Showing posts with label Molly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Molly. Show all posts

Monday, October 11, 2010

Bathing I mean errrr Sleeping Beauty

A few weeks ago just as I was falling asleep Kailyn came into my room because she saw or heard something outside her bedroom window and was scared. This is not an unusual occurrence and I was super tired so naturally I told her everything was fine and to go back to bed.

The next morning I went into my bathroom to get ready for Seminary and found this.........

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Me and Molly before and after

(I know Me and Molly isn't proper English but it sounds cute to me)

Molly was spayed this week. I was a nervous wreck for some reason but she did just fine. We gave her bath before she went so she would be all clean and pretty for the doctors. While she was in surgery I went and got my hair done. I decided that I was getting a little too blond so I had her add in some more dark pieces. I am in LOVE with my hair. I know that may sound vain but I really really really like it. It matches my eyebrows a lot better and I think it brings out my eyes quite nicely. I am also liking the way it is looking as it grows back out. I haven't had her cut it at all other then to slightly trim the ends. I love my hairdresser so much. I have never walked out of there not totally loving my hair. Molly was soooo sleepy when we picked her up. She was totally out of it but so super cute. She is healing fine and is back to her adorable spastic self.
Here are some pictures of Molly and I before and after.

Here is Molly after her bath! Don't you love her hairstyle?

Waiting in the car for check in.Still waiting to check in- You can see how blond my hair had gotten.
I look like kind of silly in this picture but it shows my hair well. This is the same day I got it done. I haven't totally figured out how to get it exactly the way she did but that is always the case. That being said I am still very happy with it. Molly recovering
One SideAnd the other

And finally the pitiful little puppy

Friday, February 6, 2009

Month in Review

I am sure my family is wondering why in the heck I haven't posted any pictures of the kids lately. Honestly I haven't taken any. I am terrible about bringing the camera with me places. I promise that I will bring the camera to any and all events involving my kids in the month of February. (And there will be plenty, I can think of five or six off the top of my head)

But for those dieing to know here is what Travis the kids and I have been up to in January. This is going to be another long post. I promise to update more frequently in the future so you don't have to swallow so much information at once.

Allias and Tyler are both playing basketball. Allias plays on a city league team and both boys play on our church team. Travis is helping coach the church team and they are all having a great time. Travis is an excellent coach and role model for these boys. Tyler has been fantastic on rebounding and being a big guy underneath. Allias is really helping teach the younger kids and has even set up some plays for the team to try. He actually has even been trying to help some of the players on the girls team with some fundamentals. Tyler has been very supportive of the girls as well. He had all the 12 year old boys from the team helping him cheer on the sidelines. The girls were wearing yellow jerseys so Tyler was yelling B-A-N-A-N-A-S!!!
The next game the boys had the yellow jerseys so we were yelling from the sidelines Go bananas go go bananas! Good times.

Travis and I are feeling very blessed that so far our jobs have been very secure and it doesn't look like that will change anytime soon. Travis actually was even able to get a friend of ours a job when the company he was working for didn't have any work for him to do. We thought for sure we were going to have to pay taxes again this year but I did our taxes and we are going to get some money back. Woohooo! That was such a relief because Travis already had to take some of his vacation money (thank goodness we had it) to pay off our property taxes.

Potty training the puppy has been very difficult. For the most part she goes outside if I take her but I am still running into some obstacles. The first problem is for the first 12 weeks of her life she was never taken outside to potty so she has no aversion to going in the kennel. Second problem- when I'm not here the kids never remember to take her out. Third problem- her pee is about the size of a quarter so half the time I don't even notice if she has gone until way after the fact. She does really good during the day when I am working. She sleeps by my feet or in the kennel until I take my break. We go outside and then she runs around a little bit and then when I go back to work she goes back to sleep. She likes to sleep in my lap part of the afternoon. It is once the kids get home and she gets fed and we are all trying to get things done that things go downhill but we will get there I am sure.

Allias had a chance to try out for all districts for band. His band director has told him several times that he could make all states (a step up from all districts). He chose not to go. He said that it wouldn't do anything for him. The kids who didn't make all districts had a chance to try out for all county and a ton of people including me were encouraging him to go. Again he decided not to. He said he didn't see the point. He hadn't practiced the solos for either competition and so we just came home. I asked him if he would play the solos for me and he played them in the car on the way home. He played both pretty much flawlessly. I know he could have gone to all states if he had practiced and played in the all district band. Agency is such a pain in the butt sometimes. I hope someday he realizes what an amazing talent he has and really uses it. Maybe once he is in the High School band his attitude will change. We have our first parent meeting next week. Band is HUGE here and people are way into it. It costs like 1200 dollars for each kid to be in the HS marching band. That is for the base travel fees. They have to raise even more for big trips. This year the band was invited to play in the Macy's Day Parade so Allias is pretty excited for what trips and fun things he may get to be part of. He knows for sure they are going to Indianapolis for Nationals. They get to play in the Colt's stadium.

