Monday, March 23

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dear Cambry,

Annie's been learning typing in school these past couple of weeks. So, while I was blogging tonight she begged me to let her type something for Cambry's Birthday in Word. I finally gave in and this is what Annie came up with all by herself. Please don't pay attention to the grammar because she's only in 1st grade.

Dear Cambry,

We love you double triple!!!!Theres how much we love you.Oh, and by the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I,m so glad that its your birthday!But sadly, you cant stay 3 forever.You half to turn 4.We will love you in our hearts forever and ever and always. We proudy apereciate you forever with much proudness in our hearts. We will love you forever.


TO Cambry LOVE Annie Mom Dad and Heidi.


HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
CAMBRY

WANGSGARD

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see a Princess shining in your eyes darling girl!!!!

Cambry is four!

We are a little sad today because our little three-year-old is now the BIG 4!!! Of course this is Cambry just posing...she's ecstatic that it's her Birthday.

It's been a weekend full of celebrating for this little one. Being the middle child sometimes we feel that Cambry gets left out because she's not demanding and goes with the flow so we decided to throw her a "My Little Pony-Princess Party!" She had lots of fun little friends from the neighborhood over.


Most of them came dressed as Pretty Princess's but Annie insisted on being the Wicked Witch and couldn't wait to scare all the little Princesses!

We tried to do lots of fun activities like make Pony Puppets and play organized games, but in the end we realized that they all just wanted to play with each other and eat their treats and cupcakes. Rounding up a bunch of little girls can be quite the chore!!! However, they all did enjoy balloon parachuting and loved climbing under it.

Tyler took the day off which helped a bunch with watching our wild Heidi through it all. We also had help from my good friends Sandy, Heather, Tammi, and Sheryl (who was our talented photographer for the day). I couldn't have done it without them.
Here's a picture of Cambry with her cute friend Kara who just turned four the week before. They've been wonderful friends over the years.

Here's a picture of Cambry enjoying her cupcake.Thank you to all the moms and friends of Cambry who made her Birthday so special...she had a wonderful day!!

On Saturday we had a fun party with our family and Cambry continued to be spoiled!!!


I think that it's a difficult thing being the second oldest because I feel that they get neglected at times...especially when they're the second of three girls (and with the other two being high maintenance). However, Cambry has been an absolute delight and is always pretty laid back and quick to make us laugh and smile. We're still waiting for the terrible 3's to hit....but they haven't as of yet. Who knows, maybe the storm will arrive with the 4's..or maybe it's just the calm before the teenage years. Until then we love, and will always love our little Cambry and hope that she has a WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY!!!

Friday, March 20

Our "new" loft

Here's the original loft. Rough original size was ~20ftx~12.5ft. We couldn't find a configuration that didn't feel too cluttered.



The "new" loft. The rough floor size is now ~10.5ftx~12.5ft and will serve one primary purpose... family entertainment and relaxing.


The room feels larger than the dimensions mentioned above. The actual open space area is ~15ftx~14ft because of the railing and the setback where the hall and TV is.


The bedroom is not quite finished yet. The new wall, door and trim still need paint. The bedroom is smaller than the other three bedrooms by at least 15sq. ft. It is ~9.5ftx~12.5ft.

Monday, February 2

Sick.....AGAIN!!!! (UPDATED)

The girls went to the doctor, and the doctor said... Cheryl has strep, C has strep and H has an ear infection.

Woo hoo.



We are sick of being sick!!! Seriously, over the last two months Cambry has had strep twice! A week after that Annalee came down with some sort of sickness (probably strep) and had the fever and vomitting. Two days after that we all went to the Draper Temple open house. As we're walking up the stairs I felt like I was going to pass out and wondered why they didn't turn up the heat more in the temple...it was beautiful though! Of course, I was down and out for three days, and finally went and got some antibiotics and was diagnosed with Strep! It took me a good week to finally start feeling like myself. Yesterday, I was so happy because the sun was out and everyone was feeling well. We went to dinner at a friend's house which was a lot of fun, but soon realized that Heidi was running a high fever. Now it's Sunday, and we were gladly awoken this morning by not Heidi, but Cambry running to the toilet (of course not making it) frantically, and she is now laying on the couch with a rag on her head. She's claiming her ears hurt and is running ANOTHER fever in conjunction with Heidi. Now I'm wondering if the Pediatrician will give me a two for one deal! We should buy stock in Motrin and Tylenol.

I'm just frustrated because I try to keep a reasonably clean house, wash their hands, and give them their vitamins daily...but this winter has been a killer! I feel like I haven't been to church forever and am beginning to suffer from cabin fever. Spring, WHERE ARE YOU? It's a good thing we got the flu shot...I just wish they'd make a Strep shot too!