silly savanna(h)

When Savanna found out Heidi's best friend's sister was Savanna but spelled with an H at the end, she thought it would be wildly funny to start adding an H to the end of her name.  I have asked her if she wishes her name had an H and every time she says, "No.  I just think it's funny".  When she started bringing home school papers with her name that way, I really started laughing thinking about how her teachers must be so confused.  That Savanna is seriously one hilarious, hilarious little girl and we love her little sense of humor oh so much.

warm weather

 The temperatures have been so much warmer the last few weeks and for that, we are so very grateful.  Sadly we have had massive amounts of rain to put a damper on the warm temps, but we have had a few days with breaks in the rain and we have tried to soak up and use every minute of those days and sunshine we can get!  One day the girls had on their rollerskates, which is always a fun adventure!

Most of the time we are on walks or bikes.  Caimbree wanted to ride in the strolled one day, but with a stack of books haha.  She read to me the whole time.

On Friday when Heidi got home from school it was about 79 degrees so they popped on their swimming suits and played with waterguns until Jeff got home.  It was a fun afternoon and man oh man did that sunshine feel amazing!

a few extra days off

 There has been so much nasty sickness going around and so many kids were missing school because of it, they cancelled a few days.  One of the days off we had beautiful weather!  I was on the treadmill and the girls were playing a little 'hotel' game.  They had their sleeping bags out and suitcases packed.  It was the cutest game.  I had about 5 minutes left and Heidi asked if they could go outside.  I said that was fine and I would be right out.  What I didn't anticipate was that they would be changing into swimming suits and getting soaked!!  It was hilarious!  I guess 65 degrees feels really warm after a long, cold winter!  They were playing that they were at Holiday World.  The ride was where they would ride a balance bike and water would get dumped on their heads.  It was very creative and they had an absolute blast. I love seeing them play creative games all together.

During one of the days off Heidi was eating a tootsie pop from her Valentines loot from school. I told her about the owl commercial from when I was a kid about the owl counting how many licks to the

middle of a tootsie pop.  About 20 minutes later she popped out of the office and said, "236!"  When I asked her what she was talking about, she said she counted the licks.  Later I went into the office and saw that she not only counted, but was recording the licks.  Such a funny girl.

our sweet girl

The other day one of the parents of another child in Heidi's class sent me a picture of her son's spelling sentences.  Heidi is so incredibly nice and such a great friend!  I always tell her that is her super power and apparently I'm not the only one who notices!

chocolate from grandma

 Jeff's mom was sweet and sent the girls a little chocolate bear and cute Valentine socks.  They were so excited!!!  Heidi and Savanna decided they would take one small bite of their bear each day to make it last.  Caimbree wasn't so patient, but surprisingly, she still has a few bites left!  I am sure they will always remember getting fun little packages in the mail from grandma!

be mine

 I love Valentine's Day!  We usually set the table up with a valentine and a small treat or book or something for the girls to find in the morning.  This year they really needed some ear warmers and we decided Valentine's was a good day to give them!  Jeff also wanted to include some books and I had a little make up thing I was going to give them at Christmas but didn't because we did something else instead...so they got a little extra spoiled this year. But they loved it and they all had a great day at their school activities!

100th day of school

 I can't believe Heidi has been in school 100 days already!  Where has the year gone??!  She was so excited to dress up like a 100 year old.  Unfortunately that morning she said her stomach hurt.  Honestly, her stomach hurts more often than I think it should so I didn't know that it wasn't just her normal pains.  She wouldn't eat much breakfast, but she didn't want to miss the 100th day.  She also had a minor cough, but as far as I could tell, she had no fever and I assumed she was just a little uncomfortable for whatever reason.  About an hour or two after I dropped her off, I got a call from the school saying she had a slight fever and wasn't feeling well! I felt so bad and rushed to pick her up.  She was semi-okay when we got home, but within an hour or two her fever spiked and she was miserable!  Thankfully she was much, much better in the morning and her fever had faded.  I wish my little Heidi didn't get sick so often and hope a lot of it she outgrows.  She was SO mad about having to go to the nurse, but she survived and I am so grateful she was able to recover quickly!

birthday prank

 Oh I got Jeff so good this year and I'm still chuckling about almost a month later.  I posted on an LDS page the first post.  I wasn't sure what would happen, but Jeff ended up getting over 300 birthday text messages and it was absolutely hilarious....from the actual messages, to people's comments on the page.  Poor Jeff was just so confused and as we all do, started thinking of theories about what was going on and why he had over 200 text messages when he got back to his desk after a day of meetings.  My favorite theory was that someone hacked his facebook account.  I said, "So you think someone hacked your account and is sending you birthday messages?!"  It was just so funny.  He was a great sport about it and we all got the biggest kick out of the messages he was receiving.  It really was fun for all of us, including him, and I'm sure will make it one of the birthdays he won't forget!

