The girls are even cuter:
At the beginning of February, Ryan and I decided we wanted to have "dates" with our girls. So, I took Katie, and Ryan took Elayna. We went the first Monday night in February. We decided to meet at Walmart and get Elayna a booster seat, since she was big enough, and it would be easier to trade her car seat around, for situations like this.
I wanted to take Katie to see "Tangled" at the movie theater in Payson. So we met Ryan in Payson, at the Walmart parking lot. Turns out, the power was out. At Ryan's work, at both places we planned on eating, at the movie theater, at Walmart, etc. It completely disrupted our plans. And it was raining pretty hard. Not the best way to start this activity.
Ryan took Elayna, and they drove to Smith's and bought some fingernail polish, then got some food at Santaqueen. I guess they ate, then painted their nails. Yes, both of them. Ryan bought some black polish for his nails, and Elayna used some purple and blue. Ryan's fingernails looked very weird black. And he kept them that way for about a week. It was strange, but he thought it looked neat, I guess. Thankfully, he conceded to take the polish off before Sunday.
Katie and I started driving more into Payson, to find somewhere to eat. We ended up at The Wildeflower Grille, over by the hospital. We ate, then headed back to the movie theater, spending the whole time talking about whether the power would be out at the theater, and what we would do if it was. It wasn't out, so we got tickets, and started watching the movie. THEN. the power went out, after we had been watching for about 20 minutes. AGH!! We were informed that if the power didn't come back on within 10 minutes, they would refund our tickets, and we could go home. That wasn't the preferable option! So we sat in the dark, with about 15 kids and 6 adults, until it finally came back on. Yay! We got to watch the rest of the movie without interruption. Then we went to McDonald's (Katie kept calling it Old McDonald's) and got ice cream. We also stopped at Walmart and got some groceries. She didn't get home and in bed until close to 10, but we had lots of fun. We are going to do this the first Monday of each month, trading girls each month.
One day, Katie wanted to play outside instead of taking a nap. I looked out and saw her playing in this mud:
Then I noticed the table, with the hand prints on it:
Then Katie showed me her hands. I don't know that I've seen her hands this dirty before:
Valentine's Day was nice. Ryan and I got books for each other, so I thought we were done. But then Ryan brought home some pink tulips and a big heart full of kisses for me. He's so thoughtful! Katie got her first taste of Valentine's Day-School-Style. She took some valentine cards for her class, but when she came home, I realized she hadn't given them to the teacher, for some reason. Anyways, her cards would have been the only cards (besides one other) that didn't have candy attached. So, she got 20 pieces of candy. She was loving it!
This looks really weird, but it is actually just some gum that got stuck in Elayna's hair. We were outside, and she asked me where her gum was.
Me-I don't know. It must have fallen out of your mouth.
Then, much later, after naps, I was trying to get her hair out of her face, and noticed the side of her neck was sticky, and this clump in her hair. Thank goodness it didn't get stuck closer to her scalp. I just had to cut a very small piece, in the back, close to the end of her hair:
I am having fun in Young Women's. Right now our biggest stress is planning New Beginnings at the end of the month. We had made assignments for one girl to make a large "temple" out of butcher paper that we could hang on the wall. She volunteered to do this about a month before hand. Then, 4 days before the actual event, she casually mentions she won't be able to do it after all. Sorry. Panic! Heidi and I had to go to the church and plan it all out and then Heidi went home and painted some windows on it. It looked really good, but it caused lots of stress. We had a couple of things like that. Stuff the girls had volunteered to do, but then fell through on at the last minute. But, it all went well, and the decorations (which she didn't forget to do!) looked amazing. I think it turned into a great event to introduce the new Beehives into the program.
I'm finally in my third trimester! Hurray! I hit 29 weeks at the end of the month. I have some projects I want to finish before the baby comes. Of course, none of them are important, or even related to the baby. Just stuff I want to finish.
I finally got my office all moved into the kitchen. I'm trying to finish my block quilt. I'm trying to transcribe my Granny's journal. I want to have Katie and Elayna's baby books finished. I want to make 2009-2010 into a Blog book. Stuff like that.
We are trying to decide if we want a Suburban or a minivan. We decided we would wait to buy a larger vehicle until August (so I can do carpooling when Katie starts Kindergarten), mostly because Mom and Dad were buying GG's car, and offered to sell Dad's car to us. The price was good, and it is so much nicer than my car. So now I drive a gold Buick, and Ryan drives the green Camry. Hopefully we will sell the blue Camry sometime in the next month or two.
Katie wanted to paint. I looked over, and noticed that she had clipped two papers together with clothespins, then hung it over the edge like this so it looked like she was painting on canvas or something. She's very inventive.
