SMILE Hannah SMILE

As many of you know Hannah always has a frown, scowl or furrowed eyebrows. Well not so much anymore. She has finally learned how to SMILE as of last week. Yay, we are so excitied that our little girl is capeable of a sweet face.

What a Day!

Sunday turned out to be a nightmare. Scott left early in the morning to go help our good friends move, so I was left alone with the kids. No big deal right, I do it everyday. Well this day turned out a little different. I was upstairs bathing and changing Hannah while Evan was downstairs watching T.V.. It sounded so quiet I thought I better go check on Evan. When I got downstairs I was horrified to see my entire couch covered in BLACK PERMANENT MARKER. I lost it! I was so upset that my couch was ruined. It was on every cushion and every armrest, so I couldn't just turn over the cushions and call it good. I was in need of HELP. I called Scott and he said you can't do anything. I called my mom to see what to do, but she didn't answer. I decided I would spray carpet cleaner on it. I let it sit for a while and then tried to rub it out. It didn't work so I looked on line to see what to do. They recommended using rubbing alcohol. Thankfully I had some and tried that. With half a bottle of alcohol and a lot of work I was able to remove the stains, however I still had to turn over the cushions. I know your thinking how did Evan get a permanent marker, trust me I was thinking the same thing. I looked all over and realized that he opened a junk drawer that had no lock on it. We usually lock everything up but when we were packing to move Scott transferred the junk drawer. OOPS.

Later that day Evan dumped a whole container of animal crackers on the floor. I asked him to pick them up and he refused so I put him in time out. He then told me he would so he walked over to the mess and started to pick up two, which made me believe he was going to pick them all up. I headed to the bathroom and the next thing I heard was the vacuum. So naturally I went to see what was up. Evan had pulled the small hand vac from the corner of our bedroom into the hallway and was on his knees with both hands sucking up all of the crackers. It definitely gave me a laugh so I had to snap a picture. You can tell he has seen us do this many times before :)

My day was crazy and I hope not to ever have that experience again.

Hannah's Baby Blessing

Hannah was blessed Sunday September 2, 2009. We were very happy to have my mother and all of my siblings and their spouses join us for the special event. It is not often that I get to be with all of my brothers and sisters. Scott gave a sweet and loving blessing. And because it was fast Sunday I felt inspired to share my testimony (which I haven't done since High School). Thanks to my dear mother we were able to enjoy sacrament for once. Evan had a melt down the minute we got to church so Grandma sacrificed her time and hung out with Evan in the back of the cultural hall.

The dress that Hannah is wearing was worn by my Grandma Bones when she was blessed as a baby. It was very simple and delicate, but she looked beautiful. We were honored that grandma gave it Hannah, her first great granddaughter.

Thank You to everyone who came and we missed those who were not able to make it :)

On our way to church







Mommy's Baby Girl


Sad Family photo. We could only get Evan to sit
with a cookie and we still had problems.


I love this one. It looks like she is praying.




She always has a furrowed brow. I think she learned it from her brother.