New Year Resolutions

Nog and I wrote out on paper our new years resolution goals. After we finished I put them in clear sheet protectors and hung them in our shower so we could look at them every day (okay, well maybe not every day) haha. I'm so glad I did that because each time I see it in there it reminds me of the things I want to work on and the person I want to be. It reminds me why this life is so important and of my goals of who the Lord knows I can become. Nogs sheet is on the right and mine on the Left.

On his sheet one of his goals says "get a car that will fit Annie, Me, Koli, and GG." And in really small letters to the side (so I can't read it) it says "secret for Annie" I starred at it for a while the other day thinking how sweet he is to even put that on there even if it didn't happen this year I just feel so blessed to have such an amazing husband. We still have my car that is some how by some miracle still running so I was completely happy with that. He filed our tax return and he wouldn't tell me what it came out to or what we would do with it. So I asked him every single day trying to guess a billion things but he still wouldn't say a word. Then on the way home from running an errand he says "Okay, I'm going to tell you what we are doing with our tax return" I want to get you a new car! I was freaking out and jumping up and down (as much as you can in a car.) I couldn't believe it I never would have guessed that.

We looked around and found just what we were looking for. With our tax return, and with some savings we were able to get this wonderful car.

We can't wait to fill it up as our family grows, we are set for a very long time. :)

I feel so blessed!

Who wouldn't want to go shopping with her?

I was watching my cute little niece Gracie and we wanted to go get some ice cream for our fun night together. She was going to sleep over along with my 4 other nieces and nephew. We had a FULL house. It was a lot of fun. So Grace, Koli, and I headed to Fry's to get some treats. Once I brought in Koli I realized....

How am I going to hold her, and the food, plus my wallet, phone, and keys. (I don't like purses) So I grabbed a cart and thought maybe I'll try putting Koli in the front she's probably way too tiny but we'll see if she can stay up. I stuck her in and she LOVED it! She didn't put her head down once. She sat straight up holding very firmly to the bar in front of her. I took about a billion pictures of her till I finally got a few with her looking kind of at me. She was looking everywhere checking it all out, it was a whole different experience being in the front of the cart. This lady came up to me and asked if she was a preemie when she was born because she seemed too small to be in the front cart. I said no she is just is to small to be up here haha. She was starring at everyone and she was getting so much attention. But really though WHO wouldn't want to go shopping with this little girl in their cart?

 Look at her. She's getting herself up so high! And today she scooted herself backward. Which I think that means I'm going to have a little rascal pulling down and getting into everything soon. :)

I can't wait!!!

Out for a walk

Nog was off at work and I was wanting to get out of the house and go for a walk with the bean.

So, I put on my trusty moby wrap, grabbed a delicious reese's from the fridge (to eat on our walk), and headed to the park. I put her in one of those tiny baby swings for the first time. She didn't know how to feel about that. She wouldn't relax, she kept her arms up by her chest the entire time. :)

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Oh and before our walk we were hanging out in GG's room and I got some dang cute pictures of GG and Koli playing.

 Her face is so cute!

Pic a nic

Today Nogs, Koli, and I went to the temple to have a picnic. A picnic with no food, well, some crackers and water. And well, take that back we did bring rice cereal for Koli so we all did eat something.

 She is LOVING rice cereal. Every time I pull it out to give it to her she opens her mouth so big making it as easy as possible for me to aim it straight in her mouth. It's the best! People would tell me to stick with just milk for as long as I could because feeding babies food can be so messy and take so long. Athough it is quite messy and maybe does take a little while I find it my favorite thing to look forward to each day. She makes it so much fun.

We fed Koli, then Nog wiped out our book we are kind of obsessed with right now. It's called "The Great and Terrible" and it is unbelievably good. Seriously! We just started the third book last night.

 Here it is...

 Look at that mouth!

 "I'm ready, I'm ready, over here!!" 

The weather was heavenly today so we had to take advanage of it, having us a cracker, water picnic and reading us a dang good book.

Such a great day.

Sugars first hike

Talmage invited us to go on a grand hike with him. We took the offer and had a blast. It was Kolis first hike she rode the whole way up on Nogs belly and she was loving it. She slept almost the whole way up and slept the entire way down. She loves the movement. It must have been like riding in a car with all the bumbs, sounds, and turns, she loved it all.

It was awesome we have to do this WAY more.

 We went to the store to get her a hat but they don't make any sun hats for babies that are 5 months old. Only for like 2 year old heads, so we went with her jacket on her head. It worked great she didn't get sunburnt, not one bit.

Yes I am wearing a fanny pack and I loved it, it held all my goodies without the weight on my shoulders. These things should really come back in style.

 I got to a point on this hike were I found myself saying....

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"Nog, just go on without me"

Nog - "A good soldier never leaves a man behind"

And so with that, we carried on, just much slower.

  Then hurray we made it. Totally worth it! This little one was such a champ plus Nog said he got a great work out carrying 15 extra pounds.

 This is were we sat at the top of the mountain and ate our delicous pb&j made with Talmages homemade Jelly. I didn't get any pictures with him because we was a speed demon. He left us both ways, he was so fast. He says we have to name the mountain after who was the fastest. So, I guess this mountain is now called "Mt. Tal." (for short)

My Valentine

Nog came home from work with flowers for his 3 girls. Koli, GG, and I. GG's were white, mine were red, and Kolis were baby white ones. She ate hers. haha she eats everything now a days. :)

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Then he told me to stay out of the Arizona room for 30 minutes. He knows me too well and knows I can't resist temptation like that. It's like telling a little kid, "Hey little tyke, I put your Christmas present unwrapped under my bed but don't look at it until Christmas okay? Maybe he could do it but definitely not I that's for sure. So knowing me oh so well he hung up a white sheet over the door so I couldn't peek. I was really excited. 30minutes passed and I was allowed to come in. There it was Sparkling Cider (my fav), Chinese food from our favorite place and my favorite chocolates with my flowers on the table. Oh, so much better than going out! I love this man!

