What a Month!!

David and Maggie enjoying some ice cream cones! This was also the night that Maggie was at the table eating for about 45 minutes. She LOVES spaghetti and corn!!

My Little Climber!!

David and Gabby decorating Easter Cookies!!

David and Maggie have really been getting along pretty well these days. They even play together! They are sharing muffin in the top picture and then having a tea party in the bottom one!

Brother and sister!!

Maggie has found a love for hats these days. Doesn't she look so cute?!

What a month March was! It seems like our little family was sick for almost the whole month. I was able to go to Texas for my Granddad's funeral. I was gone from Tuesday to Sunday. It was my first time away from the kids. I missed them for sure, but it was relaxing just deciding to go to the store and not have to pack all the diapers, wipes, sippy cups, and everything else kids require. But I was happy to get home to see my little babies. I walked through the door and they heard me come in. They both came running down the stairs and jumped into my arms. It was nice to see I was missed! So I have been very behind with updated blogs, but here are some really cute pics of the kids. They really are some fun kids. They are both little talkers and it is a rare moment, when one of them isn't chatting my ears off. But I love how much they love to talk!

My Valentine's Day Present

The finished product!!!

For Valentine's day this year, David got me a puzzle. It was a very hard puzzle, if I do say so myself, but it was fun and relaxing. We would work on it just about every night after the kids would go to bed. We were so excited to finish it and we are now ready to start another one! It was a great idea on something for us to do together. What a great husband, huh?!

A Love for Shoes and Animals!

David and Maggie have got to be the funniest kids ever! Everyday they do something that just cracks me up. Lately they have each been obsessed with different things. David has found a new love for stuffed animals. He has never shown any interest in them until about 2 months ago and ever since then, he has been inseparable from his animals. He has 3 dogs, a duck, an elephant, a bunny, a duck, and a panda. He feeds them, bathes them, watches shows with them, talks to them, and puts them to bed. It is the cutest thing ever. He just LOVES all of these animals. I love watching him with them. And then there is my little Maggie Pie, who has found a new love for shoes in the last couple of weeks. It is a rare occasion that she is not wearing shoes. As soon as she gets down stairs in the morning she runs to find her new pink crocks and runs them over to me saying, "shhhhhhhh, shhhhhhh." It is so cute. All of her shoes were getting way to small, so I went and got her some crocks and got home and showed her the new shoes. He eyes just got huge and she smiled and couldn't wait to put them on. Since them she has loved them! It is so cute watching her eyes light up at such a little thing. My kids really are just the cutest kids ever and I love their little imaginations.

Alphabet Tag

A--Attached or single: Attached for about 5 years.
B--Best Friend: David and Pam
C--Cake or Pie: ummmmm.....cake
D--Day of choice: Saturday
E--Essential Item: Make-up
F--Favorite Color: Purple
G--Greatest Accomplishments: Being a mom to 2 kids and surviving the worst Utah winter in 10 years last year!
H--Hometown: Hot Springs, AR
I--Indulgences: Sales
J--January or July: July for sure!! Love the summer.
K--Kids: David-3 years, Maggie-1 year
L--Life is complicated without: Cell phones, I feel so lost if I don't have mine!
M--Marriage Date: July 22, 2004
N--Number of Siblings: 5-3 sisters and 2 brothers
O--Oranges or Apples: I love both, but I guess apples
Q--Quotes: "First baby come out sideways, and she didn't scream or nothing." "Really.Isn't that something.Well she's a real trooper!"
R--Reasons to Smile: My family
S--Singer/Songwriter: right now I really like Taylor Swift
T--Tag 5 Friends: Trishy, Marji, Ashlee, J.P., Dollie
U--Unknown Fact About Me: I sleepwalk
V--Very Favorite Stores: Target and any store with great sales all the time!
W--Worst Habit: Gossiping
X--X-ray or Ultrasound: Ultrasounds are awesome. Nothing cooler then seeing your little baby for the first time on the ultrasound.
Y--Your Favorite Food: Cheesedip, volcano roll, texas sheetcake, anything mexican
Z--Zodiac: Scorpio

Maggie's One Year Video!

