Christmas at the cabin!

Addy playing with her new baby

Emerie opening her doll from Santa

What a great family!!!

the girls playing basketball and ski ball with Lukey

Briggs Family

Mimi and Papa

Eerkes Family

Johnson Family

Christmas eve stockings

Savvy and Bee, should've turned it around...oops! My beautiful nieces!

Jer on the sled

almost all the grand kids

the girls favorite snow activity......eating snow!

Maddy Jane in her sled

sledding buddies

This year we got to spend a relaxing and snow filled, and smog free Christmas at the cabin! This year was especially fun because the girls are bigger and were excited for Santa to come, that is until they actually met him. Then when we would ask if they wanted Santa to some, they would say NO! But if we would throw in there that Santa might bring them a toy if they were good, that made them consider letting him come. Christmas eve, we did all of the traditions from a HUGE food buffet, matching jammies(which my mom made this year.....yes, she is superwoman), to our Christmas eve stockings that are jam packed with wonderful things from Mimi and Papa. After all of that excitement it was time to put the kids down to bed. Waking the girls up on Christmas was fun! They smiled for probably two seconds and then they were done and ready for a nap. UNTIL they got to open their first present from Santa, which was a baby Ariel doll complete with baba's and little Graco cribs. It was so much fun watching the excitement on all the kids faces. The next day the boys made a sledding hill complete with a jump.(my tail bone is still bruised) We just spent our time up at the cabin having fun with each other, relaxing, reading, watching movies, sledding, snowmobiling and the kids playing from sun up to sun down! What a wonderful Christmas filled with lots of love, family, and good memories!!!

Early Christmas, WWF, and pretty dresses

Addy

Nems, or as Addy has started calling her Neberie

They both started screaming when they saw it:)

Their pony's

The reining champion!

Poor Nems!

They sort of smiled! Yay!

We just received a package at our door from Uncle Mike and Aunt Kelsey in Washington. We got to open it and have a little bit of an early Christmas since we will be at the cabin and have limited room to take things up there. As you can see from the pictures, the girls LOVE to open presents and loved what they were!!! I have been wanting to get them one of these play things, but we decided on the play kitchen this year instead. I am listening to ear piercing squeals of delight right now:)Thanks Mike, Kelsey, Brogan, Asher, Ellie and Baby Everett!!! I can see many hours of fun from all of your gifts!

The girls got their Christmas dresses early too since we will be gone the Sunday after. They were a huge hit and everybody kept saying how pretty they looked! Even though they are still tiny little things I can't believe how big they are getting and all they are learning right now! Saying sentence after sentence! How blessed we are to have these two little angels(most of the time) in our home!!!

Last, but not least, they love to wrestle, well, actually, Addy loves to wrestle! She will jump on Emerie and laugh and laugh. Most of the time Emerie thinks it's pretty funny too! They are so funny to watch and listen to. I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season!

Matt's graduation, trip to the cabin and some other random pics!!!

Addy

Emmy

Emerie has decided she needs just about every stuffed animal she has to go to sleep!

Addy has decided she needs to sleep with her flip flops on! At least if their is a fire I will only have to put shoes on one child

New snow clothes!

sort of like the little brother from Christmas Story:)

Cousin bath with Maddy

Maddy crawled up the stairs for the first time

She's not even mine and I can't believe how fast she has grown!

I love when my dad smiles like this! I can hear the laugh that goes with it!

So official!

So, this post is a little belated. Matt graduated with his associates degree and I had taken him out to celebrate, but my parents wanted to throw a little surprise party to say congrats! So, we had everyone come to my parents house and yelled surprise when he walked in. My dad has this robe, that I'm not even sure how old it is, and they made him his very own hat and yes, we even had a ceremony and everything! It was cheesy, but so much fun! I can't even say how proud I am of Matt! It has been so much work and sacrifice, and he only has a year left till his bachelors and then we can rest.......until he starts his masters!(sigh) It has been so worth it though! What a hard worker he is and I am so lucky to be married to him and love him so very much! On a side note, the picture that is just above this post is EXACTLY like one taken of my brother Ryan when he graduated. It made me tear up, but happy tears with happy memories of my brother! I sure love my family!

The other pics are just some random ones from a trip to the cabin with their new snow clothes from Mimi! They love the snow this year, which is good cause last year they just sat in it and cried!

Holiday Boutique

So on December 12, we have the opportunity to be a part of a holiday boutique with a variety of vendors. In addition to our baby boutique items there will also be vendors with,
handmade jewelry
Temple art
Discovery toys
crochet hats
Scentsy
scrapbook and digital scrapbook pages
and
custom embroidery

The boutique will run from 10 am to 5 pm and the address is 9870 S Yorkshire Drive (4200 W)
Come out and get some great gifts for the people on your list!!!

Halloween

Just hangin out watchin football

They did get a little bugged with the wings, but did want to put them on first thing this morning!

showin Dad

showin dad too!

Is it too much to ask that they smile for me?!?! Apparently YES!

Nems is ready to go!

Addy with Bee

They needed a drink before they went out!

So we got the girls in their costumes and made the rounds in our neighborhood, which didn't take long cause almost no one was home. So we headed over to Kimmies hood to get the good haul!!! The kids got the scare of their lives at the Halloween house, which had all the blow up lawn ornaments, to creepy little red eyed midgets on their porch. Both girls screamed bloody murder and got a king size candy bar from the owners of the home! SCORE! It was a fun night and we got to go trick or treating with Maddy for her very first Halloween. She couldn't have cared less, but everyone thought we had the 3 cutest fairies ever!

St. George trip

apple picking!

obviously Kim hadn't fed Maddy for awhile, as she is trying very hard to eat that foot:)

blowing out the candles

Christian

The closet was a favorite game for the girls

again, the closet

my mom, Am, Dan, Dad and Kim

They were DONE for the day, and didn't hesitate to tell me!

Baby Maddy displaying one of our flowers!

So we took our boutique on the road and went to St. George for the What Women Want expo. First of all it was so warm down there, and even though we were only outside for a few minutes every day, it was beautiful! We left on Thursday, and the girls had gotten sick from their shots and vaccinations the week before, so we were hoping that they would be better. We got about 3/4 of the way down there when Emerie puked. This is probably a little bit of sweet justice for my parents, as I was always throwing up in the car. NOT FUN! So we cleaned up and let her get some fresh air and got back on the road. We got there and had picked up Christian (who is 16 now WHAT!) and went to the hotel where Emerie proceeded to throw up all over the carpet. Good thing she's cute! So we cleaned it and her up and were getting ready for bed when Addy was sitting with my mom (wearing her white sweater, I might add) when Addy decided to join the party and puke on my mom and in her bed! So, this was how we started our trip! Luckily the rest wasn't as bad, we just worked and laughed and ate yummy food and drank way too much diet coke!

On the last night we celebrated Christian's 16th, yes 16th birthday. I sure love that kid! And any of you who knew my brother and what he looked like, know this is his kid for sure! He is growing up to be such a good kid! (he would totally be embarrassed by me saying this:)

The next morning we met my aunt Julie for breakfast and then headed out! We got to stop in Nephi on the way home and visit with my Grandpa. He sent us home with bags of apples from his tree, which are some of the best apples I've ever had!!!

Anyways, it was a short and eventful weekend that was best spent with my family!