Messy Maddie

Madilyn is so cute! I was so tired after the primary activity on Saturday that Daddy was incharge of feeding Maddie. He did feed her some noodles and then she got a special treat of Nutella on bread for dessert. She was so excited and absolutely loved it! It was so cute she just shoved it into her face. I can't wait for her 1st birthday in a just a couple weeks!



Here are some fun pictures! She is just too cute!

Swimming in the bathtub

For Valentine's Day at the Wright house the Valentine's Man comes. He has a few small gifts and treats he leaves at the doorstep for the kids. On Valentine's afternoon we heard a quick knock at the door and we ran out to see that the Valentine's Man had left a swimming suit for each of the girls and a few little treats! It was so fun! The girls were so excited. They instantly put on their swimming suits and had them on all day until bedtime. This morning when they woke up they wanted to go swimming so I told them they could go swimming in the bathtub. Here are some cute pictures of the girls! They love their new swimming suits.

All three girls...man it is hard to get them all to smile at the same time!

Katelyn being silly

Mayli always has a big cheese!

Madilyn she is getting so big!

My Husband Rocks!

Since I started this blog I've had issues with the date posting on my posts! But if you look at the top of my posts...it finally works! I apparently had a corrupted template. I found a blog that said how I could fix it...I tried myself...it was a little too technical for me. I asked Mike to help me and within seconds he fixed it! He is so smart! Now the date posts! :) Yay for my hubby!

The Errand of Angels

Saturday was such a great day! I had the opportunity to go to our Stake Women's Conference. This is one of my most favorite things each year! It is so uplifting and so much fun! We meet at 9 am and have classes until 12:45pm then we have an awesome luncheon with cutely decorated tables. This year's theme was 'The Errand of Angels". I learned some great things.

We first heard how they came up with the theme for this year. A member of the Stake Relief Society presidency was driving into the beautiful valley we live in. It was evening time and as she was driving down the hill she noticed all the little lights on in the houses. She thought to herself...I wonder what everyone is doing? And she thought about the mothers who were cooking dinner, changing diapers, cleaning the house, reading to her children, helping a neighbor in need, and so many more things. And then she thought these women where all these lights are, are being angels. Those lights represented a valley full of angels.

We then heard from the Stake Relief Society president and she talked about the theme. One of my favorite quotes she quoted was "Those who scatter sunshine to others cannot keep it from themselves." She talked about speaking softly and kindly to our children and husbands and by doing this we can change the attitude of everyone in our home. She talked about listening to the spirit and doing it right away when the prompting comes. Because the Lord is asking you to be an instrument in His hands and needs you to do this thing right away.

We then separated into classes. My first class was awesome! It was about serving the Lord. The teacher talked about how we need to do everything we do for our Heavenly Father. She told a story about how she has been working on doing everything she does for our Heavenly Father. When she cooks dinner she asks the Lord what should I make for dinner tonight. One particular night she asked and felt like she should make broccoli and cheese soup. So she made it when 5 of her 6 children got home they started complaining about the dinner. Saying things like, "yuck Mom, not broccoli and cheese soup, I hate that." And other complaints that are similar. She just smiled and thought to herself. Thats ok I didn't make it for you I made it for the Lord. Her 6th child (her 9 year-old daughter) returned home from an activity and they sat down for dinner. Her 9 year-old looked sad as they sat down. They said the prayer and as they were praying her 9 year-old began to cry. When they were finished her mom looked at her and asked what was wrong. She said, "Mom I've had a really bad day, but broccoli and cheese soup is my favorite, so thank you for making this for me Mom it's made my day better." Her mom didn't know that she was having a really bad day and didn't know that broccoli and cheese soup would make her feel better but Heavenly Father did know and because this women was focused on the Lord, He was able to use her as an angel to make her 9 year-old feel better. I was so touched by this story.

The next class we went to the teacher talked about a demonstration this lady does at conferences she talks at. She gets a volunteer to hold up a picture of Christ and asks everyone to focus on Him for just 15 seconds. She then grabs a stuffed monkey out of her bag, she pushes a button and the monkey starts screaming and she throws it into the crowd. How many people do you think were still looking at the picture of Christ? Our teacher then asked us to think about what our 'flying monkeys' are in our lives. What are we doing that distracts us from focusing on our Savior?