I made an appointment for Allias to get braces. It will be a little while before he gets the actual metal. They have to put some brackets on the inside of his teeth and wait for the last of his baby teeth to come out He isn't really excited but I know he will thank me when he is older.

Tyler got suspended for skipping class. Honestly I think it is the stupidest thing in the world to suspend a kid for skipping. They don't want to be in school so they skip and then you "punish" them by kicking them out of school. Makes no sense to me. If I was in charge they would go to school on Saturday for three weeks in a row or something. That would be punishment. The new semester just started and he says he is going to really work hard and try to improve his grades and what not. I am sure that has something to do with the fact I had just let him buy a cell phone the day before he got suspended. I found out the same day he got suspended that he was failing most of his classes. The cell phone came in the mail but it is put up for the next three or four weeks at least. The weird thing about Tyler is even though he can be a total pain in the butt and drive me to the brink of sanity he is still a nice kid.

Tyler has actually been fairly responsible when it comes to his job. I think he takes a little advantage of the fact the his boss is a friend of ours (calls her to help him find people to cover a shift etc.). He seems to really enjoy the job and a little bit of money in his pocket.

Kailyn has her first orchestra concert in a few weeks. I think she likes her cello but she hasn't really been practicing like she should. She finally the last week or so started practicing every night. She signed up with some other girls to sing in the Ward talent show and Allias actually agreed to play his clarinet- although he hasn't chosen a song or practiced.
Kailyn is loving having her own dog. She gets really mad at me if I come to school to pick her up and I don't have Molly with me. We finally got the piano set up and she is going to start taking lessons next week. She is incredibly excited. She is learning times tables at school and is doing pretty well. What she lacks in academic success she makes up for in being super well behaved.

On a sad note the trampoline that the kids got for Christmas from Travis' parents decided to take flight during a wind storm a few weeks ago. I was in the living room and all of the sudden saw it flipping through the air. It managed to bounce over one side of our four foot fence tumble through the backyard, take out one side of our fence, tumble some more and then landed on the top of our neighbor's six foot fence. It was pretty much destroyed. We were sooooo bummed. I didn't even get very many pictures of the kids jumping but they were out there every chance they got. Travis did get the store we purchased it at to take it back and we are going to be looking for something a bit more sturdy.

Between exams, holiday, snow days, teacher work days and a few days where no one in my seminary class had to be at school I only ended up teaching nine days in January. Even though I enjoyed the extra hour of sleep and being able to work in my pajamas again, I actually missed it. I can't believe what a blessing this calling has been in my life. I LOVE teaching. I actually love studying even more. I hope the kids are getting something out of being here. They are such great kids and I love each one of them dearly. I have memorized 16 out of 25 scripture mastery versus. I am currently working on Ephesians 4:11-14. This verse was definitely written for our day.
11. And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelist and some pastors and teachers;
12. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ;
13. Till we all come in the unity of the faith , and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of Christ;
14. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.


January was actually kind of a low key month but I just entered in all our appointments, basketball games and practices, birthday parties, parent nights and other random events into my calendar and February is going to be way way busy.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

New Tricks


My bird Frodo has learned how to imitate the sound Molly makes when she is crying perfectly. Last night during Family Home Evening we kept hearing the puppy cry, only the puppy was sleeping peacefully in her kennel. Today I am working and again I keep hearing the puppy cry, only the puppy is sleeping peacefully at my feet.

I am supposed to be working in a quiet environment so I go out there and tell the bird he needs to quiet down. I am back in my office now and he is just repeating his own name over and over and over again while blowing himself kisses. He is making sure to add pretty bird with a really obnoxious and not even close to pretty squawk from time to time.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Christmas

Merry Christmas. We miss and love you all sooooo much. Wish you could have been here to share Christmas morning with us. Hope 2009 brings you all the joy and blessings you can handle.

The kids were sooo excited that we ended up being able to get them Christmas Jammies.
Here is Kailyn in her High School Musical Jammies- all ready to get snug in her bed (she actually slept upstairs with the boys). We went to some friend's house for Christmas Eve dinner and didn't get home until late. Kailyn made sure that I promised to bake Santa some cookies before I fell asleep. Good thing I had some left over cookie dough in the fridge from the Christmas plates we had made earlier in the week. Allias (man he looks like my brother Daniel in these pictures)
Tyler striking a pose. When he opened his Jammies he said, "You got me jammies with penguins on them, that's what's up."
Christmas morning!!
Allias' favorite part of Christmas morning. The Stocking!!! Tyler and Allias both got cologne in their stockings this year and Tyler got jelly bracelets (they are back in). Kailyn got a High School musical watch and some webkinz cards and Allias got some baseball cards. And of course lots of candy.
Kailyn changed her mind about the Bebe gun and asked Santa for Roller Skates instead.

