Snow Cave 2011

The weather got warm and so before all the snow melted away we decided to make a snow cave. Matt did most the work and made it plenty big enough for us to sit up and lay down in. It was pretty cool!

Thanks Uncle Matt it was lots of fun!!!

Valentine's 2011

For Valentine's Day I made hearts in both mine and Areya's hair. I did Aniela's too but didn't get a picture before she pulled it out.

They were pretty easy to do and didn't take that long either.

Look alike

I found Damian's baby picture the other and was amazed how much Taevin really does look like his daddy.

Damian (age unknown)

Taevin 9 months

Just for fun here is one of me to compare it to.

Liz about 6 months

January 2011 Pictures

My happy boy!!

8 Months old

Areya's snowman.

Aniela having a indoor snowball fight during preschool.

Taevin holding his bottle while asleep.

Good luck getting it away from him.

Sledding the Deja way.

Damian pulling the girls behind his tractor.

We got these lolly pops on clearance for 10 cents.

It was so funny to watch Taevin try to figure it out.

Taevin found my Kindle.

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

Most people are unaware that Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs)

are the most common birth defect in America, affecting

approximately one in one hundred, or 40,000 newborns each

year. CHDs are responsible for one third of all birth defect-

related deaths and sadly 20 percent of children who make it

through birth will not survive past their first birthday.

A few pictures from New Years 2011

For New Year's we just hung out at home, played games and ate junk food. It's was nice spending time as a family.

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas filled with the light of Christ and the ones you love.

In preparations for Christmas this year we got family pictures taken for our Christmas cards. (It only took 9 year to get one too) My Grandma also came up from Tennessee to spend Christmas with us.

Christmas Eve we went to the annual home away from home Christmas party. This is when the families of our ward that don't have family close by get together for dinner. This year we got to go to the Goates home. We had a great time and are super sad that they will be moving away in a few weeks time. A big thank you to the Goates family for having us over, we sure are going to miss you guys!

A little later that evening (after Damian got home from work) we had a Polish dinner prepared by Damian's mother. The tradition is to have 12 dishes with no meat. You are suppose to sample a little of each dish. I'm not so brave when it comes to new foods and I stuck to the non Polish food. Matt and Grandma on the other hand got brave a tried most of it. Taevin even tried some new things but ended up getting sick from it and throw up, poor kid. Thank you Babcia (Grandma) and Dziadek (Grandpa) for dinner.

After setting out the milk & cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer we headed off to bed. Christmas morning the kids slept in and had to be woke up so that we had time to open presents before Damian had to leave for work. Santa left lots of fun stuff and Grandma Great made the kids some beautiful outfits.

Here are the kids Sunday morning in their matching outfits. Thanks Grandma Great! They look so cute!

After seeing what Santa left it was time to tackle all the presents under the tree and boy were we spoiled this year. Thanks to all the family and friends who gave us gifts this year!

This was Taevin's first Christmas, he didn't really get the concept of ripping the paper but sure enjoyed it once it was off.

Aniela asked Santa for a unicorn this year and was very excited to have gotten one. (don't mind the huge bruise on her head, her and the wall had a small disagreement, looks like the wall won)

Here's Areya showing off her gift from Grandma and Grandpa Deja. They gave the kids some money and let them pick out their own gifts this year. She got a VReader.

We had a great Christmas spending time together watching the kids enjoy their Christmas gifts. We even got to Skype with my parents and one of my brothers back home in Utah. We love you all and really missed you this holiday season!

Getting ready for Christmas

To get in the Christmas mood this year we did a few projects.

First we made these cute snowmen out of cotton balls, fabric and chocolate chips.

Next we made snow globes out of baby food jars.

And then the traditional ginger bread house. This year we made 2

Not only were they fun easy projects but they were also a great way to keep the girls busy on Sunday afternoons.

Utah trip 2010

Just a few pictures from our trip.

They had the same outfits so we made them twins.

Beau is 3 months and Taevin is 6 months in this picture.

We did a photo shoot at home with Tj, Shaylee and Beau, my parents and the kids.

Here are a few pictures from that. Areya and Aniela in the outfits my mom got them.