Puppy Love

Okay, so we are taking care of our Bishop's dog while they are out of town. We have taken care of Maya(the dog)before and we loved it. She is the sweetest thing ever. Plus they have a wonderful pool in their backyard that we can swim in. Well very sad but Shauna(the bishop's wife) her father passed away last week, and they asked us if we could watch and take care of Maya again. We gladly said yes because as you can see from this picture, Bailey loves Maya. I am not just talking love, I am talking complete infactuation with her. She will not leave her alone. She has to lay on her, kiss her, pet her, tickle her you name it, she does it. Maya being the very sweet and loving dog that she is, puts up with her. Our bishop has four kids so she is more than used to having children around. Needless to say Bailey would rather sit with Maya than do anything else, including swimming. She cries when we have to leave and screams"Maya, oh no Maya I love you". It takes quite the fiasco to get her to come out the door with me. She will ask about Maya all day long. Aislynn likes Maya too, but not to the extent of Bailey. Bailey truely has found "puppy love".
This is Maya. She is a Pit Bull. The sweetest dog you will ever meet. She loves children. She is very gentle and kind.
Do you see the look on Maya's face? This is Bailey's position. So after awhile Maya will gently get up and move to another position, and guess what happens??
Bailey follows. Doesn't matter where Maya goes, Bailey is running after. Maya doesn't mind. Here she is lying on the cool tile to escape the heat. Bailey is rubbing her tell saying"good Maya"
Maya is trying to walk and Bailey is trying to lay on her. We try and tell her that she needs to leave Maya alone for awhile, let her eat. Oh no, Bailey has to put her head in the food bowl and lick the water just like Maya.. Bailey loves animals, loves them. We of course had dogs when we lived in Utah, but she was still too young to really enjoy them. Now she just loves them. She loves when we go to the zoo. She loves having bugs crawl on her and to pick them up off the floor. She is very gentle with them. We need to get a dog!!!

The things toddlers do!

Holy Mess!!! I have realized now, having two toddlers that food time is nothing but one big art project at our house. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches get torn apart and the good stuff gets licked out and the bread tossed aside. Same thing with cereal. All of the cereal gets picked out one by one and the milk get slurped up. Yogurt becomes finger paints to put all over face,hair,walls you name it. As a mother you can either become very irritated, or just realize that this is all part of the learning, and sometimes find joy and laugh a little at the creativeness of these little minds.... This is Aislynn singing "If you chance to meet a frown" she is doing the actions while smearing yogurt all over..
more singing, and more singing. If you look really closely you can see yogurt droplets all over the table...
We try and take the girls out on little outings on the weekends when Adam isn't working. There are so many parks and fun places to go, if you can stand the heat and humidity. This boardwalk goes for quite a while and of course has water on both sides. The girls love it, and it's fenced in, so I don't have to worry about my girls becoming gator food..Ha ha
Taking a little break after running down the boardwalk...
Yeah, Bailey runs everywhere. She rarely walks. Aislynn walks everywhere, she rarely runs. So I end up being torn in two directions. Bailey will try and push Aislynn to get her to walk faster, but Aislynn clearly beats to her own drum. I love it. They are both so different. They love eachother though so much!!

Rub-a-dub-dub three toddlers in a tub!!

Well, can you see that we just have too much fun over at our house!!! This is Aislynn's and Bailey's very best friend Kyla. Cori and Pete(Kyla's parents) are great friends of ours, and they watched our kiddos while we went to the movies, and then we watched cutie Kyla for them. After a fun time outside in the dirt it was bath time. Way too much fun for these girls. Of course more water ended up on the floor than in the tub, but hey that is what happens every bath time. They are all such dolls!!!
Kyla and Bailey are the tan ones on the end, and then we have the oreo filling which would be Aislynn, my little white girl!!! There was room to spread out, but it is more fun to sit really close together and wash each others backs and hair!!!!
Sweet Kyla!!!
Aislynn was done, and so Bailey and Kyla played together. The whole toy box was of course in the bath tub.....
Too much fun. My pants were completely soaked after this, but that is the way it always is. Bailey and Aislynn still ask for Kyla every time we get into the tub!! Too much fun for these little cuties!!!


We are doing very well. Most of you know that Adam had his eye surgery two weeks ago. He is healing very nicely and his doctor is very impressed with his sight. He still has to take it easy, but it is getting better. He also got a raise at work, which is nice. They are finally taking notice at what an incredible worker he is. I am loving my calling. It keeps me on my toes, but the children in our ward are so incredible. I love who I work with as well. We got our first hurricane of the season. Don't worry it didn't directly hit us. We got lots of good rain and wind and thunderstorms though. It was nice... We love all of you and miss you greatly......