baths

Jadynne my sweet girl is now in the habit of making even more of a mess then she was in the past, which is shocking considering the messes pervious. We went to Ikea and got her plates, cups and flatwear. I thought it would be a good time to try to get her to use all these things, get her a little bit more grown up. Giving her these fun colorful dishes has seem to ahve the opposite effect though. She now dumps everything and when all the food in on her tray she puts the plate, bowl, or cup on her head and rubs....yes rubs. This can be quite amazing with eggs, or speghetti. Cereal ends up being on her tray instead of in her bowl. When every bit of liquid is on the tray the splashing starts. As a consequence to this Jade takes multiple baths a day. Perhaps the only reason she is doing all of this is because she loves baths...she is more diabolical then i thought. Either that or food was never this fun before.
so here are some pics of late- we even have a smiling girl!!! Alana can smile.

3 years

Today is my three year wedding anniversary. Today three years ago I ran away with my best friend. I couldn't have picked a better man. He is perfect for me. It makes me cry just to think about how lucky I am. I could go on and on about all the wonderful things about Cameron. I am sure everyone would stop reading after this sentence if I did that. So I will simply say that I am the luckiest woman on the planet. I love my husband so much more now then I did and I know i will love him even more in another year and on and on. He is my best friend. He is my greatest ally. We may have started out in a nontradtional way, we may have rushed it a bit but, being with Cameron was the best decision i've ever made. he makes me better, stronger and happy. Anyone would be lucky to count Cameron as a friend and i count myself the luckiest of all because i get to have him come home to me. he picked me to say i do to. he picked me to jump into a river with. i love you sweetheart.

the bird

Yesterday in our furance room we had a visitor. I was in the living room when i heard the creepy sound of claws against metal. At first i thought it was from outside- no such luck. When cameron came home he noticed it too. He opened the door and the sound would stop. I was positive it was simply a bird- he kept saying it could be a rat. Do i even need to explain to anyone my undying fear of rodents? sick buggy eyed little creatures that can claw you and nibble all over your fingers? i shiver just thinking of the dirty little things. i never could have gone down with indiana jones to the tomb underneath the church because the moment i saw the rats i would have peed my pants, starting scrabling for a high locale and screaming all at once. Indiana would have ditched me right there- no cup for me. anyway. cameron went back to work and i thought no more on the matter since i dont know how to get anything out of the pipes in the furance room. my sweet husband has the softest heart so when he came home for work that night he had to get that poor animal out. 'its scared to death christie, we have to get it out'. in theory i agree with him, when it comes down to it though i'm a huge scaredy cat. i knew it had to be a bird but...what if...what if....it was a RAT. i couldn't handle that. i was standing on a chair while we were talking about it because i couldn't handle being on the ground where a rat might ran out. Thankfully cameron got our neighbor Jay to come and help him. as i was completely ineffective. They jimmy-rigged a ton of stuff together, took pipes apart and finally-- ran outside each on a different side holding the bird in the little pipe and released to the wild. it flew straight into a tree- it was thankfully not a rat. This brings a new level to our family, I've always tried to be a really tough girl...but now the truth is out, i can no longer lie. i can no longer put up that front for my husband. he knows now that i am a huge woose. i cannot handle rodents...i guess at some point the truth about my toughness had to come out. i'm a girl. when it comes to beedy-eyed, slimy-coated, sharp clawed little demons i'm a coward through and through

Hyde family reunion!!!

This last week we had a Hyde family reunion. It was wonderful. Of course we missed DnA, the building blocks of life. There was a huge gaping hole that only they could fill. We all felt that hole with pain. Sad. Anyway, it was so fun. We blessed Alana on Sunday night, hung out at home on monday, went up to Tahoe on Tuesday, had a date Wendsday night, competed in the perfect human contest on Thursday and Friday was the start of the RL Hyde family reunion where most of the cousins and aunts and uncles decended on our house. It was pretty sweet. Saturday morning the RL Hyde clan had a breakfast and then that night a camp fire party. Unfortunately our family left saturday morning so missed most of the saturday events. It was wonderful to see all the family. I'll post more about that later, i'm on a tight schedule over here. i just wanted to get some pics up.

oh yeah i have a million of them... :) i wanted you to feel like you were there.

some vids

We got guitar hero and Jadynne came down in the morning after bought and picked up the drum sticks and started playing. She knew what to do. of course once i turned on the camera she got shy but here the video and one of how cute Alana can be in the mornings when she is happy. that is our best time of day- morning.

