Even though we love being back in Salt Lake, we really miss our family and friends in Arizona - especially cousin Braden. Happy birthday Braden! We hope you have a fun one.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
December 26
I love the day after Christmas! Don't get me wrong - I love the Christmas season and I am always excited for Christmas eve and Christmas day. I love to be with all our family and it is so much fun to celebrate, eat and open presents...but there is something so wonderful about the day after it all. It is 1:00 and I am not embarrassed to say that we are all still in our pajamas. The girls have played every game that they got for Christmas and Macy is up enjoying the new mobile she got. It is so relaxing knowing that I have nothing to do and nowhere to be.
Macy was the hit of the parties this year. She is only about two and a half months and as you can see in the video she is all smiles. She is amazing. She started smiling and interacting with me at about a month and now she even giggles when you get her going.
I feel so blessed to be back in Utah and to be surrounded by all our family and friends this year. There was a huge snow storm on Christmas eve and it was so much fun to wake up to a winter wonderland on Christmas day. We had so much fun watching Ashley and Lauren open presents and enthusiastically help everyone else open their presents. What more could you ask for.
Below is a clip of Macy. Click on the play button and it will start. Enjoy!
Macy was the hit of the parties this year. She is only about two and a half months and as you can see in the video she is all smiles. She is amazing. She started smiling and interacting with me at about a month and now she even giggles when you get her going.
I feel so blessed to be back in Utah and to be surrounded by all our family and friends this year. There was a huge snow storm on Christmas eve and it was so much fun to wake up to a winter wonderland on Christmas day. We had so much fun watching Ashley and Lauren open presents and enthusiastically help everyone else open their presents. What more could you ask for.
Below is a clip of Macy. Click on the play button and it will start. Enjoy!
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Tag you're it
Sorry to stray from the whole family blog thing and focus on myself, but this tag came from Jer's cousin Annie and it came a long time ago so I better get on it. All three girls are asleep at the same time and even though I know we will pay for it tonight at bedtime - I am not waking them up!
1. Best thing you cooked last week? I have been trying some new recipes lately (thank you to all those who have been passing them on) and so far the one I like the best is Mardarin Chicken. It has the yummiest sauce that goes great with any stirfry. I also have to add that the Roast Beef sandwiches we had last week were really good too. (Thanks to Jen Scott for both of those)
2. If money, time and babysitting were no object, where would you go and with who? My brother Judd is living on the big island in Hawaii and my mom is living in Maui so I have the biggest itch to go over there. Jer and I haven't been somewhere tropical since we've been married and it would be so much fun to spend a week or so at the beach with him and even though I would probably regret it once I got there, I would love to take the girls too. Then again I would also love to go on a ski vacation with just Jer where we could ski all day and then curl up by a fire at night - no kids allowed on this one of course. And then again I would love to take the girls to Disney World and some of other fun theme parks in Florida. They are just getting to the age where it would be so much fun to see them interact with the characters - both girls are slightly obsessed with anything princess. Wow - ya think I want a vacation or something?!
3. When was the last time you cried? I am going to take a direct quote from Annie Miller and add about three months post-pregnancy and three kids under three to the list..."Does the term 38 weeks pregnant help answer this question? I pretty much cry everyday...and for no good reason." I am so glad there are others out there who are on the wonderful hormone roller coaster called motherhood.
4. Five things you were doing 5 years ago: 1. This is great - Jer and I met 5 years ago this month - Wow! So much can happen in 5 years 2. I was finishing my Masters Degree at the U of U in Social Work. 3. Living with my sweet grandmother Mimi 4. Finishing up my year as Relief Society President in my singles ward - and meeting some of my best friends there 5. Working as an adoption coordinator at LDS Family Services.
5. Five things you were doing 1 year ago: 1. We were here visiting for the Christmas break and cramming in as much family, friend and snow time as we could 2. We were living in Arizona while Jeremy worked on his dual Masters Degrees 3. I was the Primary President in our Mesa ward 4. Ashley was in her terrible twos, Lauren was turning into a huge handful and we were just about to find out we were pregnant with Macy 5. I was learning how to do digital scrapbooking from Annie and so was excited to make my own Christmas card
6. Seven of your favorite hobbies: digital scrapbooking, reading, making greeting cards, sewing, cooking, traveling and spending time in the outdoors doing anything with my family
7. Five favorite foods: 1. Jeremy's steaks 2. Deanna's chocolate chip cookies 3. Cold Stone or Maggie Moos ice cream 4. Porcupine Grill's house salad 5. Tortilla soup and crumbled blue cheese salad at Paradise Bakery
8. Five places you've been: Israel, Egypt , France, Italy, and Jackson Hole
9. Five Favorite Memories: my fist real date with Jeremy when we went snowshoeing up Millcreek canyon 2. Our reception at Mimi's house and how much fun we had setting up with family and friends 3. Brushing my grandma's (Mimi) hair earlier in the day before she passed away 4. The day my girls were each born - it's too hard to pick out one. The reason we keep having them so quickly is because of that awesome feeling of falling in love with that little one the moment you lay eyes on them 5. The look on some little kid's face at Disneyland while Jer and I were on our honeymoon - he rounded the corner and starting screaming and crying when he saw the character Woody from Toy Story - "Woody, Woody!!!" You had to be there.
