Our Little Family

Choke hold on the girls

Our cute little kids

Our Family Christmas 2008

Me squishing the girls

Me and my handsome husband! He is so HOT!

I cant believe that this is the last day of 2008!!!! Where has the time gone? A lot has happen this year. We laughed and cried together. We moved. We had a busy year. The thing I want to remember the most about 2008 is how much my husband loves me. How he works so hard at 2 jobs so that I can fulfill my dream of being a stay at home mom. He is so loving and patient with me, I couldn't have asked for a better partner in life. I wanted to write this so that I could show him just how much he is loved and appreciated. I truly married my best friend. We have a lot of hopes and dreams for 2009 and I know with a lot of work and sacrifice we can make our dreams come true. I love you Matt, thank you for being my everything!

Going Sledding

The kids went sledding with there Dad, Papa, Aunt Julie and Uncle Nate. I stayed home with Emily since my foot was still hurting and I don't have any snow boots. They had a blast. I am so glad that Matt had a couple of days off of work the kids sure have missed him. He is such a wonderful husband and father.

Ice Skating

So the kids aunt Julie is a Professional Ice skater, and her and Nate work at the Ice Rink in Logan. So we decided to take the kids ice skating. Even though the suitcase fell out of the car and the corner of it landed on the top of my foot, I still attempted to skate. I didn't last very long. :) Rodney was scared to death and cried so I made him try for about 2 min and then he was done. Karlee was very nervous about it but with some coaxing from me and Julie she skated some and Emily was the superstar! She loved it. Aunt Julie went around with her and she had the biggest smile and then aunt Kirsten let her stand with her help and she could of stayed there all day she thought she was so cool, and she was :)

Merry Christmas Emily

Merry Christmas Emily! This is your second Christmas, last year you were 2mths old so you were way to little to have any clue as to what was going on. So this year it was a lot of fun to watch you reading books under the Christmas tree. Watch as you eyes lite up every time the Christmas tree lights were on. It was a lot of fun. I am sure when you are older you will think that your mom is silly for making you and your sister match, but I love it! Maybe when your a mom one day you will do it too! :)

Lulu for Christmas you got a bunch of new clothes, books, a Dr set, farm set, Dora chair and a cell phone. You are such a fun and happy baby. Always know that you are loved by the Savior and your family. I know that I said that part to all 3 of you but it is so true. You are such a special part of this family. love you Emmalous

Merry Christmas Karlee 2008

Karlee Merry Christmas! I cant believe you are 5 yrs old. It feels like yesterday I brought you home from the hospital and we placed you under our Christmas tree and thought that you were the greatest gift that we could of ever asked for. You had a ton of fun at your Grandma and Papa Bros house. It was so fun to see them and your many aunts and uncles who adore you.

Santa was very good to you this year he must of know just how much you help out your mom and your little brother and sister.You also got an apron, both you and your brother love to help in the kitchen, cute clothes, Hannah Montana and Troy and Gabriella barbie, a castle tent and slippers. I hope you know how much the Savior loves you too and your family loves you too. Thanks for being such an angel.

Merry Christmas Rodney 2008

Merry Christmas Rodney! Rodney you are 2 1/2 and the sweetest little boy I have ever known. I hope you know how loved you are. For Christmas this yr you really wanted to be a cowboy singer. So Santa brought you a cowboy hat, cowboy boots, and a guitar. You have been rocking out and loving it. You also got an awesome Cars rug that you can drive your cars on, car slippers, a car chair, clothes and an apron to help your mom in the kitchen. I know you are so little that you probably wont remember this Christmas but just remember how much you are loved by the Savior and by your family.

I love it when the girls match

Making Gingerbread Men

We decorated Gingerbread men on Christmas Eve and I made my famous sugar cookies, and they all got eaten before I got a picture of them, but the kids had a ton of fun. Also we always let the kids open 1 present from us and of course it was new P.J's and of course the girls had matching ones. I tried so hard to find a blue pair for Rodney to match the girls but I couldn't find any. It was fun cuz Grandma let the kids open a present also and the kids all got a Christmas fleece blanket and a Christmas pillow case. Matt said when they would growing up on Dec. 1 every yr they would put there Christmas pillowcases on there pillows. I thought that was so cute. So now the kids each have one. I have a lot of pictures so they are in one of them.

Big Boy Undies!!!!!!

I am so proud of my little boy I should of posted this 2 wks ago. But with the holidays coming I got a little behind. I was really scared to potty train a little boy. Karlee took a few days and it was a piece of cake she was potty trained right before she turned 2. I also potty trained Hannah the little girl I nannied for 2 yrs. Everyone told me that boys were so hard and that I should wait until he was 3. But having 2 kids in diapers for the last year has been getting really expensive so I thought I would give it a try and see how he did. I am so proud of him he wore pull ups for 2 days and then I told him that diapers were only for babies and he was done. He only wanted Big boy undies and he has been dry for the last several wks. He stays dry all day and all nite. I am so glad that it was easier than I thought and It has been so nice just to have Emily in diapers. And it only took a couple of days and a ton of potty treats! :)

What a BIG BOY!

He is so proud of himself! We are proud of you too!

Neighbor Gifts

Me and the kids put these cookie mix jars together for our friends and neighbors. It was a ton of fun and the kids loved filling them with the chocolate chips. I still have 3 more I need to get out before Christmas it has just been so hard cuz the last wk it has been freezing!

Chocolate Chip cookie jars

These make the best cookies ever!

Merry Christmas!

Funny Friday

So earlier this week I had my awesome friend Candice help try and teach me how to do Karlee and Emilys hair. She has 3 girls and there hair always looks amazing. She whipped out "her tools" and got to work I wish I would of remembered to take a picture of there hair it looked so beautiful!

