Random Cuteness

I have a few random little photos that I love and want to share. First is Addy on her first Sunday of the new year in a dress GG gave her for her birthday. She just looked SO cute that I had to snap a photo for GG.

This is a very cheeser photo of Liam, but we wanted to take a pic of the dinosaur pancakes that he was over the moon for. :D

Liam is TRULY the BEST big brother.  I couldn't ask for a more loving brother for Adelyn. He reads to her, is concerned for her overall well-being, plays with her, helps her when she needs it, gets her whatever she needs, you name it. He truly rarely get frustrated with her one-year-old antics. I love how much they love eachother.  Here they are reading together.

Happy 4th Birthday, Izzy!

I can't believe that Izzy celebrated her fourth birthday a few weeks ago. Seems like just yesterday she was a wee baby. She had a wonderful princess party and we had so much fun! We all dressed up in our royal best for the grand affair. I helped Heather with the flowers and logistics of the cake, but couldn't help her the day before because I had to work-- I'd say she did an AMAZING job. She definitely created every little girls dream cake and party. Happy Birthday, Izzy!  We love you!
Addy even wore her tiara from Disneyland that Nana got her!


The royal family-- Liam was the very handsome prince!


The amazing cake and the beautiful birthday princess:






Addy found her new best friend, Papa, because he fed her cake. She stuck to him like glue. :D

Happy New Year!

We had a really fun New Year's Eve. Initially I was supposed to work, but ended up having the day off due to low census, so that was a nice surprise! We had a low-key wonderful day! Wes BBQ'd ribs, Liam and I made cherry coke float cupcakes, and Wes and I went to the movies and saw "New Year's Eve." I think we were in bed by 11pm, but ya know, it was still a nice end to our year. :D

We rocked our new aprons we got for Christmas.






mmmm

Spaghetti!

This was the first time we let Addy go all out and feed herself spaghetti. Little hambone. Think she liked it?

Mentos Geyser!

Santa brought Liam a Mentos geyser kit in his stocking. What you do, is attach this little clear tube to the top of a liter of diet soda. You put a couple of mentos in the clear tube, pull the pin out to drop the mentos into the soda and then run! Here is what happens (it actually went higher than our house!):




Cool, right? We had SO much fun doing this that we ended up taking a liter over and putting on a show for GG and Grandpa-great. Our first little attempt ended up being a flop, but it was still fun. Addy even really enjoyed watching, screaming and giggling from her swing. :)

Christmas Day

We were excited to be the hosts of Christmas Day 'brunch' this year. However, because Christmas day was on a Sunday, we had a later in the day get together. Liam and Wes sang a beautiful duet in Sacrament meeting to "There was Starlight on the Hillside" and Nana and Papa, and GG and Grandpa-Great were able to join us. It was very special and they did an amazing job-- we are still getting compliments about it. Here are some pre-church photos:






The rest of the day was filled with lots of fun too. Izzy had asked Santa for 'lip paint' and became Liam's make-up artist. GG was shocked to get the angels that Aunt Linda had made years ago framed from my mom. One of my favorite gifts was a nurse smoker from Germany that my Aunt Pam got me. It's soooo cute and I just LOVE it.








And I just loved this photo of Papa reading on his new kindle and Liam playing his new game on his Leapster.


We hope everyone had as blessed of a Christmas as we did.

Liam Quote

Liam is constantly making us laugh and I wanted to jot this down before I forget. On Christmas Eve when we were tracking Santa on Norad, I told Liam, "Hey, look, Santa's in Greenland"  To which he replied, "Hey, it's my favorite color land AND it's a compound word! Cool!"

I didn't even know he knew what a compound word was. haha.