Slacker

So I've really turned out to be a slacker with this blogging thing. This is really no surprise to me considering all my other unfinished projects (crosstich started 11 years ago, afghan started 10 years ago, leper bandage started 1 year ago). In my defense, we are still in the dark ages of dial-up Internet and it takes me forever to upload pictures. A post without a picture just seems boring. If anyone has any tips on getting pictures to upload faster, let me know. Anyway, here are some things we've been up to the past couple months:

Here are the girls on Easter. Mallory was actually sick and shouldn't have been going to church, but I had decided to make a big effort (for me) and make hair accessories to match the girls' Easter dresses. It sounds really dumb now but I just really wanted her to get ready so I could see it all put together. Halfway through sacrament meeting I realized she was too sick to be there and Kelly took the kids home. He's great to put up with my occasional obsessive moments.

This is at Baby Animal Day in Wellsville. We went to celebrate my niece Lexi's birthday and had lots of fun. In addition to holding this bunny, Mallory got to hold a baby duck and turtle, ride a horse and pet a bunch of other things. My brother wondered how many animals actually survive baby animal day with all the mauling they get from the kids! Seeing Mallory hold the animals reminded me of an incident that happened last summer. I was weeding in the back yard and out of the corner of my eye I saw Mallory reach down and pick up something out of the grass as she said "snake". I thought she had just picked up a stick until I saw that what she was holding was moving. I screamed and she dropped the snake. I felt bad after for scaring her and tried to reassure her that snakes are not scary but mommy just doesn't like them.

Mallory got a 2-wheel bike which she loves! Her favorite thing is riding to the park with her dad. I'm really glad they can share this hobby because I have never done well at riding a bike and it still makes me nervous. Kelly had never seen me ride a bike until a few weeks ago I finally agreed to try riding my old Huffy. I did it at night because I didn't want the neighbors to see and I stayed on the sidewalk because I'm afraid of getting hit by a car. I just went to the neighbor's driveway and back, but the bike was really wobbly the whole time. I asked Kelly why this was, and laughing, he said it was because I was going so slow. You know that old saying "It's like riding a bike", that really doesn't apply for me.

Whew, that took forever! I was going to add some more pictures but just don't have the time. I'll try and make sure it's not another two months until my next post.