Poor Princess Benjamin

So it seems that since Kimberly is older she most often wins when it comes to selecting which games she and Benjamin will play. And most often right now those games have something to do with being princesses. I'm sure that Benjamin will kill me when he gets older for having shown you these pictures but since right now he doesn't know any better and he is so darn cute, I'm going to post them anyway.

These pictures show Kimberly at her 3rd birthday party back in September. The purple dress is her old, tattered, rag-like-Cinderella-dress. The blue one is her shiny new real-Cinderella-like-dress. That one is already getting tattered because she wears it so much. The pink dress is representative of the 4 new regular "can wear anytime I want to" dresses. Since she received those she has worn pants or shorts a total of maybe a dozen times. She will wake up at 6:30 in the morning, come into my room and say "Mommy, can I wear my big girl panties and my dress now?" Apparently Kimberly is all girl. Luckily, despite his taste for tiaras and tutus, Benjamin is most definitely all boy! So much so that a little cross dressing is probably good for him. What a terror. If Alan is being punished for being a pain when he was little (cuz we all know what an angel I was.......) then justice has been served. That kid is into everything! And he's fast, agile and just plain naughty. But he's still cute so we still like him. Plus I get to take him to nursery in a couple of weeks..............Hallelujah!

As for Alan and I everything is pretty much still the same. He's going nuts being home all day and I'm going nuts being away from home all day. I try to stay busy subbing, luckily I'm fairly popular and get requested a lot. And I am actually staying pretty busy with real estate stuff too. I have two homes under contract right now, which in theory sounds great but cheap houses don't bring very helpful commissions. Maybe we need to move to Scottsdale??? HMMMMM.....

We are also staying busy with our callings. I have found a group of people who play volleyball on Wednesday nights at the church. It is pretty competitive and actually a lot of fun. I guess that is my outlet right now. I wish Alan had one. He actually got up and went to play basketball with some guys from the ward at 5AM this morning. FOR REAL. I know, I know, Alan hates basketball. But I think it is nice for him to get away even if it is at a Heaven forsaken hour playing the sport of the Devil.

Mostly right now we are trying to be optimistic. Even though Alan has been out of work for over 6 months now and we barely have a penny to our name we have so much to be grateful for. I have food storage that we have been able to live off of, we don't have any debt besides our home, and we have all managed to stay healthy which is a miracle considering how much I am usually sick. Plus we have a support system of family and friends. Even though we don't know how or if we will be able to pay the next bill we just continue to have faith and you know what? Somehow, it all just works out. Amazing isn't it?