So here is Maggie's first year of life in pictures. I hope you enjoy it! Maggie has been such a fun little girl for our little family. She is all girl and loves playing with baby dolls, purses, and having tea parties. She loves to play and brush hair too. She is always making us laugh. She loves her older brother, David, and loves even more to try to get him in trouble. I love all of her little facial expressions and I love how you can tell what she is thinking by her pretty little eyes. She is a great little daughter and I am so glad to be her mom! Happy 1 year little Maggie Pie!

Another Year

Me, David, and Maggie ringing in the new year at the Bailey's.

Jen, Maggie, Pam, Clare, and me.
We had a great time this New Year's Eve. We played lots of games and ate way too much good food as usual!

I can't believe it is 2009. My how time flies. We have been in Utah for about 15 months now. It has gone by pretty fast looking back now, but maybe that is because I was in Arkansas for most of it!;) Not so for this year though. After the last airplane experience with the 2 kids, I am done with traveling by myself. We had layovers on all the flights and Maggie is just not too big on sitting in one place for 5 hours. I hate the idea of not coming to Arkansas that much this year, but you gotta do what you gotta do! That just means that we will hopefully have more visitors this year to our place. We just got callings in our ward this week. David is in the scouts now with the 11 year old boys. He has never done scouts really, so I think he will enjoy it. I will be a Sunbeams teacher, which means that I will be with little David. It should be interesting. We'll see how it goes. David has started going to school 2 times a week now. Each class is 2 hours and he rides the bus. I was not big on letting him ride the bus, but all his therapists and teachers just kept saying how much the kids really do enjoy it and we only live about 3/4 of a mile away from the school. He has liked it quite a bit! It's just crazy to see him going to school all by himself, but it's what is best for him. Maggie is doing well. She just follows us around to see what she can get into. A very curious little girl and not too afraid of much. She is finally over the whole only wanting Mommy or Daddy to touch her thank goodness! She is a pro walker and loves climbing the stairs. Her and David really keep us entertained all day long. They are very funny little kids! David is still loving his job with the church and is surprisingly very busy at work these days. I am just doing what I always do. Staying home and trying not to let David and Maggie hurt each other too much! Hope everyone is doing well and has a great year!

Our Date Night!

Last weekend David and I went to Lagoon with some friends. It's an amusement park about 30 minutes from us. We had a great time. Trish watched the kids for us, so we could do whatever we wanted! It was nice to actually be able to ride the rides and do whatever we wanted without kids getting tired and ready to go home. The rides are pretty good. Nothing really compared to Silver Dollar City or Six Flags, but it was still way fun. It was the perfect temperature too. Next year we will have to take the kids. They have a really good size kid's area with rides that David would LOVE! So if anyone ever visits us next year, we can go let the kids wear themselves out there!! No pressure, but we are always up for some visitors!!:)

I can't believe it is already November. We have been in Utah for 1 full year. Some days it feels like we have been here FOREVER!!! But most days I can't believe we have been here a year already. I think it has helped that I've had a great husband that has sent me home to visit every 3 months just about!:) Although I don't know how good it was, because every time I come back to Utah I get a little (actually a lot!) home sick. I'm not saying I don't love visiting, but it does make it that much harder to come home and not be with all our family. I was having a really difficult couple of weeks in October and I kept trying to talk David into moving back. He would just shake his head and not really say much about it ever. Pam had even come up with some bribes to get us back, like dinner once a month at Hunans, brownies every week, baby-sitting, and a few other incentives! I was convinced we should move back until I went to the temple on a particularity bad day. I went to do initiatories, which usually you are in and out in less than 25 minutes. But when I got there, they told me it would be at least a 30 minute wait. I was fine with waiting though, because it gave me an excuse to have even more time to myself. While I was waiting I sat down and started reading the scriptures. I flipped open to 2 Nephi chapter 32, where it talked all about why do you question these things in your heart and you were given the gift of the Holy Ghost and are not using it to it's full extent. I started balling, because I knew we are supposed to be here in Utah still for some reason. I felt complete peace about it and I knew we were in fact supposed to stay here indefinitely. At the same time though I felt so sad. I had convinced myself that we were supposed to move, because I wasn't really looking for an answer. It really was an amazing experience that I will never forget. The Lord had the answer for me all along, but I didn't want that answer and tried to go around it somehow! I told David about this and he agreed that we should still be here, which I know he thought the whole time, but probably didn't want to make me mad!(Smart guy!) Anyways it has been a great year here in Utah, but we are loking forward to Christmas with the family this year!