Christmas Wrap Up!

Seeing as it's March and I'm just posting this, I'm not going to go into great detail.  Christmas was great!  Full of family, fun, and a wedding.  Here is a collage to represent.

Gracie turns 5!!

Our birthday girl enjoyed a fun trip to build a bear with her sister and mom.  She named her new bear "huggles"

Our sweet girl is getting so big.  Some favorites right now are the colors pink and yellow.  She loves Berenstain Bear books and Fancy Nancy.  She loves dressing up and wearing jewelry and lip stick.  She is in tumbling and dance.  She likes to quote movies.  She continues to  say some words she picked up in England which makes my heart sing.  Words like cross for mad and prays to have a lovely day.  She has a very tender heart and cares a lot for others.  We love our Gracie she makes us laugh and smile.  Life would not be complete without her.  Here's to a wonderful year!

A birthday and a trip

I have to back track just slightly to November to make sure and share this little ones 2nd birthday.  Lyssie is a quite the girl full of spunk and check.  She keeps us all on our toes. We love her dearly! We were blessed to spend her birthday with family in California.  It was a great visit and full of things to be thankful for.

I was lucky enough to catch up with one of my dearest friends while visiting for Thanksgiving.

 Family photo time

Proud grandparents 

Merry Christmas!

Phoenix

I've gotten behind on blogging...we are here in Phoenix now and the weather has cooled off! It actually feels like fall.  Its been a busy couple of months.  We jumped right into school and activities; thanks to Lainey for giving us a head start.  We enjoyed staying with T's sister and family for a month prior to moving into our place.  They were very gracious hosts and hopefully were fond of that time :)   We are in our house now and pretty much settled minus a few piles, organizing projects, curtains, and hanging things up.  We've had a visit from T's sister recently returned from a mission, it was a great time seeing her.  We celebrated Isaac's 6th birthday with traditional cookie making.  Every year I'm astonished at how the time passes.  He has blessed our lives in countless ways.

Halloween came and went.  The stomach flu came and went and here we are into November already...yikes.

Isaac's cookies

Yay for Aunt Ammie

 Happy Halloween!

Hermione and Cinderella

First Day of 3rd grade and preschool

 A trip to the farm

 working in the garden

 Our house on Potter Dr.

Last Days in England

One last trip to London...just for now I hope.  On top of St. Paul's.  It was quite the climb up there on tiny staircases and narrow passage ways.

It was a typical rainy day.  England wouldn't let us forget the summer it rained, and rained, and rained.

The favorite Kipling Gardens.  If ever I were to have English gardens they would look like this place.

About to devour some yummy pasties.

A trip to Arundel Castle

The three pigs :) at our neighborhood Stoneham Park

Brighton/Hove Beach.  It was a strange day where the tide was so low we could actually see sand.  It was the only day while we were there that it looked like that, at least that I know of.

A fun girls night out with some awesome ladies from our ward.

Baptism

Our oldest made us so proud with her decision and excitement to be baptized on August 18, 2012.  I have a feeling this will be a memorable occasion for her first because it was in Brighton, England. Second because our awesome ward threw us a farewell party following her service so this little chick got to limbo and play musical chairs etc.  It was a great time!  

After her dad baptized her and they closed the dividers she said "dad it feels so good in here can I swim around a little bit."  It made us smile.  

We felt fortunate to have T's parents and Aunt K visit us then so they could be there for the baptism.  Grandpa got to confirm her, special times.