blessing

well, it's done!! Lucy's blessing dress turned out pretty darn cute!! I'm going to brag on myself for just a minute! I made this dress from my wedding dress, and since I was trying to use specific pieces of fabric for the design, I MADE MY OWN DRESS PATTERN!!! I traced the top from a dress Lucy already has and used that for a pattern....except the sleaves, i had no idea what i was doing for the sleaves. I wanted to use the sleaves that came off my dress and just cut them down. Thats what I did, but don't look too closely at them :) they ended up being different sizes. Overall, i'm pretty impressed with myself. I even lined it!! And it even fits her!!! We are blessing her on Sunday, and will take some pictures of it ON her :)

6 What?!?!?!

Yeah, Lucy is 6 weeks old already....YIKES!!!!! Here's some cute pics of her....

Lucy is such a sweet baby. She is very tolerant of her big brother that likes to TRY and beat on her sometimes....she's starting to "talk" and make little noises, she has lots of big smiles, and is such a fun little girl! We love you, Lucy!

Old man

Scott turned a whopping 27 on Sunday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT!!!

We had some friend over, and had some amazing birthday-brownie-sundaes. MMMMMMMMM delicious....

Getting ready to blow out the candle.....

BIrthday boy with his two best presents...

Tradition Experiment #1

So I've been thinking about traditions and which ones I can adapt for my family.....I thought i'd try out the gingerbread house experiment. The dough was gross, and I burned the front and back....BUT it turned out cute :) Probly something the kids would like when they are a little OLDER....but worth a go at it. We'll probly try this one again.....

self timer pic.....gotta love those...

this finished product...lots of uncovered space,..but you can only do so much with the attention span of a two year old and a 6 week old :)


Lucy got bored of watching so me and her hung out

decorating the burned chimney...burned on purpose of course.....it's a CHIMNEY!

Lane with his gingerbread man...

decorating....


Lane liked eating the candy more than decorating with it...but it was still pretty fun.

hangin out

I love my kids :)

All smiles

Lucy is a pretty happy baby....and she has a GREAT smile!!! I haven't really been able to capture her best ones on camera yet, but here's a preview.....I swear she has been smiling since she was like 2 weeks old, but no one believes me.....but you can't argue that it's still gas now :) She is TOTALLY smiling on her own!

This is actually before she started crying cuz she was really tired....and she wanted the flower off her head :)

more smiles to come as soon as i can act fast enough to get my camera :)

Double take....

I keep flip flopping if Lane and Lucy looked alike at this age, but I found some pics of them about the same age, and I think they look like twins.....

Lucy

Lane

Lane
Lucy

all the stockings were hung....

I finally got my stockings done!!!!!!!!! I saw this idea like 10 years ago in one of my mom's magazines, and she gave me the pattern this year, and i FINALLY got them done!!....Things take a little longer than they used to these days for me, but they are done before christmas eve so I can't complain :)

Aren't they awesome!??!?! I LOVE them

We're ready for you, Santa!! :)

Bring it on, Grampa Jim!!

it's on now, Grampa.....:)

Lane has taught her all his sweet moves....better watch out!!

Like Mother like Son??

We were taking goofy pictures, and Lane totally came up with this pose on his own.....

Which was pretty funny cuz I remembered a really similar picture from my college days at BYU.....

I think the story was that I found my roommates camera, and it had one more picture on it, so i decided to surprise her with a "hello" sign so she'd see it when she got her film developed :) I was such a thoughtful roommate :)

what else do you do?

What else do you do at 6 in the morning, when your baby decides she's all done sleeping??? Update your blog!!! Here's some random funness at the woods

Lane has been excited to take pictures with Lucy these days...

BFF's? or rivalry stare-off??

Let Christmas begin!!!

So I LOVE christmas....I can't help it. I've been wanting to listen to Christmas music since Halloween, and now I can!!! As the day after thanksgiving ritual, we cut our tree and put it up today. I have had this tree picked out in our back yard since summer....so that was easy :) Lane did GREAT helping put up ornaments, it was lots of fun. I will put up the rest of my decorations tomorrow....but i'm realizing that i need MORE to fill up my house which is a shade larger than our little a-frame. :) Darn.......

Lucy loves Christmas just as much as I do :)

Lane took his turn cutting down the tree with his little chain saw.

The tree hunters...

the boys putting up the tree


the "decorators"

Lane a LITTLE bit over-tired....

random cuteness....Grampa took Lane out for ice cream. Lucky kid.....he didn't even MISS us when we were at the hospitol :)