Livvy Lou Who!

We love our Livvy Lou Who! She makes life so interesting!

(This is how breakfast ended the other morning -that's Addison's milk)

Our little Livvy Lou Who has been up to a lot lately and I haven't had time to post them all. Some I'm able to laugh at and some I couldn't even take a picture of. Let's see . . . my glasses I hide in the very back of my dresser drawer covered in clothes are no longer, she's learned how to get into the bathtub and soak herself while dressed (I know I realize the danger of burns), she picked off 8 letters on my laptop keyboard (you just have to get your fingernail under one and pull hard, the rest are easy), all my lipsticks have had a finger shoved down the middle of them, she threw a fire extinguisher down the stairs and dented the wall pretty good (probably completely my fault since I left it out),

and her latest . . . .

she nearly started an electrical fire with our vacuum! I'm completely at fault for this one. Liv and Addison always want to take turns vacuuming and I let them. I thought it was harmless until last Saturday when Olivia got the cord sucked up into the vacuum and it melted. I went to get a new load of laundry to put in the washer (already sorted in my room, just had to pick it up and walk out) and came back to a burning smell. I thought she was melting the carpet and ripped the cord out and electrocuted myself. It ended up a built up break down for me since Ansen had been gone for 2 weeks and was at work again all Saturday. Luckily it was only a $40 repair and we've moved on.

I'm not a neglectful parent, but I do have to use the restroom from time to time, talk on the phone sometimes, take a shower and make dinner. We have reviewed our consistency as parents and are changing a few things due to the incident so it wasn't all bad.

This is more what I pictured when I found out we were going to have 2 girls!

Fun with Lisa

While Ansen's away the girls will play! Addison, Olivia and I headed up to Logan last Wednesday, up to the cold abyss. The drive is never as bad as I anticipate, although the perfectly planned drive where Olivia and Addison take their naps on the way up never happened. Before we left, Addison asked if we were planning on taking the "stinker" (Olivia) this time? We did and it was fine.

First, I met with a client (one of my favorite clients I might add) Katie who was home sick with the flu. Lisa came home and we headed out shopping-Logan has the best DownEast Outfitters reject store. We ate dinner at my favorite Logan venue-Firehouse Pizza which served as my 3 month reminder of why I never take Olivia out to eat. We posted fliers for taxes around campus, visited the pastry shop that was fortunately not there when I was and even managed to fit in two blow outs from Olivia before leaving. As we left I tried my backing up skills, which are usually pretty reliable, down the drive way. I was distracted when I noticed that I missed a short pole by centimeters and drove us onto a mound of snow. It took sick Katie driving, Lisa and I pushing, and the kids crying to get me out. After I got back into the car, I commented to Addison that that was funny. "No Mom, that was not funny at all" was her reply. Thanks for the fun Lisa!

Tax Time . . . a Glorious Time!

Just putting this out there . . . I do taxes. I finally started a real business (articles of orgaization, licenses and everything) with my friend from college. She just recently quit her job at Deloitte & Touche and we started Red Tree Accounting. We do taxes, bookkeeping and financial consulting. I've done some over the last couple of years, but we're trying to build up now. Spread the word if you know anyone interested. Much Appreciated!

Tagged

Amanda tagged me . . . so here is my purse and it's contents. It's a little disheartening considering my purse isn't even 2 weeks old (I just transferred out of the diaper bag) and there's a lot of junk.

• Wallflower re-fill . . . you just never know?


• New AND used tissue (we were all sick last week)


• Lots of pens. I'm afraid I'll be somewhere and need a pen so I seem to always just throw another one in when I leave the house


• Yes, a small purse should still carry 2 seperate lotions and 3 lip glosses. . . I guess


• A Fiber One Bar . . . have you had one? It's like a chocolate candy bar, but with 5 grams of fiber, pretty low fat and filling (Costco 30/$10)
  
• I'm concerned since my tape measure is missing, but luckily I still have my calculator


• I-Pod car attachment, but no I-Pod - Perfect


• Family pictures to hopefully entertain Olivia at the checkout (it used to work with Addison), but it actually just becomes more work and an embarressment when I'm picking them up from all over everywhere after Olivia has thrown them


• And a Barbie shoe for safe keeping-actually somehow it made it to the car and I was hoping it could make it back into the house one day (ahhh, success)

Can't forget the little things . . .

My favorite quote from Addison this week:

"Mom, just out of curiosity, what am I going to wear?"

Olivia's new "thing" and her destructiveness:

I woke up to a sweet baby yelling "RIGHT NOW" with this big, growly, held out NOW. She yelled it about 8 times and then added, "Mommy, RIGHT NOW!" I guess that's my que.

Ansen and the girls got me V-day roses early since they're cheaper (that's how we accounts think . . ). The florist was at Costco stocking and gave Olivia and Addison each their own rose. Ansen said that Olivia played with hers for awhile then turned it sideways and bit the whole rose head off . . . ummm, destroyer.


Oh, P.S. Ansen and I were in bed going to sleep at 9:38 on Saturday night and didn't wake up until 8:00 on Sunday morning (it was Stake Conference). I don't think either of us even moved. That tells you what our week was like.

"Hard Work" Pays Off

One of Ansen's accomplishments for 2007 was that he became a Delta Gold Medallion member. It took some work on his part and then some sweet talk with American Express to get all of his miles, but he did it and boy has it paid off . . .

First, when the office manager booked their flights for Omaha last month she couldn't even see the flight options Ansen could with his Gold Medallion login . . . . oooooh, now that was big as you can imagine.

And Second, Ansen got bumped to first class to LA 2 weeks ago and ended up sitting by John Salley previously of the Pistons, the Lakers, and the Bulls, who now hosts The Best Damn Sports Show on Fox Sports. Ansen talked to him the whole flight and said he was one of the nicest guys he's met. (Okay, so that one really was cool!)

All of this in his first month of Gold status. I think that at this point, I'm going to go ahead and recommend you do whatever it takes to have a Gold Medallion member living in your household.

Cancelled Church . . 2 hours too late!

As I've mentioned before we have 8:30 church which requires lots of Saturday night preparation including curfew for Ansen and I. Anyway, we woke up to a lot of snow this morning. Since we still haven't cleaned the basement stuff out of the garage we park outside. Ansen spent a good chunk of time making walk ways to the car and cleaning off the car while I feverishly got the kids ready by myself so we could be on time (new year's resolution). We made it within seconds of sacrament starting. Two hours into church they cancel it and send us home due to the continued snow. Our whole stake was cancelled. I can't imagine whose fantastic idea that was on Super Bowl Sunday, especially considering it quit snowing by noon. I'm assuming that someone in the Stake Presidency has 2:30-5:30 church this year. Some of the primary kids were crying that we had to go home, but I didn't see one parent come to pick their kids up without a huge smile on their face. We spent the rest of our church time playing in the snow and shoveling. That was only part 1 of the 2 part snow storm we're getting. Can't wait for Monday morning.

As we came in from shoveling we noticed a herd of elk in the field across the street from our house. Addison and Olivia spent the rest of the afternoon watching them and giving us frequent location and activity reports.