this happy little guy laughed for the very first time this morning while i was fixing breakfast!
it was the cutest sound, ever! we've been trying all day to get him to laugh again, but so far our efforts have only been rewarded with smiles and coos.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
first giggles
this happy little guy laughed for the very first time this morning while i was fixing breakfast!
it was the cutest sound, ever! we've been trying all day to get him to laugh again, but so far our efforts have only been rewarded with smiles and coos.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
henry's blessing
today was henry's special day!
a little late, i know, but we really wanted danny's parents to be with us. they're both very busy people, and they don't get the opportunity to sneak away very often. we're so grateful that they were able to come up this weekend and celebrate a couple of awfully special milestones with us!
we blessed henry at home, so it was a very quite and special time surrounded by our family. danny gave henry a beautiful blessing. i am so grateful for such a wonderful husband.
the rest of the day was completely relaxed and we just enjoyed being together. it was absolutely wonderful!
(this was the best picture we could get of our family. try getting three kids to all smile at the same time looking in the same direction.)
and now, please enjoy TONS of pictures of my sweet little guy:
a little late, i know, but we really wanted danny's parents to be with us. they're both very busy people, and they don't get the opportunity to sneak away very often. we're so grateful that they were able to come up this weekend and celebrate a couple of awfully special milestones with us!
we blessed henry at home, so it was a very quite and special time surrounded by our family. danny gave henry a beautiful blessing. i am so grateful for such a wonderful husband.
the rest of the day was completely relaxed and we just enjoyed being together. it was absolutely wonderful!
(this was the best picture we could get of our family. try getting three kids to all smile at the same time looking in the same direction.)and now, please enjoy TONS of pictures of my sweet little guy:
Friday, February 4, 2011
second one!
happy birthday, eleanor! i can't believe that she's two today, this last year seems to have gone by especially quickly.
ellie isn't a baby anymore, now she's a big 2-year-old girl. i can tell because she always wants to "do it" all by herself. get dressed, go up and down stairs, brush her teeth, get in the car, wash her hands. she doesn't need me anymore (at least she doesn't seem to think she does.).
ellie loves to sing ("lalala-de-da") and yodel ("yo-da-le-he-hoo" - thanks emma) while she plays, rock in the rocking chair (singing "rock a baby"), love her baby dolls, read books, dress up, and draw circles on her doodle board. ellie also loves shoes, they are her number one favorite thing in life right now. (which is great, because she got a whole bag of them for her birthday! - thanks grama & papa!)
like every birthday, we started the day with number pancakes. instead of using a squirt bottle like i have in the past, i tried to make really pretty ones with a spoon, ala sis. (my sister-in-law makes the most beautiful pancakes i have ever seen! think, lace you can eat, i kid you not, she is amazing! hi, shannan, 3!) as you can see, they did not work out so well, but they tasted really good. i'm going back to the squirt bottle for dan's birthday.
ellie had an awesome party with some delicious cake (it's not leaning, the camera is) and some amazing presents (thank you everyone!).
most notable was this amazing book, a bag of shoes, an ellie sized rocking chair, a tricycle (so she can ride her bike with abbey), and a giant stuffed bear from daddy, who she named "mister bear".
ellie isn't a baby anymore, now she's a big 2-year-old girl. i can tell because she always wants to "do it" all by herself. get dressed, go up and down stairs, brush her teeth, get in the car, wash her hands. she doesn't need me anymore (at least she doesn't seem to think she does.).
ellie loves to sing ("lalala-de-da") and yodel ("yo-da-le-he-hoo" - thanks emma) while she plays, rock in the rocking chair (singing "rock a baby"), love her baby dolls, read books, dress up, and draw circles on her doodle board. ellie also loves shoes, they are her number one favorite thing in life right now. (which is great, because she got a whole bag of them for her birthday! - thanks grama & papa!)
like every birthday, we started the day with number pancakes. instead of using a squirt bottle like i have in the past, i tried to make really pretty ones with a spoon, ala sis. (my sister-in-law makes the most beautiful pancakes i have ever seen! think, lace you can eat, i kid you not, she is amazing! hi, shannan, 3!) as you can see, they did not work out so well, but they tasted really good. i'm going back to the squirt bottle for dan's birthday.
ellie had an awesome party with some delicious cake (it's not leaning, the camera is) and some amazing presents (thank you everyone!).
most notable was this amazing book, a bag of shoes, an ellie sized rocking chair, a tricycle (so she can ride her bike with abbey), and a giant stuffed bear from daddy, who she named "mister bear".
