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Every time Noah touches Holland she is suspicious that he is going to do something to hurt her.  He is super rough with her. He knows what he's doing because he usually pushes her or hits her when i'm looking away.  She doesn't really even like him close to her and gets nervous when he's around.  She has actually started pushing him away from her if he gets too close.

This girl loves to climb the stairs and is now climbing the gate too. 

Loves from Daddy!!

I absolutely love the packaging of this baby food.  Holland can feed herself which is so nice.  Holland loves baby food!

Presleigh had an early morning check up with the Dentist.  I always thought that she would have good teeth because they took so long to come in but this girl ended up having 8 cavities.  OUCH!! She was such a trooper getting her fillings.  The Dr did them all in one sitting and she was so good.  She was very excited to get to pick something from the treasure box and because she was so good she got to pick 2 things.

Holland loves to drive the cart at Fred Meyer

Holland always tries to get the Kindle away from the kids.  She was excited to find it sitting all alone so she kept swiping her finger over the screen like she knew what she was doing. 

Holland got a swing for her birthday.  She wasn't a very big fan though.

Eating her birthday cupcake.  

Noah randomly fell asleep at the top of the stairs. 

I told Presleigh to go get her jammies on and this is what she came back with.  She said that she was all out of jammies so she wanted to wear this.  She is obsessed with skirts and dresses.

Holland at the doctor's office for her 1 year check up

Holland weighed in at 18lbs 1oz (10%) she was 27 3/4 inches (10%) and her head was 44 cm (25%)
She is our little petite girly... our smallest baby so far and I love it.  She also has no teeth so it's almost like she's  only 8 months still.  I've always said that I wish my babies would stay little longer... Holland has made that wish come true ;)

Wacky Wild Day at preschool

Presleigh knew exactly what she wanted to wear for their wacky wild day.  She thought her witch costume would be perfect since the letter of the day was W.  

Out at dinner I noticed that Presleigh and I were in coordinating clothes.  I guess I was in a yellow coral mood that day:)

We have a toy problem at our house.  We have a play room but it's always a disaster so the kids don't ever want to play in there.  I decided that we needed to organize our toys a little better so I put them all in tubs and put them all in a closet that I am planning being able to lock. I like that my kids can put the toys away  because they know which tub they go in and each toy has a place.  Wayne would prefer to just get rid of all the toys. 

Holland and I both like to put our feet up.  I do this same move while I'm driving.

Wayne detailed our van.  It took him all day but holy moly it was beautiful.  

Presleigh's favorite thing to do with Holland.  

I took Noah to the store looking a little homeless.  He had put practically a whole bottle of mousse in his hair.  He has  candy cane all over his face.  His superman shirt has a cape on it.  Shin guards over his jeans. and his shoes were on the wrong feet.  It was just one of those days:)

My little climber decided to climb the stool and draw a picture on the counter.  She thinks she's a big girl.

Prayer

 I was starting to get a little concerned about our kiddos because they were rushing through their prayers and even fighting over who was going to say family prayer because they didn't want to say it.  So last week Wayne gave our FHE lesson on meaningful prayer.  They have done great ever since.

Backstory on Presleigh:  Presleigh has always had a hard time at night.  When she was around 1 year old I remember being torn on whether to let her cry it out or not because I was worried that she was scared of the dark.  I was always afraid of the dark so I felt bad for her crying and crying in her bed at night and worried that she was having bad dreams and was scared. I always thought that she was scared, Wayne always thought she was manipulating me.  As she got older nothing really changed.  She has always had a really hard time at bedtime. Since we have been here she has done much better.  She has thrived on our bedtime routine.  She goes to sleep quite a bit better but has still struggled waking up in the middle of the night and coming in to our room. She will come in and fall asleep on the floor or she will tell us that she had a bad dream and wants us to lay by her. I'm not sure if little babies have bad dreams but I'm sure she has been having bad dreams since she was very young. 


A couple nights after our FHE lesson Presleigh came into our room crying saying that she was very scared and had a bad dream.  I reminded her that she could say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father to help her not be scared and to not have bad dreams.  She layed down on the floor and I listened as she asked Heavenly Father to bless her to not have nightmares.  It was super sweet to see her praying with faith that He would answer her prayer.  The next morning she woke up and the first thing she said to me was, "Mom, I prayed that I wouldn't have nightmares last night and guess what, I dreamed about a pony!"  She was so excited. And I was so happy that she realized that her prayer had been answered.  Since then I have heard her come into our room in the middle of the night, lay down, and then say a similar prayer.  It is so special to see her little testimony of prayer growing as she has faith and acts on what she knows. 

