Sydney's Spotlight

Sydney got to be the spotlight in preschool last week.  She was so excited!  Sunday night, at bedtime, we realized that we hadn't filled out her poster yet.  So Matt got Cooper in bed, while I helped Sydney do her poster.  It was so fun to work on it together.  She was the brains behind the entire thing.  Telling me what colors to write in and everything.  One of the things she was supposed to fill out was "If I could wish for one thing, I would wish for..."  I prompted Sydney to write Disneyland, because she really does want to go there.  She assured me that, "wishing for Disneyland wasn't a good wish, because, we ARE going to Disneyland.  I'm going to wish for a rainbow dress." Of course!  Why didn't I think of that?! When it was time to present her spotlight poster in preschool, she did such a great job!  She pointed at each and every thing, and explained the whole poster by herself.  We hung her poster up at home, when it was done hanging at school.  I just love looking at it.  It captures Sydney at 4 years old so perfectly.  It's colorful and has darling drawings.  Sydney to a T.

New Arrival

We are so excited to have a new baby cousin join our family!  Baby Landon Page was born on Sunday the 19th.  We were able to drive down to Payson to visit him on Monday.  Sydney loved holding him, and touching his little face and head.  He is just darling.  Congratulations Chris and Lisa!

Lately

Life sure slows down in the winter... a lot.  It seems like there isn't much to do.   Which is why there has been a lack of blog posts lately.  There just isn't much to report.  We spend a lot of time at home... like more than most people I think.  It gets pretty mundane.  Laundry, ironing, cleaning, movies, coloring.  Daily things around here.  I'm pretty anxious to have spring show up.  I know, we've had a mild winter, but it's still too cold to go outside... Luckily, we have found a few things to keep us busy in the past month. 

I've been trying to catch up on my quilt squares that I've been sewing with the Page girls... and learning about my new sewing machine in the process.  One Monday (Matt's day off) we decided to take Trax to the down town library with the kids.  It was a fun adventure and wore us all out.  Matt, Sydney, and Cooper fell asleep on the train ride home!  My aunt Syd's dog had puppies last month, so we went and visited them a little bit after they were born.  Both kids loved it and now would love to have a puppy.  Sydney tells me we need to buy a "doggy pool" so a puppy would have somewhere to sleep in our house.  I've also been working on a couple of projects on the computer... putting together a book to print out our 2011 blog, and updating my mom's weight watcher's blog.  If you haven't seen her blog you should really check it out.  I've been using it a lot lately, trying to cook healthier, and have lost 10 pounds!  The blog is a lot easier to navigate now, and I'm pretty proud of it.  There is a little more work I need to fix on it, but overall it is ten times better than before... just check out Dreams Becoming Reality on my sidebar.  We celebrated Matt's birthday, on Superbowl Sunday. And of course had a fun low-key Valentines Day.   Overall, life is good!