St. Pats Party

This weekend we hosted a murder mystery party, "Murder me I'm Irish". DJ and Kate, Justin's cousin Darren and his wife Cari, and our friends from Pocatello Jeff and Camille Miles all came. We had Irish drinking music in the background while we had some killer spinach dip, corned beef sandwiches, and potato and leek soup. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who participated.

We bought the PDF version of the game online. If anyone is interested in doing this party, let us know and we'll email it to you. Thanks.

Disney on Ice

A couple of weeks ago we took the kids to Salt Lake to see the Disney on Ice show. The girls had a great time. Mickey and his friends went on a trip and saw a lot of Disney characters. We saw The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Lilo and Stich, Mary Poppins, and Peter Pan. The first half of the show was a lot more exciting than the second, but most of our pictures are from the second half. Our camera was confiscated at the front door when we arrived and so all of our first half pictures are via iphone. During intermission, Elsie snuck our camera in and so we have some 2nd half pictures.
Since it was opening night tickets were cheap and it was well worth the money we paid, even after spending way more than we wanted to on snow cones.
It was fun to watch how excited the kids got throughout the show. Even Urban enjoyed the show. We might have to go again when it is the princess show. The girls both like The Little Mermaid the best.

Let sleeping kids lie

Hazel falls asleep in the strangest places. Here is the latest. I
guess sleeping under the bed is more comfortable than sleeping in it.

So Sorry!!

I have to apologize for my laziness. I could have found the time to post, but I chose to do other things. I have about six postings worth of stuff to catch up on, but I am going to just cram it all into one rather large posting. Urban turned 2 months on the first. At 8 weeks he went in for a check up. He was 15lbs 3oz , 25 inches and his head was 15.2 inches. His height and weight is 100Th percentile and his head is 20Th. So he is a very big boy with a tiny head. He still likes to be held and walked but i still think he's a good baby, just a little high maintenance. He smiles and tries to talk. He is a really good coo'er. We all love him a lot!

Hazel has been our little problem child this month. About 3 weeks ago her and Layla were jumping on the couch. Hazel fell and hurt her leg. She refused to walk on it for 3 days. She already had a well baby visit planned so we waited until then to take her in. When we were waiting to see the doctor she decided to walk on it in attempts to keep up with the other children in the office. The doctor said he didn't think it was broken but if it wasn't better in about 4 days to call and he would send an order to the hospital to have it xrayed. Long story short, it wasn't broken, but up until a day or two ago, she was still limping horribly, crying constantly, saying that her leg hurt all the time. Not fun at all! But it is showing improvement, Finally!!

Layla went to her first birthday party. She asked me every ten minutes if she could go yet. It was at 5:30 pm, so it was a long day. She had a lot of fun, and it was worth the 1 1/2 hour break I got.Oh, she wanted her hair curly for the special occasion and then insisted I take pics.

Myself and the kids also went to Beaver for a few days last week. We met My mom and sister in law Zeffie there. The kids had a great time playing together and with grandma. Plus they got to go sledding and out for ice cream. Sledding didn't last very long. It was cold and windy. Hazel cried that her leg hurt the whole time and wanted to be held Urban also didn't like the cold, so I had him zipped up in his car seat which he also didn't like unless I was holding it walking around. Layla did OK until grandma let her go from a little higher on the hill. It scared her, she cried and said she never wanted to sled again. I was trying to take some pictures and Zeffie had her 3 kids and grandma was helping them sled. It was quite the ordeal. But they had fun. The next day Layla decided she would enjoy sledding the next time we came down. We had a lot of fun and can't wait to do it again.

Justin and I are house hunting. Not to seriously, mostly just for fun right now. But we are enjoying it. While I was touring a house the other day, Layla told the owner that we had to find a new place cause ours is getting to small. I thought it was cute. I think that about sums up our month in a nutshell.

Urban's Photot Shoot

I took Urban to Target and got his pics taken. I could have done them myself, but without the backdrop and lighting, it was just easier to get them done. I took a picture of the pictures so you all could see them. Enjoy!

Christmas Fun

For Christmas we stayed home and just did our own thing. This is our second year having Christmas as just our family, and it was alot of fun. Justin played out in the snow with the girls while I slaved away in the kitchen. Urban slept and stayed inside with mom. On Christmas Eve we also decorated a ginger bread house and went to look at christmas lights. Santa visited and the girls got lots of fun things. Justin was a great husband and got me fun photography stuff and I was the boring wife that got him dress clothes. But we had a great Christmas!! We hope you all did as well!