Heidi's Easter Egg Face paint

Heidi loves to have her face painted. She will stand in line forever if she has to just to get her face painted. So when we were at Michaels craft store and there was a face painting kit, I couldn't resist buying it. So now she can have her face painted all she wants. This day, picture below, Naomi started by painting a bunny nose that turned into an easter egg. Heidi was so happy to have her whole face covered, pretty or not.

Being a MOM!!! 1st edition

So I was trying to get ready to go on a date with Ryan, my husband, tonight when my baby would not stop crying. It started when I got in the shower. I put her on the rug in my bathroom with toys, she cried. I held her, she stopped crying, but then I had one arm to do my hair and make-up. I put her down again, she cried. So I got the sling from my car, put her in it, tucked in snug, but she kept leaning forward trying to get my make-up off the counter in front of us. Then I tried to lean toward the mirror to do my mascara and she was leaning so far forward she could grab the faucet, and almost fell out. So I stood up frustrated. I would have taken a picture to share cause I found it so funny that all day I was GIVING to everyone else. When I finally tried to spend 20 minutes on myself, I had to contend with a baby strapped to me. I thought, a husband never has to do this. Ryan was exercising in the family room, by himself mind you. No children climbing on him. No stroller to push with a 4 year old bugging a 7 month old. No kids to sign in at the gym when he wants to have time to work out by himself. No, he doesn't have to worry about children when he wants to do something for himself, let alone get ready for a date. What I'm trying to say is: Why is it that a mother has to always make life easier for her children, but they make it harder for her? This says it all about my day today.

I can't complain though cause I am so blessed...

Ryan and I went to Old Town Pasadena on our date. We had dinner then strolled into the Mac store. We walked in to look at ipads and walked out with a new mac book for me. Hallelujah! I'm switching over from a 6 year old PC to a mac. I'm so excited!!!

December Cookie Decorating party with our Friends

Camille Gutierrez, Heidi, Allison Menlove, and Naomi with thier cookies and gingerbread houses.

Thanksgiving 2010!

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert 2010

Ryan, his brother Chris, his wife Caroline and I were fortunate to have tickets to the motab Christmas Concert. Tickets came in my name out of the blue in the mail one day. I asked around to see if anyone had sent my name in somehow, but no one seemed to have a hand in these tickets coming to me. So we made plans to go either way and just before we left, Barbara, Ryan's mom heard us talking about the tickets and confessed that she had submitted our name. She forgot to tell us...

As you can see, we took Chris and Caroline. It was my first time in the Conference Center and I was amazed at how many people they can seat and keep organized in this huge building. And the structure and design of the balconies is so amazing, hard to fathom how they were possibly constructed.

David Archuleta was the main singer along side the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He was amazing. Of course all the young girls screamed when he walked on stage, even though he was the size of an ant to most everyone in the audience. But there were two jumbo trons that showed an up close picture of him as he sang. It was a fun night to get into the Christmas spirit.

"Be Nice to Your Husband Month"

I recieved this email from my dear friend Melissa Ingram. She thinks of amazing things such as below. I adore her. She adores her husband. She is an amazing mom to 4 girls. And she inspires me to be better, always. I hope we can all follow her suggestion this month.

Jan 31, 2011 08:26:02 AM, ingram_melissagail@yahoo.com wrote:
Good morning ladies! I've been thinking about something for a couple of days that I want to share with you. I am officially starting "Be Nice To Your Husband Month"! Every day this month, I'm going to to do something thoughtful for my husband. I wanted to invite you to join me. I started today with taking out the trash before he could get to it. Here are just a handful of ideas; tell him how glad you are that you married him, try out a recipe that you know he'd love (I'll be attempting authentic mole at some point), leaving a special note in his car, plan a special date, plan a "guys night" for him & his friends, write a mushy, gushy love letter. The options are endless & can fit into anyone's busy, tired, sicky kids life. Think of things that would be special to your husband. Give it a shot, I'm sure we'll see some great results. I'm sending this to most women in my contact list, pass it on to anyone you want. I might post my progress on f.b.. I would love to know your ideas. Have fun ladies ;)!!!
Melissa
p.s. I'm not telling Ricky...less pressure for me if he doesn't expect it :)

Christmas Nativity with the Worsley Family

Naomi, Heidi and Audrey in our home in California.


Grandma and Grandpa with all their grandkids. Minus Austin Rich who is serving a mission in Accra, Ghana. And Naomi is missing but we didn't realize it till my mom wanted to send this picture as a Christmas card picture and my sister Jenn pointed out that not all 24 grandkids were there. I don't know where she was cause I took the picture and should have noticed that she wasn't there. Oh well!
It took four pictures to get Quinn and Lincoln to both smile and not make a goofy face.


Naomi was Mary and Audrey was baby Jesus.
Heidi was an Angel, in costume, not literally! Ha Ha!

Ellie, Naomi, Carson, Mathew, Kennedy, Gabriella, Avery
Audrey, Lincoln, Philip, Thomas, and Heidi.

Philip Bandley as a wise man. Naomi loved that she got to sit and hold Audrey with out me telling her to not jossle her around.