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Thursday, December 19, 2013

A Little Magic

Whew, I haven't blogged for ever..but whatever I am blogging now and that is what matters. I don't really have any excuses for not doing so, I just haven't. Glad I got that off my chest.

Now back to the real reason why I am blogging. It about Magic (and all the super powers I have) not really. Anyways a couple of nights ago Little Miss A asked me to draw the Nativity scene... Oh man I usually draw stick figures, but because I didn't want to disappoint Ava I agreed. This is what the finished product is, You can call me Van Gogh from now on.

After finishing the picture Ava told me how wonderful and amazing it was. It's defiantly not a Van Gogh picture, but it is something I think I will keep (maybe frame to pretend like I am an artist). I dunno though. After putting Ava to bed that night, I kept thinking about the picture and how happy it made her and that made me happy. It was way out of my stick figure comfort zone, but nonetheless it brought Happiness to our home.

As I pondered more about all the little things that make children (my child) happy, I wanted to be more like her. Every time we plug in the Christmas tree she says "Mom, it's magical and beautiful". It has snowed a lot the past few weeks and each time she wants to play in it. Sometimes I agree and we bundle up others time I will do almost anything to avoid it. Each time we are out there she says how great and wonderful it is (I am thinking I can't feel my bum anymore) but I agree and we play a little longer. This morning as we were leaving for preschool she started dancing in the snow and singing. Oh man did that melt this Mommy's heart.

So the purpose of this post was to ~~brag about my amazing artistic ability~~ talk about how the little things really do matter to kids and sometimes we (for me) I need to put down the phone (stop trying to take the perfect picture) and enjoy these amazing moments with my child. I am sure at some point I will ask her to dance in the snow with me and she is going to roll her eyes at me.

I hope this season we can all take time to enjoy those little magical moments.

You also notice that I now have ads on my blog after some thought I am in the works of growing my blog and maybe making some money. But we will see, I don't want to have to spend to much time figuring it all out. I am also not sure if I want it to keep it as my family blog or something a little different. You can send me your idea if you want. So for now it will be slow process. In the mean time, if you would like to have guest post on my blog I would love it. Also if there is topic or something I can write about for you let me know. You can email (click here to email me) and I will get back to you. ( I love Suggestions). And Apparently parentheses.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Valentines with the Nash's

This first picture is what Ava Made us with the babysitter! It just melted my heart!

This is what I made Bryce. I bought a vintage deck of cards off amazon. Then I typed up fifty reasons why I love him. These included inside jokes, different parts of his personality and such. I added little quotes and stickers throughout it. I then turned it into a book for him. This isn't very good picture. but oh well. He loved it!

These are Ava's gifts. I got her the dress and backpack. On Monday she had asked Bryce for a balloon in the store, so her got one and something to hold the balloon down.

Here is part of the cheesy card I got from my love and a massage gift card. I am excited to use this gift card.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Fourth of July weekend.

I love the fourth of July! It is my second favorite holiday only to be surpassed by Halloween of course. Saturday we went to the ward breakfast and bike parade then we went to the splash park on base.. Ava did not enjoy it at all, so we went to get Slurpee's and wash the car. We came home to let Ava nap then went swimming at the pool at our complex. Ava wasn't to thrilled by it at first, but then was splashing and having fun by the end.

Sunday after Church we headed to Idaho to spend the night with Grandma and Grandpa Nash. Ava loves going there and seeing all the animals and playing outside. She is now determined that everything that moves (animals) is a kikikitty with the exception of there goat. that is goa

Grandpa and Ava riding around the yard on the four wheeler while bryce and i finished eating.

There was a hammock up, which of course I took and advantage of to read on while it was quite

Yummmmm... sunblock

Of course we had to light of illegal fire works! Ava was extremely tired and therefore wasn't that found of them. it made grandma happy. She also refused to let mom hold but snuggled with dad and grandma

she discovered mustered isn't good by it's self.

On the fourth we went to the parade in Dayton. Grandma also took Ava for a few hours and Bryce and i rode around in the sand rail for a little bit then went to his aunts house to visit his cousins.

The night of the 4th we had to Stephs and Vances for the tradition of BBQing and fireworks. Ava loved the fireworks and clapped and cheered. She let the Nash side of her shine.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Oh Christmas Tree

Christmas time.

We spent the 23, 24 and Christmas morning With Bryce's family the later part of Christmas day with mine. We are so blessed to have an amazing family and had lots of fun.