Family Pictures

I truly believe that three is no greater torture than trying to get a descent family picture. It gives me migranes every year, but I am dedicated to the cause of documenting our family growing up. I must have made 95 shopping trips to try to figure out what to where. Snow's helpful suggestion was that we match but not be too matchy. Yes, not vague at all. We waited too late in the year to get the job done so we had to cancel once because of a snowstorm and the day we actually took the pics it was FREEZING. Not at all conducive to happy child (or hubby) faces. The end result was that we all look a little tired and haggard, but we did it. You can find our photographer at mo-dream.blogspot.com she was super reasonable and easy to work with.

My Little Turkey

Innocent Aren't They?!

Looking at these pictures almost makes me forget the spilt milk, tantrum throwing, refusal to share, spit up, poopy, hypersensitive behavior that is real life...almost.

Has it Really Been Two Months?

I mean seriously--Can it have been that long since my last post? Like many of you, I have been busy trying to get through the Holidays and make it a memorable and enjoyable time for my family. We did a lot of fun things including: The Festival of Trees, lights at temple square, caroling at the lifecare center, making goodies for neighbors, reading stories, attending concerts...lots of fun stuff. We spent Christmas in AZ with Snow's family. We had a great time.

We introduced a new tradition in our family called The Elf on the Shelf. It is a book and Elf figurine that you can get online or at bookstores. The gist of it is that the elf helps Santa know who is naughty and nice by hiding in a new spot each day to keep an eye on the kids and then reporting to Santa at night. Saylor named our elf Grisby and, I am not going to lie, I got a lot of mileage out of the phrase "Grisby is watching..." It was a huge hit at our house!