The 4th

Well, We had a very busy 4wh. We went to the parade in the morning. Had a bbq with our neighbors in the afternoon. Went to G.G. Brady's for the annual weaner roast for dinner and ended with Jesse and Sarah's for the fireworks. First I'd like to say that the parade was...lame. Honestly. I dont get it. Why camp out overnight for that? Plus, what is the point of camping out when people just end up getting in front of you into the middle of the street? The street was lined with families. They had brought tents, coolers, chairs and sleeping bags. I was wondering where the lake was with all this camping. Instead it was a lake of booths and loud music. The swirl of people seemed to the rising tide. We honestly were not that impressed, the strawberry day's parade was better this year and everyone agreed it was lame this year, but at least it had karate kids fighting and doing tricks as they passed. The bbq was great. And it was wonderful to see Cameron's Dad's side of the family. We got to see his Dad which was wonderful. I think he really loves his granddaughters. Of course they had to play ping pong which unfortunately Joel still beats Cameron at. Jesse and Sarah's was good. Its always so stressful to keep your kids up. We had decided to let Jade stay up for fireworks. By the end of the night we were on the hill watching the fireworks and she fell over asleep. it was hilarious. she was so tired she just fell face first. poor thing. but she did great the whole night, despite our worries. She didn't flip out until the next day. Once again we were disappointed with Provo and its works. They were probibly cooler in the actually stadium but outside, they really didn't seem worth it.
The friday before the 4th we also had a water fight. It was very fun. Cameron of course kicked my trash. Mostly i ran from him, even though i started the fight.
The other pictures: Jade loves to dump her cereal on the tray then slirp up the milk, like a puppy. she makes a huge mess, but its funny.
Alana is doing better. I never know what kind of day it is going to be. We do pretty well at home. I can juggle everything pretty well, its going in public thats the problem. I think the milk is finally out of my system now though because she is much happier. She is sleeping better and she is waiting longer to eat- which is great! I think her tummy must finally be feeling better, and the acid reflux medicine is working. AAAhhhh...mornings are our best time. :D life is calmer.

I also went to Dana's wedding two weekends ago. It was wonderful.She looked like a princess. They both looked so happy and so in love. My only regret was that i couldn't have been there from two weeks before and spent every moment with her. Dana is one of my best friends. i love her so much and it is wonderful to see her so happy.

peanut butter

i have a lot of pics i need to post. so here is the first of a couple of posts all at once. We have been trying to teach Jade how to use silverwear of late. Of course we only have spoons and since I want to get the rest of the silver wear from Ikea we wont be getting any forks or knives in the near future. :D Anyway, she is also the pickest eater ever. She will go days eating only three bites the entire time. I didn't think I'd have to worry about aneriexia until high school, I guess I get to fight that monster now while she cant even talk. Sometimes, i can get her to eat peanut butter. Sometimes. Ususally I give her a spoonful of peanut butter and let her eat it. She generally will at least eat that scoop and sometimes even ask for another one. We all know my daughters love of edible wear though, and this one particular day she chose to use the peanut butter as blush instead of food. She is so cute.
She is also the sweetest older sister. She loves Alana. This morning she sat in my lap holding Alana for so long. For the moment Alana was happy and they sat and stared at each other. Alana would make her funny will cherrio face then smile at Jade. Then Jade would start laughing. Jade kept talking to her and then would lean down and kiss her or try to make the same face back to her. I know that this is really hard but it is all worth it to just witness that. Love between sisters from the time they are babies. Jadynne will bring over the binkie for Alana and try to put it in her mouth, or she will kiss her, or pat her, or bring her a blanket. This morning Alana has never smiled as much as when she was being held by Jade. Who knows how much their little minds think but when I held them i felt i was intruding. Alana looked up at Jade and I saw love, I saw that she knew who her big sister was. I never had a sister and it was the one thing i prayed the most for. I always prayed that since I couldn't have one he would bless me to give birth to sisters. He has anwsered my prayers. I sit here and have tears in my eyes knowing these two will be close, knowing that they will love each other and be there for each other. How lucky. I have such a beautiful family.