Ellie...

Ellie has been keeping busy with wearing some styling outfits around the house. She wears a leotard pretty much all day long. She loves sneaking into my makeup and then wipes any she gets on her fingers all over my walls. I love being with her in the day when the kids are at school. She always wants me to play "pretend" with her where I'm supposed to talk like her friend thats getting married or "the girl from the village" (??) and is just so fun. The last few days she keeps asking me to look at pictures of her Aunt Stephanie's wedding and saying, "Ohhh, they're sooo in love." She also likes to say "Precisely".

Is this a styling outfit or what?

"I'm sooo posh" she says!

Ellie actually playing in the snow!! She usually doesn't want to because playing in the snow means you have to wear pants.

She "swept" our front driveway.

Isaac.....

He's been really busy these days. He had a rough week with RSV, but is doing better now. He still doesn't crawl on hand and knees, but does the fastest army crawl you've ever seen. It looks like he's swimming really. He's starting pulling himself up on everything and climbing! He climbed up to the top of our stairs today. The days where I can leave him in a room for a second are gone...he's getting all over the place and into stuff too much. He played in the snow for a few minutes till he face planted it in the snow and then he was done. He is such a sweet, sweet baby!!

Isaac pulls himself up to get to the piano keys...he loves it. He'll throw a tantrum if you take him away.

Isaac's few minutes in the snow...he reminds me of "Ralphie" (from "A Christmas Story") in his snow suit. He couldn't really put his arms down.

Believe it or not....he is slimming down a little bit but he still has those great rolls and rolls of sweetness at 29 pounds!!

He gets sooo excited that he can stand all on his own now!

Our handsome, smiley, sweet baby boy!

Catch up posts...

December was a big month for us...here is an update on our fun few weeks over the Holidays! The posts are in reverse chronologic order however...

Utah Fun...

So after the wedding busyness...we had some fun! I wish I had some pictures of the kids sledding, hiking the mountain to do the "bum slide" at the Welch's, and just playing with all their cousins--which is always the best! It was a great time.


Playing at the Childrens Museum with Grandma and Grandpa Despain

Build a Bear Workshop with Grandma Bell

The reception....

One of the most beautiful weddings ever....
Check out our stylin' Isaac in the cream tuxedo. A perfect day for our Sto and Chris!

Isaac hanging out with Uncle Matt.





The boys with Grandpa Bell at the reception

Beautiful flower girls!

Handsome boys!

The Wedding....

How happy we were to be able to be in Utah for Blaine's sister Stephanie's wedding. This was such a great day! Steph was the most beautiful bride!!

Kelsey doing her "flower girl" duties at the temple by helping Steph with her dress.


Me with my sweet sis-in-law at the wedding luncheon.


We love this kid so much---just want to eat him up!

Our girls with Uncle Chris and Aunt Sto.

Happiest 10 Years ever...

We celebrated our 10 year Anniversary on December 28th! What a great decade its been. Looking back on all we've done...it's been such a fun journey with Blaine. He's kept me laughing and happy through living in 3 states, moving 9 times, 4 college degrees (Jaimee 1, Blaine, 3), having 4 babies, being poor students for almost 10 years, and the ups and downs of it all. We've been so blessed all along the way and can't wait to see what's ahead in the next 10 years!