Brookes big girl bed!!

I sold the crib Saturday.  Yesterday (sunday) I painted some stripes on Brookes wall.  It was a lot of work and even tho her room didnt come out as I imagined it still looks super cute.  I keep my self from staying too long in her room because then my OCD traits start to come out and I don't want to bother because I'll just drive myself crazy. 

Last night was her first night in it and she did so awesome!  I walked her back to her room and put her up on her bed and told her to go night night like we do every night and I turned on her projector and music and walked out.  I didnt hear anything until 1230 this morning.  I went back in there and told her to lay back down and she did and I didn't hear anything from her until 6:30 this morning!!  For the last 3 months I have lost sleep because she didn't want to sleep in her crib and I wasn't sure what exactly she was trying to tell me.  I thought it may have been since Daniel has always slept with us and that she may have wanted to too.  Next time I will trust my motherly instincts!

Brooke is turning 2!

This morning I took the kids to the park.  Before getting the park I pulled off into a green area so I could take some pictures of Brooke for her Evite.  She has def come around to taking pictures.  She used to not look at me when taking pictures.  Now its hard to get a pic without the cheesy smile she gives me...I guess beggers can't be choosers!

Daniel has always been really good about taking pictures.  He wanted me to snap him.

And with Caleb...

Building Brookes Big Girl Bed!

We got Brooke a big girl bed, So on Christmas Eve Chris decies to put the bed together.  It didnt take us long.  Daniel sure enjoied helping out.  He loves building stuff with his dad.  Since making this bed she is yet to sleep in it.  We are still trying to sell her crib and dresser/changing table so we can have the money to go get her a mattress.  Plus, this furniture stinks!  It came new in the box but its hard to imagine how furniture new can stink so badly!  So we are hoping that the smell goes away soon so her clothes don't smell.

Now the trundle.

 And Brooke was sleeping (how else could we put it together so fast?), Daniel wanted some credit for helping put it together - so he wanted to pose with the bed.

And then he wanted me to get a picture of him on his bike....

Cutting down our first Christmas tree

A few weeks ago we went on our first Christmas Tree cutting trip.  We didn't pick the best weekend to go since we had a weekend full of storms coming up from the pacific but we kept in touch with family members as we went and had service.  We didn't have any problems going or coming back.  I was amazed on how many people continued to go through the snow and ice unprepared and unequipped like they were. 

The pic above is off the beeline.  We were taking a potty break and this is right before going down in the first canyon.

If you look closely there are elk ahead.  This is on my parents road to their property in Show Low.

She wasn't too crazy about being bundled up like she was.  She couldn't move at all and kept either slipping or getting stuck.

Daniel came prepared to help dad get the tree

This is the tree we picked for my in laws that couldn't make it but bought a permit.

Rather than driving up in the dark in snow and ice we booked a hotel.  Since Chris works for SRP, he got a killer deal with breakfast included in the morning.  It was such a nice piece of mind coming back to a room with heat, hot water and warm bed!

OK so this is where this website takes over and wont let me do what I want or need to do.  The pic of Chris holding our Christmas Tree.  I didn't get a chance to take a pic like the first tree because it was on the side of the road and we didn't want to unload the kids and plus we were right off the main road. 

The pic above is a picture of some snow on my parents property.  It was so pretty up there!  It def put me in the Christmas spirit.  I wasn't feeling it until I had the Christmas tree up!

 

Our Christmas tree undecorated....been slacking on the decorated version.

Chris's Birthday

Last Tuesday we celebrated Chris's 26th birthday. We didnt sing happy birthday to him - I guess he feels 26 yrs old is too old to be sung to... the cake and ice cream cake his mom got was delish but I on my best behavior :).

SNOW!!!

So here I am!  Yes, Im alive and doing well!  Last Sunday we went to the snow.  There was snow outside of Strawberry.  There was a lot and it was COLD!  I dislike being cold!  I snapped some pictures of us.  They are all out of order because this thing freaks out if I load more than 6 photos at a time.  Its annoying. 

Cheese!

Shoveling snow to take home.

Got a bed load

She was done being by her big bro.  This was the best one that came out.

 ......Can you tell he's smiling....

This was supposed to be the introduction pic...us drive into it.  Oh well.  The end.