14 inches of Snow

The snow finally melted and although it was still pretty chilly, we let the girls go out and ride bikes on Thursday night. We didn't realize what we were in for this weekend.

It snowed 14 inches in Columbus. It snowed all last night and throughout the day today. It was too cold to play outside with all of the wind and the snow blowing in your face and way too deep for the girls to be able to enjoy. We need to plow a path through the back so that they can walk and dig without sinking into the snow. Hannah thought it was pretty COOL. Most businesses were closed except for the grocery stores and hospitals so we didn't go anywhere. We had a lot of fun just hanging out at home. We cleaned the house, watched A Bug's Life, made individual pizzas that the girls could put their own toppings on and then had cinnamon rolls for dessert. Surprisingly we didn't go crazy.
Church is already cancelled for tomorrow, so I'll have to think of some things to keep us busy for the day. Maybe we'll take some pictures.

how sweet

I just couldn't resist putting the ribbon on his head. He took it out of my hair and tried to put it on his head.
We have moved Parker's crib because of the "reading" aka eating the pages.

The Girls

Hannah and Madison

Katie wearing Kim's boots. She loves shoes right now and she can be found wearing everyone's but her own. You can't get the full affect of the boots from the picture, but it was pretty cute. She couldn't really walk-she looked like a true cowgirl.

The end of Winter (we hope!)

Here is a picture of Hannah and Katie after the most recent snowfall. We really hope it starts to warm up. We all want to go outside and play. Today it was 60 degrees and it is suppose to be warm tomorrow, but rainy :( then it is going to get cold again. We keep praying for spring.

Both girls let me do french braids last Tuesday morning. It was adorable and Hannah actually left hers in for about 2 hours. Katie left hers in for 2 days.

It was Beau Johnson's birthday (the oldest son of my roommate Katherine). They came to Columbus for the day and we celebrated Beau's birthday with him and some of his cousins. He wanted everyone to dress-up for his party so Hannah was riding a chicken and Katie was a princess.

Visit to Arizona

Our trip to visit Grandpa and Grandma Rose and Grandma and Grandpa Scott was quiet and relaxing. Both sets of grandparents are doing well. You would never know that Grandpa Scott had open-heart surgery a few months ago. He is like the energizer bunny. He walks both morning and night. We had to keep a brisk pace to keep up with him! Grandma Rose is continuing to feel more energetic. She accompained us to the Mesa Temple on Thursday morning. After our session we wandered the temple grounds and took some pictures. We also went into the visitor's center. They have a photographic display called "Reflections of Christ." As we walked amongst the various pictures we were deeply moved by the love of our Savior. The photographer captured the compassion and love of Christ in the carious pictures depeicting his life. After seeing the photos we watched a video sharing the experiences of the photographer and the crew. A lot of effort was put into this display and I hope all of you will have an opportunity to see this it. (They are hoping to have a traveling exhibit that will go to each of the visitor centers.)

While visiting Grandma and Grandpa Scott we made a quick trip to Mexico. Not much excitement happens in Quartzite where Grandma and Grandpa Scott live, but they love being there.

Parkers bike

I thought I had posted these pictures but I guess I didn't so here they are. Parker now knows how to get on and off his bike. I loves to push it and it light enough that he can turn it if he runs into something. Some days I will find him just sitting on his bike. Though today he made progress. He moved about a foot, though he was sitting on the bike backwards. And he stood on top of it again today, but got down when I looked at him We are going to have to work on this one.

all boy with a little bit of mommy's helper

Parker's latest thing is to carry around an airplane. Shawn has one too and Parker can fly it around for ever. Parker is not allowed to play with the other airplanes because he pulls pieces off of them. He is such a daddy's little boy.

But when mommy is around he can be my little helper in the kitchen. I put an apron on sunday and he kept pointing at it and pulling at it so I put it on him and he walked around with a hot pad until we took it off.