Well on Friday she brought us over a Christmas present which was a box of my own "tools" to do the girls hair and some amazing treats called "pieces of heaven" I was so happy about the gift it was so thoughtful and and I love it! In it was a Squirt bottle, a container with plastic rubber bands, a container to separate colored rubber bands, color rubberbands, bobby pins, and a bunch of hair bows. Seriously loved the gift sooooooo much.

Well later Karlee was looking at the candies and she said, "Mom these don't look like Jesus treats" I laughed so hard I told her they were not Jesus treats they were called pieces of heaven.

I love my little Karlee, the funniest things come out of her mouth.

Reading a Book under the Christmas Tree

Emily was sitting in an upside down chair under the Christmas Tree reading a book that was also upside down. I had to take a picture it was so cute!

Dress Up

The kids were down playing in the girls room while I was cleaning and then Karlee started to laugh and told me to come and look. She had put one of her dress up dresses on Emily and a necklace. She looked so cute. The part that I loved was that you could tell she felt so pretty. She was very mad when we had to take it off.

She is so cute!

I love her cute little teeth!

What a beauty!

Rodneys school Christmas Party

We went to Rodneys Christmas Party last wk so I guess that means we have seen Santa 3 times! It was a lot of fun the kids got to jump on bubble wrap and what kid doesn't think that is awesome. They made Christmas ornaments that we have put on our Christmas tree. They got to decorate a cookie, make a cotton ball snowman and tons more. But most importantly they got to see Santa. We had a ton of fun! Rodney is getting so BIG and strong I love to see him growing up into such a sweet and handsome lil guy.

Christmas Sing Along

I wish I would of gotten better pictures but last nite we went with our good friends the Griffiths to the Energy Solutions Arena and all of the tickets were free, everyone got a free hot dog and soda, a ticket to the Nascar Race that Larry H Miller owns, a ticket to a Bees game, a small popcorn voucher at the MegaPlex and we got 5 of each of these tickets for our whole family and all for freeeeeeee!!! I guess they do this every year, so this is our new family tradition. The Arena was almost full and it was so fun to have that many people singing Christmas songs with an orchestra playing. Also they had a live feed to some of the soldiers in Iraq and they were singing and dancing too, it was so awesome.

The kids had a ton of fun the only problem was when Rodney stood up in his chair so he could see Santa better, his seat flipped up and his leg got closed up in it. It took a min to get his leg out cuz he had his boots on then it took him a while to calm down. I am so glad it isn't broken but he has a pretty good bruise in the shape of a ring going around his leg where it was stuck. I was so sad he got hurt.

Gymboree

Last week my sister and I took the kids to Gymboree. We had a coupon to attended a free class. The kids all had so much fun together. They sang songs, blew bubbles, climbed on all the toys, jumped on the trampoline, and tons more. I wish they could go all the time, but we sure enjoyed our free class.

Santa Claus is coming to town

Merry Christmas! Gosh I cant believe this year is almost over, the time sure flies by the older you get. This year we were really lucky and the kids got to see Santa twice! We went and say him at Baby's R Us and then we got to see him at our ward party. Karlee made sure to let him know that we would be at Grandma and Papa Bros so to bring there presents there.

This is the first year Rodney didn't completely freak out!!!!

He got a little worried when Karlee got down

Emily didn't like Santa at all!

Karlee forgot to ask him what kind of cookies he wanted so she had to go back. Can you believe he said Chocolate Chip. I said don't you love Sugar Cookies too! Hint Hint** He said yes those were his favorite.

Cousin Whitney was terrified of Santa

The kids at the ward party. Emily didn't even know she was sitting with Santa she thought she was with Karlee.

Welcome to Hell

We had been running around a bunch yesterday and then went over to our friends house and as soon as we got out of the car Karlee said, "Welcome to Hell" my jaw dropped to the ground and I tried really hard not to laugh and I asked her where the hell did you hear that? J/k I said where in the world did you hear that and she quickly responded, "oh on Ratatouille" I kindly told her we don't say that. I have never caught that on that show. Its a good reminder to really pay attention to what our kids are watching.

Going to look at the Christmas Lights

I love to go to Temple Square and look at the lights. It is so fun that the kids are getting older and can enjoy it to so we bundle up the kids and grabbed Aunt Kirsten and went. I love the Salt Lake Temple, the lights, the statue of Christ, the horses pulling the carriages, I love it all. Then afterwards we went to Kirstens and listened to Christmas music and had hot chocolate. It was so much fun. We have been so busy this last week tomorrow will definitely be a pajama day:)

The Salt Lake Temple

Karlee and Rodney

What a bunch of cuties

Our little family

Me and my kiddos

Me and Emily

Me and the kids

Me and my girls

Karlee and Rodney sure love each other

Isn't this a beautiful picture

Kirsten and Emily trying to keep warm

The kids on the way home

Hello Kitty Birthday Party

Karlee wanted to have a Hello Kitty birthday party. So I was pretty nervous about making the cake but I think that it turned out really great. We played pin the bow on hello kitty and hello, hello kitty (instead of duck duck goose) It was a ton of fun. Happy Birthday Karlee! We sure love you!


Kids waiting for the cake

I don't think Karlee has ever laughed so hard in her life!

Birthday girl getting hosted

She loved every minute of it!

Jenasi and Karlee

Kamarie, Karlee and Tenaya

Rodney crashed in the middle of the party

All the kids from the party

The Decorations

Hello Kitty Cake

Karlee trying to teach Rodney how boys should pose.

Karlee modeling her new boots! She really wanted boots to match her coat.