Growing Kids

The kids are definitely growing. Matt is officially potty trained. I’m pretty impressed with him, I don’t think he’s had an accident during the night for over two weeks (however if he has I’m not the one that would wake up and deal with it so I can’t promise I’m accurate in my assumption).

Emma is growing (although very slowly). She’s tiny tiny for her age but development-wise she’s doing great. She definitely knows what she wants and she definitely knows how to throw a fit when she doesn’t get it. She scoots around getting into everything that Matt is playing with, drives him crazy.

I think we are all pretty excited for the weather to warm up so we can start playing outside. We did have a nice couple of days last week when we got to take the kids out and swing.

Pictures From Christmas

Christmas was awesome at our home. We’re so far behind with getting updates on our lives that we thought we just throw some pics on here to share and show how the kids are growing.

Christmas is just around the corner!

We are so excited for Christmas in our home. Matt has asked Santa for a soccer ball. We've watched a lot of Christmas related shows. We made a fantastic gingerbread house. We've talked about baby Jesus and all the people in the Nativity story. It is so fun to share all of this with Matt! Another fun part of Christmas (for me) is the cute Christmas outfits. Nana sent Emma some gorgeous dresses and Matt some studly sweater vests. So I was very excited to get my cuties dressed up for church today. And I had to take a picture (or 3) of their adorable-ness.

Latest carving and our new front yard

Finished up my latest carving yesterday. It’s a pinecone Christmas ornament carved from pine (I think). I think it turned out pretty well.

 

Also, we had the pine tree in our front yard removed about two weeks ago. It’s nice to finally have a front yard to play in. Here is a before and after and then a couple pics of the process.

Halloween

This year's Halloween was a lot of fun for us. Matt got to be Buzz Lightyear, thanks to his pal down the street. Emma was a darling flower. We got to dress up for Toddler Time at the South Jordan Library, Josh's work party, and of course trick or treating. Matt really got into character and would fly around and shoot people with his laser beam, all the time doing sound effects and saying Buzz phrases. Its so cute to see him love characters so much and to get so excited about them. He also liked the candy :)

On Halloween, we got a visit from Princess Peach and her bomb. Becca and Katie stopped by to say Hi, and their costumes were the best I saw this year. We had a yummy Jack-o-lantern pizza with our friends the Smiths and our kiddos hit the rainy streets to beg for candy. They lasted 2 circles.

Happy Belated Halloween!

(Josh’s mad carving skills….wood, pumpkins its all the same)

South Jordan #18

Just saw today that money magazine came out with the best cities to live in the US. South Jordan came in at #18 because of 'strong schools, low crime rate, and an excellent Country Fest Celebration. Not sure about the country fest stuff and my kids aren't in school, but I do enjoy the city in which I live.

Link to Money Magazine Best Places to Live

Picture Frames

I finally finished the picture frames that I was working on for my moms birthday this year. The pictures are some paintings she did in college. For the past who knows how long she's had these in a closet so I decided to try and make some matching frames so that she could hang them up in the house. I think they turned out pretty okay.