Pictures from the First Half of December

Now that life is finally slowing down and getting back to normal, I have time to blog again.

This past month was so fun.

We had another wonderful Christmas.

But before I get to blogging about Christmas, I have lots of other pictures to share.

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First is a picture of a sweet sleeping Ruby.

She refused to nap but couldn't make it to bedtime.

Another sweet sleeping baby picture.

We went to see Jim Gaffigan with our friends Buck and Aubrey.

He was hilarious! We couldn't stop laughing.

It was such a fun night.

Eli loves it when Sean pulls out his childhood marble set.

Lexi is so creative, she is also inventing and making things.

Here she is with skis for her doll.

Avery all dressed up for church.

And Ruby all dolled up for church too.

(Lexi and Eli were not in a cooperative mood that morning so there are no pictures of them.)

Ruby was obsessed with these Christmas books that my parents made the kids several years ago.

They recorded themselves reading the books and Ruby loved listening to them.

Ruby looking festive again.

One day we brought the two lop eared bunnies inside to play.

Ruby moved a chair next to her crib and climbed in.

Christmas trees are one of my favorite parts about Christmas.

I love that we can have two trees in our house.

Here's the tree in the front room.

And here's the tree in the living room.

I joined my ward Young Women's for mutual one week and we decorated gingerbread houses.

One afternoon, Ruby insisted on wearing her blankie on her head.

Avery lost her 8th tooth. She has now lost as many as Lexi.

I was able to sneak a picture of the Tooth Fairy visiting her that night.

And here's Ruby sleeping again.

I taught art again in Lexi's class.

We went to Grantsville to Clarke Farms to see the Live Nativity.

Eli was so excited to see Cosmo the camel again.

Eli and Ruby loved seeing the sheep.

For about a week, Eli slept on a toddler mattress in the corner of the girls' room.

He hates sleeping alone.

Another Sunday morning attempt to get pictures of the kids all dressed up.

Here's the Christmas package we got from my parents.

A blurry picture of Sean reading a Christmas story to the kids one night.

I just love how Sean is covered with kids.

Eli all ready for Polar Express Day at school.

Picture-a-Day (August)

 August 1st - Friday is school spirit day.

(School name covered up to protect privacy.)

 

August 2nd - Date night ended with a walk around the temple.

 



August 3rd - Eli's neck is finally thin enough to wear a tie!

 



August 4th - Avery showing off her crafts from Hawaiian day at summer day camp.

 



August 5th - Eli loves laying on his sisters.

 



August 6th - Eli loves blankets.

 



August 7th - Me and Melissa, my BYU-Idaho roommate.

She's 34 weeks pregnant and I'm 24 weeks pregnant.

 



August 8th - Dressing up as a pirate princess.

 



August 9th - Eli's way of saying that he wants to go outside.

 



August 10th - Avery all ready for church.

 



August 11th - Lexi's first spelling test.

 



August 12th - Avery is so lonely and bored with Lexi gone all day that she just randomly falls asleep.

 



August 13th - Eli thinks the recliner is just a place for his cars and trucks.

 



August 14th - Eli loves laying on Lexi's bed when she's at school.

 



August 15th -  Growing pregnant Sam... I can't remember how far along I am in this picture.

 



August 16th - Eli helping himself to some pizza at a church party.

 



August 17th - Orton family who game to Tyler's BYU graduation party.

 



August 18th - Avery laying out by the pool.

 



August 19th - Sean helping me make homemade pizza.

 



August 20th - Eli cuddling with Austin and Michelle.

 



August 21st - Playing at the lake in Daybreak.

 



August 22nd - Reading before bedtime.

 



August 23rd - Date night.

After dinner we went to the DI and bought fun outfits to wear when we got ice cream.

 



August 24th - Eli loves laying inside our miniature hockey nets.

 



August 25th - For FHE we delivered cookies to some of our neighbors.

Some of them we knew and some of them we didn't.

We talked to the girls about service.

 



August 26th - Playing at Tracy Aviary.

 



August 27th - Lexi got her first violin.

 



August 28th - We met Sean for lunch downtown and then went to Temple Square.

 



August 29th - Eli all ready for bed.

 



August 30th - Avery broke her right arm and right leg

falling out of her second story bedroom window.

 



August 31st - Avery got dressed and played with mom while everyone else went to church.

 



 

And now I'm all caught up posting my picture-a-day pictures!