Tyler checking out his cool new belt buckle from Kailyn and Allias. He is wearing the hoodie that Travis and I got him. He hasn't taken it off yet so I think its safe to say he likes it. We also got him a belt and Santa got him a hat but he ended up returning those and can't figure out what he wants instead. We have been to the skate shop twice, the mall and checked out some stuff online. Too many choices I guess.
Allias sporting the Duke hat that was in his stocking and showing off his cool new watch that Santa gave him
Kailyn got three new Webkinz. The little mouse was in her stocking and she named it Pip. She came in my room at 3am with this in her hands yelling "mommy mommy Santa gave me the little white mouse I wanted!!!" I told her she needed to go back to bed that it was too early to be up and she asked if she could bring the mouse to bed with her.
These two came from Uncle Jan. She named the Hedgehog Romeo and the Lizard is Apollo. I think the Lizard is her favorite. She also got a really neat book called TheDaringBookForGirls from Uncle Jan. Its very cool and we are going to try and get her adventure kit together soon.
I think he likes it!!!! He uses unbreakable as his tag on Myspace and was totally freaked out (in a good way) that I found this shirt. Thanks Uncle Jan!!!Allias showing off the MP3 Player he got from Uncle Jan (Its a permanent fixture on his head now). He also got a digital camera from mom and dad. I will post some of the pictures he has taken soon.
Tyler in one of the outfits that Uncle Jan got him.
The boys got a little excited when they opened the XBox 360 that Grandma Becky and Grandpa Paul helped us get.
Tyler trying to be a Guitar Hero (he is wearing the right pants for it).
Tyler and Allias playing a little Halo on the new 360.
Kailyn trying out her new roller skates.
Kailyn and mommy playing Monopoly (Littlest Petshop style). I think Tyler and Allias did a great job picking out something that she would really like. It's also helping her with Math.
And last but not least Miss Molly all dressed up for Christmas.Grandma Barbara and Grandpa Dan got the kids a trampoline which they totally and completely love- we just haven't taken any pictures yet. Tyler is determined to learn how to do a back flip on it and was even out practicing in the rain today. Kailyn and Allias were out jumping at 11 o'clock last night. I am sure the neighbors love us. We will try and get some pictures asap and post them. Oh and Barbara got me GPS!!! Its sooooo cool. I love it!

Again Happy New Year. Hope we get to see you in 2009!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Baby Kay and Miss Molly

I stole this picture off of Shannon's blog! It's too cute for words. This picture was taken at Thanksgiving and Molly has already changed so much. She has grown and her fur is starting to change color (Yorkie's start out black and tan and then turn a grayish color and the tan parts get lighter) and her ears are trying to stand up. She and our other dog Maisy are best buds and they wrestle and play all the time. Molly thinks she is BIG. The potty training is going as well as to be expected. Molly sleeps in her kennel in Kailyn's bed. We tried to let her just sleep in the bed but she doesn't always "hold" it through the night yet.
Here is a picture from today. See how much her little face has changed.




Friday, December 5, 2008

New

We have a new puppy!!! Her name is Molly and she is beyond adorable!

And I have a new hairdo. I love it sooooooo much. I love that I can just go into my hairdresser and say I want to try something new and show her a couple pictures of things I like and no matter what I always leave happy. She's the best! She had a lot of fun cutting my hair today. She loves it when people want to shake things up. I should have taken a picture of the pile of hair that was on the floor.
The Front (kind of blurry but you get the picture) -
The back-

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Molly- Thanksgiving and other thoughts

Man I wish I hadn't let Travis take the camera with him to Utah. A Yorkie puppy just kind of fell into our laps (and that is where she in content on staying) and man is she the cutest thing ever. As soon as Travis gets back I will post some pictures. This dog is seriously the most chill puppy ever. Kailyn named her Molly (after considering Boo and Batty). She was born on Sep 10 and is 11 weeks old. She is an only puppy- no siblings. Kailyn is completely and totally in love. The puppy is her Christmas present (slightly early I know). They are cuddled up in a chair watching a movie as I type.

I am getting ready to make some pies in preparation for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I can't wait to hang out with everyone and squeeze on baby Manon!!!! Food is sooo much better with friends.

I am soooo grateful for all my blessings and sooooo grateful for the gospel in my life and soooooo grateful for my Savior Jesus Christ- For the life He lead, the example He set and for the sacrifice that He made in my behalf. The knowledge that I have of Him brings a peace to my life that I couldn't live without.

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!!!!!