My best friend

My husband is the most amazing man I have ever met! He is not only very handsome, charming, witty and funny, but kind, compassionate, and a Godly man. Sometimes I am amazed that he chose me to be his wife. He is a good listener, and always gives the best advice. He makes me laugh so hard that I literally could pee my pants. He proof reads almost everything I write (so if there is mistakes in this post, it's because he didn't proof read, and I am the world's worst speller!). He keeps me honest, and encourages me. He is a great dad, and loves our girls. He definitely completes me. I love him so much, and he is my best friend. Chad I love you with all my heart, I have since the day I met you (it helped that he had no shirt on!). I have loved every moment that we have spent together, the good the bad and the ugly. I can't wait to spend more with you. Thank you for loving me, and being the man that you are.

Terror of the kitchen

My friend Christine lent me a walking exosausor. Emily loves it, she in now semi-mobile and can swipe stuff off of the refrigerator, dishwasher, cabinets, and yell about it the whole time. Here is a hilarious video of her in action. She has gotten quite fast, and has gotten a hold of some funny things. In this video she had gotten a hold of a cup from Sofia's play kitchen while nobody was watching and started screaming into it. It scared me so much, I thought a man had broken into the house, and Chad thought she was throwing up. We laughed so hard we cried!

Spaghetti

Emily loves anything that is grains. She will eat cheerios, bread, and now we found out she LOVES pasta! So far she loves fruits, veggies, and now bread- much different from Sofia our little carnivore.

Emmy Lou

Emily and her baby

We have recently started to see Emily's personality and it is so fun! She is really very funny, strong willed, a little stubborn, and very very sweet- from what we can tell so far. One thing that she really loves is this baby doll. She will hold it and hug it. She even pats it's back, it really is very funny. Here is a video of her trying to feed it. I didn't get the camera in enough time to really show you the whole thing, but she was definitely trying to feed it. She also loves to shake her baby- we will have to work on that:)
Emily also has a friend who is only a month older than her, Charlotte. She LOVES Charlotte. She loves her so much that she tried to eat her- this made Charlotte cry:( Charlotte is the only person who Emily will share this baby with though, very funny and sweet. We love our Emmy Lou!

Christmas 2010

Christmas was a blast! We had a nice relaxing day, and stayed in our PJ's and played all day. It was just what we needed after the crazy year we have had. ON Christmas Eve we went to our new church's Christmas Eve children's service. They asked all of the children to participate in the retelling of the Christmas story, and Sofia was one of the singing Angels. It was super cute. Then we came home and everyone got to open their Christmas tree gift. A tradition that my mom started. Every year you get an ornament for the tree, something about the year. So Sofia's was naturally a Disneyland ornament, and Emily's was her first Christmas ornament. Then everyone was off to bed and Santa came. We had a nice relaxing morning of opening gifts, playing and a great breakfast. We then took a walk, and Sofia got to eat lunch with her new best friend (who now goes everywhere with her). We then all took naps, and had dinner. It was a great day. Here is the day in pictures:


The girls got to open their gifts to each other on Christmas Eve. Both Sofia and Emily love the gift that Sofia got for Emily, and ice cream set. They played with it while we got ready for church.


All dressed up for church


Emily opening up her Christmas tree gift


Sofia opening her Christmas tree gift


Emily and Sofia ready for bed in front of the Christmas tree- which Emily is terrified of. She touched it once and that was it!


The children were all snug in their beds while vision of sugarplums danced in their heads.


Sofia asked for one thing this year- Woody. As you can see Santa delivered. Woody has since gone everywhere with us. She LOVED Woody. She told me that when we aren't around Woody comes to life:)


Emily and her gifts


So with a lot of sleep deprivation, and little time I had a little bit of a Christmas mishap this year. I stayed up one night very late and wrapped every gift. Then I packed them all up and shipped them out. I thought I was so thoughtful that I had even found personalized wrapping paper for my mother-in-laws gift. Well my mother-in-law had bought Chad's gift and had it sent to the house for me to wrap for him. In all of my haste that night, I wrapped Chad's gift from his mom in her wrapping paper and shipped it with everything else to Texas. When she got it I told her the mistake we both laughed and she sent it back, but she "edited," the wrapping! We all found this quite hilarious!!!



Sofia going for a walk with Woody- it was in the high 60s!!!!!!!!


Sofia eating lunch with her new friend, she made him pizza- another Santa gift


Emily at Christmas dinner.


Sofia and Daddy at Christmas dinner. Yes Sofia is dissappointed with Christmas dinner. We had lobster tails delivered by Chad's Grandma- they were delicious! However Sofia was so disturbed by them:)

Firsts for Emily

Emily now eats Cheerios



And can grow a bubble beard! No really she put her face in the water and made her own bubble beard, and laughed about it- so did we!