Santa pictures.

I know I've posted this picture of Ellie before, but I antiqued it and wanted to post it one more time. Love this girl!

Our ward had Santa visit at our party and here are some pics of the boys with him. Thanks Mandy for taking them!

And finally, here is Logan. The other day he walked down the stairs dressed in a tank top and brumuda shorts. He said he was pretending to be in Hawaii. I told him it was too cold and that he needed to go upstairs to change. He came back down dressed like this. At least he listened!

Happy 100th Post!

Wow, I can't believe I've been blogging for this long! I also can't believe how much I really enjoy it. I've always loved writing in my journal, but when the kids started coming, I found myself writing less and less. Since I've been blogging, I write a lot more and I feel like my family will have some fun things to look at and read as they grow older. I also take more pictures than before and have developed a love for that too.

I've been thinking a lot about going private with the blog, and by January I think I will. SOoo, if you are going to want to continue watching and reading about us, let me know and I'll send you an invite!

Here are a few pictures as of late that haven't made it onto the blog yet, but that I really like.

Silly Lincoln is always doing something with his hands. He flaps, claps, does the chicken and sometimes he'll stroke my cheeks very softly; so softly that it tickles. Although his hands are very "Lincolnesque" in this picure, it's his belly button I love the most.

Our Ward had the primary be the nativity at our Christmas party this year. I liked how this picture turned out. Dan was out of town for this, so these pictures are for him.

Some more of the nativity.


Owen and his little friend at the ward Christmas party. Since Dan wasn't able to be there with me, a lot of people from my ward stepped up and helped me all night. I really love them all. They are good people!


Ah, first love. This I can handle. It's the teenage years I'm worried about.



Speaking of love, here's Logan and his best friend from school and church. We carpool with her and her family a lot. Aren't they cute?




A behind shot of Logan as a shepherd.

My boys.

Another shepherdly picture.

Here's the picture I'll show Ellie when she's grown up to explain why she's so tuff. Her brothers love being as close to her as possible! Who knew that three of them would fit in her crib?

Ellie's Christmas photos

I had so much fun taking Ellie's pictures this morning. I wanted to get a picture of her in one of our stockings, and I went a little picture crazy after that. Owen was a big helper. He likes taking pictures with me. I think he likes that I pull a bunch of random things together and move the couches around. Anyhow, here are a lot of pictures. I liked so many of them, I figured I show them all!
Are you ready?

Our ten minutes of snow!

What a fun day. I've been missing snow for a long time, and today I got to see it for about ten minutes! It was just enough time to shove my boys into coats, and race them outside for a photo shoot. My camera had a hard time with the lighting, (I'm blaming it entirely) so some of the pictures are a bit fuzzy. The snow made it tricky too. I had fun being outside in it anyway!

Owen liked it for a minute or so, but when it started coming down faster, he did not!

Linc running in it.

The best I could get of the two of them together. (You should see my other attempts, they were pretty funny)

Before his scare.

It's hard to see the snow in the pictures, but here's some proof!