I'm 2!

I love our little family birthdays. No need to make a huge thing for just a small peanut who won't remember. Nikh is two! And I can't believe it's been that long already.
This little girl is the biggest 2 year old drama queen! Anything that she is feeling is expressed in the biggest way. If she's happy...you know it. If she's angry with you... you know it! And anything in between.
She is still small for her age and I absolutely love it! I almost wish she could stay little forever. She loves Elmo. Hence the Elmo party. Though I was sad about her cake. She was supposed to have an Elmo and Abby cake, but the lady messed up and we ended up with a boy, Elmo and Cookie Monster cake. At least it tasted good!

This is much more fun than a sticker nose game!

Thanks to all our family that were able to make it!

Nikh Montage

I have taken so many cute pictures of Nikh over the last few months. Here are a few. Enjoy!

This is so good!

What? I'm tellin' ya, I didn't do it!

This swing is so not fun!

Get me out!

Captivated by The Muppets!

18 Months!

My Sweet PeeWee is 18 months old! I can't believe she is that old already. And...she still does not say a word. She has two older siblings why in the world would she need to talk for herself? Apparently she is having this thought. Her favorite movie is The Muppets and she loves to dance.

16 Months

Wow! This little PeeWee is 16 months already. I honestly cannot believe she is that old. It is all going too fast. Though I must say that I am glad that she is staying pretty little. Her stats are:

Weight: 18 lbs 15 oz...Yep, we still haven't hit the twenty pounds mark. But hey, we haven't had to buy a new car seat yet!
Height: 29 inches

I have a feeling she is going to be really small like me. :)

Totally Random for the New Year

The other day we were getting ready to go to a wedding. I asked Branden to get Nikh ready with the clothes I had set out on our bed. Of course, I had also set out Ember's tights on the bed too. So I got...

(Ignore the drunken face I am making)

Mommy, I think you bought the wrong size.

When Jo first got home, he brought presents for each of the kids. Since Nikh was only 5 days old, he brought her a stuffed animal. It was a tiger with a blanket that wraps around it. For those who do not know, Jo had a tiger of his own when he was younger. His favorite part was the tail which he would rub inside his ear and suck his pointer finger with the other hand. This tiger meant the world to Jo, to the point that when we lost it in Disneyland, we HAD to find it; and we did, thankfully. Now he has passed his love for the tiger on to Nikh. She goes to sleep with it every night and it comforts her when she is upset. I finally got a picture of her love for this tiger.

Zzzzz...suck suck...Zzzz....

I can see you! Don't you dare.

Ah, sweet sleep at last.

Well, the year is ending and I am at a loss for what to write. First of all, I missed my reading goal by a book and a half! That makes 38 1/2 books read in a year! How many will I read in the year to come??? This has been the first full year I have blogged and man was it a lot of work to keep up. However, I am thankful that I will have these memories to look back upon. We have had ups and downs and maybe even some sideways things happen. But we are healthy, happy, and together and that is what counts. I can only imagine what this new year will bring to our little family. Here we go...

Happy New Year! 

in 3 hours

A Wonderful 2 Months

Well,  okay. Life has definitely gotten in the way of my blogging. I have been good at taking pictures, but nothing else. Please excuse the two month delay on some of these pictures! It all starts back at the beginning of September with Hunts Gymnastics' Annual Fundraising Picnic.

 Then we move on to the end of September when I got a surprise and Ember was able to participate in Bingham High School's Mini Cheer Clinic. Thanks to my cousin Abbie who texted me about it. I hope you are having so much fun cheering! Ember had so much fun being a little cheerleader. She still sings the cheers around the house!

Next came October and Fall. I don't particularly like the colder weather, but I do enjoy seeing the changing leaves. I really like seeing different colors around me. I decided after a 

VERY rainy week that I wanted to take the kids to a pumpkin patch this year. Let's just say that I think I will wait until the ground is dry to go next year! Thanks Jo and Shelbi for coming with us!

 Just days after going to the Pumpkin Patch we had an accident. Ember was injured on the playground before school. Talk about a lot of blood! My poor little girl was so brave at the hospital as they stitched her up.

