Nanny Whit

Today is a sad day for the Bishop kids. Our amazing nanny, "Nanny Whit", is leaving us. She has a new job and is moving forward on to another chapter in her life. We have known she is leaving for about 2 months, but that doesn't really make it better. We will miss her. She has been with us since Karlee was about 7months old. Do you know how long that is??? 32months. or somewhere around 960 days. Long enough for her to know everything you could possibly know about our family, my kids, our house whatever. She has stuck with us through some great times and some not so great times. She survived and stuck out me being pregnant with zane, and me working from home. She puts up with Allen and his "not so positive" morning attitudes. -Which have greatly improved over the years.. love you Allen. She has dealt with, pee, poop, throw up, the flu, croup, RSV, Pregnancy hormones, changing schedules, 2 year old tantrums, 3 year old tantrums, and just really every other issue a semi normal family has... and she did it well.

My kids have grown up with her. They love her just like she is family. She is our family. They talk about her every single day, and they look forward to seeing her. I cant remember a single day where Karlee wasn't excited to go to Whitney house, or to give her a great big hug in the morning when she got to our house. I do however remember when I had taught Karlee to say " I .... Love... Mom!" and a few days later, I tried to get Karlee to say it and found out whitney had taught her something else...she said ..." I ... Love... Whit eeee....!haha

I know this wont be the last of Whitney around our house. Im sure we will be calling her weekly, and having her over every once and a while to babysit on weekends, but we will for sure miss her while we learn our new day to day routine without her.

Good Luck on your new adventures Whit, Thanks for all the great days and thanks for loving my babies.

just because

I love this baby girl and she loves cake. Her birthday was back in may but she is just too sweet to not share twice.

shhhmmmshhhmm

shhmmmshhhmmm is how i feel today.  Im not really sure what it means, just blah.  I feel like I have been on an adrenaline rush for days, but at the same time I am trying to slow my self down and just take things as they come.  I have some exciting things going on, but I am so nervous to put my self out there.  I dont like to fail, and I dont take constructive criticism very well.  Im pretty lucky to have a husband who supports me in everything I do.  Not only does he support me, he treats me like I am amazing and he believes in me.  I love him.  I guess I have some decisions to make about where to go from here but no matter what happens I know things will be great because I have a great family behind me.

Karlee turned 3!

My baby girl is 3.  She is my favorite 3 year old.  She is so sweet and so kind.  She is also, so 3.

She is quite the manipulator, and the queen of stalling.  She will come up with 30 reason why she cant do something like go to bed, take a nap or eat her dinner.  She is thirsty, needs to go potty, her mouth is too cold for hot dinner, her eyes are too tired to look at her food.  She need to sing a song, she needs a hug.  The girl knows every excuse in the book.  I have NO IDEA where she gets it from.  haha that is a lie.  She gets it from her mama.  I am the first queen of excuses.

She has also learned things like spitting, throwing things, taking off her shoes where ever we go, yesterday she took off her pants while we were out to dinner.  She says things like, mom dont throw me down, if I try to hold her hand, or mom, dont hit me, if I try to pick her up.  She is so much like me its scary.

When she gets nervous, she always says, Mom, I need hugs.  I love her.  She tells me, oh mom, this is going to be good, when she is excited about something.  She knows she had a birthday, and she still keeps saying when asked how old she is.... Im going to be three.
She corrects people when they say the yellow fish... no thats a tang, and the pink one is anthius.

She looks after Zane.  If he is getting into trouble she come and finds an adult and says, hey.. wheres zane?  which means, zane is doing something he shouldnt and i saw but i am not going to be the one to tell on him.
She doesnt like to leave the house until she knows Zane is coming with.
Every saturday morning she asks her daddy to snuggle with her on the couch while they sleep and watch cartoons.  Its cute so that helps that allen spends the morning sleeping.  He gets a pass.  She loves to snuggle with Allen and watch the fish at night too.

For her birthday we had a back yard party with all the cousins.  Allen built a new playground and they all came over to play on it.  There were several crash's and a few bumps, but Briggs got the worst of it with a door handle to the eyebrow and a trip to the emergency room.  (he didnt end up needing stitches but it was a bad one.)  Jen made Karlee's adorable Toy story cake.  We all loved it.  Especially Karlee.   Girl just loves CAKE.

