This is Lilly and Ruby Mae. Ruby Mae is Lilly's cousin and definentaly her favorite person in the entire world.They met Snow White, Pocahontas, and Mulan together in Disneyland. They have the most hillarious conversations together and they love to hold hands. Aren't they so cute together?

Lorna and Daren brought Lilly this Minnie Mouse costume to wear in Disneyland. So of course Lilly became obsessed with Minnie she got her picture with Minnie and she got a tiny Minnie stuffed animal that she carried all over Disneyland. She wore the outfit both days at Disneyland and even slept in it. Once we got home I have to hide it on days I don't want her to wear it.

California Vacation!

A couple weeks ago we took a week long family vacation with my family. We went to Disneyland for two days to the beach, and China Town in downtown L.A. It was a blast! We also met up with Grant's sister and her family! This is us at Newport Beach. Aren't we so cute?

This face says it all

I would say that this picture explains how Liam felt about his birthday party. He LOVED it! I am so proud of my little one year old.

Dance party

The best part of Liams birthday is when we turned on ABBA Liams favorite music and had a dance party. Everyone really got into it especially Liam and his cousin Alfie. Here he is with his favorite dance partner his Granny.

LIam going to town on his cake.

So Liam didn't need any encouragement to dig into his cake. I put it on the special birthday plate we have for all of our birthdays but then I had to hold it the whole time so he didn't throw it on the ground.

group shot

This is a group shot of everyone who was at Liams birthday party (except Annie who was taking the picture). We just had a family party and it turned out so great if I do say so myself.

Okay get out the mom of the year award.

So I MADE Liams first birthday cake. I feel so cool. It looks like an eight or something but it is supposed to be a racetrack with cars on it.

My handsome man (or should I say one of them)

She made her own car

At Morgans party they made their own cars and ate cake in them and watched a movie. This is Lilly's car.

Lillys first friend party

A few weeks ago Lilly went to her first friend birthday party! Morgan Tate was turning three and invited Lilly. She was SO excited and we all had fun.

I love her smile.

Such a boy!

Lim is such a BOY! All day long I find him climbing into things. Or climbing up something and getting hurt. All day long I save his life.

Look

This is Liams new thing he points to all sorts of stuff and says LOOK! and wants you to talk about it with him.

Okay so I am depressed today

So today I am sad. I just am. I am not going to write and pretend that I am not. And for some reason it feels better to write about it for everyone to read. Tommorow will probably be better. But today I need someone to give me a freaking break! Okay I'm feeling a little better already.

I have a one and two year old!

Last Friday Liam turned one! And all the sudden he is so grown up. He walks everywhere and can say a few words. Unfortunatly he just learned to say that. I say unfortunatly because whenever he spots something he wants he says THAT THAT and wiggles and stiffens up until you get him what he wants or successfully distract him. All day long I just follow him around and save his life. He has scratches and bruises all over. I feel like Liam turning one is an acomplishment for me. I made it through the first year! In so many ways it just gets easier from here. And I feel so cool saying I have a one and two year old. Liams birthday party was really fun. Grant was so proud of his little boy and had to show off all of his new skills to everyone. He just kept saying can you beleive we have two kids and can you beleive how grown up they are? We took pics that I will post soon!

What a "beef-i-full" day

Lillys new favorite word to say is "beef-i-full" instead of beautiful. And she says it ALL the time it makes me laugh my head off every time. Today we had a great day of family fun. Our kids are getting old enough that it is really fun to go DO stuff together. We went to a birthday party for Lillys friend and we all had fun. It was so great to see Lilly really interacting with all of the kids and getting so into all of the activities. Grant and I kept looking at eachother today saying wow its fun to have kids. Liam has been a complete handfull lately. The other day I couldn't find him and he had crawled into the dryer. Boy was he pleased with himself when I finally found him. He also crawled out of the bathtub the other day when I had my back turned for seriously 10 secounds. I turned around to see his naked little body flopping onto the tile. He didn't even cry because he had lowered himelf down headfirst with his arms slowly and the just kinda rolled. Tonight Grant put together the trampoline over at his parents house. And Lilly was so happy she didn't know what to do with herself. She followed him around everywhere trying to "help" him put it up. The whole time saying things like "dad you are so awesome for doing this" or "dad your're the best in the west". He ate it all up of course and when we had to get her off the tramp to go home she was not happy.

