making good use

With Christmas recently passed and Marlee’s birthday just several days ago, Marlee has a lot of new things. She has really been enjoying her new gifts and she seems to put them to use daily…

She and her doll are wearing their matching dresses that Grandma Turley sewed.

Making muffins with a set Grandma Lucy sent her and one of our fresh chicken eggs.

She used up all of her pink bath fizz.

Laun got her a basket for her bike for her birthday.

She wore another dress-up from Grandma Turley out to eat and to grab an egg from the chicken coop.

And she got these cute little ice cream cups from her friend Hailey that she was excited to use. The nice thing for me is that she has been staying pretty entertained with her new things.

My baby girl is 5 years old!!!

How did this happen so fast?! I can’t even believe she is 5 today and going to kindergarten next school year! Crazy!

She was pretty excited about using the cream cow this morning and picked one that we recently got from Andy and Elizabeth. I think the cream cow count might be somewhere around 30 now- which I find ridiculously cool. And you know she’s just pouring that milk for show. This girl hardly ever drinks milk, unless she needs a cup to dip her cookie in. Shortly after she got a glass of water:)

The simple joys in life.

What a shocker…she asked for crepes. I don’t even know why I bother asking my kids what they want for their birthday breakfast anymore, they seem to always request crepes.

Who can resist something with real whipping cream, I cant.

Marlee has yet to master how to eat a crepe without making a mess…

 

After church we had Andy’s family over for dinner. Marlee chose cucumbers and rice for her birthday dinner- seriously. So I made a meal that we all love with rice, adabada (pork tacos) and threw in a side of cucumbers.

Andy made some awesome fruit juice-pop stuff, it was amazing

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Marlee and Josiah are so cute.

Marlee got sung Happy Birthday over the phone by my parents and loved it.

I didn’t bake any cake for this birthday. For preschool you can only take store bought treats. For her party yesterday we got a Costco cake and today’s cake was a free offer from Bashas. Sweet deal for me since I don’t love cooking when I’m pregnant. And Marlee could care less as long as it is a pink cake:)

She opened gifts from us and her grandparents today.

She got coloring stuff and clothes.

When I found these princess lip glosses with glittery caps and a tin case I couldn’t resist. It’s funny how before I had a girl I thought this stuff was lame, but now I love it because I know how much she will love it.

I think it’s funny that I can get her underwear as a gift and she couldn’t be happier. I guess anything with princesses on it are awesome.

magnetic dolls

My mom made her some cute dress ups. Which I forgot to take a picture of, but I’m sure you’ll see photos of her wearing them later. She sewed an orange dress with beads- Indian style and she also made her a dress and one just like it for her little doll.

Grandma Lucy sent her a box with lots of goodies. Marlee loved how many fun things were in it.  She was so excited as she pulled out each item.

 

5 Things I love about Marlee:

1- Her laugh

2- She’s girly, yet tough

3- Her facial expressions and hand motions when she talks

4- Her desire to learn

5- Her love of going to church and watching Bible movies

Yes, I took a picture during church

I look over during sacrament meeting to see this sweet scene- Clayton holding Marlee in his lap. He is such a good big brother. I had to take a picture to capture that my kids actually have times where they get along:)

Marlee’s pre-birthday

Marlee’s 5th birthday is tomorrow, on Sunday, so we did a lot of the celebrating today.

She went on the traditional birthday lunch with Dad. She chose McDonalds (no surprise there) and I’m pretty sure she doesn’t even care about the food, she pretty much just wants the toy that comes in the happy meal.

This girl loves her daddy.

 

We had a birthday party for her at the park with some of her church and preschool friends.

They rode bikes and played on the playground. 

We had Costco sheet cake and ice cream.

love her smile

Blowing out the candles…

pinata time

present time

Marlee got some fun gifts, I have a feeling she’ll have plenty to keep her busy.

growing creatures

The kids got these Magic grow water creatures in their stockings.

You just put them in water and they grow and grow.

They grew pretty big.

Friday fun night

Friday always seems to be a fun night. I think we are all just excited that school’s out for the weekend and we don’t have to follow much of a schedule for a couple days.

Tonight we got pizza and chicken for dinner and watched a movie.

We moved the TV into our room because we got sick of it on too much and it totally worked. We all piled into Laun and I’s queen size bed to watch the movie. I think we need to get a CA King size bed when we move, especially since we will have another child soon!

my shopping buddy

Marlee and I went on a Costco run today. I think she loves that place as much as I do. She likes all the samples and the food court. And she especially liked that we picked up a birthday cake for her party tomorrow. Today she asked for her own frozen yogurt, so we got two, one for both of us. That was a bad idea. She ate a small amount and then handed it over to me. Ugh- I knew we should have just shared one. That girls eyes are bigger than her stomach.