Friend Birthday Party!

This month was Paige's 6th Birthday!!! I cannot believe that she is already 6. It still feels like yesterday that she was born. I love this little girl so much. She is such a fun part of our family.

So for her birthday she had a few friends over for a pajama party.

They decorated and ate their own cupcakes.

We painted their nails. Blake even helped me do this!

Here is a picture of all of them with their stuffed animals.

Whitney, Paige, Averi, Bailey, Natalie, and Kortney.

They all had so much fun. The next day we had a family party for her. Pics to come.

Got Sleep?!?!?!?

The other day I sat down to feed Eli and looked over and Rylee was sound asleep on the stairs. It was the cutest thing ever. And then this morning we went out to the kitchen and got breakfast, as we were waiting for Blake and Paige Rylee fell asleep on the table. So stinkin' funny!

Christmas Activities

We had so much fun at home for Christmas. We stayed at my Mom and step-dad's house and got to hang out with all the family.

This is my niece, Mattea, she is the cutest little thing. Her hair is hillarious and so I would do it every morning when she would come over.

Rylee loves her Pappa. One night it was really quiet and so I went in search of her and found her curled up next to him asleep. It was so cute.

My sister, her boyfriend, my soon to be sister-in-law, Blake, and I went downhill skiing. It was really cold and got foggy near the end but we loved it. It brought back a lot of memories. I started skiing when I was 3 and we would spend almost evey weekend up there when I was little.

This is my dad with the kids. It was nice to be able to hang out with him and my step mom at their new house.

This is my Grandma. She is the sweetest lady and she just loves babies.

We also went sledding at the golf course with some of my cousins. We laughed a ton that day.

Here is Blake, Rylee, John, and my mom watching from the top of the hill.

We also got to spend a lot of time with my dad's side of the family. All of my grandparents' kids, grandkids, and great grandkids were home for the first time in years.

On Christmas Eve we had my brother, his fiance, and kids over for an appetizer night. We tried some new recipes and they were really good.

My kids loved it when Uncle Mark was around.

Christmas Vacation Part 1

For our Christmas vacation this year we went home to Canada!! This was the first time we had been to my families so it was a lot of firsts for Blake.

So we packed our 8 suitcases, 5 carryons, 3 children, 2 adults, and stroller in here,

And we drove,

to Vegas! We got to walk some of the strip which was really cool. Blake had never been to Vegas before and it had been 20 years since I had been.

This was inside the Belagio hotel.

We stayed at the Tuscany Suites and Casino. It was really cheap, really big rooms, and near the strip. If you ever stay in Vegas I would reccomend staying here.

The next morning we got onto this plane and went to see our family.

Eli meets Santa

Big boy now

Eli thinks he is a big boy now. He can't sit up for very long but he does it for about 30 seconds. It is so cute. I got hime weighed yesterday and so at 5 1/2 months he is 16 lbs. He is the most smily baby ever and oh so very sweet!!

Got Mush??? or Green Beans

Eli has been eating baby cereal and food for about 6 weeks now and absolutely loves it. He eats a ton of it. When he is really hungry he will start crying for more before you he even swallows the bite that he has in his mouth. It is hillarious. He makes a mess but has fun doing it. He eats cereal, grean beans (pictured here), squash, and carrots. He is like his mamma and hates peas. He will down an intire jar of anything else but when it comes to peas I have to fight to get a few bites in him.

Photo Shoot

A few Saturdays ago Blake and I decided to take pictures of the kids. So here is what we got.

Eli is 4 months old in them. At the time he was 13 lbs 9 oz and 25 inches long.

Salt Lake

We finally broke down and decided that we need to get a car for Blake. So we went looking and couldn't really find anything around here so we woke up on Friday morning and thought what the heck lets go to Slat Lake and get one. So we hopped in the car and headed out. We lucked out and bought the first one we saw. We got an amazing deal on it. While we were waiting for the guy to put new tires on it and stuff we headed over to the Temple. It was a beautiful day out and so fun to walk around.

Pumpkin Carving

For Family Home Evening last Monday we carved our pumpkins. I realized that I must be allergic to the inside of pumpkins cause as I was carving them I got hives on my forearm. So Blake had to finish. The girls had a blast designing the faces.

The finished result