Four!!!

Wow, our gorgeous baby girl is getting so BIG! Here we have yet another birthday to prove it.  This year she had school on her special day and was so excited to take treats to her class. She is a pretty easy going girl and wanted to go get ice cream and chick fil a for dinner. Then we came home and opened presents.  It was simple yet fun just to spend time with her and the family.

She had her 4 year old well child visit and did awesome when getting her 4 shots and got a treat afterwards which was her reward.  I cannot remember her percentiles but I know they were lower somewhere in the 30th I believe for her height and weight.

Emily is a great big sister and loves to kiss and hug Hyrum over and over again.

She is a great helper and listens pretty well. She loves going to preschool and playing with Abby and Briggs. As of late her mischievous side has become more prominent. She gets into everything, she cut her own hair, she sneaks food, writes on anything including tables and furniture, gets caught with  mommies make up, tries to do her own nails while no ones around and much more. Despite all these antics she is so sweet funny and sincere. She keeps us all laughing and smiling with her awesome personality. WE love her so so much!

Enjoying Chick fil a

Opening some presents

Birthday Interview 2016

(I love her answers)

 1.Who is your favorite person in the whole world: Mom and Dad

2. What is your favorite color: Blue and Green

3. What is your favorite T.V. Show: Paw Patrol and Sophia and Curious George

4. What sport do you like best: Soccer

5. What song do you love: The song that never ends

6. What is your favorite cereal: Apple Blasts

7. Who is your best friend: Avery and Jake 

8. What do you want to be when you grow up: A dinosaur

9. What is your favorite book: The Library book

10. What are you really good at: Reading

11.Where do you wish you could go on vacation: Somewhere not alone

12. What is your best memory: Going on a long trip

13. What would you buy if you had $1000: A new big Barbie

14. What vegetable to you hate the most:   Chicken

15. If you could have one wish what would it be: Chicken Nuggets

16. What is your favorite ice cream: Vanilla and Chocolate 

17. Who is your hero: Mommy

18. What do you like to do best with your friends: Play all day

19. What is your favorite animal: Tigers and Lions

20. What do you hope you get to do before your next birthday: Have lots of presents (arms wide open) like this much.

Getting her birthday spankings

Waiting for the Doctor at her well child visit, she was freezing waiting in her undies

Smooching Hyrum

Opening her present from Grandpa and Grandma

The 4 year old Bow and Arrow

She spent her gift card on girl unicorn legos

Sporting her new Jeggings

 Birth

 

 One

 

Two

 

Three

Fantastic

 Obnoxious

  Unrelenting

  Ray of light

12 YEARS!

This year Seth and I celebrated 12 years of Marriage. 12 YEARS! That is seriously so crazy to me. That's Kindergarten through Graduating High school!

We have experienced a lot of life together these last 12 years. We both have changed so much over the years and I don't just mean in the waistline. Spending your life with someone changes you. As you grow in a marriage you learn to be more selfless. You learn to consider someones needs before your own. You change in ways that you never imagined as  you live a new life together. 

Through life's struggles you become reliant upon each other. Each day presents good, bad and the mundane. Some times long strings of days filled with just one of those things. It is through the highs, lows and middle ground you connect, disconnect and reconnect over and over and over again. 

We have built a life with each other where we know the others thoughts, we finish each other's sentences and know just how to irritate one another.

We have 4 beautiful children and a lifetime ahead of us to experience and learn even more than we thought possible. I am so thankful that we have each other to get through it all.

I love you Seth!

Where it all Began 2004

Hyrums 1st Haircut

Before

11 weeks old - First Hair Cut

Hyrum's hair was getting a bit out of control. While it is super adorable it was getting rather greasy, most of the time it looked like an old man comb-over and he had mullet in the back.

It broke my  heart to cut it so soon.  I recall waiting to cut Brigham's hair as an infant because he was so young but I look back at all the pictures and curse myself for waiting. This time, I learned. I bit the bullet. He wasn't happy about it. It isnt the most handsome job but it is so much better.

Before

After

Christmas Morning

Santa has filled the stockings

We had a Christmas Miracle this year, the kids slept until almost 7am! For our kids this really is amazing as almost every day of the week Brigham is up by 530am or earlier. We all basked in the extra time to sleep in. They were all very excited to see that Santa had visited by filling their stockings with all sorts of goodies as well as nail polish for Abby, a ninja turtle for Briggs and a baby for Nems as well as a giant bean bag chair for all.

Discovering their stockings is one of the best part of Christmas for me as a parent. Their stockings contained books, coloring books, candy, winter gear and a few other  misc things.

Nana opeing her stocking

Then it was papas turn

Seth enjoying the fruits of Santa

Brigham's new spider man beanie

Hyrum and I about to open ours. Love the fresh out of bed look.

The best present of the entire year!

Papa helping Hyrum to open his gift

Score! A real football

Papa and Nanas gift from us

The Bells got all of our kids BYU shirts which they love!

Later in the afternoon the rest of the family came over. The kids really enjoyed sharing the Bean bag chair

Grandpa, Grandma and Aunt Chandler came by later as well to pass out their gifts.

Playing with his dinosaur set from Aunt Cass and Uncle Dalty

She loves her new dress!

Seth enjoying his gift from Curt in the family Gift exchange 

Showing off his new clothes.

Enjoying hot chocolate in my awesome new mug from kelly

All tuckered out!