Peacock Postings 2013

I really don't have much to blog about- we've been pretty boring.  Playing in the tub is about as exciting as it has gotten around here!

This picture is very depicting of my days with Adelia around. When she's not dumping entire cup-fulls of water onto the floor, or wiping her food on our sleeves during meal times, or throwing her food around for that matter, or dumping her toys as fast as she can, she's applying my makeup on herself. This time it's mascara. She is a complete hand full!  Good thing she's silly and cute and we love her so much!

For an update on us: (and how we've been doing on our New Years Goals.

As you  know, I made quite the list of goals for this year... so far, I'm doing pretty well. The most important goal I've been meeting is to be better about STUDYING my scriptures. Amazingly as I've worked on this goal it has made keeping all my other goals so much easier. I'm automatically nicer and more patient, and it has given me a daily boost. I keep the house cleaner, I am happier, and life just seems generally better! I have always heard this from people, but never before have I seen such an obvious difference to me personally.  I even dusted off the treadmill and used it a few times last week now that my lungs are feeling better. But more importantly, I feel closer to God than I have in a long while. I will definitely be keeping up with this particular goal.

Luke is accomplishing a lot too! So far his classes have been pretty low-key but they are now staring to pick up. He has written 2 of the 6 chapters in his thesis *wooo!* and seems pretty positive about it.  He's been working with his Sunday School presidency and has been putting together lessons and teacher improvement classes too.  He's applied to quite a few jobs on line and has an interview set up for one of them. We just keep trusting that when the right job opens up, it will work out. ... patience is hard though. We know he still have 4 months of school left, but it would be nice to know where we're going after that.

Like I said, Adelia is keeping us all on our toes. She is turning into a little talker! And a baby lover. Tonight she went to bed with 6 baby dolls. When it's not her babies, it's the little mom and dad from her loving family doll house that she carries around all day. I get so confused when she's crying out "Mama, Mama" and I reach out for her and she pushes my hands away. She's really looking for the Mama doll. Not me.  These 2 pictures remind me of each other. The first is Adelia and the 2nd one is Tianna from Christmas 2007 when she got the doll house. They even have the same hair style!
Anyway, she's so sweet and so funny and VERY lively. She too has been doing well with her goal. Or really, our goal FOR her, of being binky-free by the end of January. She still cries at bedtime and naptime for awhile, but she does fall asleep after awhile and the best part is, she's not begging for it every time we get in the car or throughout the day. That is a nice change. But I must say, we really  miss the days of her being glad to be in bed since it meant BINKY-TIME.

Tianna is doing so well in school. She made the goal of passing off a level each week in school and so far this month has accomplished that. She's reading small words like "to, in, my, ear, knee" and loves loves LOOOOVES school-absolutely everything about it.
She also made a goal of earning more gems (her reward system) instead of losing them. She has been doing really great and even got to pick out a prize at the Dollar Store today from earning 20 gems. We're so proud of her. She really is such a good girl- we are sometimes too hard on her, but that's only because she's so mature.

Also, speaking of Tianna- her knee is still completely fine! She doesn't have any pain and isn't limping anymore. Her muscle is growing back in her thigh and we are so very happy. We go on the 3rd of Feb to Primary's and then we'll have more information on the lab work they performed the day of her knee injection.

This is the first time ever I wasn't totally excited about my birthday. I didn't want to turn 26 (25 has always seemed like the perfect age!) But I have warmed up to the idea-- plus a whole weekend of getting SPOILED helped! 

An interesting thing about having a bday in early January. Not only do I make goals for whatever year it is, I can make goals for my year of life at the same time. In this case, my 26th year-- a year of positive changes!


GOOD- Do something dramatic with my hair..........So I became a brunette!  Wow. it looks really red in that picture, but it's more brown when I'm not standing under a light bulb.
BETTER- Begin the year with a fully organized house. I went crazy last week and reorganized just about every closet, drawer, and cupboard. It feels so nice!

On the 29th we left the cabin and headed to Castle Dale until after the new year on Jan 2nd.
It was ridiculously cold and therefore a LOT of time was spent inside playing the Wii, and with new toys- (thank you everyone! ) and best of all... with our loved ones!
On New Years Eve we ventured out for a swimming trip and to dinner..Sadly Adelia wasn't feeling well enough to go with us to the pool.
 Luckily she was feeling well enough to play with her cute stick horse Aunt Monica made for her.

The day was spent settling into the cabin, cooking, sledding, and making an adorable reindeer piñata. Perhaps we should have spent a bit more time rehearsing the family Nativity : ) but it turned out really cute even with a silly donkey (me), a few grumpy participants, a little girl *cough* Adelia, who kept trying to steal baby Jesus and a "Mary"- Tianna who thought that was VERY upsetting.  We finished the evening off with the opening of new pajamas--including some "Big Sister" and "Little Sister" jammies! 

Oh the anticipation! How rude of us to make the children wait while the cameras get set up! The best moment of the day was when Adelia first saw her new car.  She immediately ran right up to it, bypassed everything else, and tried to jump through the window to get inside.  I think Santa Claus made the right choice with that toy!