Sunday Mornings

Sunday mornings are long at our house these days. We have church at 11 and finding things for the girls to do before church is always a challenge. I keep trying to get some cute pictures of Madison, but the girls usually get in front of the camera or Madi is too tired to smile. We captured a few cute ones this morning (too bad she scratched her nose yesterday). The girls were getting along for about 5 minutes and sharing the high chair while they ate their snack. In all the pictures either Katie or Hannah had their eyes closed, but I though this one was still cute.

"Nu"

This is snow and nose and no as Parker says it. He will point to your nose and say "Nu" and he will say this when he doesn't want anything and when it was snowing and we were talking about the snow to Parker he said "Nu" so we decided to go out and play and let Parker experience the "Nu" or snow as we call it.

Life at the Lovejoys

Three Cute Girls

Hannah wanted to have her hair straight so we straightened it and had to call Grandma and Grandpa on the "homework" to let them see. She is getting so grown up. This is Hannah's outfit that she wears every day except sunday and if it has to be washed (This is going to be one well worn brown shirt and "no hole pants" as Hannah calls them. She has a pair of pants that have holes in them. She used to wear them every day. I'm grateful she wears these pants. At least I'll get my money's worth for this pair. I've decided Hannah really has to be able to pick out her own clothes, so if you ever want to send clothes as a present for her, the money would probably be better. If she picks it out she is a lot more likely to wear it. I let her buy a sweatshirt at Old Navy for $4. She wears it almost every day, of course over the brown shirt. One day I was wearing a long sleeved t-shirt (not a nicer one, a real t-shirt one that I would wear to bed or exercise in). Hannah took one look at me and said, "Mom, you don't look cute."Needless to say when I really got dressed for the day, Hannah gave me the stamp of approval.

Parker is one

Parker is officially one now. He loved playing with the balloons on the ground. He didn't quite know what to do with the cake- but he loved the cars on top of it.

This weekend

A friend gave us a blue church shirt for Parker and i couldn't wait to have him wear and it look like he really goes to church. We thought he looked really cute in it. Though he is getting tough to take pictures of because he always wants to be on the move. during church we had a friend sit on the outside of the bench and he let Parker slip by him and Parker was off. His little walk is more of a run from what it looks like.

On Saturday I went with 4 other girls into the city for brunch. We had lots of fun talking and walking around the city for a while. Though it was really cold so we didn't walk as much as we had planned on. If you look really close the white things that look sort of like bowl are acutally glasses of hot chocolate. When we asked for hot chocolate we didn't think we would get a bowl- they even had a lion head on eat side.

This one if for Peter- i think you will know where this comes from. Just think Seinfield. We have all kinds of famous places around us.

This little trip into the city has given me a new adventure to look forward too. We would like to go visit the city a little more often- we just have to have a plan and then it is lots of fun.

Dad- if you ever make it out this way I will have to take you to a church that is really pretty. Construction was started many a years ago- more than 100- and it still isn't done. But they have a really pretty spiral staircase. Even the underside of it is gorgeous. I wish I would have taken a picture of it.

Reading Festival

Today we went to the 97.1 Reading Festival and got to meet George and Strawberry Shortcake. Hannah had her face painted. She also played Hockey and Katie and Hannah played in some jump houses. It was a fun morning!

Beautiful Girls

Here is Hannah before church last Sunday with her nails Painted and glow in the dark earings! She looks so old to me in this picture.

Here are the girls in their dress-ups before I cut Katie's bangs. I can't believe I waited so long!

why our toilet paper looks like swiss cheese

This picture tells it all. He must have eaten through many many layer and then he didn't wpit it out he chewed it and swallowed it.
He is proud of his work.

Baby steps

Parker just started to push chairs around the houselast week and laundry baskets and books. I think it is funny that he goes so fast, but he loves it. I am glad we have nice neighbors since it can get a little noisy. Just yesterday he took 4 baby steps actually more like shuffling steps and today he took 7 with some pauses. We are proud of our little man. Just in time for his first birthday!!