So glad to be at home

Today I feel lucky to be a stay at home mom. I took the kids to story time at the library this morning. The teacher was singing with the kids and Lilly was off particiapting and playing with the other kids. Liam was crawling on the blocks accross the room. And I was was sitting against the wall watching them thinking to myself they might like a daycare because they were having a blast with all the kids, toys, and teacher entertaining. Pretty soon story time started and Lil went and sat in the story time circle. Halfway through the story when all the kids were quiet she stood up and said "Mom where are you"? She ran over to me gave me a little hug and ran back to the circle to hear the rest of the story. It was such a normal everyday moment but it made me so happy that when she needed me I was right there. Then we went to lunch together and home for naps. Such a normal day but so wounderful. I know I make my kids happy (most of the time anyway) and I never have to miss a moment with them. So today I am very happy to be stay at home mom. I'll come read this one day when I'm having one of those this is the hardest job immaginable kind of days and remember it's all worth it for the small moments of great joy that we experience together everyday.

So I had a bad day

Yesterday was a BAD day. It was Sunday and the day started with the usual effort of getting to church followed by another hour (we left after an hour) of woundering why did I even try to come today? Then Grant and I got in a fight the normal I do more than you do type of fight. And OF COURSE it was totally his fault (hehehehe). As much as I know that as a mom it's pointless to go around keeping score (example: I never get to sleep in, or I got up with Lilly 6 of the last seven times ect. ect.) I still can't help myself sometimes. I am still mad but today I woke up and everything seemed a lot better. The sun was shining. I got enough sleep. We went to the library story time and the kids both loved it. Even Liam did the arm motions for if you happy and you know it shout horray. So I guess I am saying that I am happy for new days. Some days you just have to hold your breath and wait for the horrible day to be over so a new day can start and hopefully bring some happiness.

What a cute haircut!

Lillys new haircut!

She can no longer be called a "rat child". At least her hair can't be called that anymore.

Grandads stories

This is Alfie and Liam. Two cousins only 7 weeks apart! Grandad sat them down and tried to tell them stories. This only lasted about 5 minuites until they both decided they wanted to get down and get back to crawling around and making messes. They are going to grow up such great buds.

My two handsome men

This is Grant and Lamb (we call Liam Lamb sometimes) together on Easter sunday. I was trying to get Liam to smile and take the picture that is why it is so off to one side.

Easter

This is Lilly in her Easter dress.

HOUSE

Look at my beautiful new HOUSE! This is Lil out in front.

Easter Eggs!

This is Lilly with the easter eggs that we colored together. We had more eggs but they got dropped.

Such a poser

Such friends

Already Liam and Lil love being together (even though you can't tell it by Liams face in this picture). This is them sitting on the tiny bench Granny gave Lil outside of our house. Lil is holding "mydoll" her ratty doll she sleeps with every night.

CUTEST BABY

OK this needs to be entered in Americas cutest baby contest. I understand that I have some bias when it comes to my own kids. But seriously look at this picture. Is this kid for real? How did Grant and I make a baby this adorable?

Sick sick sick

I swear the kids have been sick all winter. All day long I am wiping snotty noses.This is Lilly coughing as usual and before I got her haircut.

I am so lucky

This picture is old. Its from Halloween but I just found the film. I don't know why but I love this picture so much. It reminds me of how lucky I am to have a husband that is such a good dad to my babies. They seem so small in this picture to me. This was such a good memory going to the pumpkin patch together. Lilly picked out a tiny 50 cent pumpkin just like she did last year.

The Flu

On monday Liam came down with the freaking flu. Wich pretty much means we've, or I should say I, have had a crappy week. We havn't really gone anywhere (except the doctors) and I have been up all night with him and then holding him all day long. It is the worst when your kids get sick. No one else has got it though so I guess we are lucky in that way. I need a break I feel like I'm going to explode.

Annie and Steve were Sealed this weekend

This past weekend the whole Wallace fam came to town to see Annie, Steve, and their Alfie sealed together in the Salt Lake Temple. It was one of the most spiritual experiences that I have had. The ceromony was really beautiful but I can't explain how I felt when they brought little Alfie into the room all dressed in white. It was like he was glowing.They but his little hand on his parents and he looked into his daddys eyes like he knew at that moment they were becoming an eternal family. I just pictured my own kids sealed to us. And knew that they were probably watching when Grant and I got sealed. Such an important event. It was great to see the whole family and Lilly and Liam loved seeing their cousins. We had Jamie and Kyle (Grants brothers family and their kids) stay at OUR house. We can have guests! And my mom stayed here after they left. So we have had a full past week or so. I love family. I am happiest surrounded by my family. I guess it is a good thing that we are all sealed together for eternity. I will post pics of the weekend soon!

I love those eyes!

Another crazy adventure with the fam

My first post!

So I finally decided to try this blog thing! Life is crazy I am so busy with the kids. Lil says funny things all day long. Just a few minuites ago she said to me "mom i am freaking out". Family is coming in this weekend and I am so excited! Grant bought me a mini van today for my birthday present. I am going to be 25! Wow that seems old.