill!!! Thanks for letting us borrow it!
And thank you everyone for just hosting us all the time when we come down. We love it and we LOVE ALL OF YOU!
Here Pyper is trying to eat Adelia! :) Love those two!

It was fun seeing Jocelyn and Harley being big girls... when did that happen?

That chair must have sedative qualities... the night before she fell asleep like that on my mom's lap too.

I'm happy to report that after a few days at Grandma's house Adelia finally started letting people hold her. We just need to go often to keep it up!

The Dynamic Duo... need I say more?

Those two girls sure missed their daddy!

 This is the handsome little man that got blessed. We love you Raleigh!

Tianna and Grandma Belinda doing a craft

We didn't get to see much of this guy that week. We missed you Grandpa Bert

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!!!