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!

Little Lottie 4 Months Old!

So I suppose perhaps its strange to post Charlotte's 4 months stats before her birth but if I try to play catch up it will never happen! So we'll start with the now and go from there. My sweet Charlotte is 4 months!! I thought it'd be fun to take a trip down memory lane and see where she falls compared to my other lovelies. 

Etta at 4 months:

13 lbs 12 oz - 26th percentile

25 in - 65th percentile

16.5 in - 66th percentile

Liam at 4 months:

Weight - 16 lbs - 60th percentile

Height - 26.75 in - 91st percentile

Head - 17.25 in - 85th percentile

Charlotte at 4 months:

Weight - 14 lbs - 38th percentile

Height - 25.4 in - 80th percentile

Head - 16.3 in - 58th percentile

Charlotte is a super happy baby.

She loves to be held!

From the time she was just 1 month old she's responded to people talking to her with a huge grin.

She's a great sleeper just like the other babes.

Her brother and sister are the only ones who can get her to belly laugh.

She loves to be sung to and tries to coo and sing in return.

She kicks her legs like crazy and is very strong!

She isn't the biggest fan of the car.

She has beautiful eyes and is losing all her pretty dark hair.

She is soooo sweet and we just love her to pieces.

Halloween! I'm always one holiday behind...

We had so much fun at Halloween this year! From friends parties, to ward parties, to pumpkin carving, and trick or treating...it was an awesome year. Especially because both little lovelies were so excited about it this year.

Especially my Etta. For a long time she said she wanted to be rapunzel...I was a little bummed thinking that was kind of cliche and every other little girl would be dressed like that. But I'm all for letting the kids pick so I figured I go pick up a dress and wig, nice and easy. Then my mom gave us the movie Aristocats and Etta was hooked. She wanted to watch it everyday and even got all her little friends to start playing Kitty Cat in the neighborhood. Her favorite was the mom, Duchess. So she adamantly decided that was the costume for her. To make a very long story short I was amazed how hard it was to find cute white cat apparel. So I thought how hard could it be an decided to make it. Let's just say it was harder than I thought but now that I've done it once it'd be a cinch! It all turned out great except for the mounds of fur every where in our bedroom and she loved every minute of being Duchess.

By the way if you're wondering I'm a child of the seventies...or my mother. This was her dress she left from her wedding reception in. Kinda cool. I didn't get quite as decked this night with jewelry and braids and such...

Knock, knock, knockin with Cass and Oakers err Alice and the Rabbit!

Mickey did not start out in the best mood.

He got a bit happier once he got some Cheetos...

Hopefully I can get some pics of our friends party where the boys dressed up too. :)

Boys Will Be Boys

Since I have known rob he has participated in and loved every minute of flag football season. For the last 4 years he and his cubbies team mates have reigned supreme in their provo flag football league. These boys take this so seriously and revel in this accomplishment. We have fun tagging along, hanging with friends, bringing snacks, sitting in the rain, cheering through mega phones, and delighting in breakfast wednesdays win or lose.

We love it and we love watching our handsome Rob!

Congrats to the Cubbies and their 4 years of total domination!

August 2011

This summer has been super fun and obviously wore us out a little bit.

(See the flashlight? haha)

We had some fun trips to the zoo to see the dinosaur exibit.

Lovin our cousins...

Look at these cuties...

Oh Aunt Jacqueline you're so silly...

And Etta started school!!! I can't believe it!!! We decided to put her in preschool this year and after much research and consideration I decided Kids Village was the place for us...and we LOVE it!

She was so excited for her first day of school! (And a little nervous)

She's loving her teachers and new friends. She goes to music, art, cooking, and science. Then she has a general class everyday where she learns reading and other preschool basics.

Rob went to Argentina with the Youth National Team. It was such a cool experience. He spent a little over a month during the summer training the team before they went to Argentina for the World Championships at the end of August. They placed very well for the USA team and he had an awesome time...

As you can see in this picture. The man loves him some volleyball. Or maybe rather competition at a high level and working hard to accomplish something.

Then Rob started the school year along with the EMBA program and here we go again!