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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Allie 2 years old.

I thought I would give a little update on Allie. She is growing up so fast. I can't believe she has been two for a couple months now. A few days before she turned two, we decided to try and get rid of her binkie, it was actually much easier than I had imagined. All it took was us telling her that she was a big girl and binkies were for babies. Since then we'll ask, "what's your name?" and she'll either say, "Allie Doman" or "big girl." Sometimes we'll call her "All-a babe-a" and she'll say "I'm not a baby, I'm a big girl." So she takes this big girl think very serious!

Some cute things she does:
Calls Brycen and Blake, "the Boys". "Where are the boys?", "Boys come and eat."
Climbs on you lap and says, "lets talk."
Loves to chew gum (and after a little training, doesn't swallow it.)
Loves anything princess or pink.
Knows all her colors.
Loves to read books.
Can sing "you are my sunshine", "twinkle, twinkle little star" and "zipadee doo dah."
Can't say her "L's." "I wuv you" and "Aunt Windsey" (instead of Lindsey).
Dora is her favorite show, and Enchanted is her favorite movie.
Tells me, "mommy, I love your hair", and "mommy your so pretty."
Every time Jared comes home she runs to the door and yells "yeah, daddy's home."
Loves to wear dresses and go to nursery.
Gives out lots of hugs and kisses.
Refuses to sit in her booster for meals.
If she doesn't hear or understand something you say, she yell "huh?" really loud. (deaf grandma style!)
She was trying to get something out of the closet in her room the other day and the closet door came off the tracks. She came down saying "mommy, my room broked."
Gives the cheesiest smiles.

We sure love our Allie!


Rainy Days!

The other night I took the kids outside for some splashing, I needed to get some motion pictures for my photography class. Brycen did some awesome splashing as you can see and Allie was trying to be just like him.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Soccer

I have been playing on a women's soccer team with a bunch of girls that work at Jared's dental company. The name of our team is SMILES. It is so fun! I love getting out there and running around, it's such good exercise. Jared took some pictures of me, I didn't realize I could get so fiesty!
I scored a goal last week and Brycen and Blake thought I was the coolest mom, they ran out on the field after the game and gave me high five's and told me I was awesome. I even have a cute little fan club!



Monday, January 18, 2010

Saying Goodbye to Baby Lexi



My sister Kristin and her husband Taylor lost their baby girl on Wednesday January 13th. They found out on Monday January 11th that baby Lexi was not growing and would not make it. Kristin was 25 weeks along. That night I told the kids during dinner that Kristin's baby was probably going to die. Brycen with tears in his eyes pushed his plate away and said he was not hungry anymore, he asked me several times, "Isn't there anything we can do mom?". He said "Heavenly Father didn't answer our prayers" (we had been praying often for Kristin's baby). We had to explain that sometimes Heavenly Father answers our prayers, but not in the way we would like Him to. Tuesday afternoon Kristin went in for another ultrasound and afterwards she called me and told me the baby was gone, we cried together on the phone. Wednesday baby Lexi was born, the hospital took great care of Kristin and Taylor and gave them several neat thing to remember the baby. Thursday I was able to make a quick trip home to be with Kristin and our family at this sad time. It was good to be together, I'm sure glad we have the knowledge that family's are forever.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Christmas time!


We had a great Christmas this year. Here are some things we did this season (the pictures are in no particular order).

Family pictures after church.




We went to Utah to visit my family. Everyone was there except for Richard, who is finishing up his mission in Peru. We all got a turn talking to Richard on the phone on Christmas day, he will be coming home mid February.


Decorating a ginger bread house. The kids loved doing this!

Santa brought Allie a doll and some polly pockets.


The boys got a basketball hoop and basketballs from Santa.

Our ward Christmas party.

Our Christmas tree.

We meet up with our friends the Clarks in Utah and went ice skating, it was sure fun to see them.

We took advantage of the snow and went sledding at a park near my parents house.


Dad tried to get the dog to go down the hill with him!

It was fun hanging out with Kristin and Taylor!

Christmas dinner with the fam.


Brycen made ginger bread houses at school, he did a great job!