Family date night

I love taking Marlee out to eat, she can finally sit at the table in her own chair! She usually just gets salad bar fruits and veggies and if she is lucky they will have pasta and jello! I have about 10 pictures of Marlee stuffing her face, but once again they will not upload.



Diana got us hired on with her at Shelf Reliance. She was our supervisor for a while until she was moved to graveyards. We used to have movie night/sleep over nights at our house when we all worked the same shift. Not so much anymore. Tiffany is our adopted daughter. She works with us as well and is just the funnest person to be around!



We cant go out without taking one of these famous goofy pictures. One day we will have a video montage of them all.



Hillary came as well! None of her photos from dinner would upload so she is just being introduced into the night here! We went bowling after dinner. It was an hour wait so everyone else played pool while we waited. Marlee was amazed by all the noises and little kids running around. Im happy she is so adventurous and social. She will crawl up to any kid and want to play, when she gets there she usually doesnt know what to do, but at least she is making friends!





There were a lot of fun pictures not included, check out facebook. It takes all my pictures and shows them to the world. Pretty sure I won, but Im not 100%, but I think I did. All I know is David didnt! HA! Can you tell we are competitive?

Marlee's room gets a make over!

We finally have a room to decorate for our baby! Now that she is a year old. I have been trying to upload the pictures for 3 days now and this is the only one that will show up. This is why I dont blog!
My mom came over and helped me because I am not as crafty as she is. She bought some little white shelves that are above Marlee's crib with stuffed animals and baby blocks. I went to Ross and bought some wall decorations for super cheap! I think I spent 8 dollars on Moo's room and it turned out really cute! Maybe my computer did this on purpose, so now you HAVE to come to my house to see the rest of it, good thinking crappy computer!!

Since we last posted.....

It has been a LOOOONG time since I have posted anything. Our camera broke and I just couldnt bring myself to post without any pictures. SO to catch up on things, Christmas was small, but amazing! Since we didnt think we were going to be able to afford anything at all! We were surprised with some money to spend on Marlee. She got her blocks and penguin, some cute outfits and her Christmas Dress.
The rest has gone by so fast I can hardly remember it all! For a few weeks we stayed at Aunt Teresas house while David and I worked temp jobs. Marlee had a lot of fun with her cousins, Teresa may have some pics of that.
We moved to Orem! David and I are both working at a food storage company called Shelf Reliance. We get family discounts ;)
Taxes were done and with the extra money after bills I got a new camera!! Time to start blogging!

Mar updates:

She now has 4 teeth on top and 3 on bottom
She will stand up with out leaning or holding onto things
She is a speed racer crawler
She sleeps in her crib in her OWN ROOM every night all the way thru
She would rather eat real food than her baby food
Sippy cups are finally being used

Oh and she is almost 1 YEAR OLD!!!

Photo Shoot with Maren

This is the BEST picture of Marlee I will ever get!



Braxton Marlee and Jaiden



Braxton looks adorable!




Jaiden is the cutest!








I love her clueless face!






Thank you Maren! You have seriously got some talent! I am so in love with these pictures!! I just want more!

Drop Dead Julio

Daddy danced with her



Maybe she thought she would crowd surf?


She is their smallest fan!


While we stayed with Teresa, Darin has a friend who is in a band, and was playing that night. Tickets were only 6 dollars so we decided to go with. Darin ended up not feeling well so he stayed home. It was an adventure in itself just to find the place! In the middle of down town I swear we could have been mugged...and it was freezing. We finally found the place thanks to Teresa and her loudness and being able to ask random people where to go.
It was a cute little garage band type of place. There was a fire pit outside, a little ticket booth and the "garage" where the band performed. That is pretty much what it was. The size of maybe a 2 car garage with a window and a stage.
David danced around with Marlee for a few songs, she even got a shout out from the lead singer and he threw her a t-shirt. Mine now. Then I started to worry about it being too loud for her. So I bundled her up and we went outside. We could watch the band from the window and Marlee fell asleep while the concert ended. We just HAD to get pictures of her with them...it was her first concert!
When Whitnee and Anna were her with us in the summer, Darin took Anna to one of the shows and she had a crush on the drummer. I made sure Teresa got a picture of him to show her :)

Weekend at Teresas

Marlee can now pull herself to standing, while Rocky was in his bouncer she decided he needed something to eat


and she thought it was pretty funny.


We spent last weekend up at Teresas house. 2 nights away from my big comfy bed was too much! We are used to staying overnight when we go since it is such a journey to get there we have to make it worth it! It was really nice to just be able to sit at their HOUSE and just hang out. We didnt have any plans so we were able to just talk and enjoy the company.
Daylon was "bored" the whole time and that got annoying real quick...but what can ya do? We played a game of Monopoly, we all thought Rain would be the one to be slow and bug us during the game....nope it was Daylon the bored one. Eventually we all quit but David claims he would have won.
We played a lot of cards too. Teresa made fajitas for dinner one of the nights and dang they were gooood!! The kids didnt like them luckily so we all got a ton. David and I bought pie for dessert but since the kids wouldnt eat the dinner we decided they didnt deserve dessert. Mom gave in and gave them all a tiny slice before bed. Not one of them finished it tho because David gets this nasty rasellberry something or another, its gross!
Fun weekend, but we can wait to do it again. I like coming home to my bed :)

Sniffles the Bear

We decided it was time for Marlee to make her very first Build-a-Bear! We got a gift certificate from the Navajo rug show to the Cheesecake Factory. While we waited for the huge line to be seated we walked around the mall.



David looks more excited than Marlee does. We picked out a little voice box that says "I love you"



Usually the kids will step on the paddle to stuff the bear, so we just sat her little bum on the paddle, she didnt like it after this.



She got to pick a heart and kiss it (well slobber on it) and stuff it in the bear. It was cute, she actually let it go like she knew what she was doing.



Bath time for the pair! I dont really know what the point of the tub in here is, maybe just for fun for the kids? Mar didnt like it too much.



We are ready to adopt!


She just found her new best friend!

It was cute when she went to bed that night I put Sniffles in the crib with her and when I came back to check on her she was cuddled up to him. We chose the name because it seems that since birth she has had a stuffy or runny nose. We just are not that creative either!