8 Months

MaKelle and Daxton are 8 months old now!! They are growing so quickly! MaKelle started crawling, or more like scooting, just before Christmas and now she can get around everywhere. Of course she always heads for the stairs, and she loves to find little crawl spaces behind my couches and in between furniture to crawl through! And now that she is mobile she has become like a little vacuum picking up every tiny little thing she finds and putting it straight into her mouth! I have to always be on the watch with her. Speaking of which MaKelle has cut a tooth! Her first tooth which is on the bottom right. None for Daxton yet, but I'm okay if we don't get any more teeth for awhile. Daxton is starting to crawl now himself. He hasn't really taken off yet, but he gets up into the crawl position and will take a few steps forward. He is starting to do patty cake and loves it! They both are starting to wave bye bye and are just so busy!! They have also had some colds and ear infections which have made them grumpy and it's seriously ruined any hope of sleeping through the night! We have also started feeding them finger foods and they are getting pretty good at feeding themselves. And like always bath time is so fun for them. Daxton loves to splash and MaKelle just enjoys the water. However Mom ends up soaked by the time she has bathed two slippery and wiggly babies! All in all they are happy!

CONGRATS!!

My sister had a beautiful baby boy on Jan. 7th weighing 10 lbs. 5 oz. His name is Daniel after our Dad. He has a lot of Dark hair and long dark eyelashes! After fighting off an oncoming cold (love Zicam!) We finally got to go to St. George to see them and hold that sweet little boy! Congrats JJ and Vuki on your sweet little Daniel!!

Christmas and New Years

I can't believe how quickly Christmas has come and gone and now we are halfway through January! But what a great Holiday season we had! On the 23rd we got together with the DeMille's and ate dinner, played games, exchanged gifts and the kids got all their gifts from Grandma and Grandpa! WOW!!! is all I can say! They made a haul! After that we didn't even need to have Christmas. They all got tons of clothes and some toys, but the biggest surprise was a little 4-Wheeler and some helmets!! It was so much fun to see their excitement and spend the time with family. (I didn't get any good pictures of the Boys on their 4-wheeler cuz right as I walked outside to take one I slipped on the icy stairs and fell with MaKelle in my arms and then I never got any pictures.)



On Christmas Eve we did all the last minute shopping and wrapping. Then that night we went and looked at Christmas lights and the kids got to open one gift which of course was jammies. We read a Christmas story left cookies for Santa (which Brianna had made for us - Thanks Bree!) and went to bed EARLY!! Christmas morning was so FUN FUN FUN!!! The kids loved all their gifts, and could have played all day if we didn't tear them away to go to Grandma and Grandpa's for Breakfast Casserole. They got Star Wars toys, Brock got a new bike, Corbin got a Superman fishing pole, and the babies got a little kitchen and some sippy cups! We had a lazy day playing with new toys, lying around, cleaning up Christmas morning, and just enjoying the day!



The Day after Christmas we went to St. George and had a Christmas Party with my family. We ate more yummy food, exchanged and opened gifts and of course had a program. We stayed the night there at the Worldmark and went to Jumping Jacks the next morning for a combined Birthday party for my niece Ashlynn and my Nephew Luke! The kids always have so much fun there on the big blow-up bounce houses. Daxton and Makelle even went down the slides! :) Then we came back to the condos, ate lunch, sang Happy Birthday, ate cake, and opened presents!! What a fun and eventful time it was! Thank you Family for such a great Holiday!!



New Years Eve for us this year was low key but exciting! We went to Grandma and Grandpa's for some pizza dinner and then stayed and played games. We celebrated with New Yorkers and brought in the New Year at 10 o'clock by banging some pots and pans outside in the freezing cold! Mostly it was just Brock and Corbin - they loved it! And then we went home and put our kids to bed early. (Well early for New Years Eve) On New Years Day we went down by Virgin and did a little four wheeling in the snow and mud with the DeMille's. We got the boys little wheeler muddy for the first time! All though it was a little cold we all had fun and even all the babies went! Brock did really well driving the wheeler all by himself! Then we headed home and went out to dinner so that I didn't have to cook! (yeah!)

SNOW SNOW SNOW

We got some good storms this winter that brought some good snow! So we took all 4 kids out to play in it! The twins enjoyed being pulled around in the sled by Blake. And then Blake helped the older boys and some of their friends on our street to build a snow fort! They loved it and started planning out their big snowball fights they wanted to have the next day! What FUN!!

Poopin' Pine Needles

I know it sounds disgusting but it is true. I was changing Daxton's diaper a few days ago, and yes I look at the contents, and I noticed a pine needle. You would think that it wouldn't feel so great to swallow and digest. I did try to vaccum them all up but I'm sure he found one near the tree since they love to be near the tree and play with whatever is in reach. It makes me think how many other pine needles or other things for that matter that they may have eaten!