January 4, 2013

We went to the Mt Charleston today with Candice and our friend Lindsey for some sledding and snowman building.  Great snow for sledding, but not so great for Snowmen, maybe next time.

 When it wasn't her turn on the sled Gracie improvised and made her back into a sled.

January 3, 2013

This is Ivy's bed.  Her little 'nap nanny' helps her SO much with her acid reflux.  Lately when she wakes up she wiggles and does sit ups until she ends up stuck like this.  Then she does a little yell that sounds like she is saying, "Hey!" until we come get her.

January 2, 2013

Snowflake making takes major concentration!

January 1, 2013

This totally goes against my personality to commit to a year of pictures, but we will hit too many milestones this year with Ivy to not do it.  I know I will look back and love it when I'm done.

We celebrated New Year's last night with New York @ 9:00pm and both my kids were asleep one block after we left Candice's house...they take after their Mom!  They were all smiles this morning though!

Ivy

Ultrasound of our little Ivy.  Super precious in the first picture and then kind of creepy in the next 2.  We are all excited for her to join us.

Happy Halloween

Bat Girl was Gracie's choice this year. I guess that is what happens when your best friend is a boy. Her and Levi are really into superhero's and 'agent's' right now. One day as we were pulling up to school she said, "...sigh... I really hope Levi want to play agent's today". I do like that she picked the pink costume instead of the black one because it means that she isn't a complete tom boy like I was.

Our ward party was Saturday night. Gracie and I went early to help set up and my friend was asking her what her costume was, it went like this:
F: What are you dressing up as tonight?
G: It's a surprise
F: Can I have a hint?
G: ...
F: Is it a scary costume or a pretty one?
G: Neither...It is just awesome.

And so you have it, one awesome bat girl. (Who got tired at 7:45pm and wanted to leave the party to go home and go to bed).

The next day at church Gracie went to give her tithing envelope to the bishop he shook her hand and said, "Thank you Bat Girl". She thought that was the coolest thing that happened to her all day.

pumpkin time

we had a little family time this weekend and painted and carved pumpkins. i thought i was getting out of the mess of carving because gracie was only talking about painting the pumpkins, but then...levi started talking about 'curving' pumpkins incessantly one day and that was the end of it. we needed to 'curve' a pumpkin too. have you ever seen a rainbow pumpkin? she can make anything into a rainbow!

the finished product.

gracie finished painting in about 5 minutes and then harassed paul and i the rest of the time about when we would be done. she did a little break dancing on the kitchen floor while waiting. then she negotiated my camera away from me and took the next 3 pictures. i was actually impressed that she got the people/pumpkins in the pictures.

waiting not so patiently to carve. mom i know you just really want to get your hands on gracie's hair right now, but lets admit that this is what it looks like sometimes so that is part of documenting the moment right?

paul lucky for me got the dirty job. gracie was all smiles and ready to scoop out the guts.

then she decided that it looked 'bescusting' and didn't want to touch it.

now she didn't even want to look at it.

paul was trying to talk her into touching it, telling her that it wasn't so bad.

forcing herself to try

nope, still didn't like it.

she finally was half way ok with it, but not loving the mess.

the finished products:

paul decided to paint a little byu action. i think it was because i pulled him away from the football game to do this.