Haley turned 1

So Haley turned on year old on Tuesday. I can't believe my baby is one already. That year really went way too fast. We had a family party on Monday night. We had dinner, opened presents had yummy dessert, and watched Haley devour her cake. She loved it. Here are some pictures of her party:


This is the table, look at the cute pictures that my friend Jessica took of her. They so cute!! I love them.


This is her cake!! My sister-in-law, Brandi helped me make this cake for Haley, I think it turned out so cute.
Haley got a slide for her Birthday, she absolutely loves it. It was a hit amongst all the kids.


Here is Haley eating her cake. We finally had to take it away from her. I think she could have eaten the whole thing!!


Such a fun party, thanks to everyone who came and for the lovely presents. We love you Haley so much and so glad that you are apart of our family. Happy Birthday!!

Skirts

So my friend, Jocey and I decided to make these skirts for our girls. We have been working on them for a few days and we finally finished them yesterday. I was worried that they would look really homeade looking, but I actually think that they turned out pretty cute, so I thought I would show them off. I haven't made anything from a pattern for a very, very long time, and it was acutally quite fun. What I really enjoyed was making these shirts to match. We just bought the white shirts for $5 at Old Navy and then used wonder-under and just ironed on these flowers. They literally took less than 5 minutes to make. It makes me want to make a bunch more for the summer.

CRAZY Hair!!

The other day I got Haley out of her crib when she first woke up and the first thing I thought of was, Donald Trump. It was the craziest bed head I have ever seen. So then I put her in her high chair and gave her some bananas and then she rubbed her hands through her hair. So this is the result. Maybe she should be Donald Trump for Halloween.

Daily Life

Taylor trying to go on the "Potty." We have been potty training for the past week or so, well this is the fourth "Round." I am determined to do it this time. This is her second potty chart. It is helping a lot. I think she is finally getting the concept of the whole thing. She is actually doing pretty good. It is just so frustrating when she has an accident. I just have to keep telling myself that it takes time. I have always had a fear of potty training a child, and it is a little harder than I thought, but I know that she will get it soon. So any advice out there of you wise mothers that have been through this, I will gladly take it.

I have always loved those pictures of children who fall asleep in places other than their beds. I don't think that my kids have really done it that much because they both are the type that have to fall asleep in their cribs, but today we were eating lunch and Taylor says, "mommy, Haley is asleep." And she started laughing. It was so funny. So I just had to take a picture of it. I guess she was just so tired.

Christmas

Wow, It is the middle of January and I am just posting about Christmas. We had a wonderful Christmas filled with Family, food, and laughing. Here is a picture of the girls in their Christmas PJ's. This is Haley playing with her new toy. She can't quite figure out how to open them yet, but she sure loves to close them.

Cute picture of Haley with her presents.
Taylor got a new Diaper bag!
And some things to do her hair. She loves her blow dryer and her curling iron.
This is her new salon. She absolutely loves it. We do hair several times a day now.
She also got a new baby, Calin. She loves it too.
My mom got Haley this cute little chair. I absolutely love it.
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Lights at Temple Square

Wow!! It sure has been a long time since I have updated. I am sorry I will try to do better and updating more often. This year we have talking a lot about some traditions that we want to do as a family. Our kids our getting the age where they are going to remember what we do around Christmas time so we made a list of some things that we want to do. Last Monday night we went with my family to a live Nativity in Alpine. We first met at Barbacoa and got dinner and then we went to a church up in Alpine got all bundled up and rode in a horse trailer to up a barn. It was so neat. There was a live camel, sheep, and donkey. They also had Roman soldiers riding on horses asking for our name and taxes and if we have seen a new born baby. There were people dressed up and doing different things like making baskets, grinding wheat, etc. - acting like people from Bethlehem. Then in a different stable there was Mary, Joseph and the baby. I was so neat to see in real life. Then we went to my moms and had hot chocolate and played games.

Last Wednesday night we went to Temple Square. We first rode Trax from my bothers house to the Gateway and ate at California Pizza Kitchen, mmmm I absolutely love that place. Especially their spinach artichoke dip. If you haven't gotten that there, it is must!! Then we took trax over to the temple and walked around. It was fun to see all the lights. It doesn't matter how many times you have seen the lights they are truly amazing. I can't imagine how much work goes in to that. I did miss the huge red tree though. They stopped doing that a couple years ago and it is missed. Then we went and got some warm drinks at Starbucks. I got the Carmel apple cider. Delicious. So thanks family for the fun couple of days. Here are some pictures:

Taylor all bundled up getting ready to to on Trax, she looks like the kid who can't put his arms down.
Tess and Taylor in front of the Pink trees. Look at Tess striking a pose. She is such a crack up, so does stuff like that all the time.

Me and Kevin in front of the orange lights.

Here is Haley all bundled up riding in her stroller. She was so good. She didn't make a peep all night long and she was in her car seat for a near 4-5 hours. Such a good girl!

Kevin and Taylor riding on Trax

Mom and Taylor - look at Taylor's rosy cheeks

Tess and Taylor enjoying their OWN hot chocolates. Those are perfect for kids they make them so they are just warm. They loved them.

Taylor pulling a funny face!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

We had a wonderful Halloween. We started the activities off by going to Omniture. Kevin's work puts on quite a party. Each department is given $2000 to decorate the department in a theme. Kevin's department did BYU vs. UofU. They brought in real sod, goal posts, score board, cosmo and BYU cheerleaders, and much more. It was crazy. Some other themes were the Wizard of Oz, which they brought in midgets for the munchkins, and crystal ball the witch, scarecrow, tin man, etc and the yellow brick road. Another was the old school Nintendo. That was fun to see. There were so many I could go on and on. Then we came home and had pizza with Eric and Brandi and go the girls ready to go Trick-or-treating. Taylor was pretty tired so she wasn't much fun to be around at the beginning, so that is why I didn't really get any good pictures of her. After a while she like going to each house. At each house she always wanted a YELLOW treat. Whether it was peanut M&M's, starburst, Butterfingers, what ever it was it had to be yellow. You knew which bag was hers by looking in and seeing yellow. Then after trick-or-treating we drove down to Cedar City to visit my grandparents. It was a fun weekend. We enjoyed it. Here are some pictures of the girls' costumes.


Taylor-Devin, Haley-Angel
Taylor and Tyler Trick-or-Treating

Here are some of the kids in the neighborhood. There is Tess' cute Witch costume.

Haley being and Angel

And I couldn't get a picture of Taylor by herself, she was being a stink.