Christmas Day 2014

Can't believe another Christmas has come and gone! This one was definitely more slow paced and quiet than others have been. This year it as just Adam and I and the girls that came up to my parents house. A few days before we left Lydia got really sick and I didn't even know if we were going to be able to make it up to Idaho Falls. It really broke my heart to think she wouldn't be able to enjoy Christmas.

Thankfully, the day we were supposed to leave she woke up looking better than she had the few days before so we got to drive up to grandma's house for Christmas. Claire ended up coming down with something while we were there so between the two of them we dealt with fevers, colds, throwing up, or teething the whole time we were up there. I felt bad for the girls, but they love being at grandma's house so they did still have a good time regardless.

As usual I tried to take some photos!

One other photo tradition that I want to keep doing every year is to get a picture of both of them on Christmas morning in front of the tree with their jammies on! Since the girls were sick (Claire really wasn't feeling well) I did the best I could.

Here was my photo from last year... I can't believe how big they've both gotten. *tear*

And here is what I tried to get this year... Poor girls just didn't feel good!

The rest of the day was just spent playing with toys, watching movies, and just trying to help these two feel better. Hearing dad play the piano seemed to help lift Claire's mood!

That's all for this year! I don't even want to think about how big they are going to be at Christmas time this year... my girls are growing up WAY too fast!

Fall Happenings

I cannot believe how fast time is flying by. The girls have grown SO much and I know I am going to thank myself one day for keeping up a blog and taking photos (even if I am several months behind)

No we are into Fall of 2014! First up is Lydia started her second year of preschool in September! We found a friend in the new ward when we first moved in during the early spring and got her registered. She got to pick out her very own backpack and I'm not too surprised to chose the Sophia Princess School one. :)  Like the year before, she was very EAGER to go to school and had no reservations about going.

At the beginning of October Daniele (Adam's sister) and her husband, Steve, were about to have their first baby boy so we drove up to Orem and while I took some maternity photos Adam took the girls for a walk around the park! They sure love their daddy :)

The girls love playing in the tub so I needed to catch a few memories in there :)

AND  I'm wrapping up this post with Halloween with just ONE photo. That's not my most favorite holiday in the world so I wasn't very good at taking photos. I took a few with my phone, but my blog is just for my photos with my big girl camera! Lydia dressed up as Rapunzel this year and Devin and Brittney came with Savannah and Carter so we went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. The one photo I got was Claire in her Zebra costume!

Easter 2014

Took me a lot longer than I'd hoped to get this posted, but here it is! We spent the weekend in Idaho Falls at my parents house so here are some fun pics while we were there!

We got a piñata last year and so we did that again this year! Lydia needs a little help with her batting swing...

We had church at 9 so I made everyone stay in their clothes for pictures afterwards. (I know...pictures are torture!)

First real family photo of us as a family of 4 :) and proof that I do get in front of the camera every once in a while!

You can tell they were about done with pictures!

AND a few outtakes... Real life people!

 Nice boogers, Dev...

 And last the kids opened their Easter baskets (that's another reason they wanted to be done with pictures) and we dyed some eggs!

She was VERY done with photos at this point if you can't tell....