Anna to the rescue!

This little monkey saved the day today.

Anna and I were in the middle of making cute little Easter egg nest snacks to take to preschool tomorrow, but I ran out of cupcake liners. I grabbed my purse and the child and we headed out the door. I locked the garage door behind me...and then realized that my car keys were still inside. My new car has keyless start, so I hardly ever take them out of my purse these days. 

That horrible wave of panic set over me as I wracked my brain trying to think of what to do. As I called my husband to ask if by some miracle he was off work yet, I hear my child in the background. "We are doomed!" Anna said with great drama. 

Anna and I were locked out in the front yard with no way to get into the house or my car. I was fairly certain that the sliding glass door in the back was unlocked, but I wasn't sure I could climb the fence to get into the backyard.  We have a chain link fence around the side yard, but even that is difficult to climb because the top of the fence has very sharp spikes that will rip open your hands (just ask my friend Kris-he cut his hand down to the tendon trying to do just that). As I surveyed the situation, I noticed a little area next to the house that was secured to the chainlink fence with a 2x6 board. On the other side of that fence was a log propped up. I tried to climb it, but I was having a hard time getting my shoes not to slip...I hadn't exactly planned on climbing fences today. Anna piped in and said "I could try, Mommy." 

For those of you who know my child, she is usually very fearful and very timid. I was shocked! 

I lifted my 5 year old up over the board. I could tell she was very nervous, but, with her tiny feet, she was able to get her footing on the other side of the chainlink very easily. She hopped onto the log, hopped down, and ran around to the sliding glass door. 

As she opened the side door to the garage and let me in, she exclaimed "I can't believe I saved the day!"

Way to be brave today, Anna! I'm proud of you!

By the way, we made it to the store and finished up our preschool Easter treats. :-)

New design

My sweet parents decided to take my five year old (seriously? How is she 5??) to St. George with them for 5 whole days. Since I had a little time to myself today, I decided to finally play around with my blog design. I'm proud of myself for figuring out how to design my header all by myself! ;-) 

So many posts to write and so many pictures I need to catch up on...where to start? I know that most people have given up on their family/personal blogs, what with facebook and other social media, but I really like the fact that I can journal through my blog. I am determined to at least make an effort to catch up. 

Last month we enjoyed quite a few warm late winter days. Anna and I took advantage of a beautiful day and headed to the zoo for a long overdue visit. She is FINALLY starting to get over her hatred of photos! She was actually the one who suggested taking a bunch of photos together. I jumped at the chance to get photos of her sweet smile...it hasn't happened very often. 

 Silly selfies...and a duck face

And my most favorite picture of the two of us!

I love my little bug! 

Pardon my dust...

New year, new start, right? 

How did life get so busy? I have so many things I would like to post about. Somehow life got in the way. I have found that one of the things keeping me from posting is that I don't have all of the photos I want to post edited and organized in a way that would make them easy to upload. One of my resolutions this year is to get organized digitally and streamline my photos so that the process of blogging will be easier. My husband surprised me with a new Macbook Pro for my birthday/Christmas, so hopefully that will help! Any advice out there as to how you organize and easily access photos and digital files would be helpful!

For the meantime, I thought I would start by giving my blog a fresh look. I was kind of forced into this since my favorite digital design site LeeLou blogs no longer offers free blog backgrounds and templates. I don't know if anyone even reads personal blogs anymore, but pardon my dust while I "remodel" a little.