an earfull for the (rude) hairdresser

I hestitate to record this in writing. Bella is a very witty child, I am in love with her personality, but she was just having a bad hair day...if you will.

You know when hair just gets to the point that its stringy and hard to manage? Thats where we were with Bella so I talked her into getting a "trim", Truth be told, I didnt tell the hairdresser to cut this much off, but it was too late by the time I noticed. She was really upset at first. She told the hairdresser..and I quote " I have a bad life" "I live in a cardboard box with duct tape on the side" Huh? Apparently it was hard for her to verbalize exaclty how she felt. I felt bad at first but she just kept going "my mom doesnt like me" "My life is terrible with this hair". There is only so much feeling bad I can do with such a terrible attitude, but my options were few, she was sitting in the chair and I didnt want to embarass her..although she embarrased the heck out of me. And can you beleive this..the hairdress said..and Im not kidding "Is she like this all the time? I feel sorry for you" RUDE! I mean, Bella was definatly on one..but comments like that are not okay, especially when you are a paying customer. When it was done, I took bella outside, gave her a hug, (through clenched teeth, I was so mad) reminded her that its not okay to say I dont like her, but that I was proud she could freely state her feelings, but next time..could she wait till we were in the car? She looked beautiful, the shorter hair makes her pretty features more noticable and she looks darling. It took her about 30 minutes to say " I cant stop looking at my new hair, I am in love with it......and....I'm sorry" All ended well....whew!

another primary talk

Isabella has been asked to talk a ton in primary this past year. Her latest sweet little talk was yesterday, she is getting more comfortable with speaking and wait a minute.....actually enjoys it a litte. I love that she is becoming more comfortable! I also love when writing primary talks is so easy. I can take no credit whatsoever for this talk, I found it online and knew I could not have written anything better. And because I am always looking online for primary talks, I thought I would share on my blog...just in case anyone is like me and likes to write talks the easy way.

I AM A SPIRIT CHILD OF MY HEAVENLY FATHER

In the Proclamation on the Family it says:All human beings – male and female – are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny.

This means that Heavenly Father is the father of each of our spirits. That is why we are all brothers and sisters and why we call each other brother or sister at church.

Lots of people tell me that I look like my dad and mom. I have blue eyes like my mom does. Our hair is the same color too. I have my dads smile and my Grandpa's hands.

My body also looks like Heavenly Father’s body. In the scriptures it says, “God created man in his own image.” That means that I also look like my Heavenly Father.

The Family Proclamation also states:In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshiped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience.

This means that even though we don’t remember it, we knew and lived with Heavenly Father before we were born. When His plan was presented to us,we accepted it. I am glad that I made the right choice.

As part of His plan, we were able to get physical bodies and come to earth to learn and grow. Heavenly Father loves each of us and wants us to return to live with Him someday.I am grateful that Heavenly Father gave me a spirit body and a physical body.

I can take care of my spirit body by praying, reading the scriptures, attending church, following the prophet, keeping the commandments, being morally clean, and having faith.I am thankful that Heavenly Father created us in His image. Because we are His children, we know that we are special and that He loves us. I am grateful we have the chance to live on this earth and to progress and that we can have the blessing of eternal life someday.

bits and pieces

We have had a string of pretty uneventfull days lately, I kind of like them, although it does tend to get a little boring for the kids I'm afraid. Good thing they are resourcefull and can find the fun in little things. Plus, Christmas just passed, and I KNOW their new toys havnt worn out their welcome, I just need to remind them of that. Last week to pass the time,

Bella made a tie dress and danced around to Selena Gomez and Zac Efron... (I cant figure out how to get this picture any bigger, I hate it when I cant figure something out)

Then read her coloring book. Turns out they are great early readers..who knew..

Moses kept throwing food at lunch (a major pet peeve of my grandma's) and had to be put in the time out chair...a few times...He has to learn somehow...



Dont think I'm a bad mom, honestly, he was a happy boy that day, although this picture shows him a little sad. He only stays on this chair for 1 minute..supposedly. He calls out "Mommy, I good boy now!" I am a total sucker and barely last 20 seconds. Good news, he is learning to not throw his food...time out chairs work.

And what did I do during all of these non-eventfull happenings? Snuck around trying to capture what our days have been like. I think some sunny day this summer when we are out galavanting again, I will look back on these and be gratefull to remember them.

Me?

Last week we went to the Draper Temple open house. Before the tour, we were invited to watch a short video about temples. About the middle of the video, the following dialogue took place.


