A day early...

I'm doing this a day early cause I'm just so excited!!!! March is such a great month. Spring is here... It's getting warmer outside... The easter candy :) Ry bought seven bags of Cadbury eggs the purple bag) and we can't even eat them it was really cute. He said, " these are special K Mandi we aren't sharing these with anyone k as he put them in the cart. It made me Smile... But the number one reason I love this month is because of my sweetheart it's our Anniversary month big # 3 this year and it's his birthday month. I already got him one of his presents and I am so excited and he has no clue what it is. he'll probably read this and come and ask me what it is. but I'm not telling. I love birthdays and he is a lucky guy to be born on March Seventeenth. Lucky Lucky Lucky
Happy March everyone

V day

So about two weeks before valentines day Ry came home and was so excited to show me something. Oaks and I were already in the car ready to head out to some adventure and i was a little stressed but he was so excited. He told me to close my eyes so I did. He ran something inside and then came out to get me. This is what I found...



I was super excited... He was even more excited telling me all about it and how long he had planned on getting it... Then he said Happy Valentines Day... And how selfish am I really my initial thought was it's not valentines Day... That better not be it... I feel like a terrible person... He put so much effort into it all... I told him thank you so much and we left... I still was feeling stressed and frustrated that he was late again making a living for a family ( disappointed with myself again) I started to yell at him.. Why? Why do I yell at the man that I love the most in this world... I have so much to work on... I need to humble myself and stop getting so frustrated so easily and so quickly... I have really been working on this lately. I pray for patience. I pray that I am enjoyable to be around. I pray that I don't push away those that I love...
So note to my sweet husband who tries so hard and who probably gets discouraged thinking he can never do anything right and that I don't notice when you do help. I notice your every move the little things you do for our family. When I come home and the floor is vaccumed, when you read to Oak, when you come up behind me when I'm cooking and you hug and kiss me, when you know I am stressed or bugged about something you give me the little hand squeaze, when you empty the dishwasher, the trash, make our bed. When you make me laugh... Oh I love to laugh with you... It's the best. I notice the things you do for me. I'm sorry I get selfish and think of just me... you are so giving and work so hard... Thank you sweetie. I love you... I'm working on me everyday... My dad for valentines day got me the book The Peace giver and it is such a good book I recommend it to all I'm about a third of the way through the book and I am learning so much already.



Oaks got the cutest present from Mee Ma (grandma Ward)

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She got this cute dog and pants and shirt. She gave me the coolest cupcake cookbook I made the frosting for the valentines cookies from it and I love it. i look forward to the times I can make more cupcakes. Thanks mom for getting us stuff for love day. So sweet of her.

Ry and I got Oak the little pig pet shop and a brownie and a Princess wand.


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I just got Ry some little things, transformers 2, a card, smoothie V8, fiber bars which he loves.

We were up north for Valentines it was a long ride home that day Oaks was frustrated and wanted to get out of her car seat the whole time... Ry and I were fighting over something so silly I can't even remember what it was but I selfishly brought up that he missed yet another holiday when he really didn't he had done it already two weeks earlier. (mand you selfish turd)
i got home and found these in Oaks crib









So cute... right?
I love this man I am a brat to him and yet he still loves me and can say all those nice things about me. I have truly been humbled this Love day. Thanks Ry for making and effort to make me feel special even if I'm a stinker...

The little things she does...

So tonight I had Oaks in the tub and she was drinking the water and I told her please don't do that... Then I told her, "Ok it time to wash your body." She stuck her hand out ready for the soap. i put some in her hand and she has never done this before but she went to put it in her mouth. Quickly she realized that was a bad idea it tasted awful you could tell. She the picked up the cup again and started to drink. Then started to choke. (when she chokes on food or drink I always grab one arm and raise it in the air) well she took a drink of the tub water and then raised her own hand. It was so stinkin cute. She quickly recovered and went back to playing in the water. It's amazing how much she picks up on... It makes me want to be a good person because I know she is watching my every move...

Sidenote: I have been looking at bedding for our room and kind find exactly what I want. So far I like Anthropologie bedding but it's pretty expensive... Any ideas? Secret web finds that rock for this kind of stuff...



I actually have been making a quilt for sometime now but I just don't love it yet. I love what I see in my head but when I put it together it just looks wrong the idea is so cool my inspiration is... This knob I love it!!!
and the quilt is very similar I just want it to all come together...
Big problem I don't quilt.....

Family Home Evening!!!

We have been trying harder to have FHE each Monday night and the last two weeks have been so fun. Last week I surprised Oaks and Ryan and went to Walmart and bought a fire pit and hot dogs and firewood( from maverick don't buy it there it's all wet and it wouldn't burn very good) but came home put it all together really quickly I had to tell ry though sooner cause I needed his help putting it together and then we had roasted marshmallows and sat by the fire. Oak loved it!!!!! It will def. be something we will do lots...

This weeks family home evening was making sugar cookies for family for Valentines Day. A day late but it was fun to make them Oak was a great helper...
She was so cute when she would push the cookie cutter in she would shake cause she was pushing so hard. It was really sweet. THen she kept eating the cookie dough. She used the rolling pin and everything. Good job oak!!!! Ry was very helpful too... So stinkin cute. My mom gave me this cupcake cookbook for Valentines so I decided to use that to make the frosting but you have to hold your bowl over the stove while you make it and Ry was sweet enough to hold the bowl while I mixed for NINE MINUTES and what he failed to tell me is it was burning his hands the whole time. Thanks trooper Ry for helping me it turned out really yummy and the cookies were good.
Now today oak and I will deliver the Cookies FUN!!!

Happy Love Month!!!

Gosh so much for keeping up on the posts. I got sick there and then didn't blog for a minute but I have a lot to catch up on so today is the day. It is the first today of Feb. crazy!!!! I love this month it's a short one:) and it's all about love... I don't really love this holiday but I love the decor and colors and I love getting stuff for Ry and now Oak too. It's just fun excuse to make Ry a cute dinner, to eat chocolate and conversation hearts, to get oaks a stuffed animal. This year Ry got me something already he couldn't wait he was to excited!!! It was so darn cute I'll post what it was a little later today and what I made with it:)