Welcome to 2012!

So January is always the beginning of that dreaded long stretch of winter...holidays over, still very cold, rob deserts us, and everyone's sick.

Be that as it may, we still try to have a some fun and this year we accomplished that by...

Lots of trips to classic skating!!

 Countless BYU MVB games...

Lots of cake making and birthday celebrating!

Milking every precious moment with daddy...

Trying out new foods and making grand discoveries...

Wearing very bright lipstick...

Saying goodbye to old friends...but welcoming new ones! RIP Hugo...

And at the end of the day lots and lots of this...

November, not lost forever.

I found a small iPhone November file! Wahoo...it's not much but it reminds us that...

We had lots of silly times...

Lots of the dinosaur museum...

Lots of thanksgiving feasts...

Lots of hanging out with this beauty...

And getting to meet this beauty...

Lots of sunglass wearing...

 And some more silliness...

Lots of learning to dress ourselves...

And we went from this.......................................to this!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that's that.

No November..must mean Christmas!

Clearly nothing of worth happened in the month of November...(oh except thanksgiving, birthdays, Londons birth, nothing really)

So in the month of December we...

Still went outside as much as possible.

Found out if we were having a boy or a girl...

We were having a girl!

Dad got us dressed...

Kiddies moved in together in preparation for new baby and

Etta had polar express day at school in her PJammies...

We had a preschool Christmas party...

Where they got to meet Santa!

Then we had our ward christmas party...

Where we were in charge of the nativity...

And we got to meet santa again!

We celebrated Oakley's Mickey themed birthday party...by dressing up like Mickey and Minnie.

Then celebrated Cassidy's birthday...

By going to the Spa...

We opened lots of presents and got christmassy with friends...

Then rang in the new year with some of our fav friends and some pretty memorable games...

 All in all, December wrapped up a pretty awesome year for us. We had lots of ups and downs and lots of surprises. Lots of missing Dad but lots of time laughing and smiling together too. Mostly our family grew up a lot and we continued to be in awe of how blessed we are...

Halloween...2011!

I'm goin back baby! I'm hoping to post one new, one old, one new etc...till I catch up!

So I didn't quite post everything about our Halloween last year!

Etta's preschool put on a really spooky performance where they danced, sang songs, and recited rhymes.

I actually have GREAT video documenting it but it won't load as of now. C'est la vie.

Then our ward put on a fun Halloween party where we (the primary) were in charge! 

So we created a cool witches lair (that pictures really do no justice for) with gross things on display, fun games and prizes, and lots of spooky decor.

Of coarse you can't have a witches lair with no witches!

(My sweet primary presidency!)

Then one of our neighborhood friends little boys costume hadn't come yet so he dressed up as Coach Neilson! Classic...

Our friends also had a party where I dressed up like my mom...in her dress from her wedding rehersal dinner!

And Rob, along with some other ill prepared men in the neighborhood, ;) dressed up as the backstreet boys...namely, Kevin. Make-up courtesy of yours truly.

Halloween 2012 coming soon!