Video narrator: In the desert of Mount Sinae, God commanded Moses to build a temple..."

My son as loud as can be "ME?"

We laughed about it for the rest of the night. When I was pregnant with Moses, there were many people chiming on on their opinion about the name. We took it all in, it was fine. I even had some fun with it and called in to a radio show and they played our conversation on air, it was a pretty funny and interesting conversation. But my most favorite comments have been 2.

1. A co-worker, when hearing what we were going to name him thought it was pretty odd and wanted to make fun of me...or him, or whatever..

Him: "You know what every one is going to say dont you? (me: no) Hey Moses, wheres your boat!" He then starts laughing and feeling pretty darn proud of himself.

Me: Well, that would be Noah, not Moses. Good try though.



2. When Moses was being blessed in church, it was a testimony meeting. I thought I should get up there and say a few words but I procrastinated and was the last one. Afterwards, a member of our bishopric said "Far be it for me to prevent the mother of Moses from bearing her testimony"



There are SO many unique names that people are choosing these days for their babies, and I love that we went with the name Moses. To each their own right? Afterall, Gwyneth Paltrow named her baby Moses, (by the way, we had the name picked out way before Moses P was born....a story for another day)

I'll pay you 5 bucks and give you a sucker.

Wow, January is proving to be a pretty uneventfull month. I feel so...blah and uncreative. I long to feel creative again, I think I need a project. Finally yesterday I was so tired of staying indoors, because I am a wimp in the cold, we went outside to run around for a while. I felt desperate to have my camera in my hands again, I have an awesome new lens now (much more on that later) but fat chance on getting anything decent with my two. I finally resorted to bribery with 5 dollars just for Bella to sit still for 2 seconds, and a sucker for moses to smile, the things I wont do for their smiles, and $5.00 for 2 seconds? What was I thinking! Also, I didnt win the halloween contest, not even 3rd place. Bummer. Thank you for all your votes though, at least you love me :)

Buddy is staying really busy with school, I cant beleive he will graduate in 9 short months, he is working so hard and I am incredibly proud of him. He speaks a different language now, medical jargon, I love to listen and am impressed with all that he has learned, I could never retain it, he is so smart.

I stay busy volunteering in Bella's kindergarten class as well as ramping up to be the Cookie mom for this years girl scout cookie sales. Bella overheard me talking to someone on the phone today. I must have said something that made her think I was worried about something and she said "mom, you are the cookie mom, you can do anything" (emphasis on the cookie mom ) I guess as long as I am the cookie mom, I can conquer the world, at least in her eyes. That made my day! I still love my job, I am looking forward to some trips this year...hopefully!

Moses is a tornado. He is a toy gun weilding, hulk hands wearing, T-rex of a little boy, and I just cant resist him. Anything he wants, he's putty in my hands. Buddy likes to give me a hard time about this. I will admit, he's my most favorite little guy in the world, I have to try harder to keep my push-overness for his (bucky little) smile under wraps, I am afraid he doesnt take me seriously. Ask Buddy, he will whole-heartedly agree.

Isabella is just a dear heart. She is reading like mad, in fact, I cant just gloss over boring books anymore, she knows when I have skipped words and wont let me turn the page until I read the whole thing...darn it. She read Dr. Seuss' Mr. Brown can Moo today, I love to hear her read, I tottally sport a perma smile, its so fun. We went on a girls night out to see a production of Annie at Bountiful H.S. a few nights ago, she loved it, as did I. She is getting excited for her own production of Enchanted comming up in May, I keep telling her she has to shake it shake it on her dance moves, she's pretty shy about it still. I pulled out my best moves for her today, I think she thinks I'm a nerd now. She's probley right. but heh, whatever works.

ringing in the new year...like we used to.

I cant think of a better way to ring in 2009 than with my parents! They were able to come visit us this week, we have had such a great time with them! I'll have to do a big post on them when I have the time to get all my pictures together. I dont recall if as a young one, I stayed up until midnight, but I do remember my parents making a big deal out of it. at the "stroke of midnight" we would all bang pots and pans and make an awefull lot of noise. Why should it be any different with kids of our own? We celebrated the new year around 10:00 with a procession of lovely loud pot and pan clanking, put the kids to bed, and pooped out ourselves at 11:50. I couldnt even make it 10 minutes, gosh I'm old. Then on new years day we went sledding at my uncles house, they have an awesome hill and the kids just loved it! We had a really fun day. Happy new year everyone!!