Random Photos from my phone

I decided it was time to figure out how to get the photo's off my phone so I could clear them off and be able to take new ones.  Some of these photos and for a long time ago.  I was fun taking a little trip down memory lane. 

These were taken about 7 years ago, we went to Vegas to visit my Grandparents with my brother and while we were their we went to red rock. 

We  got some cute ones of me, Curt and us just for fun. 

These are probably from 5 or 6 years not to long after we moved up to Logan. We went Ice Skating with some friends. 

Our good friends Talon and Nicole who now live in Missouri while Talon goes to med School

Curt and I being crazy

Some pictures of Aleana at the Hospital.  

She has grown and changed to much. 

First day home, just look at that sweet face! 

Cute new born pics for phone back ground. 

Cute little Bear! 

A picture I sent Curt during her new born photo shoot that my friend Sable did for me. 

Slay ride and Snelgrove family Christmas party up in Francis. 

Taking a little nap on Chelsie Atkinson couch.  

More cute photo's for phone back ground 

Cute little girl in her orange jacket! 

Cute yellow outfit from Janalee. 

Playing in the grass, not sure what to think

Chilling on the blanket

Clapping hands! 

Awesome Hair after Sunday nap with Dad. 

Just love her! 

Taken a walk with her walker! She loves being mobile

Cute Picture of her playing in the leaves. She loved fall! 

Awesome Halloween Photos for Christy Browns Halloween Party

I just love this photo it is still my phone wall paper! 

Daddy and his little Princess! 

We went and visited Curt on Halloween

What a cutie! 

Trick or treating around the office and taking the whole bucket of candy. She knows what the good stuff is! 

His Co-workers enjoyed seeing her and Curt always loves to see his little girl! 

Fish face! 

Aleana in her Dress I bought her for Christmas! 

Here first and only pig tail.  It is so cute we may need to try it again

Sitting on the Curb! 

Chilling with her Aunt Debbie! 

A bit random but I hope you enjoyed all the fun pictures! 

17 Months and the past week

This week has been somewhat better, Aleana slept through all but one night and took pretty good naps everyday expect today, on Monday it was even a 2 1/2 hours nap.  She fell asleep in my arms and when I put her down she wake up and did not go back to sleep.  She was a beast all afternoon, she was throwing stuff at us and was so fussy.  I tried to put her back down but she just fought it, so I put her in her crib and she had a 30 min quiet time.  She was a lot happier after that but crash hard when we put her to bed.    

I was making dinner on Monday and had a cup of couscous on the counter and she grabbed it.  This is after we salvaged enough to make dinner.  Before I took the picture she was swimming in it:) 

I think she might like a sand box, but she will probably just eat it just like she was staring to eat this. 

Helping Daddy clean up! 

On Wednesday after Aleana got the leftover whip cream out of the fridge. I had to run to the bathroom and I did not think she could get the plastic wrap off the, but apparently she did. She thought it was a delicious treat! 

On Friday we went to the Fun Park with FSA for a play date. The first little while Aleana was nervous and did not want to play, but after a little while she was running all over the arcade and did have some fun playing in the soft play. The most exciting thing was seeing her little friend Andre!  They were so cute together!

She also thought it was fun to pretend to play the driving games and wanted to play all the ball type games.  I was a fun little play date and good to see some friends we had not seen in a while.

Sunday morning after breakfast Aleana decided that she wanted to climb up in the chair all by herself.  She is so ready to be a big girl, I don't know if I am ready yet.  Right now it just means that she can get into more stuff.  

I got Aleana to let me do her hair in pony tails for Church on her 17 month birthday!  She tried to take them out a few times before church but once we got to church she forgot about them.  Everyone thought they were so cute.  I love how curly they are. 

My Cute little 17 month old! 

She is starting to get interested in puzzles and can sometimes get them in the right spot. She also is started to stack blocks before she just knocks the tower over.

  Today we had her stay the full time in Nursery, Curt took half the time and I took the other half.  She did pretty good but I think she was ready to leave a few times.  She did like standing and dancing on the chairs, one of these times she is going to fall on her head.  In four weeks she will officially be in nursery. I hope she will stay on her own.   

Aleana is starting to cut her top left canine and she is still in a lot of pain, she has been biting everything even Curt and I. She is so busy and runs all over the house and has also learned how to walk on her tip toes. She keeps me busy and clever! 

