Snow Day

We had an awesome storm last night... It made for an awesome day today! Who stayed in their jammies until noon, played in the snow for hours, had Grandma Grover's hot chocolate, watched movies and ate popcorn? Yep, my kids and I!! We love snow days!!

I love that the sun comes out right after the storm, beautiful mountain snow!

Lots and lots of beautiful mountain snow!

4 little months!!

Our sweet Miss Mae is 4 months old today!! She is a fun little girl. She smiles and talks and blows bubbles. She has rolled over a couple times. Just onto her tummy but then she is stuck and mad about it, she does not like tummy time! Usually though her rolling is just onto her side. The kids all love her and want to hold her. She is pretty happy with all the attention.

Our pretty little Miss Mae Jo!

As usual, everyone is crowding around the Mae. Johnny calls Maeli, coochy coochy Mae Mae. It is pretty funny, especially when Steve calls her that... :)

I Buzz Lightyear!

Leo has decided he is Buzz Lightyear. At tithing settlement last week the bishop asked how he was doing, and Leo said, "Good, I Buzz Lightyear." We all laughed and you know what that means... our little comedian will do it again and again, he loves to make us laugh.

He had me tape the empty wrapping paper roll to his back for his wings... "And Beyond!"

Christmas is Coming...

And here it is, set up and decorated!

I love Christmas!!

Christmas is Coming...

We cut our Christmas tree this weekend. It was snowing and stressful driving but FUN to play in!

Cousins! Kyla Johnny, Ellie, Ian and Leo. Leo was in the middle of throwing a fit because he wanted me to help him make a snowman, not take a picture of him!

We got a juniper tree this year, it is the best shape and size we have ever had.



Paul and Sarah with their tree!


We love the tradition of cutting our own tree, this year was a bit crazy due to the snow and that we had to be back for the ballet... We made it though and had a wonderful time!

Christmas is Coming...

Kyla danced in the Nutcracker ballet last Saturday. They perform with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, it is pretty cool. Also cool is that the little girls only dance in one of the three performances AND Kyla was put in the matinee! Cool because it is only the 2nd act and the tickets are less than $10 instead of more than $50 per seat!

Kyla was a Marzipan sheep. Steve thinks it is funny that she has been animals in both her ballet performances, a poodle last spring, and now a sheep. Kyla liked this costume better, even though the last one was pink, because it has a tutu!

If you look close you can see she is right in the middle of the line of girls, one of the few actually dancing...

Middle back...



After the performance...



Silly dancing girl, with her tongue out! :)



My beautiful ballerina!

Thanksgiving 2011

We spent a week in Utah for Thanksgiving. We LOVE being with our family!! We caught a bug somewhere along the way and shared it with ALL the Seamons', SO SORRY! It was still a good trip over all.

The first half of the week we were in Grantsville with the Olivers. Kyla , John and Leo had lots of fun playing with their cousins.

Great Grandma "reading" to the kids on her kindle... My techy grandma! :)

Gingerbread houses. Some of the candy made it on the houses... Johnny was so patient waiting for the frosting to dry, but as soon as it was dry he munched his whole house. :)



The second half of the week we spent playing at Grandma Seamons' house, MORE COUSINS! Leo loves swings!



Whose grown up girl is this?!



J- Dude climbing.



Maeli and Wilson, they are just 3 months apart.



Kyla with Grandma Cooper and the kitty, Ky was in heaven!



Cutie girls! Ellie and Kyla.

SNOW!

It snowed here on Friday night. Steve thinks it is WAY TO EARLY for snow! The kids and I are OK with it, as long as we are warm...

Either way, it is pretty!

The pumpkins side with Steve, too early...



Snow man Leo! He has been singing "once there was a snowman" all day...



Johnny didn't take long to find the sleds!



Our gentle slope in the back yard is perfect for them!



All four on one...



Happy happy kids! :)

Kitchen Remodel

This is what our kitchen looked like when we bought the house.

This is what it looked like a month later... the first time we painted.

I loved my green kitchen! I love green! Steve has actually banned me from buying any more green shirts... what am I going to wear today, let's see, green, green or... yep green.

So although I still love green, I am over the green walls in my kitchen. I have been wanting to paint for awhile but it is such a pain and Steve was still ok with the paint which meant I would be doing the painting, so I put it off. And now we have a new baby so there was no way it was getting done. UNTIL... Steve found a fabulous deal on a sliding glass door. He had been wanting to put one in the dinning room. So he took out the door and window and put in the slider. He was done with the project and ready to paint with the old color, when I threw him for a loop... new paint please.

Goodbye yellow and green...

It took us awhile to decide on paint, we had to pull in help from outside. THANKS AMY!! I owe Amy BIG TIME not only did she help choose the paint, she also did most of the painting by herself. Every time I picked up a paint brush Maeli would start crying... Steve says I paid Mae to save me from painting... :)

So THANKS to Amy, it turned out so great! I LOVE it!!



But wait something is missing... This is what happens when Steve and I are being impulsive on the same day. Yep, he took out a wall. And since there was already a hole in the ceiling he put in the new lighting he had been planning on doing. I wish we would have taken the wall out 6 years ago! It is so nice! It means we had to get a new counter too, darn. ;) That is still 3 weeks out though, more pics when that is done.

So goodbye wall...



The dinning area, awesome!




The white from the living room goes into the dinning area now.



FABULOUS!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

We started our Halloween weekend Friday night with some FUN Halloween food. Monster eyes, mummy hot dogs and spider jello!

"Velociraptor!"



One of the many spider floating around our house now... Yikes!



Sweetness.



Miss Maeli's Halloween cuteness!



Saturday night was our ward's trunk or treat. Ky dressed up as a "princess riding a unicorn," Johnny was superman, again, yeah for last year's costumes! I just love his serious crime fighting expression. And Leo was "superman Leo!" Which meant he wore his superman shirt and his "L" cape.


Sunday we carved pumpkins. Steve and John did cars, Ramone and Lightning. Ky did a bat and Leo did a cool face. I am so traditional but no one wanted triangle eyes and a tooth smile on their pumpkin this year...



Super cool!



Maeli and mom. We didn't carve pumpkins we just showed up and looked cute... :)




Kyla dressed up as Little Mermaid for her school Halloween party and trick or treating.

We had a fabulous Halloween and the kids got enough candy to last them to Easter... unless their sugar tooth mommy gets a hold of it. :)