november

when we were at my parent's for little man's baby blessing, b got a couple towels from my grandma and part of my grandpa's scriptures.  she carried them around all weekend (and then at our house for at least the next week.  she also thought it would be fun to try on grandma's glasses :)

 



b snuggling with little man.  she has a natural mothering instinct in her.  it's very cute to watch her with him.



meeting little man

my parents took the girls for us while we were in the hospital.  it was a good thing that they had already agreed to keep them the entire week, since we ended up staying in the hospital longer than anticipated.

 

we made it home about fifteen minutes before the girls arrived with grandma and grandpa.  they were more than a little thrilled to meet little man.

 

this picture melts my heart - that is where b looked over and saw that i was home too :)

m holding little man for the first time

b holding little man for the first time

checking out little man in his crib (which he doesn't like)

 

we were able to have lots of help during the first week we were home.  the mister's mom came up for a few days to help out with the girls (and brought up a ton of freezer meals that my sister in law organized!!), then my mom came back up for a few days to also help out.  we're so grateful for their willingness to help.  i'm sure it didn't hurt that there were 3 grandbabies to love on too.

my dad snuggling with little man.  he got little man to sleep when he was being difficult and wouldn't let the rest of us hear the end of it.

 

the girls love having a baby brother and try to smother snuggle him to pieces.  we've had to enforce some ground rules so no one gets hurt.  b especially loves having little man around.  this girl is a natural mommy.

memorial day

we headed to lava for memorial day this year.

it rained the entire time.

well, almost the entire time - a couple hours doesn't really count.

during the couple hours that it didn't rain, we headed to the hot springs.

and so did everyone else that was there for the weekend.

however it was great to get away for a couple of days and spend time with the family.

i love that we live closer now and can go more often!

now if only i can remember to take pictures the next time we go.

christmas 2011

this year, we changed christmas a little bit.

we decided that we were going to be home since the girls were a little bigger and we didn't want to pack up christmas.

so, the week before christmas, the m family all got to spend a couple days together at the cabin.

we had a blast and always enjoy seeing grandma, grandpa, uncles, aunts, and cousins.

and i didn't get any pictures while we were up there.  bummer.

we got back home on christmas eve.

just in time to open the traditional christmas eve gift - jammies from grandma m.

b is thrilled with her jammies.

can you tell?

and i couldn't get either one of them to cooperate.

they were *way* too excited to have santa coming to their house.

we wrote a letter to santa and scribbled a little bit on it.

we left him some cookies and milk and the girls went off to bed.

the next morning, we awoke to see that santa had indeed found our house.

and he had helped himself to the cookies and milk.

we opened presents.

and santa brought b the doll that she informed me that santa was going to bring her - after santa had already done all his christmas shopping.

good thing he still pulled through.

after we opened presents, we got ready to go to church.

it was the perfect way to spend christmas - remembering the true reason for the season.

after church, we headed up to grammy and poppers to have christmas dinner and the cousins' gift exchange.

overall we had a good christmas.

the girls are already asking about next year.

i think it's going to be a long year.

hat anyone?

October 19, 2011

the girls and i packed up to go see grandma and grandpa m this weekend.

on the way down, m used a wipe as her hat.

she wore it the last hour of the trip.

we had fun at grandma and grandpa's.

my brother and my sister were home with their kids, so the girls got some good cousin time in.

and i only got the picture above of the whole trip.

oh well - there's always next time.

lava

the whole k family got off for a couple days to go camping this past weekend.

but my family had already planned on going up to the cabin that weekend, so we went with the original plan and got to spend a little time with the m clan.

friday, the girls had a blast with some of their other cousins running around and playing.

we sneaked out of the cabin and went to the swimming pool in town to play on their speed slides while grandma and grandpa watched the girls.

so. much. fun.

i can't wait to do it again.

saturday we just hung around until it was time to go home.

only we decided that we were going to stay another night.

so we did.

and on our way home yesterday, we got to stop and see my brother and sil's new baby girl.

such a cutie.

then we stopped in twin to see shoshone falls.

we had so much fun and can't wait until we have another chance to go back and have some more fun!

twin falls temple

since our temple is closed for a remodel, we get to go to the twin falls temple for a while.

this was our first time back to the twin falls temple since the open house for it.

beautiful.

and my parents were nice enough to watch the girls for us while we went.

thanks mom and dad!

easter - part one

i was able to go home and spend a little time with my family before the easter holiday.

all of my siblings were able to be there with their families on saturday, so we had a little easter egg hunt for the grandkids.

it was cute watching the girls.

b picked up pretty quick and enjoyed it.

it took m a little bit, but once she figured it out, she loved it too.

idaho trip/new camera

we got to spend some time with my family this past weekend.

as always, we had fun and the girls enjoyed playing with their cousins.

b made grandma read to her as often as she could get her to.

man, that girl loves to read stories.

m decided that she needed to inspect every single nook and cranny of grandma's kitchen.

she loves trying to empty cupboards.

and she also discovered that toilets are just as fun at grandma's house as they are at home.

dis.gust.ing

and my sister happened to be getting rid of her dslr.

so now i'm the proud new owner of one of these babies:

image source

now i can actually take decent pictures of my babies.

i am absolutely thrilled!