Two nights ago I woke up to Noah whimpering and crying in the middle of the night.  I went in to check on him and he was still asleep I figured that he was having a bad dream and so I calmed him down.  The next morning at breakfast I asked him if he was having a bad dream.  He said yeah that he had a nightmare.  Then both of the kids confessed that they had watched a show that they aren't suppose to which I have told them is too scary.  Presleigh then said to Noah, "Every night I pray to Heavenly Father to bless me to not have bad dreams and he helps me not be scared. You should pray to not have bad dreams too Noah."  It was such a precious moment for me to see my sweet daughter bearing her testimony to her brother about prayer.  She is such a sweetheart and is a great example in our family.  I am so glad that she has learned that Heavenly father can bless her and will answer her prayers.  

Busy Fam

Silly Pres

Presleigh got this doll station for her birthday. Holland was trying to enjoy it as well and ended up knocking it over. 

After the events that took place a Sandy Hook, Wayne and I decided that we wanted to get out concealed carry permits.  We went to a class at our friends house and learned all about guns.  I am still pretty terrified of them but I'm hoping that after a few shooting outings that I will become more comfortable with them. 

Holland is such a daddy's girl.  She is constantly saying da da and gets so excited when she sees Wayne, even if it's just a picture of him.  I love their cute little bond:)

We had quite a bit of sickness this winter.  Holland was the one who was sick most often.  It kept us home a lot. 

One night Presleigh was having a hard time.  We use the bathroom as our time out so this is where I had put her.  After a couple minutes I went to check on her and I found her like this.  Asleep.  I figured that she was tired when she was having a hard time because she is usually pretty well behaved.  I didn't realize she was this tired though. 

Another sick pic of Holland.  I enjoyed this time because she was actually cuddly

Once again loving her daddy time:)

Holland all of a sudden started drooling like crazy one week.  I thought that she was probably teething but couldn't really see anything.  She started getting these red bumps on her chin.  It wasn't until I noticed them on her hands and feet that I realized that she had hand foot and mouth:(  She was pretty miserable with it.  She didn't sleep very well and didn't really want to eat.  She would only breastfeed which I figured felt good on her sore mouth. 

Then Noah got it too.  He handled it pretty well even though he looked way worse then Holland.  His mouth and hands got actually sores on them which scabbed over and took forever to heal.  We stayed home for about 10 days before we thought we were in the clear.  Apparently we weren't though because we still passed it to my niece:(

Presleigh drew this picture and taped it to her door.  I asked her what it was and she said, "no boys allowed"  I love that she drew a picture of a girl and then a picture of a boy but the boy has a line through it.  She has been very interested in signs lately.  She cracks me up.

On our way to Utah

When we got to Utah Presleigh and Noah were so excited to see so much snow!! It was perfect play weather because there were piles of snow but it was warm enough that you didn't need a coat.  They spent the whole afternoon outside playing.

I went out with them too and we made a snowman. 

Then we made our way over to Julie's house to visit her fam.  Presleigh was so excited to hold baby Hudson.  We are so glad that we were able to attend Hudson's baby blessing.  

We have been trying to get on an earlier schedule which means that we are up before Wayne leaves for work.  After our family prayers we always do a family group hug this morning I decided to snap a picture of the group hug:)

We went with some friends to Sub Zero Ice Cream.  The kids loved watching their ice cream be made right in front of them.  Noah especially loved the smoke.

Every morning Wayne takes his vitamin and then puts one on the counter for me so that I will remember to take one.  I am the worst at remembering and even sometimes when I see it on the counter I still don't take it.  Just a cute little act of kindness from my hubby.  He is so thoughtful!

Crazy Hair!!

When the weather is nice the kids have been playing in our backyard.  We have a pretty big hole back there that the kiddos love to play in.  I went out to check on them one afternoon and spotted Noah in Wayne's boots. 

Holland is such a little climber.  I took our gate down because it was digging into our wall and scrapping the paint.  I put all of these toys in front of the stairs to block her from going up them but she figured out a way to get over them.  My favorite is the one of her on top of the toy looking very scared just because that was the extra toy I got to put over there and she was still able to climb on it. 

We had our friends over for dinner the other night and while we were chatting downstairs this is what our kiddos were doing.  I was dumb and still had tubs of out grown clothes in there and they even decided to bust those open and throw those around.  They had them in a huge pile and they were jumping off of a stool into them.  It was actually pretty funny.

Finally a little update of our house projects.  The kitchen cabinets are all finished!! Yay! I love my white kitchen and I'm so glad that Wayne was willing to help me take on this project.  We had quite a few late nights together painting but we are so happy with the result.

Here's our front room painted and furnished. We are getting closer and closer to having all of the rooms painted.  it's been quite the process to paint all the ceilings and rooms in the house plus the kitchen cabinets.  There is still a lot of things that I would like to do to spruce the place up but I'm kind of worn out by it all.  Someday it will be all done and then we will move and start the process all over again i'm sure.

Holland taking her first steps.  She is still not walking.  She takes steps but then slowly drops down so that she can crawl. I'm not pushing it though, I enjoy getting to hold her and she still feels so little. Maybe it's because she still doesn't have teeth either. 

More hand foot and mouth pictures.  Hopefully we won't have to deal with this sickness again.