Shillig 4 Family

TODAY WAS AN ADVENTURE. I TOOK MALI SU TO KIDDIE KANDIDS FOR SOME THREE MONTH OLD PICTURES. SHE IS USUALLY SUPER SMILEY BUT TODAY HUNGER TOOK OVER HER BUT WE DID MANAGE TO GET SOME CUTE SHOTS. ~MALI SU IS DOING SO MUCH BETTER ABOUT NOT RESISTING US TURNING HER HEAD TO THE RIGHT. SHE STILL PREFERS THE LEFT BUT I DO FEEL WE ARE SEEING SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT. ~I LOVE THAT SHE SMILES SO BIG WHEN WE TALK TO HER. ~TUMMY TIME IS NOT SOMETHING SHE EXCELS AT QUITE YET BUT THAT IS TOTALLY FINE BY ME. ~SHE IS CONTENT TO JUST LIE ON HER BACK AND LOOK AROUND. ~YESTERDAY I PUT HER IN THE BUMBO SEAT IN THE LIVING ROOM WHILE THE BIG KIDS WATCHED BABY EINSTEIN AND SHE THOUGHT THAT MADILYN AND AIMI LARK WERE HILARIOUS BECAUSE SHE WOULD JUST SMILE AT THEM! ~MALI SU'S THREE MONTH DOCTOR APPOINTMENT AND IMMUNIZATIONS ARE ON FRIDAY SO WE WILL UPDATE YOU THEN ON HER GROWTH STATS.

sometimes I think I should do in-home daycare again... I truly enjoyed it and let's be honest... the money was NICE

Aimi Lark likes to sit at the bar in the BIG CHAIRS. Here she says "HI" from her perch. I think this is the third time I have put Mali Su in the swing. I think she is a bit confused by those toys on the front. Madilyn and Aimi Lark enjoyed stopping Mali Su from swinging every chance they got. As you can see Aimi Lark is a bit WHINY in this picture. So yesterday the kids were so much FUN. We were able to enjoy the great outdoors! The weather was GREAT and about 75 degrees. It is funny to me that three days ago it SNOWED. This winter is not going to go out with out putting up a fight. Aimi Lark's poor gums are destroyed due to her molars coming in so I think this has made her a bit WHINY lately. Mali Su is smiling more than EVER and it is ADORABLE!

For FHE this week we went to the Orem Recreation Center. We met up with Jackie and Lincoln and Brigham. The menfolk went shooting with Lincoln's gun and the womenfolk and babies went walking/talking on the track. After that fun we all went to the POOL! Our family got to wear our new swimsuits. I ended up buying a rash guard this year and so did Jake and the girls. I do not like the sun and no swimsuit was especially flattering on me so we went the rash guard route. We had a great evening at the pool. Jake did all his moves off the diving board. Aimi Lark's lip kept quivering and Mali Su couldn't figure out if she liked the somewhat chilly water. Definitely a great FHE!

MY DEAR SWEET LITTLE GIRL IS GROWING UP BEFORE MY EYES! ~SHE ABSOLUTELY LOVES TO CLEAN OUT THE LINT TRAP IN THE DRYER AND SHE IS REALLY REALLY GOOD AT IT! ~WHENEVER SHE IS DOING SOMETHING SHE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO SHE WILL LOOK AT ME AND SHAKE HER FINGER AT ME AND SAY "MUH MUH" REALLY FAST AS IF TO SAY "NO NO" ~SHE SAYS "MUH" FOR ANOTHER BITE. WHEN SHE FIRST STARTED VOCALIZING WHAT SHE WANTED SHE WOULD DO THIS ANNOYING SQUEAL/YELL FOR ANOTHER BITE SO I KEPT TELLING HER TO SAY "MORE" FOR ANOTHER BITE AND NOW SHE SAYS "MUH" WHEN SHE WANTS A BITE OR FOOD. I LOVE IT! ~SHE FOLDED HER ARMS AGAIN FOR PRAYER YESTERDAY AT NATE AND ASHLEY'S HOUSE! SO CUTE! ~YESTERDAY SHE WENT TO NURSERY FOR THE FIRST TIME! OUR WARD ALLOWS KIDS TO START GOING AT 16 MONTHS WITH A PARENT. JAKE TOOK HER IN FOR SECOND HOUR AND I WAS SO CURIOUS THAT I JOINED THEM HALF-WAY THROUGH. SHE DID SUCH A GREAT JOB! SHE ENJOYED HER SNACKS AND SAT AT THE TABLE. EXCEPT FO...

