Refresher Course

Before I put up Michaela's most recent and birthday photos I wanted to refresh everyone's memories on how absolutely ADORABLE she has been since birth. Its not like I have ever thought she was not cute but sometimes I look back at pictures and I am actually shocked at how little and precious she was! Literally shocked...is that weird for a mother? I think we forget how beautiful something is if we don't take time to refresh our outlook.
This is Michaela when she was about 7 months old. Look at how blue her eyes were then!
This is Michaela at 9 months with Indiana, Libby, Ellie and Leilany. Her hair was really filling in then.
And this is Michaela at 1 year she was dancing to Rob playing that Wii guitar game. as you might notice she is sort of picking her nose but in her defense she is only copying her father.
This is Michaela and her Daddy playing the piano at 16 months.This is Michaela at about17 months outside in a cute dress Momo got in Mexico.

Love to you all and a Merry Christmas too!

Hi again! its been too long. Lots has happened too! Most importantly Michaela's 2nd Birthday (of which I will be posting pictures soon). We had a blast but it was kinda spread out over the course of a week because we celebrated it according to quite a few different work schedules. next year I will be planning her party starting in October and i will be much more prepared for it.
We have also been testing the potty training waters so to speak... Mic is interested but I am just not up to taking her to the bathroom every 15 mins just yet. I guess its me who needs to be "trained".
Grammy and Gramps came to visit and Gramps ended up spending just under a week in the hospital but the time that they were here Michaela was following Grammy around shouting "Grumma, Grumma, Grumma!" it was really sweet.
Thanksgiving was great. Somehow Carrilyne got us invited to the Jynes house for dinner and it was totally Fantastic! No kidding I love my family's food too but the Jaynes had really, really yummy scrumptious food. I especially loved their yams, they were perfect. Thank you Jaynes for letting us come!!
My camera's been out of commission lately but I will be putting new batteries in soon and then I will try to be as good at taking cute and artsy pictures as Carrilyne, Just you wait and see. though knowing me it will be a long wait...just kidding I hope :).
love you all,
Chelsea

Ward Halloween Party

Last night was the ward Halloween party and it was so much fun! Rob was able to come which was wonderful and his costume was really cool!
We took Michaela around to the little kids games and she "won" a few prizes. She really loved the cake walk because she totally understands the walking around in a circle concept. This is her with her cupcake. Cute, Huh?

Carrilyne brought some costumes over and we picked this one because it totally went with Ellie's Princess Barbie costume. Michaela was Ellie's Pegasus!

This was our family Halloween portrait (I am a witch in case you can't tell).

Family Walks

These are some pics from the walks Rob takes me and Mic on. This particular walk was to the park by the high school which is totally fun and we saw a dog that was really cute and Michaela was really excited by it.

The flower pics are taken by Rob while we were having fun trying to get Michaela to say flower. We have been taking some really long walks lately especially at night and it has been so romantic ;).

( look at Mic's cute ponytail!)

The devil made me do it!

I have seen the future and it is scary!! Or maybe hilarious is the better word. Ellie spent a Sunday afternoon over at my mom's house with Michaela and I and let me say it was crazy.

Just look at my daughter's face, you can see the glee that her naughtiness has given her. Ellie said " I didn't do it, Taeya did it!". She might as well have said the devil made me do it with the expression on Michaela's face... she does look slightly possessed.

But back to my vision of the future. I can see Ellie and Michaela getting into all kinds of trouble and giving Rob small heart attacks daily. The hijinks's these girls will instigate have yet to be thought of but my guess is that Michaela will have plenty of Ideas and Ellie will be her willing accomplice.
I repeat just look at their faces. :) This is gonna be fun!

Apples, Apples

Hi Everybody! Michaela is almost 2 now and has been going to nursery for a few months now. She is loving it of course because her Momo (Grandma) is the nursery leader and Momo is the best nursery leader ever. Mic loves singing and reading and just about everything she does in nursery (but if I had to take a guess I would say snack time is her favorite... just like her mom).
Michaela is learning so much at church and just in our everyday life and I want to teach her how to be happy. Sharing, having friends, being gentle with Milo and Tallulah (the new babies in our family) are all things we are working on now. She is just so fascinated by all of it (ok sharing is not so interesting but like I said we are trying).
So all these happy and good things we try to teach our children right? So why do we teach them songs and nursery rhymes that have really depressing meanings?
I was thinking particularly of "Ring around the rosies". I mean seriously?! a song about death and the plague and stinky bodies? Who needs that? I was talking to Rob about my Idea to change the Ashes, ashes to Apples, apples and he started going off on how I would be trying to change history if I did that and how I would be like Hitler because he tried to change history too by burning lots of books ( I would like everyone to know that I am NOT like Hitler and I do not want any books burned). Rob then asked me what the heck apples had to do with posies. I think that flowers and apples go really good together they are just another example of good things and as a matter of fact they should go together. ( I am typing on my brothers lap top and I can't get off Italics so bear with me). Just think apples eventually fall off the tree right? Apples apples we all fall down. I think it works. so if any one agrees with me on this issue just start singing it my way and we can make the world a happier place. Carrilyne you are probably the only one reading this so join me in my quest to change this ashes ashes tradition into a happy one.
(I just have to add that while Mic has been waiting for me to finish all of this she has been licking the window sill, screaming at the neighbor across the street to stop weed whacking and trying to cover this little tiny spot of light that is now hitting the floor in front of her with a spatula. These are the moments that make me laugh and remind me why I haven't gone crazy yet.)

My sis, a blogger!

This is Carrilyne, Chelsea's awesome big sister. I have forced her to start a blog. I, myself, am addicted to blogging. I love reading my friends blogs and I have a lot of fun doing my own blog. I kinda use mine like a family journal. I actually save all my posts on word documents so I can print them out and keep them in a scrapbook. That helps me when I blog. I just blog about stuff that I want to remember and that the kids will enjoy reading when they grow up. If it happens to be interesting to other people then awesome!
So Chels have fun blogging I am working on a slideshow, and if you want to go to projectplaylist.com and pick out some music, your blog will awesome in no time. Email any cute pictures you want in the slideshow. And if you want a different header picture email it to me as well! Maybe I should just come over and we will do it together!

Beginning Blogger

Wow I can't believe that I have actually started a blog! I will try my best and if it goes well, great! But if not it is all my sister Carrilyne's fault. Hehehe.