Christmas

As kids get more into the holiday, it makes it worth every effort we put into the day as parents. Having Emmy be old enough to understand that Santa was coming and to really enjoy her presents, made it such a fun day! It was fun to start our own family traditions this year as well. There are lots of traditions different families have for Christmas and Christmas Eve, and I borrowed a few from some families I know.


Here are a few pictures of our sweet girls over the holidays.




Christmas Eve jammies.



Emmy dumping out the goods, she's a fast learner ;)




Maisy opening a gift.

Emmy blinged out with her Ariel stuff - shoes, earrings, necklace, headband, ring, did I miss something?

Maisy opening her Noah's Ark. She loves it almost as much as Emmy, HA!

Emmy's 3rd Birthday

Our big girl is just getting so grown up! For her birthday, we had a small family party at the park. Her P-Paw was in town so that made her day! She is obsessed with Ariel, and almost every gift she got was themed around her favorite princess. She had a great time running around the park with her cousins, eating cake, opening presents, and overall enjoying the day. As a big three year old girl she is now going to Primary and loves it, she is just growing up so fast! We are so happy to have such a loving little girl and such a good big sister in our family.

Blowing out all three candles.

So excited over her Ariel dress.

Helping her Minnie Mouse friend down the slide.

She loves Ariel so much its scary!!! (this picture is so funny I had to post it!)

Maisy's Five & Six Months!

The older she gets, the less I remember to take a picture of this girl on her actual 'month-days'. She sure is a sweet and cute baby. She is getting too big, sitting up, eating baby food, trying to crawl, and is teething -- and a joy to have in our home. She is the happiest girl as long as Mommy is close by, she doesn't let me get too far.

Here she is a five months, just a cute little smiley bug!

Here at six months she is making her 'I'm not really smiling, but I am' face. She just loved that almost smile for quite a while, little faker ;)

We love our Maisy!!!

Our Big Girl!

Emmy is finally potty trained! Okay, she's been potty trained for over a month now - ha! I have just not posted about it! Here is a picture of her picking out her big girl undies! She just had to have Brobee undies, she loves him so much! For those of you that don't know who he is, go to UTube and look up 'party in my tummy' by Yo Gabba Gabba. Its awesome!!!
And Yes, Emmy is the goofiest picture subject!!!

Maisy three months and four!!!

Maisy has been such a sweet baby! She is definitely a different person than her big sis! She is finnicky and a total Mommy's girl, but yet so happy and sleeps so well!

Here she is at three months and four months. You can definitely tell she and Emmy are sisters!

Halloween!

Halloween was so much fun for Emmy. In the morning she got Halloween pancakes, and loved them.

For lunch she had Halloween mac and cheese. Kraft makes a Halloween shapes one, and it was a hit! She ate the whole box!

When night time came, we were running a bit late so I thought I would just get pictures after the trunk or treat. Emmy had been talking about 'going to Halloween' all week and was so excited. She really got into the whole people give me candy just cause I ask for it thing. She loved trick or treating at the park we went to. Emmy was so excited for Halloween that I thought she would just pee her pants once we got there . . . oh yeah, she did. Sooooooo, there is not a picture of our cute little 'duckie' from Halloween as the duck got a little wet before we got any pictures. Next year, note to self, take pictures before the trunk or treat.

Maisy, however, we did get some pictures of. Daddy took them while Mommy cleaned up the mess the duckie made :)

Wasn't she the cutest little stinker? Loved her costume, she was a skunk, I know you can't see the tail. But she was so cute. Someone at the park actually thought she was a doll. But nope, she's our real little stinker.

Remiss: Exhibiting carelessness or slackness.

So that about sums it up! I have been busy adjusting to two kids, got flooded out of our house for a couple months, Dan's at school all day every day, got a new job, etc. etc. etc. So, here's a quick run down of what's been going on.

Flood: When Maisy was 3 weeks old we came home to several inches of water in the living half of our house!

Starting in the bathroom, and stretching to both bedrooms, hall, and laundry area. Luckily it did not get the other half of our house or we would have had no place to move all our furniture to keep it from getting ruined. Here is what our house looked like for the two months we had to wait for the insurance company to get repairs etc done.

So while we couldn't live at our house, we did what anyone else would do. Stayed with the parents. So grateful for that. Don't know what else we would have done! Thanks MOm and Dad!

During our stay at Mom and Dad's we had a visit from Aunt Nanny (or Manny, to Emmy). It was so fun! We just hung out, did a little swimming (actually not me, couldn't yet cause of surgery), hit up a kid's museum, and had a great time! We miss you already Aunt Nanny!!! Come back soon!!!

We also went to visit Roger and Kelly! We love to see them and Emmy had a blast watering all the desert plants that probably don't really need that much water!!!

Utah Peach season is always something I look forward to! This year I only made a couple pies, as the peaches didn't seem to be a sweet. This raspberry peach one was a favorite for sure!

Maisy turned one month old, and two months old at her grandparents house :)

One month:

In between one and two months (I love this pic, its so Maisy):

Two months:

She was also blessed. What a special day for her. She is the sweetest thing, and we are so grateful for her. Here are a couple pics from her blessing day. Emmy had to get in on the picture taking, and was so sweet to her sis.