Sunday, May 15, 2011

Lately

What have we been up to lately? Not a whole heck of a lot.  Here's some pictures that define "not a whole heck of a lot".
Oaklie giving me her sassy pose. Amaya used to do the same thing at her age, and it cracks me up.

Look at our little baby model in training! 

 Amaya: "Cheese! Cheese! Mom, Mom! Cheese!"

 I just love the fact that Oaklie's sweet potato goatie matches her hair, I think this picture is hilarious.
 Amaya begging for a bite of my cinnamon roll.
 Just in case I missed the five minutes of "Mom! Mom! Ah done! Ah done Mom!", Amaya made sure to show me very clearly that she was finished eating.  I love the look of pride on her face :)
Never a dull moment in the bathtub with these two. 

One of my favorite pictures of Amaya. Ever.

Hair

After months and months of rubbing, shampooing, brushing, combing, coveting, wishing, and waiting....Amaya finally has enough hair for me to have fun with.

Remember these pathetic little piggies?

A thing of the past.  Even though Amaya has much less hair than most little girls her age, (thank the redhead genes for that) it's still long enough for me to play with while Amaya watches Elmo.


 Fishnet Ponytails (I totally rocked this 'do back in the day).
 Twisted Cornrows.  My sister taught me how to do these a million years ago.
 Figgytails (Fake Piggytails). I divided the top half of her hair into two sections, the bottom half into two, and then I joined them in the middle section to make the pigtails.  This works great because the front of Amaya's hair isn't quite long enough for regular pigtails.
The Phonytail: I divided the front into three sections and pulled each upside down through the rubberband, then gathered it all in a ponytail.

Amaya has a pretty intense mullet right now, but I don't wait to cut it because then it won't fit into a ponytail! I'm hoping in a few weeks it will be long enough to be trimmed and I can still pull it all back.


Now I just need to get this silly girl's hair to grow!

Anyone have good ideas for toddler hair? I love new ideas!

We Love Skype

There have been some great inventions during my lifetime.









All of this inventions are pretty rad, but my very favorite has got to be Skype!


The next best thing to kissing Dad in real life. I really love Skype. It's about a thousand times better than phone conversations, you'll just have to take my word for it.  Skype has this cool feature where you can take a snapshot of the computer screen and Dallas likes to take pictures and send them to me.  Here's a few of our favorite Skype moments.
The pictures are so blurry because Dallas' internet connection isn't exactly top notch.  I've Skyped with Dal's parents and my lovely friend Vanessa in Japan before and it's much clearer.

Oaklie has a habit of nodding off during Skype sessions...



Sometimes I do too.


The worst part is I didn't post some of the most embarrassing faces of mine.


Hands?!?!

Not really sure what's up with this one.

This was the other day when Amaya pretended to pick her nose and eat it...pretty nasty stuff.




Dallas isn't one to pull crazy faces...usually.  I tease him that I might as well just tape a picture of him to the computer screen because his face doesn't really change when we talk.  He says he does that on purpose so I won't take pictures of him like he does of me.

I'm probably going to be dead meat for doing this...but I did get a couple silly faces.



Well, what can I say? We love Skype.  If you haven't tried it, you should.  Did you know it's completely FREE and you can buy a webcam for around $30? Pretty awesome if you're using up all you cell phone minutes to talk to someone across the country or across the world.

BONUS PICTURE
One of the Army photographers gave Dallas some pictures taken of us the day he left.


I'm not joking, we took more pictures that day than on our wedding day.  And I looked horrendous.  Thankfully when we take lots more pictures in a few months I will not have nasty black roots or 15 lbs of extra baby weight...or be having a terrible day.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

For Dad

Just a little post for Dallas. It's just as easy to blog as it is to email him things, and if I blog it it's preserved. :)

This is how the cool kids watch Sesame Street.

Whoa! Oaklie is standing up! Amaya is saying, "What's the big deal guys? I stand up all day long and no one cheers for me."

My cheesy little orphans.


Amaya and Great-Grandpa Clark.  She cuddled up with him at his birthday party for almost half an hour on Sunday.


I also found some oldies but goodies on my phone--no real theme here.


This was the line at the post office in Rexburg two weeks before Valentine's Day.  At it's height, there were eight girls in front of me mailing packages to their missionaries. Something about it just struck me as ironic and funny.

When Amaya got her new swimsuit, she loved it so much she wouldn't wear pajamas to bed. I had to bribe her with breakfast in the morning or else she would still be wearing it.

Someone's got to clean up this mess. 

I am obsessed with taking pictures of my kids asleep, especially when they fall asleep in funny situations, like while playing with toys in the car.

...or when they give themselves sleeping masks with headbands.

...and cuddle up with their babies.

....and look just like their dad when he sleeps.  Dallas' elbow has jabbed me in the face on more than one occassion.

Oaklie's rolls in her bathing suit are so much cuter than mine.

They planned this.

 When you are one year old, there's no such thing as a bad hair day.
Because sometimes it's nice to mix things up.


This is from today. Oh the complexities of sisterly relationships.