Eliza is Three

Happy Birthday Eliza!!!

Eliza turned three yesterday, she has been gearing up for her birthday ever since her cousin Lindsey had hers a couple of weeks ago. We started her birthday celebration off on Sunday at Grandma Turners with a little party with the cousins, she has been into Dora the explorer, so that was our theme for the party. We had to have Eliza's favorite dinner which is, bow tie pasta and Alfredo sauce. After dinner we played a little game, each child had five specific shapes they had to find and once they found them all they got a goodie bag. I think the kids liked it, simple
but went along with the explorer theme.

( Andrew and Aiden complained that they didn't want to wear the Dora party hats, but Aiden must have liked his he wore it all night, and Lesley said he would have slept in it if it hadn't have broken.)




Then came cake and ice cream, Jeff and I made her a Dora cake, I was a little nervous as we started to frost it. It looked scary, I told Jeff Eliza was going to start to cry when she blew out the candles, but as we continued to frost the rest of the cake it started to impr0ve, and I think it turned out great! Jeff said this is the last cake that we decorated, next year it is a Costco cake, we will see what next year brings.


Once the day came she didn't seen to overly excited. Grandma, Eliza and I all went to a movie for her birthday. We saw Plant 51, cute but Eliza didn't seem to into it, I think it was for a older audience. Although she kept bouncing from grandmas lap to mine throughout the movie, she said she liked it.Then last night we headed over to Grandma Cindy's for a little pizza and to open some presents, all in all I think she had a great day.












I can't believe she is three already she is growing up so fast, and continues to make me laugh every day. She has brought so much joy to our lives, I am so proud to be her mother.

The past week

The last week has been a little busy for us, we had something almost everyday, which as was fun but also tiring. On Monday a Anna the neighbor girl come over and play(this was the first time her and Eliza have played together) they did well, I see many more play dates in the future. Then we went out to Jenny Clark's for a little play date with her two kids Suzzie and Zane, they are cute kids and it was good to see Jenny, it has been a while. The next day we headed up to Jeff's aunt Diane's to play with Adrie and Kolby, what a fun day! Diane is great, and it is always nice when Eliza can play with kids her own age. Our final adventure for the week was to the children s museum with some girls from my ward. It was fun we had all the kids do a class and they learned about pirates and made spy glasses. What a fun week we had!


Mackenzie, Isaac, Will, David and Eliza

A new year brings changes.

December 23 was my last day of work, I had mixed emotions as I left. I have always had to work and have enjoyed American Family for the last 7 years. Although I will miss working( only a little bit) I know that being home with my little girls, is where I need to be. Being home hasn't been to bad of an adjustment for me. I think the biggest adjustment will be not going shopping and buying things when ever I want, I am glad to make that sacrifice if it means staying home. Besides Eliza and I have been pretty much home bound since it has been so cold here, so that has made it a easier to break my shopping habit. I hope it warms up a little so we can at least go outside and play, but I know that is wishful thinking, it is January and I live in Utah.

With the new year in full swing, my belly keeps getting bigger and bigger!!! I don't remember being this big with Eliza, but maybe that is because the last 3 months of that pregnancy I was on a strict diet of rice and chicken. No complaining here, this pregnancy has been a breeze compared to the first and I would rather have a few extra pounds then go through that again! I can't believe I only have 10 weeks left, it has gone so fast when I look back, I just hope these next weeks go by just as fast.

What an Update!!

Where does the time go? I can't believe it has been quite some time since the last update, but the sad thing is I don't feel like much excitement has happened. As I looked at our archive, I'm a big slacker when it comes to updating. Maybe this new year can bring some more updates.

We did find out what we are having, and it is another girl. I'm so excited for another little girl in our house, plus I can recycle all my girl things, got to love that! We are having a hard time picking a name that we can agree on, so any suggestions would be great! Eliza keeps asking when the baby will be here, I'm glad she is excited. She tells me that she will help me carry her and get her out of the bath, and even said she would share her bed with her. She will be a great sister.


School is out and thank heaven! My classes weren't to bad, but one class I had a group project( I know most of you know how those go). We had to do 10 hours of community services for a particular group of people, my group was disabilities, and then we had to write a 10 page paper. The services went well but when it came down to writing the paper, now that was a different story! Plus they nominated me to be the editor, but in a way I'm glad so I could see what the final product looked like before turning it in. Although it was tough getting the paper together, I guess is was good since I got an A in the class. Now just waiting for my diploma they said it would take 6 weeks.