Isabella Interview For the Year 2014

I'm going to do an annual interview to see how my little stinkers' answers change throughout the years. I start doing Hayven when she can answer questions. I may even do it more often than once a year with different questions.

We had so much fun talking about these, and when I had finished, Bella asked if we were done and said it was fun and wanted more questions. This little girl has my heart. I know I shouldn't boast, but y'all, she's one amazing little girl. She's extremely well-behaved, and only has to be told something more than once very rarely. She has countless toys, but always wants to be with us and do whatever we want to do. She loves being around her family. Her daddy is her world, and she wants to be with him and do what he is doing at all times. Who can blame her? I know this will come with Hayven also; I'm fully prepared being that I'm a huge daddy's girl too. She has the sweetest heart and tells me oodles of times a day that she loves me and we go back & forth with who loves who most. She is the best big sister, and I find her running over to Hayven to give her "tash" (pacifier) to her, or in the pack-n-play with her, or singing to her in the car. Hayven absolutely adores her and giggles every time Bell is in her sight. I am so glad I get to be a part of this princess's life and can only hope that she remains so kind hearted as she grows up in spite of the worldly things she's around.

Nicknames: Bella, Bell, Bells, B-ella, Bella Boo, Boo
How old are you? 7
What is your favorite color? Red
What is your favorite animal? Horse
What is your favorite book? One about ballerinas
What is your favorite T.V. Show? Jesse
What is your favorite song? Black Widow by Iggy Azalea
What is your favorite food? Chicken
What is your favorite drink? Coffee (what?!)--I then asked her favorite drink she can actually drink..haha & that was followed by Mtn. Dew (negative) & finally sweet tea
What is your favorite breakfast food? Donuts
What is your favorite snack? Chips
What is your favorite outfit? The one I'm wearing. (skinny jeans, silver sparkly shirt, and pink Converse)
What is your favorite game? Chutes and Ladders
What is your favorite toy? Baby dolls
Who is your best friend? Lilly
What is your favorite thing to do? Play
What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Olaf
Where is your favorite place to go? Disneyworld
Where do you want to go on vacation? The beach
What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher
What did you do on your birthday? Went ice-skating
My favorite thing about school: Writing
My favorite season: Summer
My favorite sports: Gymnastics
My favorite thing I did this year: Ice-skate
What do you do really well? Draw
What is something that made you sad this year (2014)? Having to leave y'all on Christmas
What do you love to learn about? Dinosaurs
If you had one wish what would it be? To keep having a happy family

Happy New Year

2015 has some massive shoes to fill in order to keep up with 2014. Each new year, of course, brings forth resolutions, and maybe me posting them on the blog will help me hold myself accountable. Last year I know I accomplished one new year's resolution I had of being on time to work, but the others didn't work out so well. Oh well, that doesn't mean I'm not going to try again, and on the bright side, at least I accomplished one. I'm actually pretty proud of myself for accomplishing that goal because it's been even more tough with having to get a little one out the door. This year my New Year's resolutions are:
1.) Cook more often- I'm not a good cook at all. Bull is a great cook, and he loves cooking. One of my biggest issues is thinking about what to cook. I get little help from Bull with that, because with his carefree demeanor, he always just says he doesn't care. I recently purchased Emeals, so I'm hoping having meals planned out for me with the grocery list already put together for me will help.

2.) Go to church more consistently- After having Hay-Bug, we really dropped the ball on this one & we've gotten in the bad habit of swapping sleep late days on Saturdays and Sundays since sleep is few and far between. I enjoy church, and I want my girls raised in church like I was, so we're just going to have to figure out a new plan.

3.) Lose weight- This is a reoccurring resolution, as I'm sure it is for a lot of people. As I was writing this, my sweet sweet husband walked in with a Fitbit. I'm SO pumped to use it!

4.) Blog more often- Can we just figure out how to add more hours into each day & create an energy pill already? Time is definitely the issue here, but I love looking back on what I've written so far, and I want to be able to remember all of these days when Hay is young. I'm not giving a set number of times a week, but I just want to recap some of the memories more often.

5.) Use my camera more often- A friend mentioned this as one of her resolutions today actually, and I loved it! I really just want to continue to take a lot of pictures. I have a great camera, but the easy access on my phone has me taking pictures on it. I need to get one of those things that transfers pictures from the camera to your phone, since that's where I upload to Instagram & what not.


I love the new year & thinking about a fresh start & the motivation...if only it would stick around!. I'm all about resolutions, and badger my husband to make some while he ends up just agreeing with what I say. Hopefully I can keep them. Here are some pictures from our new year festivities.
We went to eat with my mom for her birthday (which is on New Year's day, but everything is closed that day). We had to wait 2 hours to get seated even after doing call-ahead seating. I think we may do January 2nd next year. It was fun spending time with the family anyways. It was about 9:30 before we left, & we decided to go home & play a board game with my niece & nephew thinking Hayven would fall asleep in the car & stay asleep. She did fall asleep in the car, but after changing her diaper & putting on her pajamas, the little stinker was having nothing of falling asleep. She ended up staying up until 12:30!

 

On New Year's Day we went to Bull's parents,  Nana & Grandpa, to watch the Alabama game play in the Sugar Bowl. The game didn't turn out as we hoped, but we will be back next year! Roll Tide!