10. Favorite Shows: 1. The Offic 2. 24 3. I can't believe I am admitting this - Days of Our Lives 4. Ellen 5. ER and honorable mention to Hannah Montana, The Suite Life and Wizards of Waverly Place - all on Disney channel and shows I can watch with my kids
People to tag: Lisha, Louise, Meg & Lu (I don't know who else reads my blog since these are the only ones who leave comments - hint, hint)
Hope everyone is having an awesome holiday season. Merry Christmas!
1. Best thing you cooked last week? I have been trying some new recipes lately (thank you to all those who have been passing them on) and so far the one I like the best is Mardarin Chicken. It has the yummiest sauce that goes great with any stirfry. I also have to add that the Roast Beef sandwiches we had last week were really good too. (Thanks to Jen Scott for both of those)
2. If money, time and babysitting were no object, where would you go and with who? My brother Judd is living on the big island in Hawaii and my mom is living in Maui so I have the biggest itch to go over there. Jer and I haven't been somewhere tropical since we've been married and it would be so much fun to spend a week or so at the beach with him and even though I would probably regret it once I got there, I would love to take the girls too. Then again I would also love to go on a ski vacation with just Jer where we could ski all day and then curl up by a fire at night - no kids allowed on this one of course. And then again I would love to take the girls to Disney World and some of other fun theme parks in Florida. They are just getting to the age where it would be so much fun to see them interact with the characters - both girls are slightly obsessed with anything princess. Wow - ya think I want a vacation or something?!
3. When was the last time you cried? I am going to take a direct quote from Annie Miller and add about three months post-pregnancy and three kids under three to the list..."Does the term 38 weeks pregnant help answer this question? I pretty much cry everyday...and for no good reason." I am so glad there are others out there who are on the wonderful hormone roller coaster called motherhood.
4. Five things you were doing 5 years ago: 1. This is great - Jer and I met 5 years ago this month - Wow! So much can happen in 5 years 2. I was finishing my Masters Degree at the U of U in Social Work. 3. Living with my sweet grandmother Mimi 4. Finishing up my year as Relief Society President in my singles ward - and meeting some of my best friends there 5. Working as an adoption coordinator at LDS Family Services.
5. Five things you were doing 1 year ago: 1. We were here visiting for the Christmas break and cramming in as much family, friend and snow time as we could 2. We were living in Arizona while Jeremy worked on his dual Masters Degrees 3. I was the Primary President in our Mesa ward 4. Ashley was in her terrible twos, Lauren was turning into a huge handful and we were just about to find out we were pregnant with Macy 5. I was learning how to do digital scrapbooking from Annie and so was excited to make my own Christmas card
6. Seven of your favorite hobbies: digital scrapbooking, reading, making greeting cards, sewing, cooking, traveling and spending time in the outdoors doing anything with my family
7. Five favorite foods: 1. Jeremy's steaks 2. Deanna's chocolate chip cookies 3. Cold Stone or Maggie Moos ice cream 4. Porcupine Grill's house salad 5. Tortilla soup and crumbled blue cheese salad at Paradise Bakery
8. Five places you've been: Israel, Egypt , France, Italy, and Jackson Hole
9. Five Favorite Memories: my fist real date with Jeremy when we went snowshoeing up Millcreek canyon 2. Our reception at Mimi's house and how much fun we had setting up with family and friends 3. Brushing my grandma's (Mimi) hair earlier in the day before she passed away 4. The day my girls were each born - it's too hard to pick out one. The reason we keep having them so quickly is because of that awesome feeling of falling in love with that little one the moment you lay eyes on them 5. The look on some little kid's face at Disneyland while Jer and I were on our honeymoon - he rounded the corner and starting screaming and crying when he saw the character Woody from Toy Story - "Woody, Woody!!!" You had to be there.
10. Favorite Shows: 1. The Offic 2. 24 3. I can't believe I am admitting this - Days of Our Lives 4. Ellen 5. ER and honorable mention to Hannah Montana, The Suite Life and Wizards of Waverly Place - all on Disney channel and shows I can watch with my kids
People to tag: Lisha, Louise, Meg & Lu (I don't know who else reads my blog since these are the only ones who leave comments - hint, hint)
Hope everyone is having an awesome holiday season. Merry Christmas!
Monday, December 17, 2007
The perfect picture
I have decided that family pictures with small children are almost as bad as trying to shower each day with small children in the house - It is IMPOSSIBLE! I have been wanting to take a family picture for our Christmas card since Macy was born, but it just never seemed to work out. So last Sunday before church Jeremy and I tried (very hard) to get a cute picture of the girls. Well, we got some great pictures of the girls - just not one of them all together. So until I get really good at photo shop I guess I will just have to settle for at least one child looking at the camera and hopefully one smiling. The picture in the middle where Lauren is finally giving us her best grin is her and Ashley showing off the treat they got at the end.
The girls were so excited to go to our ward party last week to see Santa. It was so much fun to watch Lauren. She is really getting into Christmas this year with Ashley. They let each family in one at a time to talk with Santa. As we stood outside the door and waited for our turn you could hear a little girl inside crying as her parents tried to take a picture with Santa and when the door opened up for us to go in Lauren looked a little scared. But as soon as she saw Ashley excitedly run in, she had no fear and followed quickly behind.
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