sleeping arrangements

above:  anna sneaking upstairs after we put her to bed.  look how "innocent".  she's like cindy loo who.  "can i have a drink of water?"

 After we went back down she was sleeping in the hall.  next the box of stuff that i dont know what to do with.  i was nervous to leave it in the storage unit b/c it has oil in it.

 julia is sleeping in the bathroom.  we started her out in our room.  NO GO she knows we are there and yelps for us all night.  then we moved her upstairs across from my mom's room.  NO GO.  julia has a bad habit of waking up at 3 or 4 am for a snack.  i just let her cry.  my mom wont do that.  so to stop my mom from bringing her to me I put her in the family room.  Too cold.  she kept waking up.  so next stop was bathroom.  she sleeps great there.

 the stuffed animal line up.  one baby in bed and 3 others on top.  not sure what anna was thinking.

 grandma telling anna secrets (go to bed anna)

 julia loves grandpa.  loves loves loves him.  anna, not so much.

 julias favorite toy.

 look mom, a spoon!

i took some valentines photos today.  i love this one.  julias thinking - what the what?!

organizing and running

 

 My mom's house is CRAFT zilla, she's got more doodads than Joanns.  Anna found these gems sunday and decorated Richards face.  Doesn't he look cute?  Actually I think creepy is the word.  But there was a lot of laughing while this was going down.  So that was sunday, we drove around sunday looking for areas where we want to live.  I don't hink I like taylorsville or S. Jordan.  I just loved sherwood so much, nothing compares.  Even to the sketchy side of sherwood we lived on.

So now it's Monday and I'm feeling better.  Anna's feeling better.  Julia's feeling better.  It's so nice to feel good enough to function.  Sooo today we got a lot accomplished.  We did yoga in the morning, then cleaned the bathrooms and did my moms laundry, then we played the piano and sang disney songs.  Anna loves to sing along to Colors of the Wind and Bippity Boppity Boo.  When julia went down for her nap we cleaned out my mom's deep freeze.  That was intense.  There's a lot of stuff in there for me to cook, but it wasn't in bad shape like the storage room was.  Then we organized her tupperware.  It was intense.  Really intense.  I tossed a whole big huge bag full of tupperware lids and bases without lids.  Anna enjoyed the game of sorting the lids into shapes (circles and squares) and making towers out of the tupperware that did have lids.  oye.  Tupperware.

 julia is playing the tupperware drum.  she loves drumming.

 After tupperware, reading about 10 books, bundling up both girls and getting more books for the stroller ride, we headed out for a run.

 this is on our run, they both fell asleep.  how nice.  no fighting.

 lots of snow.  lots of hills.  i barely made it up this one.

 if you look really close you can see the temple in middle of the picture, where teh sidewalk ends.  You can see out over the whole valley from up here. 

 i ran into some snowy sidewalks, but it was nothing the Burley couldn't handle.  I love that thing.

We made it to the temple!  Such a beautiful sunny day.  I didn't realize how much I do enjoy the sun.  And how much I miss the green....and my running route in sherwood.  But this route is my favorite route in the whole world.  I know I'm crazy.  I love places for the running.  Logan really was best, but you probably can't run on the logan bluff trail since that landslide richard did his thesis on killed a few people a few years ago.  that was a horribly written sentence.  time to go to bed.

I hope there is fishing in heaven

My Grandpa Heiner was reunited with his loved ones in heaven this week on monday.  He lived in Bedford WY.  He was a tough guy, a true outdoorsman and someone I really looked up to.  I was terrified of him too though.  He's my dad's dad.  One of the truely amazing things about him is his posterity.  He has over 100 great grandchildren!!  wow!  So as you can imagine when we all get together it's a lot of people!

Anywas, since we are sick I tried to limit our exposure to the clan.  The viewing was friday night in Bedford, but we decided just to make it to the funeral saturday morning.  It is a four hour drive from Bountiful.  Because Taylor and Jill (my bro and sis) had school friday, they rode up with us (my mom and dad drove up friday).  It was a long, but wonderful day.  Full of lots of wrestling kids and trying to forget myself and think about my Grandpa.

 aunt virginia and andy stopped by on their way up to the viewing friday.  virginia read some books to chloe, remi and anna.  look at julia peeking in on the fun.

 then anna got chloe to read her some books.  anna is really missing her FRIENDS!

 chloe helped me mop moms floor.  she is always a big helper.

 we were going to walk to the temple friday night, but we only made it around the block.  the snow has already melted a lot.

 have you ever had to dig your mailbox out?

 taylor and i look a lot a like.

 richard, our trusty driver.

 the teenagers fell asleep.  you can see jill sleeping next to anna below.

 no sleep for anna.  Cinderalla cinderella.  shes probably watched this thing 20 times.

 bro bryan from denver.  with his daughter elizabeth.

 amy and 3 of her 4.  where is gavin?  also in background is my cousins husband richard.  she also has a daughter anna!  seems that i am a copy cat because she both married and had her baby before me (:

 line of siblings.

 virginia and oliver.  doesn't he look like a mini teenager.  oliver is not hers.  he is bryans.

 cousins kids looking at granpas memoirs.

 actually a scary pic of all 3 of us.

 oh julia you are a doll.

 headstone and casket.

 my dad's siblings.
eldee, mel, tedijean, jay, sheri, grandma, bart, my dad, nolan

 family prayer.  that was a squishy and hot room.  my dad said the prayer.

 look past rich and out the window.  is taht guy filling up his snowmobile at the local maverick gas station?  yes.  afton WY is a rugged place.

at the burial.  notice the bit of mountains in the background and the beautiful day for grandpa.

im exhausted.  that was a lot of driving for one day.  hopefully ill be able to post some of the things shared about grandpa tomorrow.

sick days

 i was upstairs trying to tame julia and came back down to find anna sleeping in a box.

 she was just pretending and got right back to watching barney when i tried to get a good pic.

 we love all grandmas toys! they make the quarantine more tolerable.

 julia likes to undo everything anna builds.  she is such a tease.

 we have been enjoying playing grandmas piano.  we love the primary songs.

 anna took all the blankets off all the beds and put them in the middle of the room for a good story time.

 these are our living quarters.  my parents have a tv in every room of the house.  for real.  even if it isn't plugged in.

 anna likes to wake up julia from her naps.  this is not a good thing.

julia and anna love grandmas doll house.