Sophia is 2 months old!

Little Sophie is 2 months old today! I can't believe it. It seems like just yesterday we brought her home yet it feels like we have known her forever. I can't imagine her not being here with us! She is just such a doll! She is such a happy, easy going baby...which I so need in my life right now!

I couldn't pick my favorite...so here are all of the photos I took of Sophie!

Yep...it's official! I have the cutest kids ever!

Photos with Santa

Our neighbor is just wonderful! Thanks Sister Brown!!! She sent me the photos that she took of Sophie on Santa's lap...which also obviously includes me trying to get Anne with him as well.

Sophie looks a little concerned...isn't she a doll?

Trying to calm down Anne

The best one of Anne since she is looking at the camera.

Making eye contact...progress, right?

Anne's "excited" to see Santa

Anne has been singing Christmas songs since July and has been talking about Santa coming to our house. Tonight was our ward Christmas Luau party and she had been told Santa would be there and she was so excited so I thought for sure this year we'd get a good picture of her on Santa's lap. Last year (if you recall) she wanted nothing to do with him.

Here is video of her a little while after seeing Santa on the stage.

I wish I would have been recording when she first noticed him! So cute!

Anyway, as you can see...there are no other photos or video because by the time it was her turn to sit on Santa's lap, she wanted nothing to do with him...again! Our neighbor got a picture of Sophie on Santa's lap (which I will post once she sends it to me) but I had to coax Anne to even be near him. Oh well. Maybe next year!

I am a child of God

I just love this girl! She was going to sing Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree but I guess she changed her mind.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone...and happy day for me! I'm so happy to have my desktop back! (Thanks Trav!)

This is Sophie's first Thanksgiving! So much fun! She is such a cute little girl and we love her so much! She is now 6 weeks old...time is going by so fast!
Anne was so happy that she got to play with her cousins today. This is them taking a "nap" on the stairs after dinner...but Anne wouldn't lay back down when I wanted to take the picture.

Dan decided to come with us even though he just got off a night shift and had to work again tonight...it was great to have him there with us! (I took photos of everyone else that was there for dinner but didn't realize until after that Dan had the camera on a "fancy" setting and they didn't turn out well...sigh!)

These are the little turkeys I made for the kids out of children's gloves. I got the idea from Studio5. Then we sent the kids outside to use them...ha, ha!

And these photos are from earlier this week. We had a really good snow storm (which caused the power to go out and our church was even cancelled) and Anne just HAD to play outside.

Thanks mom and dad for an excellent dinner! It was great! Just wish Jess could have been there with her family so we could have all been together...maybe someday!

Halloween Fun!

Anne had so much fun with Halloween this year...however, Mommy didn't really get into it so Anne had a makeshift costume and Sophie wore one borrowed from a friend in the ward. However, I think they still looked cute...don't you? We went to the ward Trunk or Treat on Friday. So much fun! Daddy took Anne around to the cars for candy while Sophie "helped" mommy pass out treats at our car.

Saturday we took the girls around our neighborhood for Trick or Treating...in the rain! Anne was wet after because she wouldn't stay under the umbrella with me (Sophie stayed nice and dry) but still had fun! I didn't get any photos of the during part but here is Anne after in all of her soaking wet glory! We went around with Ian, Anne's next door neighbor friend, and his parents. It was fun! While Ian would say "Trick or Treat" at the door, Anne would say "Merry Christmas!!!" Kid after my own heart!

Here is all of Anne's "loot"! She got way more than I had anticipated between the two days!

We all drank some hot chocolate to get us warm again.

And then Anne passed out the candy to the kids that came to our house. She would put the candy in each of their bags/buckets and say "One for you, one for you..." Daddy had to convince her it was OK to give each kid a couple.

Next year hopefully I'll be more in the Halloween spirit (decorate the house, get real costumes for the kids, etc) but all in all, I think Anne had fun and that is all that matters!

Look mom! It snowed!

When Anne woke up this morning, she looked outside and said "Look mom! It snowed! I want to go play in it!!!" She bugged me all morning until I let her go outside. Two minutes later she said "I'm cold!" and we went back inside for a hot chocolate! Such a funny little girl! Good thing I took her out when I did since it was all melted about an hour later!

Nana went home last Tuesday but not before I got a picture of her with Sophia. We tried to get Anne in the photo too but she wasn't in the mood! Thanks mom for all of the help!!! We love you sooo much!

This is Anne getting into the Halloween spirit! Aunt Jessica gave her this shirt and she just loves it! The pumpkin is shiney!

This was Sophia's first sponge bath at home! She didn't like being naked but she liked it when I just washed her hair and she was wrapped up!

We just love this little addition to our family! She will be two weeks old tomorrow! Crazy! We took her in last Tuesday for her first check up. She has already grown 1/2 of an inch and was just one ounce smaller than her birth weight. Her umbilical cord also fell off while we were there! She is just such a sweetheart and Anne loves her baby sister!

Introducing Sophia Grace

First off, I'm so sorry to the family members who have been waiting for me to update our blog so that you can see photos of our new beautiful baby girl! I've been a little distracted but here you go!

We decided to be induced since we live an hour away from the hospital we were going to be delivering at and didn't want to chance Dan being at work, in the bottom of the mine and me going into labor! So, this is me right before changing into the hospital gown. We had to be there at 6:00 am...way too early! But, I hadn't been sleeping well anyway.

After a quick delivery, this is the beautiful bundle of joy that we were blessed with! Sophia Grace was born at 11:16 am weighing 8 pounds 1 ounce and 21" long. She had a little bit of fluid in her lungs but she was able to work it out of her system on her own quickly so she is good and healthy.

Sophia is such a good little sleeper!

Sisters meeting for the first time. Anne just loves Sophie! She just can't get enough of her little sister. It is going to be a bit of adjustment for Anne but she'll be OK. She is already a big helper and wants to hold and kiss Sophie all of the time!

The girls!

Daddy just loves his little girl too!

Sophie's visitors in the hospital. Nana is staying with us for the week and brought Anne to see us and also Uncle Travis came for a quick visit as well.

Now we are home and Anne right off wanted to hold her sister. I love this photo of Sophie sticking out her tongue!

These two girls are going to be good friends! We just love them both so much!!!

And just like I did with Anne, here is a photo of Sophia asleep for the first time at home! It is so great that we finally have Sophie here with us!

The hospital also had someone come in and take photos and it is just too cute to not share! Click here to see the hospital photo of Sophia. However, they have the time as pm instead of am but that is OK...she is still absolutely adorable!

Ice Skating

Dan decided it was time to get Anne on skates to see how she would do. First of all...when did my baby girl grow up to look like this? She isn't so little any more!

After convincing her it was OK to put on the skates (she didn't want anything to do with them at first), Daddy then decided to show her how to stand up on her own. This will take some practice.

Then it was time to learn to walk on them. She did excellent with this task!

Then it was time to try out the ice.

After putting on her jacket (she got really cold), they tried having her hold on to the boards...and Daddy's hand.

And then she thought it would be fun to just hold Daddy!

She was having so much fun just sitting on the ice, watching Daddy skate around. We had the whole rink to ourselves...so nice!

I just love this shot of Anne! Future figure skater/hockey player in the making?

Anne walking around on the skates!

Out on the ice with Dad!

We had to convince Anne to take the skates OFF by the end of it all...which made her Daddy very happy! I see many more trips to the rink in our future.