A Day in the life of Alianna

Our day usually starts with breakfast

Then we become princesses for a few minutes/hours...


Bedtime comes with some sweet cuddling and pillow talk on the couch


And then mom proceeds to check blogs..Speaking of ,There are some awesome giveaways out there. Make it and Love it has a new sponsor (She Makes Flowers) and is giving away a gift certificate for their adorable little girl dresses.And a story of a princess and her hair are giving away cute flower hair clips.

A sweet girl

I had the most amazing experience with Alianna a few days ago. I was having a bad day and eventually I just had to sit down and cry. Alianna ahd been roaming around as she normally does and noticed I was crying. She came over and held out her arms. I picked her up and she gave me the sweetest hug(head on shoulder, legs tucked around me as tight as possible). She pulled her head away and saw I was still crying, touched my cheek and hugged me again. Of course I cried harder then and the cycle repeated for about 10 minutes until I calmed down and she went back to running around. Now, for those of you who have not met our little sweetie, ArJay has affectionately taken to calling her monster because the child does not sit still and gets into EVERYTHING! I know it was a tender mercy that the Lord and Alianna knew what I needed and gave me comfort.

Kick in the pants!

Relief Society, or Enrichment or whatever it is called now was on keeping memories and I thought " oh crap something else I'm not doing well". I am HORRIBLE about journaling, scrapbooking, etc. Karla said that blooging is amazing because you can make books and I am starting to log stalk some websites, so I am really going to give it my best!( BTW Karla has the cutest blog all about optimistic obsessions and is giving away an adorable apron right now!)

We have had a crazy month. ArJay is finishing his first phase of FTO(Field Training) this week. I can't believe he graduated one month ago. He is loving it and is very proud of the 4 dead bodies(yuck!), double digits arrests, and numerous calls.

Alianna finally got tubes in her ears last wednesday( Arjay's b-day happy frieking b-day right?). She did really well, she flopped around for about 15 minutes after which really frieked out mommy (especially becasue she never really opened her eyes) but then went to sleep and woke up a couple of hours later just fine.

I am loving being a mom and trying to keep everyone happy, healthy and myself sane!