She got a new helmet for her bike, some barbies, a couple new swim suits and tons of other great stuff.  She is spoiled and i love her.  Happy birthday cake Karlee bug.

Brad and Brad

Two of my great friends who have both passed away.  I miss them both and think about them often.  I hope they are watching over me, my family and all of our friends.  Heaven is sure to be a party with those two around.

random goodies

Warm- and warmish weather really brings our family to life.  I feel like a new person when we can just get out side and play.  Here are a few random goodies from lately.
-Grandma and Grandpa Allen are leaving on one of their adventures for the next 3 weeks, missing mothers day and Karlee's birthday.  So we went up and visited with them before they left.
Karlee picked out a fat elephant with dangling legs, and Zane picked a sparkly rock to give to Grandma Allen for mothers day.
They gave Karlee her birthday present since they were not going to be here... and we played with it for a while in their back yard.  Its a bubble fan.

The other day I stopped by DI, to see if there were any good finds.  I found one of my favorite friends, Kenzie and a couple of night stands.  Kenzie was there doing the same thing.  Great minds think a like.  Anyway, for $15 I got some awesome night stands (super ugly).
I hurried home and refinished 1 of them before Allen got home from work.  I knew I had to or they would go straight to the garbage.  Turns out he loves them just as much as I do. 

Above: Before

After!!!!  I love the blue.  They will be so cute in our bedroom.  Now i just need to put the handles back on and paint the other one.

My sassy Diva.

Karlee is such a girly girl.  Diva is her middle name.  No, its Montana, but it should be Diva.

Fancy nails, cheetah flats, and putting on a concert in her bedroom for her barbies.

(instead of taking a nap)

Karlee's First "real drawing"

Look who it is!!!

Its Uncle B. 

I asked Karlee if she wanted to write Brad a letter to send to him on his mission the other day.  She sat down and started drawing.  She said, Uncle B, I miss you.  I draw your nose, I draw hims feet, I draw hims eyes.... and you shirt.

I turned around to see what she had drawn and this was it.  I was so surprised.  Usually all we get are scribbles.  This actually looks like a person, or something.  I am so proud of my little artist.  Good work Karlee :) I love it.  I already emailed a picture of it to Uncle B and he loves it too.  I would send it to him, but this is a keeper for sure.

HAP HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Last week was an entire week of celebrating Allens 26th birthday.  He doesnt ever really mention his birthday too much so I always try to make it a big deal.  Because it IS a big deal.  I love him and I love celebrating that he was born!!!
We went out to dinner, a movie, shopping, to the gym ( he made me go with him at 9am on his birthday?)  he wanted to buy some tree's for the back yard, went to Park City for Sunday brunch at Stein Erickson Lodge, and just spent lots of time together as a family.  I love my husband and I am so proud to be his wife.  He is a great example to me and our kids.  He loves us and takes good care of us.  I love to tease him about getting old, but truth is.. I love him more every day and he just keeps getting sexier with age.
This week he was told by different people that he looked like, Abraham Lincoln, and .... oh shoot I cant remember the second one but it was some other tall dark haired, bearded person from a long time ago. Whoever it was, people just love Allens beard.  So do I.

PS- Allen is not a fan of cake, or sweets really at all.  So there was no birthday cake.  (dont tell anyone but I saw him eat a piece of cake while we were at Stein Erickson)
Karlee probably doesn't even really believe that it was his birthday.  Birthdays are nothing with out cake for that girl.

Zane and Baby Buffulo

Karlee talking to the baby goats " Hi little goats, whats your name?"

One of our Tree's we picked out. 

Fun Surprise!!

These look like Easter eggs right? Wrong.  They are eggs from our baby chicks that we bought last year.  Remember these guys (Baby chicks 2011)

Can you believe it.  They actually lay eggs and they really did come out blue and green and brown and yellow.  So cute.  Cant wait to eat some today.  Thanks to the friends who adopted our chicks, so nice that they shared some eggs.