Monday, January 31, 2011
a brown crayon
sometimes when you go to the store and leave your kids with daddy, this is what happens...
and if you're a really mean mom like i am...
you'll give them a box of baby wipes and make them clean it up themselves ;D
and if you're a really mean mom like i am...
you'll give them a box of baby wipes and make them clean it up themselves ;D
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
christmas pictures
christmas pictures are finally here!
gingerbread muffins with whipped cream and christmas pears for breakfast on christmas eve. yummy!
every year my dad makes crepes for dinner on christmas eve. i'm not sure why we started doing this (it started when i was really little), but i'm glad we do it, they're delicious!
christmas eve cookies, christmas morning stockings, and henry's tush ;D
just a snippet from christmas morning. the girls had so much fun opening their presents and playing with their toys. i can't wait for next year!
gingerbread muffins with whipped cream and christmas pears for breakfast on christmas eve. yummy!
every year my dad makes crepes for dinner on christmas eve. i'm not sure why we started doing this (it started when i was really little), but i'm glad we do it, they're delicious!
christmas eve cookies, christmas morning stockings, and henry's tush ;D
just a snippet from christmas morning. the girls had so much fun opening their presents and playing with their toys. i can't wait for next year!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
little artist
abbey drew this cute little self portrait for the sacrament meeting program today :D i was home with sick kids today, but danny grabbed about 10 of 'em for me! i'm so proud of my big primary girl!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
christmas card
i ordered our christmas cards the second week in december. i still have not mailed them. yep, i'm that person. so i'm throwing a copy of it up on the blog, enjoy.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
i'm blind!
the girls have been really sick this week. coughs, runny noses, fevers and pink eye. abbey has pink eye in both of her eyes. we went to the doctor last night and got a prescription for an eye ointment to clear it up. (the appointment in and of itself was an adventure. she wouldn't open her eyes or talk to the nurse because she thought that she would get a shot if she did.)
i was supposed to wait until bed time to put the ointment in her eyes, but they looks so awful (so "pink" and swollen, poor little girl, i wish i'd taken a picture.) that i put the stuff in her eyes right after lunch. abbey was super brave and held her little eyes open while i put the ointment under her lid. as soon as she blinked, however, she lost it.
imagine putting neosporin in your eyes, because that's pretty much what i was doing to her. doesn't sound awesome, right? now, imagine trying to see with neosporin in your eyes. you can't, because that stuff is greasy and gunky. that makes sense to us, but not to a four year old.
abbey started blinking and freaking out because she couldn't see. "everything's blurry, get it out of my eyes!" i told her i couldn't get it out and just to blink, it would go away and things wouldn't be blurry anymore. "no it won't!" she cried, "i'm...i'm BLIND!", she screamed. this is when she started bawling and nearly hyperventilating.
my poor little girl really thought that she was blind. it was the saddest thing i'd ever seen. i told her that mommy would never do anything to make her go blind. i'm pretty sure she believed me, she seemed to calm down a little. i told her to close her eyes and i rocked her while she cried. luckily, all those tears cleared things up pretty quickly. when she could see again, she decided that she had been pretty silly for thinking that she'd gone blind.
now i see why the doctor told me to put these in at bed time. in the dark. just before she falls asleep. that's what we're doing tomorrow. and next time someone gets pink eye, i'm getting the eye drops, this ointment stuff is more drama than it's worth!
i was supposed to wait until bed time to put the ointment in her eyes, but they looks so awful (so "pink" and swollen, poor little girl, i wish i'd taken a picture.) that i put the stuff in her eyes right after lunch. abbey was super brave and held her little eyes open while i put the ointment under her lid. as soon as she blinked, however, she lost it.
imagine putting neosporin in your eyes, because that's pretty much what i was doing to her. doesn't sound awesome, right? now, imagine trying to see with neosporin in your eyes. you can't, because that stuff is greasy and gunky. that makes sense to us, but not to a four year old.
abbey started blinking and freaking out because she couldn't see. "everything's blurry, get it out of my eyes!" i told her i couldn't get it out and just to blink, it would go away and things wouldn't be blurry anymore. "no it won't!" she cried, "i'm...i'm BLIND!", she screamed. this is when she started bawling and nearly hyperventilating.
