Movie Time

Time for a movie with some friends.

It's a Sign

This is Abby eating her goldfish. The cracker that is.


This is Abby asking for "more". It's baby sign. And it's so darn cute!




And this is Abby wondering why mom is taking pictures when she's already asked nicely for more food.


Fine then, Mom, whatever...

Not really. Can you imagine a one year old with that kind of attitude. Imagine the terrible twos!

If mom won't put down that silly camera and feed me, I'll just drink my milk.

The Bribe

This year I actually planned ahead and took some Valentine's Day/Abby's first birthday pictures. And I didn't take a few...







Madie wasn't into the rocking chairs, so just my oldest and youngest...


Outtake...


I found these heart shaped lollipops in the dollar bin at Target. They were my bribe to get the kids to pose for me.








And the craziest thing of all...

...I did this ALL BY MYSELF!

No help from any other grown up and I managed to get all three of my kids to sit still long enough to snap a few.

Yay me!

One!

My baby turned one! I can't believe it. This was one of those super fast years, and I'm almost sad she's getting big already.

She was the sweetest baby ever!

Happy
Content
Snugly
Sweet
Happy
Curious
Happy
Calm
Happy

Did I mention happy? She's almost always happy. People I see regularly, like friends and the other parents dropping their kids off at Kindergarten always comment on how they've never seen her cry. That's because she doesn't unless she has a very good reason, like her sister just kicked her in the face...again.

Happy


And she has way more hair than my other two did at her age, so that's fun too.

She LOVED all her first birthday presents. We got her this cash register, my parents got her this awesome dog you can gook up to the computer and program to say her name and favorite things, and Nathan's parents gave her a camera that plays music and lights up. All three were a huge hit!



Happy First Birthday Baby Girl!

Ignore the Paint

So you have to imagine this against a background of fresh, clean and crisp paint, perhaps grayish in color, but not a dark cave-like gray, a light and airy gray, a gray that I hope to have on my wall this time next year so the full cuteness of my banner shows through.

I bought a gallon of a brownish-tan paint, but I think I've changed my mind.

It's a girls prerogative.

I heard that on t.v. when I was little and it's always stuck in my head.

And the "this" I was talking about...

Abby's birthday banner. She turned one, you know.

It's super cute if you ignore all the awful paint samples slathered on my wall, and the other paint that is actually suppose to be there but was a dirty looking off white to begin with that then became dirty in real life and poked through by many, many nails and screws that nobody bothered to patch when they pulled out. Poor wall...I'll take care of you...when I can actually decide on a paint color.

The white back circle is made of coffee filters.

The pink paper is, well, pink paper, cut in a circle and lined with a sparkly glitter.

The letters are brown paper cut with a Cricut, Fancy Pants font, then painted with glue that I then dumped loads of Martha Stewart glitter on. I LOVE Martha Stewart glitter. It's the best glitter in the universe!



Now I just need to make a banner that says Madie, and I can reuse the Happy Birthday for her birthday.

Jared, on the other hand, might get mad at me if I pull it out for his birthday and try and call it a "bubble gum" birthday or a "cotton candy" birthday. No, I should be brainstorming something in blue or green, or maybe camo...

You've got to have the right tools.

Jared got a kids tool set for Christmas and Madie has taken a liking to this...

Photo A Day

So I joined this group with some of my friends where you take a photo a day and post it online.

Guess how long I lasted?

Hint: I just might be the worst photo-a-dayer ever.

1. Nathan on our 10th anniversary.


2.


3.


4. Jared lost his first tooth!


5.


That's right, five days. On the sixth day, it didn't even cross my mind to take a picture. I wasn't even putting it off and being lazy, I plain old forgot.

Christmas Morning

Only just over a month late...Christmas morning!


Nathan and Abby ready to document the event.

Christmas Eve with Three

We spent Christmas Eve at my parents and had a rousing game of...of...of...

...I don't know what you call it. But I do know you get play dough and mold words or phrases you draw from a hat and the first team to guess gets the point. FUN! Good pick, Thomas.

Here's a hodge-podge of pics from the night.

Sarah


Kristian and Peter. Lane was around there somewhere but I don't think I got his pic.


The only picture of Thomas.




A rare picture of me and Nathan together, if you can call being separated by the couch, together.


Then we took the kids home to open pj's.



Then we sent those kiddos off to bed to not sleep.

Graduation

Madie graduated from nursery! She had her first Sunbeam class yesterday and loved it. Yay! But before she moved up nursery had a graduation for the big kids moving up.


She's the only one who refused to wear their daddy's white shirt.


Grad Caps


Getting her certificate from the bishop.




Grandma came to watch.


And Abby got to visit and get a little taste of her future.