Getting so big!

Areya Mae

8 years old

She loves doing crafts.

Her favorite snack is popcorn.

Is in second grade.

Her favorite food is waffles.

Loves to paint, cut and color.

Is full of energy.

Her favorite colors are pink and light blue.

Aniela

4 years old

Loves unicorns.

She is very smart.

Her favorite colors are purple and red.

She is in preschool.

Is always saying the funniest things.

Her favorite food is pickles.

She likes spending time with mommy.

Taevin Aleksander

22 months

Always has a smile for you.

Loves cars and trains.

His favorite snack is fruit.

Has 11 teeth.

Likes to run and play.

Can sign about 20 words.

Is a guys guy.

33 years

Happy 33rd Birthday to Damian!

(I think this is the only baby picture we have of him)

Happy Birthday honey! We love you so much and are so lucky to have you as a husband and father! Thank you for all your hard work and for providing for our family. We hope you enjoy your Ruger Mini 14 (rifle).

Love,

Areya, Aniela, Taevin and Liz

Sleeping Beauty

It's always fun to see where we will find Aniela asleep. She is so funny and finds the weirdest position and places to fall asleep. Some nights when checking on the girls we have to really search for Aniela. She has been behind the door, in the closet, under the bed and desk.

I may have posted a few of these before so sorry if they are repeats.

I think she was eating before she crashed.

I think she was pouting and fell asleep

I love that her head is propped up on the sofa.

Under the desk

Under the bed.

Once we couldn't see her at all and had to get down on the floor to find her.

On her sister

On the fire place

Standing

and my all time favorite...................

in the laundry basket!!!

Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas 2011

I know it's now March and I'm a few months late posting these but I have been super busy. Better late then never.

Christmas Eve jammies

Taevin was a little more into Christmas this year. He was more then happy to just open one present and play with it but of course we kept taking it away and giving him more to open. This year he was really into trains so he got some more Geo track and his favorite gift was his first set of Hot Wheels with track.

Aniela was super excited to see that Santa came and that the milk, cookies and carrots (for the reindeer) were gone. She still loves any thing Dora, unicorns, barbies and puzzles. Her favorite this year was the HUGE unicorn from Aunt Shaylee, Uncle Tj and Beau. Thanks guys!!!!

Areya was super excited about all her gifts too. She asked for arts & craft stuff and was lucky enough to get lots of them. I asked her to hold up her favorite and this is what she picked. Thanks Aunt Shaylee, Uncle Tj and Beau! She has spent many hours painting and doing crafts.

Damian was the video man this year but I did get a quick picture of him opening a gift. Doesn't he look so excited. He had to work that day and was pretty tired.

Uncle Matt got some white church shirts & ties from us. Those white shirts should come in handy when he goes through the temple later this year. The kids gave him a picture frame with pictures of them to hang in his room.

Here are the kids in the dresses/outfit my Grandma Lee made for them. She does it every year and the kids look forward to getting and wearing them. She does an amazing job! Thanks Grandma Great, we love you!!!

We didn't have snow for Christmas this year but when we finally did get some the kids couldn't wait to get out there and play.

Thanks everyone who sent gifts and cards, we love and miss you all so much!!!

Nature

These are just a few pictures I took.

Aren't they beautiful!

Getting crafty!

I've been super busy but in between appointments I found a little time to make a few crafts. I credit most of these to the weekly craft days with my friends from church, (Thanks ladies) but I did get o few of these done on my own.

Fabric wreath

Tissue paper trees

Block turkey

Stick and fabric teepee

Tissue paper jars

Book pumpkins

Bead spiders

Flower head bands

Hair clips

Hair clip holder

Bead bracelets

3 ring binder scrapbook

So much fun, can't wait to see what we / I make next.

Cancun / Hurricane Rina

For our anniversary trip we had planned to go to the Bahamas but they were hit by Hurricane Irene and our hotel was damaged so that trip was canceled. So we booked our trip to Cancun, little did we know that a hurricane would hit there too.

Thursday was our anniversary and also the day of the hurricane. It rain most of the day and the ocean was getting crazy. Damian got food poisoning so we just spent the day in our room watching tv. By the end of the day things really got crazy outside. The wind and rain were insane and the thunder and lighting were so loud and bright it seemed like it was in our room.

The next morning was still a bit cloudy but the ocean was calm and left lots of treasures and trash on the beach. We walked the beach and were able to find some amazing shells.

A little later we went swimming and finally got a little sun.

By the end of the day the sky was mostly clear.

Us bright and early (4am) Saturday morning waiting for our ride to the airport. Time to go home and see my babies!

Oh and just for fun I saw this sign and it made me laugh, thought I would share.