THE SCOOTER!

This post title deserves caps lock. Grandma bought me a scooter and I LOVE IT. Which is almost an understatement. Every minute I possibly can spend on my scooter, I spend on my scooter. The novelty is starting to wear off a little but I still requests walks all the time so that I can scooter. I offered to scooter over to Grandma's and meet Mom there with Daddy riding his bike beside me of course. (Yeah they didn't let me do that. Some claim of busy roads and too far.) I can finally hang with the boys next door. I'm even trying to get tricky! My legs are getting all long and lean from hours of scootering, gymnastics, and tramp jumping.

THANK YOU SO MUCH GRANDMA!!!

The year thus far....

Guest post by Mommy:

As we come to the end of the first 3 months of this year, I thought it might be good to check in with our New Year's Resolutions that we publicly set on the blog.

Daddy (Travel 5,000 miles by bike, water, or running): He has not specified to me how many miles he has traveled of his own power but I think he's right on track seeing as he is on a bike ride at this very minute with friends and will be doing a century ride in the middle of April. Maybe when he gets back I'll get a number from him.

Mommy (5,000 squats): Apparently, I grossly underestimated the number of squats I do when I teach my strength class! I am just 50 squats shy of my goal already! Isn't that a bit ridiculous! And I don't count lunges. Too bad my legs aren't reflecting all 4,950 squats. Actually that's not true, I have recently discovered that I am a much faster sprinter because of the new found strength in my legs. With all that being said, I obviously need to raise my bar. So the new goal is do to 20,000 squats by the end of the year. Attainable I think!

Siena (Write upper and lower case letters of whole alphabet): She's doing pretty well on her letters but we don't have her in any formal preschool right now and Mommy's talent was definitely not geared toward early childhood education! However, she has been begging every night for her Daddy to teach her how to read. They work on little words in her books but more often than not she wants to just run on ahead and guess what the words MUST say because of the picture. This is the first time though that I have heard her consistently say the sounds of letters and try and put them together!

Cara (Potty trained): This is just a joke. She has peed and pooped on the potty for me now at least twice in each category and once she actually pooped of her own volition on the potty and I had no idea that she didn't have a diaper on. That was a good day. I think it was the night Hunger Games came out! But she is still quite far from being motivated to really figure it out. We have lots of peed in pull ups and underwear and puddles in shoes so I'm trying to let her lead but I'm getting baby hungry and I won't get pregnant until that little girl is 99% accident free (I can't wait for 100% because heck sometimes I get a little too excited and find that I have to run for it!)

So there you have it. We are trucking along. The days are filled with sunshine and warmth and I'm finding it harder and harder to get dressed in more than a swimsuit or work out gear (and it's not even APRIL...I'm in big trouble over the summer....) I hope this post finds all of my friends in similar ordinary but happy circumstances!

Fun week with Aunt Becca!

Yeah for Aunt Becca and her boyfriend, Phil! They came to visit this week for their spring break and it was lots and lots of fun. We got to hang out with the whole family more than once and being the only little girls in the family makes us special and everyone tries to play with us.

Aunt Becca and Phil were the best. They went to Jumpin' Jacks, the carousel downtown, and the lake with us. He even got us our first tattoos! We had never met Phil in person. We got to talk to him over skype a bunch before but this was the first time we really got to see him in person. It was great. We spent a lot of time with them in the sun. He was even good to hang out swim with us little girlies while Mommy and the other big girls just laid out in the sun. (Hey Mommy says on the bright side, we all have a little color. Especially Cara. She's already a golden brown. Jealous.)

We can't wait for them to come back in May!

Thoughts and well laid plans....

Guest post by Mommy:
Happy St. Patrick's Day. I love this holiday because everything is green which is my favorite color. Everyone wears green, all the decorations are green and it means that warmer weather is on the horizon. (I am defining warmer weather as 80 degrees!)

On this particular St. Patty's day, I find myself in a contemplative mood. I feel I have bitten off more than I can chew in several projects. Well I guess not really. Only one project has a bite out of it and the others are all jumbled in my head making it difficult to have restful sleep.

I am currently trying to learn two new releases for both of my Group Exercise classes. That means learning choreographed moves to 10 songs for each class. (Not dancy. Very tough moves. Especially in lifting. We don't dance. :) ) Okay so I guess that's a big bite but I've done it before and really I just need to buckle down to be ready by Apr 2nd!

The real big project that I've taken a bite into is this:



Which currently is making my garage look like this:



And needs to go here:



That's right. We bought the monster play set at Costco. It was reduced $200 and I had long thought about buying it. And now we want to turn that empty looking side yard into a kid paradise. Drop our tramp in the ground. Put some fruit trees in. And have this magnificent playground. The reality is we need help . The yard is completely unlandscaped and Pete and I kind of don't have the right skill set which means I'll be plunking down more money. But who knew that people wouldn't be willing to return your phone call for estimates that day or maybe even the next day? I was so gung ho on the Thursday I bought this. I wanted the work on the yard started that next Monday. Here I am a week later with not even a phone cal back yet. I am hoping it means all estimators were on spring break. Otherwise I guess I'll be asking the scouts to dig a very big hole! And probably emailing a few landscapers with some choice words about how they practice business!

What we've been up to...

In a slurry of photo collages....GO! (I think this is what instagram is all about...you just post pictures and say NOTHING about what's going on or why you took the photo....)





Okay I just need to say on this one, this was my first day of gymnastics! I finally got signed up again! I did this once in SLC and one other time at some place not nearly as cool. Also the day after, I promptly told Mom that I was all done with gymnastics. Mom was perplexed until I informed her that I need to move on to ballet. She said no. Sigh.

The Wedding!

The long awaited day final happened for my Uncle Marty and his high school sweetheart, Hailey. He'd been home from his mission probably a week when he realized that nothing about their relationship had changed and that if anything, it was better. He needed to lock in and seal the deal. He proposed the first week of January I think (meaning he had been home 6 weeks!) and they are already married! They were sealed in the St. George temple last Friday, March 2nd. (Mommy had to come screamin' in from the road to make all the celebrations!) It was a nice sunny day but a little chilly waiting outside the temple for Aunt Hailey and her princess dress!

I loved the party but both Cara and I have had a vicious cold and Cara was even on antibiotics for her first official ear infection so we had to leave before the dancing really got started! Mommy says it was a blast though! (Daddy took us home, what a good sport. Or maybe he just didn't want to have to help with the clean up!) Hailey's mom had transformed Grandma's church into a beautiful summer beach party or something. It was so lovely.

We are so excited to have Aunt Hailey be an official member of the family. She's been around since right before I was born. I've never known life without her! Congratulations to them!

Grandpa's Girl....

I love my Grandpa. He is so amazing. If you remember, just in January I got to go on a hike by myself with Grandpa and I got to try rappelling for the first time. Well I've been begging to go again and I want to go camping with Grandpa and climbing. I talk about it just about every day.

Last Sunday, Mommy took us girlies to go for a quick hike with Grandpa and I loved it. I hiked around and would try and follow him up any of his scrambles. We had a great time! We played with Moki Marbles and looked off of big ledges very carefully. It was neat.











I didn't stop talking about climbing and camping though.

Grandpa has been listening. He even bought climbing shoes that are almost small enough for me! They are just a little bit too big for me but they still work. Yesterday, he, Daddy, Double Grandpa, and Uncle Caylen took me climbing in Snow Canyon!







I ripped a hole in my pants when I couldn't figure out how to properly come back down with my feet on the wall. (I slid down on my bum.) But they spent some time and I figured it out. Now I'm pro and can go again any time Grandpa wants to take me.