It's a Good Life...

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A-Hiking-We-Will-Go

We went for a little hike the other day...

We found...uhhh...."fossils."

Used our "binoculars" to see all kinds of far-away things...

Took in the "beautiful" view...

But mostly, we got to hang out with a few of our favorite people....

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COW-abunga!

Excuse the super lame title...I couldn't help myself!

This past weekend we headed up to Sweet.

That's my neck of the woods! However, Cory is no stranger to the sweet little town- in high school he would come up to some friends' ranch and help them with the cows.  HE LOVED THIS! He said he basically just asked questions trying to figure out how he could break into the ranching business...

So for old time's sake, we asked if we could all come up and have a little piece of the fun!

Brig and his little buddy/cousin Braxton- the louder the cow- the harder they laughed.

They were so cute and became best buds.



However, I think both Cory and Brig would recall this as one of their favorite parts- despite what their faces say in this picture!

It was fun to see these three guys together- I think we may have had a little flashback of a few years...

Thanks for the fun y'all!

And for letting my boys dream a little...

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School at Home

Not to be confused with Home School...

I have nothing against home schooling...we just aren't that formal!

I decided that I can still play teacher just like when I was a little girl...the difference is that now I actually have someone who can really benefit from it!  Well- hopefully!

Brig is really a smart boy and has picked up some of his letters quite well.

So today we made this little grid with all the letters he knows (or is working on) and made up all kinds of games.

It was a really excellent farm with plenty of fences for all the different animals.

It was fun to throw homemade bean bags at.

It made great target practice with the fly swatter.
It was a nice change from the ordinary hopscotch.

It is still stuck to our living room floor!

All thanks to a lil' masking tape...

and a super cute boy!

(Who looks a little crazy here)

And here is sweet little Ellie...although this picture wasn't taken today...

no- today while we did "school" we were most definitely all in our pajamas.

But look at that adorable little smile!

 Melt me!

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The Ultimate Career

For our Young Women lesson in church tomorrow our lesson is on homemaking...it sounds cliche but 

I am Proud to Be a Homemaker

And am so grateful that Cory works hard to make that a possibility.

This is a cute little cartoon that my mother in law keeps on her fridge.

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Sibling Rivalry or Lack Thereof

Since I blogged about the first time Brig ate rice cereal I thought that it was only fair that Ellie get her little post about this important event (I swear it seemed like such a big deal when I fed Brig and now it is like...oh hey...maybe today is a good day to give Elle some cereal).

Equality...it's a tough thing

 However...I feel super blessed because these cute little chillins

get along so well!!!

 Brig is always wanting to see, talk, hold, occassionally wrestle (in good fun), kiss and love his little sister.

 And she adores him.  She just stares at him and let's him do whatever he wants to her.  She thinks he is far funnier than either Cory or I. 

I think we have some fun times ahead of us if these two keep up this great relationship!

This next part is mostly for journaling purposes

Ellie ate rice cereal for the first time yesterday...

...her response...not much....she mostly tongue thrust everything right back out. 

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Parenting

Isn't it amazing how something can be so

HARD

and so

WONDERFUL

all at the same time...

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4 Months

Ellie had her 4 month check up...

She is healthy and happy and little. 25th percentile all around the board. 

Here is an interesting thing we recently discovered with Elle...she loves music! If we play music in her bedroom at night time she does much better falling and staying asleep (no more 12:30 in the morning kind of nights)

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Answer to Prayer

This sweet face is what we get to see every day!

Lucky...

(Note: that should be read in your very best Napolean Dynamite accent...I couldn't help myself)

She is such a sweet girl and we sure love having such a happy baby...

she is quite literally

An Answer to Prayer

When we found out we were preggo we prayed long and hard for a happy baby.

Sure enough we were blessed with

Elle

(who as of last Monday is now rolling over! You go girl!)

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Once There Was a Snowman...

It snowed! Yay! So when Elle went down for a nap we headed outside to have a little fun...

Brig quickly decided that having a snowball fight was much more excited than building snowmen...no matter how many cool tricks they could do.

Isn't it great how magical life is when looked at through little kids eyes...it's the best!

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And That's What It's All About...

We decided that we would try and memorize the 1st Article of Faith...this is how Brig recited it to us...

"We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ...and in the hokey pokey." 

I suppose that really is what it's all about...

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Arise and Shine!

The day after Christmas we decided to heat things up:)

Leslie and Ammon brought these super neat flying lanterns...yes...like the ones from Tangled.

 They were much bigger than the ones in the movie....

 however...they were even more magical than you can imagine from the movie.

 

This sounds cheesy- but you couldn't help but feel happy as they floated away.

 Then we burned the tree...it was happy too...in its own weird way:)

Brig wasn't so sure about the huge fire that was just a few feet in front of him.

 These are the lantens as they floated away- they got really tiny! (This pic got out of order somehow)

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The Most Womderful Time of the Year

We hope everyone had a great Christmas. We sure did...it was Ellie's first and Brig really started to understand things-making it lots of fun. We love our family and we love our Savior- whom we know is the real reason we celebrate!

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Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was a blast!  We had lots of fun with family and lots of good food.  We started things off with our traditional present on Christmas Eve...PJS! 

We took some cute pictures and then the fun began...

The kids played some Twister but Brig decided that was getting a little too mellow for the party...

and took every opportunity to try and wrestle...

with anyone and everyone....

even if they didn't really feel like wrestling....

We were out of mistletoe...but broccoli worked just fine:)

Ellie got all dolled up for Christmas!

We missed Taylor but still managed to have some good (very clean and non-alcoholic) fun!

And one last picture before we call it a night....

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