October also brings in Halloween. I happen to like this weird holiday. Anyway, right after Halloween last year Ember and Lincoln decided that they were going to be Buzz and Jesse. Which means that Branden would be Woody and I would be Bo Peep. Well, all that fell through when Linc found a SWAT team outfit! It was all good though. Branden ended up having to work that day anyway. 

On Halloween, I took the kids to Jackie and Dennis' house to go trick-or-treating with Isabella and her sisters. So much fun! Let's do it again next year!

All in all, September and October have been pretty good! I hope that as the holiday season rolls in that the fun will continue. I love my little family!

Birthday Fun

First Birthdays are not big for us. Branden and I figure why spend a lot of money on a birthday our kids won't remember? So we celebrated Nikh's birthday a couple days early on Sunday. With just family...(yes, you Lance's are practically family!) It was fun to just spend some fun time together. Nikh was my little fairy princess. I found the cutest little wings at Target!

Branden and I made cute cupcakes that Nikh tried to devour. She really got into it after a little bit.

So much fun! Thanks everyone!

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Oh Baby Girl I can't believe you are one already! This year has gone by way too fast. One year ago I was in the hospital with you in my arms wondering about how our lives would change with you in it. Gates up, furniture moved to block paths, baby-proofed house, bottles, late nights, and staring at your cute self while you sleep so peacefully. Aahhh...Truly I will miss the baby stage!

Happy First Birthday Nikh!

Piggies!

Also in July I finally pulled Nikh's hair into pigtails. They were so adorable I just had to take pictures.

A LONG TIME!!!

I have officially missed the ENTIRE month on June! But in my defense I was in the middle of an intense history class. In class from 8:30-3:30 every day for three weeks! I do not remember college classes being as hard as that. We had about 2-3 hours of homework every night, quizzes every hour in the morning, projects, etc.
So, I think I will post pictures & a short description of the things that did happen during the last month to catch up. In chronological order:

This was a tulip that we planted last fall and had been patiently waiting to come up. However, about a month before the gardeners were edging and decided to edge our flower! We were so upset. But the flower regrew...like this!

Nikh is now able to stand up in her crib all by herself AND crawl. Watch out, she is pretty mobile now. It is kind of funny to watch her crawl. Her poor little legs get tired of holding herself up and she slides to her tummy to commando crawl the rest of the way.

One day as we were barbecuing the sprinklers came on! So the kids decided to get on their swimming suits and run through them. Of course when they turned off they were sad so we turned on the hose with the sprinkler. It was fun!

Branden's Birthday came next. We were treated to Tucano's by Josh and MaKayla. It was so yummy. I had stopped feeding Nikh so I was able to eat anything I wanted! They even sang to Branden. Though Nikh was not excited about that part. He was a really good sport about it too! After that, we went shopping at the Gateway. Branden got many items of clothing. Happy 30th my Sweetheart!

Father's Day was next, and to be completely honest we did not really do anything.

Sweetheart, I know we did not do much, but I do want to say what a wonderful daddy you are to our children. I know that staying at home with them during the day is not all peaches 'n cream, but you are good to them and they are lucky to have you there instead of going to day care. Thank you so much for giving me three absolutely beautiful children! We love you.

Last but not least, Ember went to a pediatric eye specialist. We had a feeling that she would need glasses after we went to her 5 year Dr. appointment and she did poorly on the eye exam part. They told us to wait 6 months, but I refuse to let her start school not being able to see. So, after going up to Primary Children's Opthamology Department we found out that, yes, Ember needs glasses. She is 20/50 in one eye and 20/60 in the other. 

After my long day at class, I took Ember to find some glasses. The short story: we went to 3 stores before finding the right pair. Lenscrafters' kids glasses are always 50% off and they can have them done in an hour! The result:

Well, that is pretty much it. After all of that, I passed my class and got 6 college credit hours for it (yeah in 3 weeks!). On the pretest I got 38%! And I improved up to a 72%! Woo Hoo!