Happy Holidays

We certainly hope you all enjoyed your Christmas as much as we did! We are really enjoying our winter vacation and are anxious for the wind to stop blowing so we can get out and enjoy the 12+" of snow we've gotten in the last 24 hours. There's even more on the way! Bean is absolutely loving the snow, she just wishes her face wasn't getting windburn so bad! She says we need to remember our sunscreen next time( to avoid the burn) I love her! Well Happy new year to all!

happy 1st birthday ADIELLE!

I hope you all enjoy this. Just a little something I threw together real quick to celebrate Adi's life so far. Sorry there aren't any pictures from the actual party yet, but they we'll be posted shortly. Thank you so much to our family that came to celebrate with us. Also to those of you that wanted to come and couldn't, we love you and understand that it's the thought that counts. Adi had a blast and ended her day in tears from exhaustion. Happy Birthday ADIELLE!! We love you so much, and are so grateful to share this life with you. Love~ Mom & Dada

This is my cute girl on New Years Day. We had a BBQ at the end of our street with all the neighbors. After we ate we went to the park and played a little softball. Weird for January 1st, but we're loving it!

This is Adi doing a little shadow chasing. Ahhh. . . to be a kid again. How many of you used to chase your shadows? I know I did!

Long Overdue Update

Well, I'm sorry it's been so long. We have been so busy since the new year. Now let me give you all an update. We had a great Christmas. We all got some great stuff. William splurged a little and got me a really nice digital camera. I love it, but I've misplaced the manual. William doesn't know though, so nobody tell him. He's already wanting to put tracking devices on everything I own. This would just be one more thing to add to that list. Anyway, I just got some rechargeable batteries for the camera, so hopefully you will be seeing a lot more photos on my new personal website (also part of my Christmas): www.capturingforever.com So far I mostly just have pictures of Adi, but coming this February, I will have my first Wedding shots! Janae, I might be calling you to get some helpful hints about lighting. Right now I'm taking pictures just for fun, but I'm hoping after I take my digital photography class I can get more serious and earn us some extra moola. We could definitely use it right now. Anyway, William has been asking me for a remote control airplane ever since I met him. And in order to be good R/C driver, without wrecking it the first time, they have this R/C Flight Simulator you can get for your computer. So I decided to get that for him. And when I see that his flight skills have improved then we'll talk about an actual airplane. My parents did Adi's Christmas this year. She got this fun ball popper toy, that we still haven't got batteries for. We even went to the store last night to get batteries for my camera and managed to completely forget the size D. Maybe on the next trip to Walmart. She also got Ant's in the Squarepants. Now I know this isn't exactly a toy for a 10 month old, but she loves it. She can't flip the ants yet on her own, but she laughs hysterically when I do it. Oh yeah! She also started walking a week before Christmas!! We were excited that she learned so quickly, but we sure have to chase her around a lot now. She eats everything, gets into everythng, and kisses everything. Yeah we're in trouble.
Anyway, since new years William has started taking online classes, ward basketball started for men and women, and Stephanie went back to work so I am watching Hunter now. Let's just say it's reassured me that I don't want more kids yet.
That's all for now. I'll try to post more frequently so they don't have to be so long.

Have you been elfed lately?

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1350322424

Go to this link to see my funny little family, then create one of your own!!

Christmas is Sharing? Or Staring?

Well so much for getting a good family picture. Adi couldn't stop staring at the guy. She wanted to tug on his beard so bad. Anyway, this was at our ward Christmas party on the 1st. Adi's firt time to see Santa. She did really well. She doesn't have a hard time going to new people, not even weird-old-harry guys. Hmmm. . . should I be worried about this? Nah, I'm sure I'm just being paranoid. We even tried to get a picture of just her and this was the result:

Better luck next time!