winter???, park, hotdogs, and 52 week journal

wow what a day!!! good though! is it still winter in az? it doesn't feel like it. it's been 81 degrees the past 2 days. i love that. i just hope that doesn't mean summer is coming early this year!

okay so i was surfing the net for a few things and came across something that i love! i'm definately going to make time to do this! so i thought i would share in case you haven't seen it already. i came across emily falconbridge's blog. she's doing this 52 week journal. you make one page a week for the whole year. the cute part about it is that your using a deck of cards as your base for the book! cute huh?! here is the link to her first week. week 2. week 3. week 4. week 5. then she will continue to post weekly challenges thru the whole year. i thought this would be so fun to do. plus it's small! so hopefully i already have a deck of cards and i can start tonight!

today we went to the park with some friends. it was so nice to relax and watch the girs play and just catch up on girl talk!

so while we were at the park aliya had to go potty and didn't make it to me in time. so she had an accident. well no back up clothes in our car. luckily michelle had a pair of jenna's capri goucho's in her car. before michelle had a chance to even get to her car aliya was stripped down to just her shirt! so we got the pants on her and in order for them to fit her we rolled down the waist and put an elastic on the back. jenna thought it was funny, because she said it looked like aliya had a tail. which is what everyone else was thinking.

so she was trying to see her "tail". it didn't seem to bother her!

on the way to the park we stopped at the dollor store to pick up some new sand toys. not in yet! so we did make do with a pink strainer and a kitchen spoon. if you look closely you can still see the tag on the spoon! we did find some scented bubbles though!

the girls seemed to think it was fun to fill the spoon

up in the water fountain with water and walk it across to the sand. this way they could make a sand castle. we had a fun afternoon with friends and the wonderful weather.

well after the park aliya and i headed straigt to target. she didn't want to stop at home first. she was interested in getting cinderella 3. i'm pretty sure i got some wierd looks about aliya's pants! oh well it was funny. so while we were at target aliya decides she's "starving" as she put it. so she decides upon a hotdog. i go for the soft pretzel. aliya usually doesn't eat the hot dog bun, but lately she's been eating it different. it's actually kinda funny. the hot dog stays on the bun with ketchup. she then tears the bun off down to the first bite of the hot dog. she then eats the hot dog until she reaches the bun again. then she tears more bun off so she can eat the hot dog. this continued until she was done with her hot dog and was left with small pieces of the bun in front of her on the table. the funny part was that she wanted to share my pretzel with me. odd! just thought i needed to get this little thing about her down so i don't forget it! it's those small little things that i love to remember as they get older! okay so now i'm off to make dinner!