More Pictures

There are some of my favorites. We have a whole bunch of them. I don't know why it took me so long to get some pictures taken. I think we will be doing it more often from now on. 

Mary gave herself a hair cut about a week before the pictures were scheduled. I took her to get it fixed, they did the best they could do. I just keep telling myself that it could have been worse. I'll just make sure that I hide all scissors in the house the next time I plan on family pictures.

 

Family Pictures

We got some family pictures taken for the first time ever. Here are some and I'll post some more later. My friend took them for us. She does a great job. Here is her website if any needs a photographer: www.delightful-depitions.com.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving weekend was filled with surprises this year. On Wednesday, I had an unexpected day off from work. My friends from "the good old days" came over for a last minute get-together. It's always refreshing to see friends and catch up.

Thanksgiving Day was nice. I went to my grandparent's house for dinner. All of my siblings were there. It's been about a year since we have all been together at the same time.
This is my sister Karen and her fiance Terry with Shannon (Stephen's girlfriend) in the background.






Friday was another unexpected day off from work. My girls and I stayed home all day and got caught up on some house work.

Saturday was exciting because Ben came home from working out of town for 5 weeks straight.

Sunday was fun. We had lunch at Ben's mom's house. Then, we took the girls the movie theatre to see Bolt. After that, we had dinner at my dad's house.

All in all a very nice few days off.

4-4-4 Tag, I'm It!

I've been tagged, (thanks Jesse)I'm supposed to post the 4th picture in my 4th file of pictures:
This was taken this last summer when the girls and I went to a baseball game. (I am trying really hard to think of the baseball team in Salt Lake and am drawing a blank, but I think it has a letter "z" in the name somewhere.) My dad and step-mom bought us tickets and we took some pictures outside the stadium waiting for them to come. This picture just happened to be the funny face one.

Now, I'm supposed to tag 4 people: Laura, Julie, Emily and Stacie.

Fall and Halloween

Halloween this year was fun. The girls were old enough to trick-or-treat without me holding their hands. We made it to all the houses in our neighborhood before Sara got tired.

Mary dressed up like a cheerleader and Sara was Snow White. I just used Halloween as an excuse to put make-up all over my face.
We don't have any trees in our yard, but the girls wanted to play in some leaves. So we got out our rake and went to the park. We made piles and jumped in. The girls had tons. I loved it because I didn't have to clean up the leaves when we were done.
The weather has been so nice. The girls have still been wearing flip-flops most of the time. And on Halloween they didn't even need jackets. I was all bundled up because I'm a crybaby when it comes to cold weather, but even I didn't complain once. It was awesome.

Pictures of summer

I finally downloaded some pictures from summer.

In August Ben's sister's boyfriend put together a "prom" for her because she never went in high school. It was pretty fun, this is Ben's brother Andrew and his date, my sister Michelle.
This is us at the prom, it was at Ben's parent's house.

These are some pictures of our Park City trip, the funnest part was visiting with my cousin and his family. They took us on a hike and made us dinner.

These are from Bear Lake. The girls loved the sand and the water.

My Website

I need everyone to visit my website at happydaychildcarecenter.com and let me know what you think. I couldn't find any kind of spell check while I was typing everything on it, so if you could please let me know if you find any spelling or gramatical or puntuation errors, that would help me out alot. I personally think I did a good job, but I know there is room for improvement so let me know what you think.

Thank you.

PS I have found my camera and will be post pictures within the next week or so!

Updates

I have been meaning to update for a while now, I just get so busy and I lost my camera. So here is an update with no pictures. I will be cleaning my house soon and I'm sure it'll show up, then I will post pictures.

This summer has been full of fun. Our trip to park city was nice and relaxing. We rented a condo for a few nights and stayed in and watched TV and took naps and went swimming in the pool at the condo. We also had dinner at my cousin's house. It was nice to see him and his family and his new house. THANKS SCOTT AND JAN.

We also went camping quite a few times. Once at Bear Lake which was awesome, and a few other times up in the hills past Cedar Fort.

We also had lots of birthdays in the last couple of months. Mary turned 4 and we had a big family party for her at our house. It was fun and she got too many presents. Sara turned 3 a few weeks later and because I didn't want to stress about hosting another big party we took her to the Mayan for dinner and then to the mall. She had fun and I didn't have to clean up a big mess. Ben turned 30 so we had some friends over to celebrate. It was fun.

Another highlight of the last few weeks is the arrival of my piano. It was my grandma's and my aunt had it at her house. When my grandma passed away my aunt offered it to me and I gladly accepted. I've had it for 2 weeks now and have played it everyday. It may take me a few years, but some day I'm going to be able to call myself a piano player.

