RoLl OvEr

At 3 1/2 months old Evie has started rolling over! I cannot believe how big she is getting. She is such a chunk with rolls on those thighs of hers. Matt weighed her the other day and thought she was about 13 1/2 lbs! I think we might have another Kash on our hands:) She is still such a good sleeper, usually only waking up once. This past week however she has been sick and is up all night with the saddest cough you've ever heard. It has really made me grateful that she has slept so well so far. It is fun to see her personality start to show, she is generally a happy baby and loves to be talked to and will talk back making the cutest sounds. She always has a big smile for me when I get her out of her crib and I love when I catch her staring at me with a big grin! She definitely has a temper, she can be happy one minute and the next she will give a high pitched scream and suddenly be mad or offended for some reason! It always makes us laugh. She is especially ticked off if you wipe her nose or face. Ella and Kash are really cute with her and I will often find Ella right in her face talking to her in a very exaggerated voice, sounding just like I do. We love her so much and are so happy to have her in our little family.

We are adjusting to life with three kids, it is pretty normal for us now. EXCEPT like the other day when I tried to take all three of them to the store. For some reason Evie was screaming hysterically so I was trying to hold her and push the cart and yell at the other kids to follow me. Ella was throwing a tantrum because I wouldn't buy her something, and after I checked out I noticed Kash with a giant bag of candy that he ripped open and was eating. So then I had to get back in line and buy the candy with the whole store looking at me and my poor neighbor with her well behaved children trying to help! By the time I got to the car I was sweating and crying and yelling! It was my fault that I took them to a store that I couldn't fit all three of them in the small cart. So we generally stay home to avoid these kinds of disasters.

Hot Tub

Oh how we love our hot tub! We have gotten in it almost every night this week, it is so fun. We've enjoyed it with lots of different friends, just the kids, and just Matt and I. There is something about running outside in the freezing cold to jump into that nice hot water. Ella and Kash are obsessed with it and are always asking if they can get in. I don't know how many times I've said things like, "You better finish your dinner if you want to get in the jacuzzi!" It has been great for bribing;)

Muddin'

Matt took Cody to do a little off-roading and with all of the rain we had it was a little on the muddy side....When they got back they started honking and telling the kids and I to come outside and take a look. The jeep and the boys were completely covered!





It was seriously freezing cold and I felt so bad for them because once they got back they took the jeep to the self serve car wash and spent forever cleaning it up. They were cold, wet, and muddy but somehow they said they still had fun!

On second thought...

I started to attempt making my blog book but after a few minutes I got frustrated and quit! Everyone says it is so easy but I guess I am a little slow when it comes to this kind of thing. I also realized that I have already scrap booked most of 2010, up until November. So I really don't need another book, I think it will be best to start in 2011. (Maybe by then I will figure out how to use Blurb:)) So here is a great New Years Resolution: Be a faithful blogger so at the end of the year I will have a detailed scrap book for my family!

Post Overload!

Below are my last 6 posts of 2010! I wanted to get it all finished up because I am wanting to ditch my scrap booking and start printing blog books. I have never done it before and think I am going to use Blurb? I want something EASY, CHEAP, and where you can SEE the pictures. So if anyone knows anything at all about this please fill me in! Thanks.

The Friends

Every year my girlfriends from high school try to get together for a little Christmas Party. It is always so much fun and is sometimes one of the only times we see each other all year. It is a great tradition and I hope we keep it going. This year it was held at my house and we did a simple pot luck. It is great because we don't even need any entertainment-we just eat and chat all night! Last year husbands and children were invited and I think we learned from our mistake because this time it was just us girls! (They don't want to hear what we talk about anyways;))

Here is everyone minus Ashley who is taking the picture:

This year we had 3 pregnant, and 3 with new 2010 babies. Here is Kristen and Lacy showing off their baby bumps, and Megan is also expecting.

I think we need to try to get together more often, once a year just isn't enough.

Evie's Blessing Day

Evie Lyn was blessed the day after Christmas while all of our family was still in town. She wore Ella's beautiful blessing dress that my grandma made. It was a miracle that it even fit because Ella was blessed at just 3 weeks old, and was sickly skinny. Evie on the other hand was 3 months old and a total chunk! She had used a doll pattern and even then had to take it in by hand, still leaving it a bit big on her. So when I tried it on Evie I thought it was perfect until I tried to button up the back and it was too tight! So I simply unpicked the part where she had taken it in and it was the most perfect fit! My grandma said she thought it actually fit Evie better because it was just too much dress for little Ella! I would never think anything was "too much dress" I absolutely love this dress and Whitney has already asked to borrow it for her little girl that will be arriving in February. I think that it is special that all of our girls can share this.

