Ayla got a package from the mailman today....

And she seriously believes that it is FROM THE MAILMAN, like he brings her gifts when he comes. We do Gymboree orders online and other random things so it isn't odd for us to get packages in the mail. In her two year old mind though, they are from the mailman. It cracks me up. One day Ayla was carrying around a little Gymbo purse and my mom asked her where she got it "from the mailman".

Anyway, Grandma Carol sent a package from her recent trip to the Mall of America. Ayla got a super cute outfit from Hanna Andersson...I LOVE it! She also got a Dora, star shaped, snow globe type thing filled with water, glitter and stars. She LOVES the star. Today for her nap, she slept in her new outfit with her star!

Thanks Grandma Carol.

Another Ayla-ism

What am I going to do when this little girl turns 16....or even 6 for that matter.

Last night while I was mowing the lawn(something I discovered I LOVE to do last summer), Darren and Ayla ran to the store to get lawn bags. I was finished mowing when they returned and sitting out on the patio. Ayla comes walking up and climbs up on the chair next to me. She had a package of M&Ms in her hand. In the most matter of fact voice she says "I wanted a toy" The rest of our conversation was as follows.

Me - You did?
Ayla - Yeah, Daddy said no. I cried....threw a fit
Me - Oh no, why did you do that?
Ayla - I don't know, he got me M&Ms though.

Seriously. Seriously?? Oh, I think we're gonna be in trouble with this little lady.

New home for the Splonskowskis in 2009!

We have big news...we've purchased a lot out west, signed papers and dropped a deposit - we'll be moving to our new home in October/November time frame 2009!! We've been talking of taking the westward plunge for 18 months or so. My family is out there, many of our closest friends, our gym, church, Ayla's school - it only made sense. Not to mention, if we decide to do public schools rather than private, we wanted her in Millard.

The house is a ranch and we'll end up with about 3500 square feet of finished house. There are three bedrooms on the main floor and one in the basement. The basement will be finished and is a walkout. There are two gas fireplaces. Fun! We have a HUGE back yard that faces beautiful, mature trees that are just budding and a creek. Our lot is kind of pie shaped, it fans out in the back and the lot line actually goes down to the creek itself. We were there a couple of evenings ago and just standing on the lot could here frogs and crickets....we loved it! I can totally imagine sitting on the deck late at night, sipping camomile tea and just taking it all in. Sounds heavenly, huh?

There is a small lake that you can see part of from our lot(we aren't on the lake, it's across the street) that has a playground...Ayla's already been there to check it out and given her approval.

I even love the street lights!

This is the lot head on, it's basically a big hill for the walkout.

This is standing mid lot looking toward the back *lovin' the trees* The black 'fence' is up for consrtuction purposes.

Ayla loves her lot too, she asks to go there often

This is from the end of the culdesac. Ours is the obvious orange sold sign between the two light posts. We're the 5th lot from the corner(which you can't see but is to the left around the corner).

Here is the model. Ours will have stone that continues above the 2 stall garage area and also to the right, where the window is will be covered in stone as well. We've picked a different stone and house color from what is shown.

Now we have to sell our current home! Please pray for it to sell fairly quickly and for a good price!!! We'll be living with my parents until the new house is finished, if we have to move out before hand. YIKES! More yikes for them than us :)

Ayla-ism

Two year olds are funny. REALLY funny. Well, either that or I seriously need to be getting out more! Maybe a little of both!?!?

So...last week I was driving Ayla to school and she says out of nowhere "Mommmy, not call me Ayla anymore" What? So I repeated this to her "You don't want me to call you Ayla? What should I call you?"

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"Just call me sweetheart mommy"

Where does she come up with these things? She also calls Darren and I by our first names on a regular basis. At least a couple of times a day she'll call to me from another room "Jaaamiiiie" and she asked me last night when 'Darren' would be home from work.

Spring has SPRUNG.....finally

Our weather is warming...we're supposed to hit mid 80's this weekend!! I am excited beyond belief! Here are a few pics from our yard...

Easter

Okay, so I'm a tad delayed...you're getting used to it though, right?? Easter was F-U-N this year. Ayla was very excited about looking for eggs...not quite as excited as about the Easter Bunny himself though. We had another screaming/trying to escape the Easter Bunny photo with him this year. I haven't scanned it in though, I may get to that eventually.

We colored eggs the night before Easter, Ayla thought that was fabulous. She also colored eggs at my mom and dad's house the previous week, lucky little girl!! As much fun as she thinks they are, she does NOT like to eat them. She took one bite and then gagged and dry heaved for a good five minutes. Being the loving and caring mommy that I am....I could not stop laughing. It was soooo funny. Poor kiddo. She loves coleslaw/potato salad etc so I did give her an egg salad sandwich later and she liked that. Must have been a texture thing.

Ayla and I did a little photoshoot in her Easter outfit. She thought it was okay because she had eggs to play with. "Cheese" doesn't get much of a smile from her these days so we've moved on to things like "Yo Gabba Gabba panties!!" and "Daddy dances silly!!"

Easter morning was sweet for us. When Ayla woke up the first thing she said was "Mommy, did the Easter Bunny come?" I asked her what Easter means and she said "Jesus came back to save us" Awww!

We had a little egg hunt in the living room and she tore through her basket. She got a little chocolate bunny but no other candy. She ate her bunny for breakfast ((rolls eyes)). After church we went to my Aunt Julie's house and had an amazing lunch. Ayla ended up with FOUR MORE EASTER BASKETS FULL OF CANDY! Yikes. She was on the sugar high of all sugar highs. I did get rid of everything though...dropped it off at the homeless shelter! I hope everyone else had a fun day too!!!

Pictures...

Okay, I forgot about the St Patrick's Day Parade...a day at the park and the fact that my two year old ate an entire corndog(yes, I fed her a corndog...eek!) at the airport. Copy and paste this link into your browser...it'll take you to our last month in pictures! DON'T click the link...it doesn't work. You have to copy and paste. Sorry, I'm not exactly computer savvy.

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