Aleana is really starting to like TV, sometimes she will start crying when I turn it off or when I will not turn it on for her.  She does not sit very long to watch but likes to have it on while she plays and will stop and point at it when I turn it off.  I need to be careful or we may have major issues with this when she is older. 

Aleana's vocab it getting a lot bigger and she is learning more animal sounds.  Some new words are Go, lets go, on, ball, bubbles, my dad, daddy, my mom, love you and has said how are you.  It is fun to see her learning so much.  Also she can say moo, baa, bock bock, quack, meow, neigh and woof woof.  Some are really clear and other you have to know what she is trying to say and on some she needs a little prompting, but it is so cute. I need to get her on video.  

Weekly post-rough week!

I want to start doing a weekly post so I can stay up on life and not spend so much time trying to play catch up. Hopefully I can stay on top of it :)

This week has been a bit rough for Aleana, she is cutting her two top canines and has not been sleeping well. A few night this past week she has woken up at about 5:30 and has had a really hard time going back to sleep.  We rock her, give her drinks, teething tablets and eventually end up giving her a cup of milk to get her to go back to sleep.  One night Curt was up with her for a couple hours and then I can and got her to sleep. Then a couple night I was up with her and Curt came in to put her to sleep. One morning she went back to sleep for about a half hour and the next morning she did not go back to sleep until her nap which she took early around 10:00 and did not take another one.  She has been a tired little girl all week and her naps have been messed up too!

 On top of all this on Wednesday we went with Curt to young men's and young women's at the archery range, I went in to go shoot while Curt stayed out in the hall where they have classes and watched Aleana.  She climbed up a few stairs then slipped and rolled while coming down.  Curt caught her before she fell all the way down but she did hit her mouth and got a cut up lip. Curt felt so bad that he was not able to prevent it from happening.  She cried for a while but was alright other then when the salt from her snacks got into the cut. She also kept scraping the cut with her teeth and poking it with her finger because it was something new. She did not sleep well that night, I don't know if she was in pain or what.

 Thursday we went down with Curt to Ogden for an interview at Mckay Dee Hospital.  Aleana and I went to play with Kathy and Layla while he was at his interview.  Aleana had been up since 5:30 with only a 30 min nap and she did not fall asleep in the car.  She was actually pretty happy and willing to play with Layla until the end when she up playing Kathy's key board and got a paper cut from turning the pages in one of her music books.  She did not notice she cut her self until I noticed blood on her face and hand.  We pulled her down and cleaned her up and put a Band-Aid on her finger.  She did not like me cleaning of her finger, but worst of all was the Band-Aid.  She looked at it after Kathy put it on her finger and just began to bawl. When it fell off later when Curt came to get us and he tried to put it back on she started to cry and would not let him.  We got her in the car seat and thought she would just crash out but she stayed awake until after we stopped at Burger King for lunch.  She wanted some fries and wanted them dipped in the sauce.  It was sad but kind of funny, she was half asleep eating fries and crying because the salt and fry sauce was hurting her cut but she did not want to stop eating.  I was glad when she was finished and finally fell asleep.  When we got home after taking Curt back to work I just sat in the car with her because I did not want to risk her waking up.  When she woke up we ran inside got some lunch changed her diaper and left to catch the last 10 mins of our mommy and me dance class.  She cried a lot of the time so maybe it was not worth going, hopefully it will go better next week.

Friday morning was the morning she did not go back to sleep until 10:00 and she only slept about 1 1/2 hours in stead of 2.  We still had our play date with my friend Liz and her little boy, but she was a bit grumpy and by end she was crying.  I tried to put her to sleep after they left but of course she did not go down for a nap.  I was supposed to take dinner to a neighbor but I did not get it there till almost 7 because of Aleana's help and a few other complications.  I think we all crashed that night.

Yesterday was crazy too!  In the morning we went and spoke at a class for new adoptive couples and Aleana got babysat by the Kjar's.  When we got her home she went down for about a 40 min nap.  We were thinking it was going to be a 2 hour nap so we just kind chilled and then had to get our stuff done and get a treat made for the Date Night we were hosting at our house that night while Aleana was awake.  Curt went off to priesthood meeting and we played. I put in a pizza and came back 20 mins latter to find it still cool because the oven decided to stop heating.  I restarted the oven and cooked the pizza.  We got dinner really late and Aleana kept crying.  I got her over to the babysitter and got back and people were already here.  We had fun playing and talking but I think that if we were not FSA Chairs and that I had not asked the Mora's to plan the date night and then said we would host it I think we would have cancelled it or not gone.  We did not get Aleana down to bed until after 9 and she was so tired, but she was pretty good for our friend. 

