Thursday, March 28, 2013

Little bit about Maren

Maren turned 18 mo. old in February.
A little bit about our baby:

Boy does this girl love her daddy! She prefers him to anyone else in the family. Everytime she gets dressed she says "I show daddy", even if he is not home. She likes to run to him so he can tell her she looks "cute cute".
Here she was hanging out with him before he went to work.
Here she was after he left....
She thinks she is a super big girl. She likes to play with Embrie's toys maybe even more than Embrie does. Forget that "baby stuff"



She thinks she can do whatever they're doing. She has even to my dismay learned how to climb up to the top bunk bed.

She has learned to use a spoon and fork pretty well. Very early on she wanted to do this and she is pretty good at it considering.


Here she is playing the tablet which is fairly new to our family.

She thinks she can wear makeup (mascara in this case)

she loves to bruch her teeth.

And she loves to play with her friends.

She has been an amazing talker early on and now she is starting to sing songs (yes she knows the words) and talk in phrases.
She also thinks that if she wears little bloomers under her dresses that they are underwear like big sister's.
I think this little girls is trying to be bigger than her britches. Don't grow up too fast!




Thursday, March 14, 2013

Valentines Day


You know, these are the moments that a mom or a dad just love. We have valentines buckets and the week before v-day we all decorate and make valentines for each other and secretly put them into the buckets. I love that they love doing this for each other. To see the excitement they feel when they "give" is so encouraging.
It's not just about receiving after all.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Scooby Dooby Doo


Happy 4th Birthday Embrie!
She partied it up with Scooby Doo!

We read a couple of scooby-doo books, did some coloring pages and we played a scooby-doo mystery game where we had to find the clues

team 1

team 2




These kids had so much fun playing that clue hunting game! They were a super excited bunch! I am glad that Embrie has so many awesome and sweet friends.



 

Friday, March 1, 2013

A Merry Christmas

For the Christmas season this year we tried to do something different. Something to focus a little more on Christ and what he would have us do. The first FHE before December we talked about serving and how we can do this for Christmas. Our goal was to do 24 days of service. So we had a jar with slips of paper in it, and on each paper a different service idea be it big or small, the kids helped us come up with some of these ideas. And we tried to do one of those services for each day up to Christmas.
I didn't plan as much of it in advance as I wish I could have but I think its something that we'll try to do every year just as a reminder to us about our Savior and the REAL gifts of Christmas.

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Garrett and Embrie did their usual cookies for Santa. This is a big deal at our house, they love it.




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Just a few random Christmas morning shots...



Garrett and dad both got remote control helicopters




We're a lucky bunch it was a fun relaxing Christmas.