Skipping Skilz

Art Area

Here is todays project. This is "Molly's Office" as she calls it. She has been busy cutting paper in to tiny little pieces, drawing and playing with beads. The red square on the wall is a little chalkboard sticker. The other side is an oil drip pan I bought at Walmart and put it up on the wall so Molly can hang her art work there and play with magnets. She loves magnets! The white shelves are full of paper, scissors, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, glue, beads crayons, stickers and random stuff she can craft with.

So far it has been a big hit. She loves that it is her own little space and that she can play with it at any time. I love that it is organized and not on my kitchen table. Stay tuned for amazing works of art that will come from this little space. Who are we kidding...stay tuned for lots and lots of little pieces of cut up paper. Thats Molly's specialty!

Time for an update!

It has been a while since we have posted anything. We have had a lot going on in the past month, but no pictures to show for it.

On New Years eve we moved from West Lafayette to the Indianapolis area for Nathan to start his new job.

We are happy to be staying in Indiana. If you had asked me a few years ago if I would have wanted to stay, my answer would have been an absolute, "NO!", but Indiana has really grown on me and I was really excited to be able to stay here. I am also excited to be close to my friends in West Lafayette. There are some amazing women there that I am glad I can live semi close to.

Molly has been busy trying on every head band she owns, practicing gymnastics, growing taller, singing and running around the house. She really misses her old friends, but she has LOVED moving up to the sunbeams class at church and is making new friends there. She is pretty desperate for playmates. She invited the grocery store clerk to come play at our house and a little girl she met at the mall. She is a fun little girl and I am grateful for her.

More to come. Be patient with us. We will try and get a tour of our house up here soon.

Happy Anniversary!

5 Years down and many more to come!

Another singing video

This video just captures Molly in so many ways. She loves to sing and dance and what may seem like a random head stand in the middle of the song is pretty common in our house.

Good Ship lollipop

I have had a really hard time getting this video from Halloween up, but I finally got it.

Grana made the adorable Shirley Temple dress for Molly. I LOVE the costumes she makes. 

Warning: This is pretty much a video for Grand Parents.

The Proposal

As I posted before, our five year anniversary is coming up so I am trying to write down our courtship and engagement before I forget and it's too late!

Nathan took me to the gardens at BYU and as we walked up the switch backs he would stop, pull out a rose and tell me how the color of that particular rose pertained to our relationship. For example, one of the roses was yellow which stands for friendship he told me I was his best friend. It was a very thought out, sweet way to propose. It all seemed so surreal. I loved it!

Back at my apartment with all of my roses.

Because we were dating long distance and we had already decided to get married, I knew when he was proposing and later that day we went and took our engagement pictures. I know, weird.