December Pictures

She's bashful

Lexi's bashful too

In Draper this tree looks like the Tree of Life from Lehi's dream in the Book of Mormon

She's all ready for her Preschool Christmas program

All ready for their Christmas ballet recital.  I can't remember what she was mad about

Now she's over it

Christmas dinner with some of my siblings while Courtney and Damon are in town

Courtney and Damon are visiting

November pictures

Thanks to Elena Reed, we got a few pictures of the girls.  

We went to Arizona partly for a cousin's wedding and partly to visit family and friends

We went on a hike with our friends

My friend Lorna and I

Lexi hugging Lorna and Aaron's little boy, Lucas

Visiting Great Grandma Payne

At the I.D.E.A. museum in Mesa.  They had Alice in Wonderland dress ups

This "Alice" dress was so cute on her that I want to make her one!

Feeding the ducks.  The white ones ate right out of my hand! I tried to pet them while they ate out of my hand but they moved away.  I guess they didn't want to be petted.

While fingerpainting she jerked her hand and paint flung onto her face :)

She did this all on her own :)

Putting up the Christmas tree

October pictures

Hay ride at Cornbelly's

Sleeping in her boots

A deer walked through our backyard one Sunday afternoon and snacked on our neighbor's bush.  Earlier Steve and Addy saw it lying down-just chillin- in someone's backyard

Our library had an activity where your child could read to this therapy dog.  Addy got to read to her for 10 minutes.

Lexi learned this cute rhyme in Preschool

Lexi was a fairy for Halloween

Addy was Cinderella for Halloween

At the mall

At the mall

I babysat Beth's kids one night

Feeding baby Zyna early in the morning

They adore babies

September pictures

Lexi LOVES horses.  Steve took her on a little date to Thanksgiving Point to ride the ponies.  A couple of days later Steve was watching a horse video with her.  She said "Next time we go horse back riding can you ask the farmer for a horse that doesn't hold onto anything (she meant doesn't walk in a circle) and one that runs really fast?"  

Addy doing a fun run at school.  She ran 36 laps!

At church Lexi likes to wiggle & squirm on my lap for all of sacrament meeting.  Trying to get a break I whispered to her that daddy would like to hold her. She didn't budge. A couple minutes later I tried again & whispered the same thing to her. She still didn't budge. Then Steve whispered to her she would get a piece of candy after church if she sat on his lap. She immediately perked up & promptly moved to his lap. Then Steve whispered to me "I don't care if it's fake love. I'll take it" lol

On Sunday when we got to church Steve sat down leaving one seat open on the end of the row & a bunch of seats on the other side of him. I sat down in the seat on the end, leaving the girls to sit by Steve. After 15 minutes of dealing with the girls Steve whispered to me "your seat was no accident". I smiled & agreed. Then I told him how a couple weeks ago he got the seat on the end, leaving me to take care of the girls. He just stared forward with a serious look of concentration on his face like he was trying to remember if I was right! I pointed this out to him - that he was trying to remember if that really happened- and we both laughed & laughed because that's exactly what he was doing. 

Lexi loves her new blanket Grandma made.  It's just like the one she made for Addy.

Grandma Luke also made us some stockings.  I love how they turned out.

Lexi is our cuddle bug - she is very affectionate

First Day of School

I LOVE this picture! Daddy got to walk Addison to her first day of school (and so did Lexi and I, of course)

Lexi was excited for school too

Just because I love her smile