Matt gave the sweetest blessing (he always does) and everything was just perfect. I was afraid she would cry through the whole thing because she had been a little upset the last couple of days. When the blessing began and I heard her start to cry I panicked. But apparently Papa stuck her binkie in and she never made a sound after that! I had so many people come up to me and comment on what a good job Matt did, and everyone wanted to know where I got her dress:)

Her great grandparents

More great grandparents

Trying to get a picture with the grandparents...

Nana and Papa with their granddaughters.

Papa with his little girls.

And at the end of a long day being held by her great grandma Tilton

I have to add this story so we don't forget it. During the entire Sacrament meeting Kash was asking if it was time to go. I think with all of our family there he wanted to go home and play! After the rest hymn he thought it was the closing song so when the last speaker got up he was ticked! It was kind of a long talk and Kash was getting fed up so he stands up, hands on the pew in front of him (we were sitting near the very front and center) and shouts, "SAY AMEN!" Yes, that is my son for you. How embarrassing. I don't think the entire congregation heard him just a few rows around us, and hopefully not the speaker!

Christmas Morning

Both Ella and Kash started getting a little sick Christmas Eve, so Christmas Day we got a slow start. We actually had to force Kash out of bed, telling him that he needed to get up so he could open presents. He said, "ok...then I go back to bed?" The poor little guy! So he was a bit out of it for a while but once they got going they were fine.
We started by opening stockings....

I love how excited Kash is to get toothpaste:)

And then there was a note left from Santa that Nana read to the kids, telling them that He had left a special present for them in the backyard, because he could not fit it down the chimney...

Here is Ella's reaction to what she saw:

And Kash taking it in slowly...

A trampoline! They both would not stop talking about how they wanted a trampoline, especially Ella who really talked about it non stop and would matter of factly tell everyone that yes, Santa was bringing her a trampoline. I'm glad Santa delivered, because this was one present they would have noticed if they didn't receive! It was freezing and the tramp was covered in ice so they decided to wait and come back out when it was warmer.

Then we headed back inside and everyone opened their presents. I love Mandy's face in this one.

Grandpa and Grandma Tilton

Grandpa and Grandma Craft, aka Bob and Bo.

Nikki and Kar-Nikki opened a special book about her Homecoming.

This tramp has already paid for itself! Even in the cold weather they have to go jump for a little while. I love that they love it, and that it wears them out!

Matt and I agreed to not give each other gifts this year. Well much to my surprise he did not hold up his part of the agreement. He was very sneaky and had my sisters pick me out clothes, and had my mom pick me out this beautiful full length mirror for my bedroom. I should have known better! It was such a great Christmas and we were so grateful to have everyone at our home this year.

Ella and Ella

I am so grateful that we live right across the street from the Harris Family. My Ella Grace and their Ella Kate are the best of friends, and it is so great that they can just run back and forth to each others houses, without having to take the time to plan a play date. If they lived one street over I know we wouldn't see them nearly as much, so it is really meant to be that we live where we do! They are really so cute together, they play dress up for hours and hours. Kristen made the comment that they fight like sisters, which is so true! They are around one another so much that they do act like sisters, playing a lot and fighting a lot! haha I am so excited for them to grow up together. In primary they are now in the same class and they were ecstatic about it. You could see them walking down the hall holding hands. :)

Christmas Eve 2010

Christmas Eve was held at my house this year. We were lucky enough to have my family, including both sets of my grandparents. It is tradition for us for dinner to have real handmade Mexican tamales, chili, and clam chowder. We also always act out the nativity. You can see Ella was Mary, tenderly holding baby Jesus. Typical Kash did not want to be Joseph so my cousin Braden stepped up to the plate. Also my cute sister Nikki played the angel. We don't have enough kids yet to do much more than that! Another tradition we have is that my parents give their presents on Christmas Eve. We sisters all got matching silky pajamas, Kash got a car that you can put together and take a part with a drill, and Ella got the sweetest book called, "My Wedding Day." My mom insisted that Matt read it to her, and I think everyone got a little teary-eyed! It talks about a little girl growing up and getting married in the temple. Ella has been obsessed with this ever since Whitney and Ryan got married.
There are also pictures of my cute grandpa, always taking time to hold and play with the kids. And my grandma who is the best baker ever, making cinnamon rolls with Karlee. And the very last picture of Kash, who fell asleep right on the kitchen table!


Whenever my sisters and I get together we start acting like little girls, it is quite embarrassing. We got in our new pjs and had a total fashion show, taking the cheesiest pictures possible. We were so sad to not have Whitney with us this year!:( However she is probably relieved to not be in any of these: