SUNSHINE I WANT SUNSHINE!!!

I am so over all this snowy wet cold weather and ready for the sun to be shining, I know a lot of people love the snow and all the fun activities it brings but not me I love it for December only, I think when I'm an old lady I want to be tan and wrinkly on a beach where the sun is always shining ;) We try and take a fun family vacation every other year in the Spring and this year we decided (well I decided) that we were going to spend a week in Sunny Florida but not at Disney World this time, as much as we loved going to Disneyland we thought we would try and make this trip a little more relaxing with a little less crowd so its all about the beach and water this year we rented a condo for the first part of our trip and are going to visit Discovery Cove and let the big girls do the dolphin swim, then do a couple days at Sea World then off to St. Pete Beach where we are staying and a kid friendly resort they have a 3 story water slide on the beach and a floating water park on the ocean, kid activities every hour on the hour, We are so excited and are counting down the days until we are playing in the sun!!

Jessika

This is my beautiful niece Jessika she is such a blessing to our family

and we are so glad to have her she has taught us so much in the 9 years she

has been here. Let me tell you a little about her, Jess was diagnosed shortly after birth with cerebral palsy, The day she was born was

so exciting for the family she is my brother and sister in laws first baby and the second grandchild on both sides, so we all could not wait to meet her, she was perfect in every way, later that night my brother and sister in law noticed that she was having a hard time feeding and that her little legs were shaking, concerned by this they called the nurse who took her to the nursery and called

the Doc, after many tests they found that she had suffered major strokes 2 in utero and one shortly after birth, the strokes have caused speech impairment and paralysis on the right side of her body. Over the last 9 years she has had several surgeries and has done many standard forms of therapy to help one day give her better function of her body, so that she can walk, talk, play and perform daily tasks we all consider simple. For the last week she has been attending an alternative form of therapy called Now I Can(http://www.nowican.org/) it is an intensive form of physical therapy done 5 days a week 4 hours a day for 3 weeks, Jessika is making BIG strides on day 5 of therapy she took her first steps and stood alone for 3 seconds, she is working so hard towards her goal of walking and we are all so so proud of her she is an amazing girl we want to see her reach her goals. Because this therapy is so costly we have decided to do a garage sell to help raise money to provide here with some maintenance therapy after her 3 week session so she can hopfully reach her goals, if you would like to donate items to be sold please contact me by email at mbwhaw@msn.com I am hoping to have all donations priced and organized and ready to go by the 18th. We are planning the garage sell for Saturday August 21st from 8:00 - 2:00

3933 West Mapleleaf Way

West Jordan

THANK YOU!!!!

Sophia 2 months

The girls playing at My Gym

It's been a long rough week trying to get back on a schedule after the holidays,

the girls have had the hardest time getting to sleep, so I decided to wear them

out tonight by letting them burn a little energy, and I'm glad to say it WORKED!!

Isabella LOVED LOVED the ball pit!!

Savannah swinging

My little monkey baby

I couldn't believe Izzy sat still to sing

Wild Child!!!

My beautiful baby smiling for her mama, I can't believe how big she is getting already.

I WISH TIME WOULD SLOW DOWN!! Sophia Violet

1 month old

Merry Christmas 2009

The girls trying on there stockings

Amandas face when her cousin got a Zhu Zhu pet and she did not.

All the cousins

My cute family

Sophia Violet Worthington

November 30th 2009

5:20 p.m.

7 lbs 5.6 oz 19 1/2 inches

October 2009

October 17th 2009
I LOVE FALL & HALLOWEEN!!! It is by far my most favorite time of the year, I love everything about it, when I think of fall many things come to mind, there is somthing in the air a smell a feeling, picking pumpkins, Gardner Village, roasted green chillies, yummy food, and decorating my house.

Amanda

Gotta love this kid.......

Savannah & Daddy with her Pumpkin

My beautiful Savannah

Isabella looking for her pumpkin

September 7th 2009

Matt & I took the girls to a luau at Thanksgiving Point it was so fun they had such a good time and the food was sooo YUMMY!!! Mommy and Isabella Daisy
Savannah Lillie & Amanda Rose

Daddy and the girls feeding the fish

Mommy and Savannah

My girls

WOW! I really dropped the ball on keeping up on the blog this year we have had a good year with a a little surprise that most everyone knows about by now. Lets go back to March we found out that we will be having another baby, I was in complete shock(I cried ALOT for the first13 weeks) even though we know how babies are made we were definitely not planning this, she will now be here in 15 weeks and I am getting excited for her arrival I cant wait to see what and who she looks like, Amanda refers to her as the born baby and is so excited and has been since we told her, she loves being a big sister, Savannah on the other hand would have been completely happy being an only child, I'm pretty sure she cried as hard as I did when we told her the big news, and well Isabella poor girl she loves getting all the attention I hope she will adjust OK, I'm more worried about me adjusting to having two babies, I just keep telling myself it was meant to be. Little Miss Bella turned one on April 5th and we celebrated with friend s and family it was a good day she wasn't to sure about digging into her cake she didn't want her hand to get dirty, she is 16 months now and so smart and full of sass her favorite word is Nooo! In May we headed to Disneyland for Savannah's 10th birthday it was so fun we went down with our good friends Sean&Dez and there cute kids Megan who also has the same birthday as Savannah and there little boy Aiden who Amanda just loves the last day we were there we met up with the Bird family for a little fun at the beach before heading back home to the cold weather of Salt Lake, what the hell rain rain rain till the end of June that was crazy, Amanda turned 5 on the 8th of June we were planning an outside Hannah Beach party birthday, but we ended up partying inside thank goodness she invited Santa to her party he came from his vacation in Hawaii just to visit her on her special day, he brought her a real flower lai necklace

and treats for her and all her friends, it was a fun fun day. July summer finally arrived we spent time at the zoo a little swimming at great grandmas the splash park, we tried the new cowabunga bay out that was great the girls loved it, July has been fun, crazy and busy, Isabella broke her wrist over the 24th(we wont talk about that) and Savannah and Amanda started school I can't believe I have a 5th grader and a Kindergartner time goes by so fast its unreal now we are approaching the end of August I am so glad we are off track for a few weeks, School was a little rough for Amanda she is not a morning girl thank goodness for Savannah helping her and me. I will post some pics of all the fun events over the last 6 months in a few days. And I am going to definitely try to keep up better on this blog...

Fun Filled February

I am so glad January is over February was definitely welcomed around here now if all the snow would disappear I would be SO SO SO happy, I can't wait for spring to be here so my kids can get out of this house and run and play, here are a few pictures of the girls I have had to get a little creative with things to do to fill the days, the normal movie nights and UNO isn't cutting it so we decided to have a little spa day I let the girls make lip gloss, and a facial mask made with oat mill, mashed bananas and honey, then they did foot massages on each other, they had a blast especially Amanda when it was her turn to put a mask on Savannah she wasn't as nice about putting just a little bit on and then rubbing it in she thought more was better.

(thank goodness it tasted good)

VALENTINES DADDY DAUGHTER DANCE
Matt is so sweet 4 years ago he was coming home from work and saw a sign that read daddy daughter dance(its put on by the city) so he stopped and bought tickets and every year since he has taken our girls its so sweet and they look forward to it each year, we go shopping for dresses go get there hair and nails done its so fun.

Isabella Daisy Update

(WILD CHILD)

The pictures say it all





The only times she sits still is when she is asleep or getting her ears cleaned, its so funny she goes into a trance and stares off into space.