my poor little girl really thought that she was blind. it was the saddest thing i'd ever seen. i told her that mommy would never do anything to make her go blind. i'm pretty sure she believed me, she seemed to calm down a little. i told her to close her eyes and i rocked her while she cried. luckily, all those tears cleared things up pretty quickly. when she could see again, she decided that she had been pretty silly for thinking that she'd gone blind.
now i see why the doctor told me to put these in at bed time. in the dark. just before she falls asleep. that's what we're doing tomorrow. and next time someone gets pink eye, i'm getting the eye drops, this ointment stuff is more drama than it's worth!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
chef abbey
santa brough abbey an easy bake oven for christmas! she loves to help people in the kitchen, and now she can make her own little confections (with adult supervision ;D).
she was so excited to start cooking!
she decided that she wanted to make a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. i measured the water for her and she got to dump everything in the bowl and mix it all up. (i helped mix a little, that stuff was pretty thick!)
here it is going into the oven and coming back out after the recommended 12 minutes, plus an extra 5 (i find that 100 watt bulbs aren't very efficient at cooking cake...). after it cooled, abbey loaded that sucker down with as much just-add-H2O "frosting" as she could. she was SO proud of herself! it tasted exactly like i expected it to taste, abbey thought it was the most delicious cake anyone every made. she's probably right ;D
i don't know where the pictures of the finished product went, i'll have to track them down. i'll post them as soon as i do...
she was so excited to start cooking!
she decided that she wanted to make a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. i measured the water for her and she got to dump everything in the bowl and mix it all up. (i helped mix a little, that stuff was pretty thick!)
here it is going into the oven and coming back out after the recommended 12 minutes, plus an extra 5 (i find that 100 watt bulbs aren't very efficient at cooking cake...). after it cooled, abbey loaded that sucker down with as much just-add-H2O "frosting" as she could. she was SO proud of herself! it tasted exactly like i expected it to taste, abbey thought it was the most delicious cake anyone every made. she's probably right ;Di don't know where the pictures of the finished product went, i'll have to track them down. i'll post them as soon as i do...
Saturday, December 25, 2010
happy christmas 2010!
we had a wonderful (and super busy) morning opening presents and playing with all of our new toys. the girls had a blast and henry was unbelievably patient for a 2 month old. i always love watching the kids open their presents and seeing how excited they are! christmas is awesome.
and that's all you're getting out of me today ;D pictures to come soon(ish)!
merry christmas!
and that's all you're getting out of me today ;D pictures to come soon(ish)!
merry christmas!
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
a quick trip...
we have been trying to get down to california to see dan's family for YEARS. i am not exaggerating, we haven't been since abbey was a year old. every time we've planned a trip, something has happened (broken car, sick children, pregnant wife, work emergency) and we haven't been able to go.
while we were eating lunch on saturday, danny asked me if we should make a quick trip down to california and surprise his mom for christmas, since he had 3 days off work. of course, i said yes. sunday morning we were running through the aiport with 3 "sunday best" clad children in tow. i think that this is the best way for our family to travel. spur of the moment. nothing can come up if we don't leave any time for anything to happen. unfortunately, that's not very realistic. oh, well.
we stayed with dan's parents (and sister's family and brother's family- that's 15 people in one house!) for 2 and nearly a half days. it was an absolute blast! we ate (mom is an AMAZING cook, and sis makes the cutest pancakes i've ever seen.), had a pre-christmas, stayed up late, took family pictures, laughed, played and hugged. i wish that we could have stayed longer, we didn't have nearly enough time to do everything we wanted to, but it was SO much fun and SO good to see everyone! we're planning on getting back in april (hopefully we can stay longer) and i can't wait to see everyone again!
while we were eating lunch on saturday, danny asked me if we should make a quick trip down to california and surprise his mom for christmas, since he had 3 days off work. of course, i said yes. sunday morning we were running through the aiport with 3 "sunday best" clad children in tow. i think that this is the best way for our family to travel. spur of the moment. nothing can come up if we don't leave any time for anything to happen. unfortunately, that's not very realistic. oh, well.
we stayed with dan's parents (and sister's family and brother's family- that's 15 people in one house!) for 2 and nearly a half days. it was an absolute blast! we ate (mom is an AMAZING cook, and sis makes the cutest pancakes i've ever seen.), had a pre-christmas, stayed up late, took family pictures, laughed, played and hugged. i wish that we could have stayed longer, we didn't have nearly enough time to do everything we wanted to, but it was SO much fun and SO good to see everyone! we're planning on getting back in april (hopefully we can stay longer) and i can't wait to see everyone again!
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