Day 60: Tantrums

I got to watch my neighbor's kids while she attended the temple this morning.  Normally it's not a big deal, but something she failed to tell me as she dropped them off was that this little guy woke up at 3:30 in the morning and refused to go back to sleep.  So we had A LOT of tantrums while Mom was gone.  It got to where the only thing I could do was laugh and take pictures.

Day 59: Early Morning

I woke up at 2 this morning, and couldn't go back to sleep.  So I decided to leave early and head to the temple to get a session in before Jeremy had to leave for work.

Day 58: Satellite Dish

The only thing I don't like about living in Eagle Mountain, is you have to have Satellite TV; no cable companies come out this far.  Which means, every time there is a heaving rain/snow storm we loose TV.  What else are you going to do when the weather outside is frightful?  So late tonight, Jeremy and I were out there trying to clear the snow off our dish, without any success....

Day 57: Daddy Daughter Time

Clara loves to watch Jeremy play with his ipad.  This particular night, Jeremy was taking pictures and videos of Clara and then looking at how silly she was...

Day 56: Reciept

We had such a wonderful time with our dear friends tonight.  We started out watching a movie, and then were going to go get a bite to eat.  We were following each other when we decided that since it had been almost 2 years since we had seen each other, we were wasting valuable visiting time driving in separate cars.  So we pulled into the fist parking lot we could find, got in one car and went out to eat.  When we were reading to call it a night, our friends drove us back to our car.  As we pulled up the the parking lot where we had left our car, the lot was empty....  Our car had been towed....  Oops!  Should have checked for parking signs before we excitedly ditched our car....

Day 55: Clara the Diva

This is yet another picture of Clara, which she insisted I take.  She also determines her own pose....

Day 54: School

These days, most of my daily pictures are of Clara asking me to take a picture of her.  So this was right before school, and even though we were running late, I had to take this picture before she would leave.

Day 53: Craft Night

Our relief society has a craft night every month.  Usually I don't go because I'm not really a craft person.  But when I saw these, I wanted to do one.  So this is what I made tonight.  Now I just have to find a place to put it in my house....

Day 52: Backpack and Hair

Clara insisted I take this picture.  She was thrilled to have her hair look like this and be taking her backpack to school.

Day 51: Clean!

Oh how I love clean sinks and mirrors.

Day 50: Hand Pic

Clara talked about families in her Sunday class.  She was so excited to tell us that she drew a heart with an arrow through it.  Not sure where she learned that some hearts get arrows, but pretty funny.

Day 49: While You Were Sleeping

I LOVE this movie and decided to watch it today.

Day 48: Fort

Clara built this for all by herself!

Day 47: Castle

Clara built a castle out of dirt in our neighbor's yard.

Day 46: Snow

Day 45: Beautiful Girl

We gave Clara this necklace for Valentine's Day and then she wanted to wear something "beautiful" to match it!

Day 44: Table Manners

This little girl was laying on her tummy, using the computer.

Day 43: Relaxing Sunday Dinner?

We had family over to our house tonight for dinner.  I have a 6 year old nephew that is seriously Curious George in disguise.  He found our water main and decided to see what it would do if he turned it off.  However, instead of turning our water off, he turned our sprinkler pipes on (which has been left open to drain for the winter.)  So we found a big puddle of water in our cold storage room later on that night.  Luckily the kid also has great common sense and turned the water off pretty much immediately, so it didn't do too much damage.  So this is the water spot that was left after we cleaned up the worst of it.

By the way, he did find out how to turn our water off, so a guest informed me that the toilet she just used was having issues, and she couldn't wash her hands.....

Day 42: Taxes Done!

Remember this post?  Well after HOURS of frustration, I finally got our taxes done today!  And we are sadly getting a whole lot less than expected....

Day 41: Sushi

I made sushi again tonight.  It was the first time doing it completely on my own.  I didn't get it cut very well, but boy was it yummy!

Day 40: Temple Picture

At our ward conference recently, our stake presidency encouraged us to put a picture of a temple in each child's room.  One of them even commented about how meaningful a picture of them in front of a temple would be.  So we let Clara pick out a frame (from the many we had lying around the house,) got a photo printed, and put it in her frame.

She LOVES this picture.  She has to show it to everyone who comes to our house.  She carries it around with her.  I love that she thinks it is so important.

Day 39: Lion

I went to watch my neighbor's kids for her, and she a project set out for them to do while she was gone: paper bag puppets.  This is Clara's.

Day 38: Princess Pepper

Clara got this crown from the dollar store today and was so excited to let Pepper try it on...

Day 37: Ballerina

Day 36: Little Cook

Helping make brownies

Day 35: The Firm

NBC has a TV show out called the Firm.  We are addicted.....

Day 34: Play Dough

Day 33: Potatos

This is the kind of dinner I have on nights that Jeremy works late....

Day 32: Baby Wyatt