I LOVE MY GIRLS SO MUCH! JAKE SPOKE AT CHURCH ON SUNDAY AND SPOKE ON THE HOLY BIBLE. HE DID SUCH A GREAT JOB! I AM SO PROUD OF HIM! THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AFTER CHURCH AND AIMI LARK REALLY NEEDED A NAP AND MALI SU WAS SO EXCITED TO BE HOME AND BE ABLE TO EAT SOME LUNCH :)

ON SATURDAY WE WENT SWIMSUIT SHOPPING. THESE SUITS WE BOUGHT FOR THE GIRLS WE TOOK BACK BECAUSE MALI SU'S BELLY WAS POPPING OUT OF HERS. WE MAY GO TO THE INDOOR POOL TONIGHT SO I'LL POST PICS LATER OF OUR NEW SUITS :)

SATURDAY WE WENT "PARK HUNTING" AND FOUND A GREAT PARK BY OUR HOUSE CALLED "NIELSEN'S GROVE." IT WAS A TON OF FUN. THE GIRLS HAD FUN ON THE SWINGS AND AIMI LARK AND JAKE FED THE DUCKS AND SLID ON THE SLIDES. OUR BATTERY DIED ON OUR CAMERA BEFORE WE COULD TAKE A GROUP PICTURE.

TONIGHT WE TOOK SOME PICTURES OF LUKE AND KAYLENE AND WHILE OUTSIDE THE BOYS HAD FUN WITH MALI SU AND AIMI LARK.

AS AIMI LARK GETS OLDER THE PLAY DATES ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE FOR HER AND I LOVE IT! BACK WHEN SHE WAS VERY LITTLE WE WOULD GO TO PLAYGROUP EVERY WEEK IN ARIZONA AND I KNOW THAT THOSE PLAYGROUPS WERE ALL FOR ME! NOW I DO ENJOY THEM BUT I MORE AND MORE LOVE WATCHING AIMI LARK PLAY WITH HER COUSIN MADILYN AT THE PARK! THANKS ASHLEY FOR HAVING US OVER. WE ENJOYED THE PARK AND THE ICE CREAM :)

OUR FRIEND EDDIE GRADUATED FROM BYU TODAY WITH A DEGREE IN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT! TONIGHT WE HAD DINNER WITH THEM AND THEIR FAMILY AT SIZZLER. YUMMY STEAK AND SHRIMP! THEY ARE OFF TO GOOD OL' CALIFORNIA TOMORROW MORNING. THEY WILL BE MOVING TO PALM SPRINGS AND WE ARE EXCITED TO VISIT THEM WHEN WE VISIT JAKE'S FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA. WE HAVE BEEN FRIENDS WITH EDDIE AND KENDALL SINCE WE WERE ALL FIRST MARRIED AND LIVING IN "VILLA MARIA" IN PROVO. GOOD TIMES...GOOD TIMES. LOOK AT THOSE CURLS! JUST LIKE HER MOMMA WAS AS A GIRL :)

ON THE WAY TO THE SARAGER'S TONIGHT WE STOPPED AT TARGET AND I PICKED UP PONEYTAIL HOLDERS FOR THE GIRLS' HAIR (I AM HAVING FUN WITH THIS NEW DO) AND WHILE AT THE CHECKOUT (THEY ALWAYS SUCKER YOU IN THERE) I PICKED UP AIMI LARK THIS MINI ETCH A SKETCH TO KEEP HER ENTERTAINED. MALI SU WAS SO INTRIGUED BY THE MOBILE IN BRIGHAM'S CRIB BRIGHAM GETS ALL THE GIRLS... WE THINK HE LIKES THE YOUNGER ONES THOUGH... ANDREW AND MALI SU RELAXING... CHECK OUT HER SUPER CUTE "TAG DRESS" THAT ANDREW AND MARCINELLE GOT FOR HER! I HAVE SEEN "TAG BLANKETS" BUT MALI SU'S "TAG DRESS" IS THE BEST! THANKS SARAGER FAMILY!

