Yet another Sierra Story...

Last night Sierra was sitting on my lap and I was reading a book. She told me she wanted to stay awake late, but I knew she was really tired, so I told her that she could snuggle on my lap until she fell asleep. She was so cute and she just snuggled in and then she looked up at me and said in a really sleepy voice, " Mom, when my eyes close, that means I love you." And then she closed her eyes and fell asleep. How can you not just eat that up?

Cinderelly, Cinderelly...

I just had to post one more thing. Sierra watched Cinderella the other day and she has been singing the follows:

Cinderelly, cinderelly, we can help our Cinderelly...
Tie a bow around it. Put a ribon though it.

Then dancing at the MALL
She'll be more bee-utiful than all..

In the lovely dress we'll make for Cinderelly.

Then just the other day she came to me and said, all dreamily, "I can't wait until someday I can go to the MALL, and dance and sing..."

I'm Back!

Just a couple of pictures from Sierra's first dance recital. She is the cutest kid ever! I just can't get enough of her. I just love Christmas time. I don't know how you can't just love it. Especially, when you get to share it with your kids. It is so exciting and new again. Everything is such a surprise. I love reading Sierra all my favorite Christmas stories. We have been reading the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. We have read it about a thousand times, but I think it just gets better every time I read it. Sierra is starting to get some of the lines memorized, and so when it gets to a part that she knows she "reads" that part. It is so cute! She watched the movie the other day and she has been going around singing, "Your a mean one...your a nasty wasty skunk!" Over and over. She thinks that is so funny.

I have been getting all my Christmas cards finished up and mailed. I love writing Christmas cards. It is one of my favorite things. It reminds me how many people I love in the world, and how many people love me back. I get to think about each person and family. It just brings back such good memories. I usually get all misty eyed when I write my Christmas cards. That is probably why it always takes me so long to get them done...

I don't know what it is, but for some reason I just feel so grateful this year. I just feel like my family has been blessed. I think there are so many families that are struggling this year, some I know personally, and I just think how grateful I am that my family is together and happy.

I know it has been a while since I have blogged. Most of you know that I have been really busy taking some classes. I ended up with the highest score in my Nutrition Class, and the second highest score in my Chemistry class...can I just say I am awesome. Truly, I worked hard for it though. I am pretty proud of myself, since I wasn't feeling all that smart before I went back to school. I was having a conversation with my sister Erica and she was telling me about how she was afraid her kids were going to die of Carbon Monoxide poisoning from this space heater at my Mom's house...and I told her, "Well, actually you shouldn't have to worry about that, because it is an electric heater and Carbon Monoxide is a byproduct of the combustion of carbon based fuels." (yes, I actually said that!) And she said, "That's exactly what Landon said! You guys are nerds." And then I said, "SECOND HIGHEST SCORE IN MY CLASS, SUCKAS!!!"

So just don't have any conversations with me until I can work this out of my system, ok...

Peace.