The next class we talked about visiting teaching and how important it is for us to visit our sisters. It was very motivating.

Next we had President Draper speak to us. He gave us some awesome statistics for our Stake...we have:

• 1,381 women ages 18+
  
• 1,534 children ages 3-11 (220 of those are in our ward)
  
• 540 children ages 0-3
  
• 275 young men ages 12-18
  
• 251 young women ages 12-18
  
• 110 missionaries will be serving in our stake by the end of the year
  
• If our stake does not change and we do not spilt in 2 years we would have 400 missionaries serving from our stake

He urged us to say 1 prayer a day just expressing gratitude to our Father in Heaven. He also asked us to try to find a few minutes a day to sit and ponder who we really are. President Draper told us to remember that we are all children of God, He is our father in heaven and He knows our name and knows our trials and pains. Just think about it...think about how much you love your children. The love that our Father in Heaven has for us is even stronger than that! Isn't that amazing! He will not forget us and when we are going through a tough time that is when the Savior is there with us the most. Just as us parents see our children struggle and we can't always help them because they have to learn. We too have to struggle and have trials to learn and our Father in Heaven gave the greatest sacrifice His son, so we will be able to have someone who has felt what we are feeling so we can make it through our trials. It was so uplifting. I love being able to be uplifted and have a great time with all my friends. I love the luncheon part! It's awesome! This year I signed up to decorate a table. This is what mine looked like. (Thanks mom for the helpful ideas!)

Mike wrote the chinese charaters for me. :) What a great husband. One of the best things was that when I came home Mike had the whole house clean. When I got home he was on his hands and knees mopping the floor. He is so good to me! :)

Curly Hair

Today when I got Madilyn out of the bathtub her hair was so curly. I decided to put some gel in it and see if it would stay curly. It's so cute! My girls always have a little curl in their hair but seem to lose it after their 1st hair cut. I had to take some pictures and post them up! She is so cute! It was hard to get a smiling picture...cuz she won't stop moving for a second. She is so fun!

She has also started really loving her binkies all of the sudden too...which is really nice when she is fussy! Finally a binkie baby...no thumb sucking! Yay!

My Beautiful Kids

I got tagged & I thought this one was cute.
-Share 5 things about your children & then 10 "I love you ..... "

Katelyn Marie

~Is kind
~Is caring

~Is obedient

~Loves to learn

~Loves life

1-I love when you talk to me about your day and tell me stories
2-I love that you love the gospel

3-I love how you take care of your sisters

4-I love how you get so excited to go to school

5-I love your laugh

6-I love that you still like to cuddle with me

7-I love the way you use your imagination

8-I love how silly you are

9-I love what a great helper you are

10-I love your drawings and that you love to draw

Mayli Elizabeth

~Loves to dance

~Loves to sing

~Independent

~Very giving

~Loves to learn

1-I love to watch you dance

2-I love when you sing

3-I love when you have your blanket and suck your thumb

4-I love how you care for others

5-I love to watch you play with toys

6-I love how you are always making sure everyone is choosing the right

7-I love how you love the scriptures

8-I love your smile

9-I love that you make me laugh

10-I love to make projects with you and love that you like to make them with me

Madilyn Faye

~Loves to dance

~Loves to talk

~Loves to discover

~Has beautiful big eyes

~Crawling all over the place

1-I love how your cross your legs when you read a book
2-I love how you squint your eyes when you say hi to someone

3-I love how you sit and play with your toys

4-I love how you get so excited when it's time to eat

5-I love how you bounce and dance all the time

6-I love when you get in the bath and kick your feet back and forth

7-I love how you say Mama

8-I love when you lay your head on my shoulder

9-I love your smile

10-I love your big beautiful eyes

I'm tagging anyone who wants to blog about their kids!

Good morning.....what the heck happened?

When Mike went out to go to work this morning this is what we found......

Who know's what happened. We ended up having to file a police report with the sheriff's office for our insurance company. At least it wasn't snowing today! :) After being on the phone all morning and 9 hours later.....

It's all fixed and....

The glass installer even vaccumed it out for me! :) So we are good to go! Yipee!