May Flowers

I'm just in love with flowers. I absolutely LOVE a beautiful well planned flower garden. If only I had one.
I planted bulbs last fall and the tulips are blooming. Yay! I planted bulbs this spring and the lilies and crocosmia are starting to peek up through the soil. And our beloved back yard tulips which grow out of the grass on the side next to the garage, (they came with the house), are up again and there are more. They naturalized!!!
But in spite of the fact that I do have flowers this year that does not equal the garden I so long to see each time I look at the house or out the windows. However at the rate I'm currently going I may at least have a full looking flower bed in another two years. We'll see. Then we'll see if I've been able to make it look like a garden and not just random flowers unplanned and thrown together. Of course that's what the south side of the house will look like. I sprinkled wildflower seeds all over and I'm crossing everything I have and hoping that they grow and look pretty not like just a bunch of weeds. well we'll see. Don't feel sorry for me. I have flowers. I have roses and vinca minor and lilacs and the crab apple tree. Beautiful!
And I have the cutest little gardener who comes and digs in my raspberries. She's better than all the flowers in the world.

Monthly Update...

I'm trying to update our blog at least once a month this year. Because I've missed a lot of time I'm going to overview the rest of our lives really quickly...

We have had a lot of fun lately, We got to attend the Utah Symphony with a Van Cliburn Medalist playing Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto. AWESOME! If you ever get the chance to see this preformed you must go! Rick and I have been raving about it for weeks. It was spectacular.

On the less exciting side. We're getting new windows, we're putting in a new fireplace mantle and doing the customization ourselves. We spent a week with little seen family in town and Loved it. (Amanda and Mike we already miss your family.) Rick is working the crazy "busy season" schedule. Clare is healthy but still not gaining weight like she should. "Ugh!"

Magical Age of Children

Have you eve watch a young child while they watch a movie or cartoon and you can tell they not only love it but think it's real? The most fun we've had this month though, (besides a week with Aunt Amanda and Clare's cousins) was at Disney on Ice. Clare absolutely loved it and Rick and I loved watch her get into it and enjoy it.

When the characters would skate out waving she would wave back to them and tell us who they were. She dance to the music and it was just a wonderful time for her and us. It's a magical age, she doesn't know the difference between real and imaginary. It was just wonderful. She got to wear her Snow White dress and see the other princess dresses on display. It's truly wonderful to watch your child enjoying something to it's fullest.

Time Has Passed So Quickly

Today Little Clare bear was upset because she wanted to eat at the dinning table instead of the kitchen table. It was lunch and I was too tired to drag our meals into the dinning room. (but not too tired to fight about it with Clare; hmmm.) Also she eats better in the kitchen. She was yelling at me telling me NO i just looked at her, put my hands on my hips and pursed my lips in frustration. She cracked up. I guess she thought I was playing but it worked. I started laughing too. I did win and we ate lunch in the kitchen.

I think being a mom can be the hardest and the greatest at the same time. I love it and I'd like to know if I've accrued any vacation time this year.

I feel like we've been sick for many weeks but it hasn't been that long, just over 1 and a half weeks, and we're right on the verge of feeling better. I just know it. It looks like Clare has regained the wieght she lost while she was sick. I'M SO GLAD!!!!!!!!!

In the mean time I have had the luck of experiencing the joys and terrors of 2 year olds. One day she dumps all the food she can get into her hands onto on the floor and the next she puts on a dress and says, "I'm wearing a dress. I'm so beautiful." She shares toys with her cousin almost better than some adults and then she refuses to nap.

I get very frustrated sometimes, but in hindsight it's all very funny. I'm glad that 2 year olds don't hold grudges and that daddy can come home to rescue her/me before mommy goes insane.

Just a Moment Frozen in Time

July 4th 2009

New Year/Bad Air

At the beginning of this year not much has changed at our house.
Except,
Rick is training for a marathon. The Ogden Marathon.
Chrysi is making a quilt for Clare. (first quilt I've ever made)
Clare has a new love of dresses and playing dress-up.
But really we're still the same people.




Now I missed blogging in December so here's a breif overview of that by-gone month.

December was the best month of the year! Here is why.
Rick had over a week and a half off from work!
I've been pronounced healthy! (The PE were not caused by an underlying medical condition.)
Clare's weight seems to be up. (cross your fingers!)
We got to spend numerous days with both sides of our family.
We gave of ourselves and received as well.
Christmas is our favorite holiday. It just feels good and makes us happy.


December was tough, rough and were glad it's over. Here is why.
We all got sick. Uck!
The Air turned bad. (Ack hack I can't breath it's too thick)
Clare's Dr.s are talking feeding tube.
Pseudomonas. Clare's got it. More time in therapy doing Toby.
We miss the Hales family.