happy birthday, jeff

 We had a great time celebrating our favorite man!!  It really seems like we were just eating cheesecake for his 35th birthday and here we are another year later!  The girls were SO excited to make this day a special one for their daddy.  They wanted party hats, balloons, and blowers.  They wanted to hide and then jump out and surprise him when he got home.  They wanted to have banners and hearts with reasons why we love him.  They wanted me to make a video of each of them and they wanted to make sure I got him the right saw for his present!  I loved how happy they were to make his day special.  They loved to be "secretive" about their plans, although a certain 3 year old had a hard time keeping the surprise party a secret.  I loved watching them hide and hearing their little voices talking to each other in the dark about if the noise they heard was Jeff's car door closing.  It was so cute to see their excitement about the little blowers and party hats.  They love to make other people happy and that is one of the things I love the most about all of them!  I am sure that Jeff will always remember how fun they made this birthday and I hope it is a really

fabulous year for him! 

family night

 We have been doing our family night on Sunday this school year because Caimbree has dance on Monday evenings.  It actually works out really well and I prefer it not on a school night anyway.  Last week we had a really simple but meaningful lesson that has really helped us all with our mindset!  I thought I would just stick it in the blog book so if we forget, maybe we can remind ourselves later. I told the girls the red balls were all the good things we have in our lives--things that are going well, people who love us and we love, things to look forward to, etc.  The green balls are bumps in the road--things that don't go as planned or perfect, sickness, something mean someone says, etc.  We have the choice which balls we will focus on and sometimes we get stuck only paying attention to the green balls and when we do that, we aren't as happy or grateful for all that we have.  We also talked about how people in our lives all have things we love so much about them and maybe a few things we would do differently or little annoyances that they have and we can choose to focus on the green or red, and if we only focus on the green it will be a

lot harder to notice their good qualities and the green balls will seem bigger.  It was a great visual!

This other picture isn't related to the post, but I don't want to forget how this little bug would often fall asleep in my arms when I would read to her in the late afternoon.  She doesn't take formal naps anymore because it is just too hard to get her to bed, but she still needs them and will crash in the car or in my arms frequently.  I'm going to miss holding her sleeping little body and watching her peaceful little face!

2cellos came to town and we decided it would be a great concert to attend!  Heidi really wanted to go because that girl is crazy about music and she absolutely loves pianos, violins, and cellos!  The concert was pretty late at night so we decided not to take her this time, but we are planning on taking her to the Nashville Symphony.  I love how much she loves music and how much she appreciates all genres, including classical.  We went with some of our friends and it was an awesome concert!!  It was definitely not your typical cello or classical concert. The talent was unbelievable!!!!  They played everything from classical to ACDC to Michael Jackson.  They were running around playing the cellos like electric guitars.  It was incredible and so very entertaining!  We had a blast!

wrapped around daddy's finger

Caimbree has Jeff completely wrapped around her finger.  She is the first of our kids to equally want dad as much as she wants mom...and she has always been that way!  She has never really had a preference and has just always loved being with Jeff.  She absolutely loves four wheelers and being outside in the garage and just spending time with Jeff in general.  There are even times she wakes up with a nightmare calling for daddy.  She is the first to run and give him a huge hug when he gets home and will run up to him and give him hugs for no reason other than to just love him.  Sometimes it makes my mom heart a tiny bit sad, but at the same time, I am just so happy for him because it makes him so, so happy whenever she wraps her little arms around his neck or grabs his hand.  He loves that she loves four wheelers as much as he does (maybe even more haha).  We love the age she is at and wish we could just freeze time for a few years.  No matter how much she grows though, I think she is always going to be pretty attached to her daddy.

haircut for Caimbree

Caimbree's hair was getting so long!  It was super cute and fun to do lots of hairstyles with, but it was really just getting too long and time for a change.  The lady she likes to her hair has been booked for a long time and she finally got Caimbree in.  We were all thrilled with just how cute it turned out.  Now she wants to wear her down all of the time and she says she loves having her hair shorter!  She is just such a cute, cute girl!

build a bear

 For Christmas the girls got some Build-a-Bear gift cards.  They had so much fun a few years ago when Grandma H took them and we thought it would be such a fun gift. 

We all had a blast!  Heidi and Savanna knew right away which bear they wanted and Caimbree took a little bit to decide.  She was so young when she went the first time and didn't remember the experience.  She was SO cute this time and loved every single second. 

Heidi named her cat, "Sprinkles", Savanna named her leopard, "Pink Spotty Leopard", and Caimbree named her bear, "Tutu".

They were so cute when we got home and wanted to go for a walk to show their new friend their new neighborhood and home.  They introduced them right away to their sisters (the first build a bear).  It was cute.  There's just something special about making your own new friend to love!