After a magnificent diner I presenting this little treat, (literally)...

I love doing this, getting candy and making it into a story. I got some awesome candy's with some sweet names (yes these names are real). Let me read to you my story I wrote for him.

 (The bold and underlined words are the candy's.)

Hey Nogal Bear,

I wanted to do something extra special for you on Valentines day this year! So I decided to make you this amazing poster just for you. It's worth 100 Grand you know?! I was thinking, after we eat this delicious candy together (because you shall share) and get all Chunky maybe we should consider going on a diet, how about we start here with this Skinny Cow treat? You know I wanna look good for my man before we start making more cute little Runts running around. Maybe someday we'll take a trip to New York and we could go to Time Square and play Tic Tac toe. Then after that we should go cow tipping and steel some Cow Tails. Ya, Maybe not that's kinda weird, scratch that. Oh I know, I know!! How about we go on a really really fun shopping Spree for Annie! I like that idea best! You should really think about that. I bet when Koli gets older you'll teach her how to roll around in the mud and get dirty. Then I'll call you two my Muddy Bears. Oh my little Sugar Babies how I sure do love you both. Who knows maybe you two will find, and eat some Gummi Worms! Gross. I know sometimes, even though it's hard to hear, you can be a bit of a Slo Poke. But I want you to know I love you anyways. And since the truth hurts I got you your favorite Good and Plenty candies to cheer you up! I've been thinking, maybe we should name our next Baby Ruth. Think about it. Till then, we shall remain the marvelous 3 Musketeer's.

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Koli did this for daddy.

Allowance

I find myself ALWAYS wanting to do projects on our house that I get soooo excited about them and don't stop talking about them until they are done. Nog says it needs to stop and with that he gave me allowance. Which I was super excited about. He told me in January that my allowance would start the first of February and I already knew what I wanted to do next. I wanted to paint one wall in the front room red. The paint cost more than we thought.

Doesn't it always cost more than what we think?

So this project counts for February, March, April, and even May (but maybe he'll reconsider that month). haha.

Here are before, during, and after photos.

  It took us FOREVER to get the tape right to the exact size that I wanted to diamonds. Nogs so great he was so patient with me. We would tape off a section then I would say, no I want them smaller. He'd do it again, and again I'd say no a little smaller, again, a little bigger, and he went with it. I love him I don't know if I could be that patient. That alone took a full day haha then after that we started to put on the dry wall to create the textured look. It took 24 hours to dry because I wanted it so thick totally worth the wait though.

Koli wanted the door open so she could look out side while we were getting it all prepped.

 I really loved the way Kolis diamonds turned out on her wall so I decided I wanted to do the same look in the front room. We did the dry wall much thicker, the diamonds bigger, and the sponge painting a darker color instead of lighter and not so heavy, added the buttons for a finished look. Here it is! :)

Random Happenings

It's official. As of Yesterday my little Sugar turned 5 months old. What the crank? When did I get a 5 month old it's so fun really, I LOVE watching her grow up and start doing big kid stuff. I decided I can't be sad anymore when she grows up because I know how to fix that problem, it's simple really.... have another child. haha but seriously. Not now but you know what I'm sayin..... no need to be sad when I see her get bigger and bigger each day.

Here are pictures of all the new things Koli is doing. I think I love her more and more each day if that's possible.

This post is an update of all the pictures/super cute videos that have been sitting on Nog's and my phones for the past month. I just downloaded them on the computer and I found way too many cute ones that I just have to share.

Here is all of January and some of Febuary summed up for you.

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GG and Koli waiting on a Wednesday for her friends to arrive.

Is this how you use this thing?

So happy!

She is giant now, she is the size of the pillow!

Still LOVES to be wrapped.

Tongue out and everything, focusing on how to get that lion up there.

We are starting a new thing. We are going to go on a walk every Saturday. It was so much fun. I love the weather right now it's perfect.

Here's Koli in her hat and mittens she got for Christmas I love this on her.

 Do I look pretty or what? Don't you love my outfit?

 Still early and kinda tired.

 Koli was starting to fall asleep here holding her monkey. Francis is the name.

 Kyler made this beanie for Koli! Can you believe it? Her first one ever pretty dang cute!

 Everything goes in the mouth

 Still doing crunches every minute she can. I put my foot there so you can see how high she's lifting her head haha it's amazing.

 Aunt Heather got Koli baby signing time videos for Christmas Koli was LOVING it. She couldn't look away from those little signers. 

 hahah this picture is great. Nog and Kollins out on the bench playing while I'm cutting hair inside.

 Then something bad happened. FYI put all poopy clothes in the sun and bam stain is gone. It's quite incredible. Outfits I thought were a lost cause... Nope. Throw it in the washer, get it wet put it in the sun and wallllaaa. Try it you will be one happy camper not to have to get rid of any clothes because they have stains on them.

 She looks like Leias twin right here.

 No big deal just reading the mail.

 Hangin with GG (on her bed)

 Here's Dad, he came over and you know just starting picking our weeds. haha he's so great in his Sunday clothes and everything.

Nothing can stop this man.

 Look how Koli is sitting up all on her own!

 GG getting her hair cut 

 I really love this picture.

 haha standing on her Bumbo too

That was a hard day!

These are my favortie videos.

 I think I've watched each one 50 times.

Laughing....

Talking....

Grunting.... when she starts doing this I know it's time for bed.