TODAY WE HAD LUNCH AT TUCANO'S FOR LINCOLN'S PRE-GRADUATION FESTIVITIES AND THEN WE ARE HAVING DINNER LATER WITH THEM AS WELL. WE ARE SO EXCITED FOR LINCOLN AND JACKIE AND BRIGHAM. LINCOLN GRADUATES TODAY FROM THE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AT BYU AND IS OFF TO THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS! WE ARE EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO VISIT THEM WHENEVER WE GO TO TEXAS TO SEE MY FAMILY. ANDREW, MARCINELLE, AND BABY BRIGHAM JACKIE AND THE GRADUATE AUNT CAROLINE AND BABY MADILYN JAKE, MALI SU, AIMI LARK, GRANDPA SMURF, AND MARCINELLE

ok so jake ACED his FINALS! NOW... I know what you are thinking... YES my husband IS an AWESOME GENIUS! SECONDLY, Last night while Jake was at a final Aimi Lark and I had bagel sandwiches for dinner. After I got her down from her highchair and while I was cleaning her highchair I heard Mali Su making some noises so I looked over and I found Aimi Lark shoving lunch meat from her sandwich into her dear sweet little Mali Su's mouth...once again I can totally tell what you are thinking and that is... HOW sweet for Aimi Lark to share her lunch meat with a 3 month old :) fun fun times :)

as if I don't write enough on here already... I wanted to start posting some "memories" as they popped into my head and tonight after talking to my mom I started to remember memories of my Grandma Sellers... ~As a girl I would love to go stay at her house and because she liked to "collect" things we always had to clear off a spot on the couch for me to sleep. ~I loved that she always made me hot chocolate in the mornings before we went to the flea market where she had a booth. I would swish the hot chocolate around in my mouth and then breath in the cold morning air and it always made my teeth feel so strange. ~She would never bargain on anything in her shop. Sometimes I wished she would so that we would make some sales but she always stood her ground. ~She had Aloe Vera plants on her front porch and somehow I learned that you could break off the tips and squeeze out the gel and so I did that quite often and she would get so mad at me because then the plant lo...

So this week has been a bit crazy. Jake has had finals going on since last week and boy can we feel the stress! I am not even taking finals and I am stressed so I can only imagine the way my poor poor hard working husband feels. Last night (well actually early this morning) after nursing Mali Su I got back in bed only to hear/see Jake sit up and put his right arm in the air like he was going to do one of those shake hands/one armed hug things guys do. He sat up made that motion and said, "HEY CHECK IT OUT CADET (WITH HIS RIGHT ARM RAISED UP) HOWS IT GOIN' BRO? I'M WITH YOU!" and then went back to sleep. See what finals can do to you?? They can make you lose your mind. But other than that all is well. I have been trying a new hair bow style with the girls and that is fun. I clip the bow directly in the little bit of hair on top and don't use a headband. Fun for me haha. This is Jake last night after his sleep talking incident... Aimi Lark is angry becaus...

I REMEMBER THAT BEING WRITTEN ABOVE THE DOORWAY IN THE VIDOR PUBLIC LIBRARY WHEN I WAS A GIRL. I LOVED GOING TO THE LIBRARY AND LOOKING THROUGH THE BOOKS BUT I THINK I ALWAYS ENDED UP GETTING A MOVIE. THE COOL THING ABOUT THE MOVIES WHERE THAT THEY WERE IN THESE LONG BINS OF SOME SORT BUT THE WAY YOU RENTED THE MOVIE WAS BY PICKING OUT THE WOODEN THING WITH THE NAME AND DESCRIPTION OF THE MOVIE ON IT AND BRINGING IT TO THE LIBRARIAN. DOES ANYONE FROM VIDOR REMEMBER THIS? AS A GIRL I LOVED TO READ HISTORICAL FICTION AND MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE WAS THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE SERIES. I HOPE MY GIRLS ENJOY READING THEM. TODAY MADILYN AND AIMI LARK HAD A BALL READING BOOKS!

First of all I would like to say that I think I am going to enjoy dressing my girls alike way way too much! Mali Su: ~Mali Su does this really funny "cough" thing. It almost seems like more of a habit than an actual cough. ~Mali Su has the "issue" with her neck and because of that we always have to clean out her neck and powder it so she doesn't smell. Aimi Lark: ~On Sunday Aimi Lark folded her arms during the prayer in Sacrament Meeting. ~Also yesterday during her bath she would put her hand on the soap bottle pump part and then rub her head and then put her hand back on the soap bottle and then rub her belly. She proceeded to do this for every single part until she had "washed" her entire body.