Poor Chloe had a rough few days this week with her little left hand swelling up like a balloon.  We took her to the doctor and they figured she was having an allergic reaction to having been bitten/or stung by something.  They gave her some medication and when we gave it to her it started to work almost right away and the swelling started to come down.  Her hand is doing much better now and she can use it again normally, thank goodness.  

I signed Chloe up for a ballet class with Academy of Ballet in Orem. She is in a group of about 8 other girls ages 3 and 4. She has gone twice now and loves her class so much. She was not shy at all, the first day she just jumped right in and tried her best to keep up with the other kids. She has a long way to go on the technical end to become a real ballerina, but in her mind she is the most beautiful dancer ever, and that's exactly what we want her to think.

We had so much fun last night celebrating mine and Phoebe's birthdays. Thanks to everyone that came and had cake with us. It is so surreal to be 28, I'm getting to close to 30, its scary.
But it is very nice to have Phoebe be 1 now, she is just a delightful girl. I will have to admit this birthday was much more fun then last years, where I spent my day in a hospital bed trying to recover childbirth. Time goes by so fast it seems, so I'm sure next years birthday will be here before we know it.

So when we talk about holiday weight gain your mind instantly thinks, Christmas and Thanksgiving, ooooh yummy turkey. But what about Easter. Seriously, just look at the photo documentation of this chocolate mother load. I'm not going to even tally up the chocolate that did not make it home with us to get in the picture. The sad part is Jared and I totally said we were going to cut back this Easter on all the sweets, so much for that plan.

On Saturday night all my friends got together at my house for our annual "priesthood session" reunion.  It was so great to see everyone, Steph, Erin, Nicole, Janarae, and myself of course.  We decided to stay in and order delivery instead of trying to drag our group of babies and children to our usual spot Brick Oven.  Thank goodness Brick Oven does take out, so we had our favorite things delivered and it was so nice.  It was great to catch up with all my friends and hear their latest news.  The evening turned out to be the ultimate playdate, with seven children in total.  It was loud, crazy, toys everywhere, but so much fun.  When Jared finally showed up he told me that the house smelled like several flavors of baby poop.  Well, there was quite a bit of that going on, so we cracked a few windows and all was well.  At the end of the night our babies were cranky and ready for bed, and we all vowed to get together more often.

Here she is, our little baby girl is now three years old.  It really seems crazy how fast time can go by and how fast your babies can grow up.  Now that the "terrible twos" are over I'm wondering what being three will be all about.  One thing is for sure, she certainly has a mind of her own and wants to do everything her own way.  I feel like she is not a baby anymore, she is all little girl now.  We had a fun party last night for Chloe and it was fun having the family come over to help celebrate with us.  

Yeah, we got our tax return finally. So on Saturday we decided to help stimulate the economy in our own small way. We had a list of things we have been waiting to get and here they are. Our Exciting new Fireproof safe. Jared has been wanting this from Sam's club for well over a year now. He needs a safe place to keep his hand guns locked up away from the kids. So I felt it was a worthy investment, plus we can keep important documents in here and all our photos on backup.

Chloe has grown out of her car seat so here is her new big girl high back booster. She is excited about sitting in her new chair and Phoebe gets Chloe's old one. The steam mop was my idea, I have been wanting one for a while, I just like the idea of being able to really sanitize the floors well since phoebe crawls all over them. Jared got a new case for his PC laptop and I got some new stuff for scrapbooking that is incredibly amazingly cute. It was great to get our tax return and have a little fun, and also get a few things we really needed.