Other than that, not much happening. Ben is out of town until Christmas and the daycare is going strong. The girls have been healthy and happy and everything is great. I'll post pictures when I find my camera.

I've been tagged

Three Joys
1. My family- being a wife and a mom is way more awesome than I ever expected.
2. My career- I love hanging out with kids all day. For the first time in my life I look forward to working everyday.
3. My violin- I'm not very good, or even getting any better, but I love to play.

Three Fears
1. Ben going insane.
2. Making phone calls.
3. I believe "There is nothing to fear but fear itself."

Current Obsessions
1. Child Care- I've been taking a lot of classes and find the subject very interesting.
2. Video Games- mostly Rock Band and Guitar Hero. I would play more if I had more time.
3. Food- I've been trying really hard to improve the quality of food I feed my family and daycare kids.

Three Facts
1. I've had both my babies at home on purpose.
2. I've never broken any bones.
3. When I grow up I want to be a ballerina.

Now I'm supposed to tag 5 other people:
1. Stacie
2. Diana
3. Brandis
4. Laura
5. Jodi

Pony Express Days and Camping

I know I haven't posted in a while, but all is well in the Watt home. We have been busy. Here are some pictures of our most recent adventures. Last weekend we went camping. The girls had a blast. We just went up in the hills not to far from us, so there were no toilets or running water. Mary and Sara thought it was cool that they got to pee in the bushes. I was not so excited by it, but we had a great time.

The weekend before that we had Pony Express Days in Eagle Mountain. It's great because there is a carnival for three days in the park behind our house. The girls loved going over like ten times a day to ride rides, eat cotton candy and snow cones, and get free balloons from the booths. We also went to a movie in the park, which was really cold, but also a lot of fun.

This next week we are going to Park City for a little vacation. It worked out that I don't have any daycare kids for a few days so we are taking advantage of the free time to get away. I'm sure there will be pictures to post when we get back.

Pictures

Here are some pictures. More coming soon.

We had just gotten a bag of hand-me-downs from the neighbors, the girls were trying on some of their new clothes. I don't know why they think that when I tell them to "smile" it means that they should make a funny face.

I don't have any pictures, but I haven't posted anything in a long while. There isn't really anything new and exciting going on lately. Daycare is going great, I've been at full capacity since January. I have to renew my state license in a couple of months which means I've been going strong for almost two years now! I can't believe how fast time flies.

Mary and Sara are doing great and growing up way to fast. I can't believe Mary will start kindergarten in a year. She could start preschool this year, but I don't know how I'll manage to transport her with all the daycare kids, so she will probably miss out on that experience, but I think she will be fine. We do plenty of preschool activities with the daycare and she makes friends easily, so I'm not worried too much. Sara is all potty trained now and thinks she is such a big girl. She is in an independent stage and won't let me help her with anything, until she gets tired and then she needs help with everything. I love my girls.

Ben is still just working hard, luckily he doesn't have to go out of town so often anymore. He is working in New Mexico now , but he should be home in a couple of weeks and then stays home all summer.

I'll go take some pictures and post again when something exciting happens.

SCATTERGORIES

SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks! Copy and paste onto your blog. *Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following... *they have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. (WHICH BY THE WAY IS HARD IF YOU ALREADY READ THEIR ANSWERS) You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl.
1. What is your name? Wendy
2. 4 letter word: well
3. Vehicle: wagon
4. City: Wellsville
5. Boy Name: William
6. Girl Name: Wilma
7. Alcoholic drink: wine
8. Occupation: waitress
9. Something you wear: wrist bands
10. Celebrity: Will Ferrell
11. Food: watermelon
12. Something found in a bathroom: water.
13. Reason for Being Late: watch is broken
14. Cartoon Character: Woody Woodpecker
15. Something you shout: WATCH OUT!
16. Animal: water buffalo
17. Body part: wrist
18. Word to describe you: watchful

Christmas

Here are some pictures taken a few days before Christmas. I didn't take any pictures of Christmas day or any Christmas parties because I am a bad mom.

We had a good Christmas, the girls got lots of toys, Mary's favorite were the new clothes and Sara's favorite was the candy canes. Ben and I got the video game Rock Band for Christmas, we didn't wait for Christmas to open it though, we opened it a few weeks early, but we're mature adults so we can open our presents whenever we want.

The downside of Christmas was the sudden passing of my Grandma (Robertson) Jackson. She had a brain aneurysm that took her life Christmas morning. It was quite a shock because she was in good health and I thought she would live forever. She was a great example of hard work and service and lived a life full of love and laughter. I look forward to the day when I will see her again.