St Patrick's Day plus more

One of Anna's favorite things to do at her Grandma and Grandpa's Christensen's is feed Rusty their dog.

This one is my favorite because everytime she feeds him she has to open her mouth when he does...so super cute!

It was Cassie's birthday so Anna was lucky enough to get her own cupcake and ice cream...and she definitely enjoyed it for sure.

We took a trip to Show Low last week because my Mom turned the big 50 and my brother had an Eagle Scout Court of Honor. It was really fun to see everyone. This picture is in front of my Parents house. Such a big girl taking the step all by herself.

Helping Mom bake in the kitchen...flour sure tastes yummy doesn't it?

This picture is also in front of my Parents house.

For St. Partick's Day we went to a party at a park. Great Grandma and Grandpa Christensen sent this shirt to Anna from Utah...so much fun. She looked so cute!

I sure love my Dad.

Anna is growing up so fast and it's hard to believe that she is 16 months. Yes I'm excited for her to go to nursery and have a few months of me time before the next baby comes but sometimes I realize that my little baby is no longer a baby. One of my favorite times of day is when Anna will snuggle with me and to be honest she loves it about as much as I do. She constantly wants my attention and I probably will never know how much she learns from my every day. Even right now she is pulling on my arm saying play with me Mom. But she is such a joy and a true blessing in our lives! I love this girl. I also love that Zach is so willing to play with her and help out in any way he can even though he is so busy.

Feeling like a bad Mom

I feel like such a horrible Mom. You see last night Anna was running from me cause I wanted to put her pajamas on and slipped on a pillow and hit her mouth on the edge of a stool. Needless to say it started bleeding and she was very upset. She woke up in the middle of the night screaming I think probably cause it hurt. She didn't want to suck on her passy or even the juice I gave her. So I asked Zach to come help me find the Tylenol. We gave her some and she finally went back to sleep. She slept good the rest of the night, thank goodness. Well this is where it gets bad. I went to my in-laws to get some fruit off their trees today and decided to jump on the tramp with Anna. I got off thinking she would like to jump all by herself and granted I'm standing right there so I thought everything would be okay, I guess that's what I get for thinking? She bolts across the tramp. There was no time to think or to try and stop her she just ran right off the tramp.
(It was one of those moments when you know what's going to happen and you wish with all your might you could change it but you aren't close enough.) Her lip started bleeding again, and her diaper was just wet but it exploded, poor thing. So I had to take all her clothes off and wash the blood off her shirt and put a new diaper on. She road home with just a diaper on. I kept thinking, I hope no one sees me they are going to think what you don't dress this poor child? I was just glad that I didn't have to go anywhere and I could just go home. Needless to say my heart was still jumping 20 minutes after it happened. I even called Zach and complained to him about it. You see though I was mostly grateful that Anna was okay. No broken bones, no major injuries other than her face that looks terrible but I was so grateful she's okay! fyi the picture was taken last night and does not really show how swollen her lip really is, poor thing!

*It also made me realize that this is probably what Heavenly Father feels to a small degree when we sin. He knows it's going to hurt and that we won't like it but if he saves us every time we won't learn and we won't grow.