Friday, August 27, 2010

Savannah's Morning Routine


This is how you will typically find Savannah in the morning when I'm taking a shower. In her pj's, with milk in her cup and cereal in a bowl watching a show. Sometimes she even decides that she needs to wear shoes.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

New Adventure

So a few weeks before I had Olivia and the first few after I was a slacker mom. I basically let Savannah watch movies all day because well I was exhausted. So I've decided that the all day movie watching is over and we are going to have a schedule and do fun activities. So this morning I was watching my sister in laws wedding video and Savannah watched with me. She kept saying temple and saying how pretty it was so right then and there I decided that we were going to the temple. I've never taken Savannah to the temple and I thought it would be a fun little outing and she could see all the flowers. So my other sister in law Sandi ended up coming with us and we had a picnic lunch. It was a fun trip and Savannah really did like it, I think her favorite part was the fountain. At one point she started to take off her shoe and I though something must have gotten in it until I realized she was going to try and get in the fountain. Needless to say we had a quick fight to put her shoes back on and she did not go swimming in the temple fountain.
Some of the flowers, I'm glad Savannah didn't try to pick any.
Me and my girls.
This is when we first found the fountain, she was so happy.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Grandma's

Don't you just love grandma's! My mom has been staying with us since the 30th of July and she'll be leaving this Saturday so I've been totally spoiled to have her here for 2 weeks. I've decided I just don't know what I'll do once she's gone as well because I've totally appreciated her help and needed it. I know I'm totally capable of handling 2 kids but I'll be honest its freakin awesome to have someone around to help all the time. My mom and I have pretty much always gotten along, of course there were the trying teenage years but I'll be honest in saying I don't ever remember having an "I hate my mom" period of my life. I think of my mom as one of my best friends, someone who I can always be myself around and who I know will always love me and have my best interest at heart. I mean after all she's my mom and I know she feels this way because that's how I feel towards my own daughters. I've loved having her here and whenever I think of her leaving I get teary eyed so I need to stop thinking about it. I love how life works, I mean the whole growing process. How we start out so helpless, how we are dependent on others to care for us. How we grow and learn more and more and become more self reliant. Then one day we become parents and we finally understand what our parents went through and how much they truly love us. I never fully understood that until I became a parent. Then one day we'll be grandparents and we'll watch our children as they gain that same understanding and have that same love for their children. I love the family unit and everything it teaches us. I love my family and everything they do for me and for the examples they are to me.
Here is a picture of my mom with the girls, I love that my mom was willing to come out here to be with us and to help me, especially with Savannah. She has loved having so much attention from her grandma and I've loved watching them spend time together. I hope that I can be as good of a mom to my children as my mom was to me. I think I'm on my way though because people who know my mom say I'm just like her which is one of my favorite things to hear.