Today has not been much better, she woke up crying, cried though breakfast, and wined through getting ready.  We were debating on taking her to stake conference, but we did and just let her play with the other kids in the cry room. She mostly did alright besides throwing a couple of the other kids toys into the baptismal font.  She only took a 40 mins nap today and has been super fussy.  We took her on a walk and she cried when we did not let her go back out.  I hope she sleeps good tonight and that this next week goes better.

On a better note Aleana learned how to take her zip up jacket off all by her self, we just say do you want to take your jacket off and she unzips her jacket and works her arms out of her sleeves, sometimes she needs a little help.  Now she can take her shoes and Jacket off by herself and helps get her shirt up over her head, she is learning so fast.  She also will respond to other command when we ask her unless she is teasing us.  It is fun to see what she can understand already.

Presidents Day!

Since the weather was not great on Presidents Day we had to make our own fun,  we did go on a little walk but mostly we stayed inside and played.  We decided to make a fort in our living room and red stories and watched a show.  Aleana liked in for a while, then she went out and was playing peek-a-boo with us, eventually she ended up ripping off the blankets.  It was fun and I am sure we will make one again in the future.  Curt also tried to give her another guitar lesson but she mostly wanted to play with the guitar so it did not last long.

Aleana is getting really tricky we went out on Saturday to get knob cover for the doors because she has figured out how to open some of the doors in our house.  Next thing we know she is going to be trying to run out the front door. She loves to be out side and loves to run away from us while we are playing.  We will have to keep those doors locked so she does not run away.  Also today we put more latches on our drawers so she does not empty out all our kitchen drawers.  She is such a busy girl!

I am trying to get her used to being around other kids and prepare her nursery so we have been taking turns taking her into nursery which she loves and it makes a church a lot less crazy. Also we have started going to story time at the library, the first time she went she got nervous with all the other kids around her so we ended up leaving early and today I guess it was there week off but she had fun playing with some of the other kids there,  we will slowly get her used to sitting a listening to a teacher.       Tomorrow we are going to start a mom and me dance class with my friend Janaca Seegrist.  I hope it will be fun for her.    

Happy Valentines Day!!

My Friend Jessica put together a little photo shoot and we went over to take Aleana's Valentines Pictures.  This one in the chair I just snapped after pictures but I think it is one of my favorites!  

Blowing a Valentine's Kiss!!  

A collage of my cute little Valentine! 

My little Princess! 

Here are some of my other favorites! 

Being a little Shy :) 

Aleana's little friends who also got pictures, next to her is Leo, and then Addelyn  the daughter of my friend that took the pictures. 

Matching with our valentines mouse! 

The cute cards that my sweet husband made for me, Aleana and one from Aleana to me! 

Tulips for Aleana and I from Curt

Aleana and I had fun making valentines, well maybe it was more fun for me:) We spread them around the house on Valentines so that he could find them through out the day. He loved finding each one.  I even made him a cute little box to keep them in.    I also gave him a card and a giant Recess heart.

I helped Aleana make him a big valentine, it says "My two little hands show what my heart feels for you" I had her help me write "I Love You" and "Love Aleana".  Curt just loved it!! He loves being a Daddy and absolutely loves his little girl Aleana!   

My cute Valentine decorations! 

 Aleana loves are balloon I got her for Valentines, although sometimes it does scare her because it floats instead of laying on the ground.  I also got her a book called "Love is a Handful of Honey" and some puffy Princess stickers.  

That night we watched Stardust and ate cupcakes we got from our friends.  It was nice to just relax together.  

 We usually have a nice dinner that we have never made before so today curt made Lobster Tails for dinner.  It was really good! 

 Aleana enjoying some green beans, after seeing us drink milk out of our bowls she thinks she needs to drink all her food:) 

 Enjoying some chocolate pudding for the first time.  I think it was a hit. 

 Our yummy dessert! Brownies, pudding, whip cream, raspberries and strawberries, it was delicious! I should have put more berries in because it was a little chocolaty but I guess we can use the rest on pancakes tomorrow:)   

After Aleana went to bed we watched Pride and Prejudice, what a good movie!  We got to have two Valentines day!  I just love my husband!