CUTIE!!!

Heehee - I snapped this picture of Evelyn yesterday! Look at that smile!!!!

Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

We have had a wonderful holiday break so far. We just LOVE having daddy home!! My grandma was in town and so we had everyone up for dinner and went out for lunch. We had a great time being with family. That is always one of my favorite parts about the holidays is the chance to spend time together as a family.

Monday we took the girls to Walmart so that they could pick out gifts for each other. They picked out very sweet gifts and were so excited to surprise each other with their gifts. This is the hug after opening!
The kids had fun opening their gifts. I got creative this year and crocheted dresses for their cabbage patch dolls. Anna has been busy putting the dresses on the stuffed animals and all her dolls. Eileen immediatly dressed her cabbage patch doll and then left it dressed. Here's Aaron in the hat and mittens we got him. He's so cute!!

The kids final present was a fish tank. Dan found a really good deal and the kids have been asking for pets.... :) Tomorrow we are going to go to the pet store to let them pick out some fish.

We also got a white Christmas - for the first time, our family saw snow on the ground on Christmas morning. It made for some treacherous walking, but the streets weren't too bad! :)

We feel so blessed this Holiday season for our wonderful family, and especially grateful for the chance to see family we don't get to see much and the chance to talk to Dan's parents on their mission. We can't wait to see them in a few months! We feel blessed for the amazing people in our ward who love and serve us in so many ways - I hope I can repay all that has been done for us. We are especially grateful for our Savior who's birth we celebrate and the love that He gives!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! - it truly is the most wonderful time of the year

VACATION!!!!

Thank goodness - It's the holidays.... It's so nice to have my husband around!! Just a few funny things from last week.... :)

Eileen told me after finishing lunch (during which she had a banana) that she had eaten a "mutilated banana"

Aaron loves to see Christmas lights. Anytime we drive around when it is dark, he points at EVERY light he sees and says "Light Light" - and with all the Christmas lights, that means he is saying "Light Light" the whole time!

We had fun last night making and decorating cookies. The kids loved cutting them out and sneaking tastes of the dough and the frosting. When i made the dough for the cookies, I made it Sunday morning (because it needs to chill) and realized that we didn't have enough flour. So I used the cake flour that we had in our pantry... but it still wasn't enough... so we ground up oatmeal to make oatmeal flour.... At least they tasted good. :)

Anyway - counting down to Christmas and enjoing some family time! :) It sure is exhausting...gotta go to bed... :)

Busy, Busy!

We've had a busy week!! Dan was gone for his usual wrestling and young men's. I had a Relief Society Meeting this week and our ward Christmas Party.

I attempted a trip to the grocery store with all four kids this week....not the brightest idea - Aaron is still too young to understand the idea of staying next to me! And Anna would touch everything - so Aaron would have to go touch everything too. I've got one more idea as to how to make this possible without losing my sanity in the process - I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.... :)

I can't believe Evie is almost 3 months old - the last 3 months have just FLOWN! She is such a sweet little girl - she smiles and her whole face just lights up - it's beautiful! She is growing so fast - she is lifting her head up so well now.

Eileen and Anna are so fun to watch together - they play so well together and it's so fun to listen to their made up stories and to see their different personalities as they play.

Aaron is the little copy cat - he wants to do everything that his sisters are doing - which means that he spends a lot of time playing with princesses and baby dolls... Dan is thinking he needs some manly toys for Christmas! He's also looking around the ward for families with boy that we can hang out with to teach him how to "play like a boy." He's such a sweetie though. He is talking so much now - lots of it is just mimicking his sisters, but his vocabulary is steadily growing. We also have some friends with little boys near his age and it's been fun to play with them and watch him learning to play with other kids his age.

Hair

Eileen loves doing my hair. She puts pony tails in (up to 9 of them) and then all the hair clips she can find - the record right now is standing at 49 little clips in my hair. Today while she sat and did my hair, she stood behind me and did my hair while she gave lessons on how to do hair. She stood behind me saying things like "And then you grab the hair and put this around it and twist is and put it here" And putting clips in my hair, telling her imaginary audience how to get the maximum number of clips in and how each clip went in. Here are some pics of the hair stylist with me after she did my hair. She had only gotten 23 clips in this time! :)