Christmas 2012

We had a fantastic Christmas in December. Right before we left for the drive there we opened our stockings... Weston was really excited about his:)

Isla liked helping Weston with his stocking way more than opening her own. They must like eachother:)

Babies first Christmas ornament.

A fun book and some car seat strap protectors.

Steve got some coal:) I still love him though! I also started the Christmas tradition of getting everybody an ornament each year in their stocking. 

When we arrived at my parents house Haddy and Isla were happy to be re-united:)

Opening Christmas Eve jammies a few days before Christmas eve since we would be staying at the Murray's then.

The best shot we could get of the kiddo's in their jammies.

Isla & TayLynn on Christmas Eve. Isla was the youngest baby so she played baby Jesus in the nativity.

So much snow!!! We had a white Christmas. See if you can spot Weston!!

Christmas morning stair shot!

Christmas morning.

Present time!!!!

Later on Christmas day we headed over to the Cook house for a second Christmas!!!! Wow! We were spoiled:)

Isla's first Christmas...

Who knew a simple ball would be such a hit out of all the Christmas presents... Isla and Haddy loved it!

Isla got this special play cube thing from her loving parents:) We went a little overboard on her first Christmas.

Steve was very surprised to get a tablet! He uses it all the time so I feel like I did a good job this year.

The whole Cook family showing off their awesome personalities .

Little Haddy!

So Utah was FREEZING, but we had such an amazing Christmas. It's going to be really weird next year when my brother Brad is gone serving his mission. He just turned in his papers this week (April 1st, 2013) so he should be getting his call in the coming weeks. Can wait to find out where he is going!!!

10 months

•  Since this post is so late I honestly barely remember what happened around 10 months:)

• I do remember that she was crawling everywhere at 100 miles per hour
• She was pulling herself up on stuff and walking around holding onto things
• Loved food
• Favorite toy was the ball popper and all books
• Loves outdoors

Family Pictures

We just did our first family pictures with Isla and I think they turned out AMAZING! I had the hardest time narrowing down the ones I wanted to put up here (hence the billion pictures I did post:)

We won't be sending out Christmas cards this year just because with all this internet stuff these days anyone can just go online to see pictures of my family. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing but it's there for random people's viewing pleasure! Enjoy:) I just love my handsome husband and adorable baby!

P.S. Isla stopped wearing her helmet over two months ago. She only had to wear it for about two months and her head is so much better now!

9 months

It is getting a lot harder to stay on top of this "every month picture" thing of Isla. It's one of those things that I hope I am grateful for later, but is turning into somewhat of a task each month to keep doing it! Oh how I do love that girl though and there are plenty of things each month that I would love to remember... I just don't know if this will get continued on with future kids or not:) Poor future kids, they are already getting the shaft:(

So this last month (or so) Isla:

• Started standing without holding on to anything (once she is up) and staying that way for up to 30 seconds.
• Favorite toy is still Weston
• Loves her dad! I'm convinced she knows how to say the word "hi", but it is most likely just her baby talk.
• So energetic. She can't sit still!
• Climbs into things.
• Sleeping all the way through the night with no interruptions  (I finally caved and did sleep training.It only took one night and then she had it)!
• Still in the "put everything in your mouth stage". When does this end? Seriously. I would like an answer!
• Eats "real" food. Cut up apple, banana  beans. Stuff like that. Usually just whatever we are eating that she can chew. 
• Loves outside, she smiles and gets really excited whenever I open the door! I think she just gets excited to get out of the house... We don't get out much:)
• Loves swinging
• Learning to play really well with other kids and also enjoys it!

 What a blessing this kid is. I have said it before and I will say it again, I want like ten of her!

I came over to check on her and this is where I found her. In the ottoman that holds some of her toys.

She is starting to cuddle with me on purpose.... LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS!!!!!

Her chair obstacle coarse she has to complete at least 20 times a day.

Trying to be like Weston. Gross toy in her mouth and all!

We dog sat our friends dog a few weeks ago and Isla LOVED him. Mainly because he was so lazy. He just sat there letting Isla do anything she wanted with him and he wouldn't move...

Halloween, Thanksgiving, birthdays and a visit from some Murray's

Well we had a great Thanksgiving!..... But, I didn't take any pictures.

Steve and I both had fantastic birthdays!... But, I didn't take any pictures of those either.

We also had a fun Halloween!... I DID get pictures of that:)

Every year since Steve and I got married Thanksgiving has been a little bit different. This year we did a friends Thanksgiving potluck dinner. I made the turkey and stuff that goes along with that and everyone else brought one of their favorite Thanksgiving dishes. It was so much fun and I am so thankful that I have good friends here (that also don't have family close by) to do stuff like this with:)

Steve turned 33 at the end of October and we celebrated again with friends by having a potluck dinner at our house.

I turned 28 on November 9th. We went out for sushi and saw the new twilight movie! Nerd alert.

During Halloween time we took Isla to the pumpkin patch (a must with kids right)! Of coarse it was fun and the for Halloween Steve's dad and two of his kids came to visit! Isla was a monkey for her first Halloween and I think she had a lot of fun strolling around the neighborhood with us collecting delicious forms of sugar!

Hey ride at the pumpkin patch.

This girl loves her some straw! Hard to keep the stuff out of her mouth.

We got Steve, Sara Palin, a monkey, a ninja, batgirl and Mike

Austin and Taylyn where so great with Isla!

We went to the Mesa Museum for Youth one day and got our pictures taken on the dollar bill

We also went to the park to feed the ducks one day.

It is always fun to have visitors (hint hint)!