Berny and Janet Marquez Family

Library time

Every Friday they have a library reading time here in Jerome. We try to make it to them but we don't go as much as I would like. On this day we went and they were teaching the kids nursery rhymes. This one is Hay diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle. Whitney was the cow and she got to jump over the moon. She remembered is too, a few nights later we were outside and Whitney saw the moon and she pointed to it and said, "mom the cow jumped over the moon."

Lance was having fun too even though he wasn't old enough to have a part. He loved talking to all the girls.

Whitney Discovers Scissors

Ohhh Noooooo!!!!

Whitney's hair was getting pretty long but it was really getting stringy looking so I knew that I would need to trim it so that it could look healthy again. Well I made the mistake of telling Whitney that she need her hair cut. So Whitney took it upon herself to make sure that it got done. I found her in the kitchen with the Kitchen scissors in her hand and a pile of hair on the floor. I was so sad, so later I just wack it all of, now she has a short haircut. She seems to like it though. Daddy told her that if she ever cut her hair again that he would cut her hair so that it would look like a boy. He said he would give her a Lance hair cut. She didn't like that at all. Julianne told me that she tell her girls that if they eat their vegetables that it will make their hair grow really long and pretty, so that makes them gobble up their veggies. I tried the same trick with Whitney, I said "If you eat that spinach it will make your hair grow back, long and pretty." Whitney says, "like Rapunzel?" Happily, thinking it is working I say, "Ya, like Rapunzel!!" Whitney says, "No I don't want hair like that I like it short." DANG!!

Play Dough Time

While we were playing with some play dough Whitney asked me to make Grandma Debbie and Papa. How did I do? She made a worm.

February 2011 Super Bowl Party

This year a

we had a Superbowl party at Mollie and Heath's house. We did it there because the Green Bay Packers were playing the New England Saints. Ever since Heath was a kid he and his family have been huge Green Bay Packers fans. Berny has always been a Cowboys fan and since his team wasn't even close to making it to the super bowl we went to celebrate with the Harmison. I mostly went for the food, which was awesome, and I took a really good nap during the game to. I woke up just in time to Celebrate with all of the Green Bay Packers fan when they won. Berny was cheering for the Saints. Zoe and Whitney were so cute. They put on all their princess stuff and then put on their football jerseys. It was really fun.

Whitney is so clever!!

Whitney really surprised me with this one. Her and Lance had dump out all of the DVDs and I had asked Whitney to pick them all up and put them back in the entertainment center. Well out entertainment center is made for VHS cases and not DVDs so it is really annoying that the cases are too big to fit in the in and still see what the movies are. When Whitney told me she was done, it had taken her a really long time and in spurts while she was working on it I would hear a frustrated scream or grunt when all the DVDs would fall out. So I was really surprised when I saw all the DVDs were all in neatly and a little slanted so I could even see which case was which. She is just like her dad, a problem solver.

Lance's First Hair Cut

In these pictures Berny Lance had just turned one year old. Lance's hair had finally gotten long enough hair that I

could cut it. So I just decided that I would give him the same cut that I always give to Berny, with the clippers. After I was done I realized that I really shouldn't use clippers on a baby with such fine and light blond hair. The very first cut his hair disappeared and he looked bold again. Which was disappointing because I had to wait so long for his hair to grow at all. Is a good thing that he is so cute, because he could never look bad no matter what his hair looks like. It actually looks good in this picture.
He did really well, he sat still fro more than half of his head. It was only toward the end that the lines got a little skewed because he was moving around too much to make them look right. I love my little boy.
Later that night Mark and Aki showed up with their kids and Mark wanted to see who was bigger Tristan or Lance. They are pretty much the same, they are both size small!! You would know what I meant if Jared was standing next to them. He looks like a giant when he is with these two dwarfs. And so I say farewell from the land of mythical creatures Next stop the land of princesses and pixie fairies, which is a place I visit often with Whitney.

Achievment Days Activity and Whitney Playing

Whitney has been working really hard to do the things that are on her chart because when she earns dots on her chart she can earn lots of different things like movie time, personal time with mommy, or even sometimes a treat. One of the dots that she can earn is a writing and craft dot. this is was she did on a cold winter day when it was snowing outside and I told her it was too cold to go outside and build a snowman. So she built her own snowman out of play dough. I was very impressed, she did it all by herself too. I made a snow flake, and I did it all by myself too. lol!

For a short time I had the calling of achievement day leader. I was in charge of the youngest group the 8 to 10 year old's. Then the ward split and I was released from that calling and given called to be a Relief Society teacher, and I stayed the Ward Choir director. This was one of the activities that I did with one of my girls. Her name is Cheyenne and we built with the play dough. Whitney had fun too. And after they were done with the play dough they had a lot of fun playing together. By the end of their time together Whitney was calling Cheyenne, " My best friend Cheyenne. The only problem was that she had not told her mom that she was going to be a my house and so her dad was really worried when he got home and saw that she was not there. When no one was coming to get her I started calling her mother but she was in class. After she got out she checked her message and call her frantic husband. Yikes, I glad it all got worked out but I felt so bad for her dad. And I learned that when you have a calling to work with other peoples kid you need to have the mom and the DAD'S phone number.