"In a minute mom!"

One of Ryann's favorite things to do is "help" mom clean the bathroom.
I asked Ry to clean her room one day and she used the same excuse we've all used, "in a minute mom" and everytime I would walk in her room to check on her progress she would be playing with her toys. We had decided to have pizza that night for dinner but I told her she couldn't have any til her room was clean and she said "that's fine." When she asked if she could watch tv I told her not until her room was clean and she said "that's fine." Then I started to clean the bathroom and she asked if she could help but I told her not until her room was clean. She immediately hopped up, yelled "okay mom!" and ten minutes later I had a clean bedroom plus a cleaning buddy. It made me laugh that the only motivator for her was scrubbing toilets!.This could come in very handy in a few years!

Princess Day

Last week Ryann and I spent a whole day playing princesses. I pulled out one of my old prom dresses which was only a little bit tight, yeah! lol. We sat around at home watching movies and eating our weight in popcorn in our dresses, then we took a nap in our dresses and went to dinner at McDonald's (Ryann's choice) in our dresses. We ended the day by visiting grammy. I had a woman at McDonald's ask me if I was Ryann's sister. When I told her I was her mom, she said "man they keep getting younger every year." That made my day! But my favorite part was just hanging out with my little sidekick all day.

Church Ball

For about the last month and a half Ty has been playing in the Church ball tournament. It went on for a long time because his team did so well. They made it to the finals game undefeated, but ended up losing and taking second. It was fun watching him play.

Concrete Art

We finally had a somewhat shiny but not warm, day in Payson a few weeks ago so Ry and I took advantage of it by pulling out her new sidewalk chalk and showing off our truly artistic skills. By the end of it we grew tired of writing on concrete and moved on to face painting.

O-Live-Juice

Ry was helping me make dinner one night and when I turned back around to use the olives she had already eaten most of the can!

Valentine's Day

So I'm way behind on my blogging so I'm going back to recap the latest happenings in the Pulham Family.
These are the beautiful flowers my sweet husband bought me for Valentine's Day. He disappeared that morning and came back with flowers for me and a giant teddy and rose for Ryann. That night he took his two girls to a movie and then to dinner at Tepanyaki. It was a lot of fun, especially watching Ryann's reaction to all the cooking. The chef that cooked our food kept teasing her and making her laugh, it was hilarious. Then at the end of the meal Ry tapped our waiter on the shoulder and asked him "how much is it to buy these sticks" (chopsticks) when he told her they were free to take she said "wow that's convenient!" We couldn't quit laughing!
Thanks hunny for being so sweet to your girls!