Pictures

These are just some cute pictures I wanted to share. No real reason.. Well cuteness is a reason right?? Enjoy!

Dallin being a ham!

Dallin is a huge fan of pancakes, waffles, and whipped cream. He got a little carried away before we got him a fork!

Elise showing of her 3 teeth. Although her second front tooth just broke through a few days ago.

This is an example of Elise letting me know she wants to go down for her nap. She will honestly just go over and wait at the gate for me to take her up.

Elise is really trying to walk. Well at least some days she tries. She can do about 2 steps so far. (Dallin took this picture)

Daddy and Elise ready for church

Dallin has a Lightening McQueen play tent and Elise LOVES to go inside to play.

Merry Christmas!

My camera is acting up (again! guess I should have asked for a new one for Christmas) so I don't have any Christmas pictures yet, but I did have these cute pictures of the kids in their Christmas outfits that my mom bought them.

Elise has been blessed by SO many cute outfits thanks to grandparents and Sarah. So she ended up with several Christmas dresses. It is so fun to put in her in big frilly dresses each week for church. I love it! This one is that Sarah let us borrow. Thanks Sarah!

Fun in the Snow

We don't get out in the snow much since Elise is small and Dallin still needs help, but my dad came over last week and we had some time to have fun, so we took the kids out. We have the perfect hill in our backyard for his snow disc. I wasn't sure what Elise would think about going down the hill with me, but she loved it! And Dallin could have played out there all day if we let him. Suited up and ready to play!

She wasn't happy before but I wish I could have gotten a picture after. She had a huge smile on her face!

The grinch that stole my mantle

This was my mantle before: And this was my mantle after Dallin was disobedient for like the 5 time in a row, Jon was working REALLY late, Elise was hungry and tired, and my visiting teacher were coming over in 2 minutes:

My first instict was to kill him of course, but I tried to remain calm. I put him in time out and started to clean up the mess. Of course while the vacuum was on my visiting teachers were freezing outside ringing my doorbell 4 times. So it was off to bed for Dallin; I needed a break. Nothing is better than visiting teachers to come and visit with a Christmas message after that. I REALLY needed that.

My Adorable Kids

I just love my kids! They are so fun and cute! Jon reminds me every now and then that I truly forget how old Elise is. I can't believe she is 10 months! She is just so darn cute! She can say "Uh-Oh" and when she sees Daddy getting ready to leave she starts waving and saying "BaBa". She loves to give kisses, especially to Dallin. She loves her grandparents a lot too. She has been really good about leaving the Christmas stuff alone. Which I greatly appreciate. She loves food. She is the best eater. She is so cute when she holds her bottle. And she LOVES whole milk already. If she finds Dallins cup she will empty it. She is a girl who know what she wants. When she is ready for bed she will crawl up the stairs. She doesn't need to be rocked. You just give her kisses and lay her down, turn the mobile on and she is good for the night. Sure is refreshing after a baby who required to be rocked for like an hour. She truly is the best baby in every way. I love her so much!

And Dallin is my little helper. He loves to help cook, clean, bake, anything that I may be doing he wants to be "helping" with. He loves to do crafts. I have been trying to do at least one craft each week with him and he LOVES it. He helps me make bread every week too and making dinner is something he looks forward to. He has always loved to do dishes, but he has started to set the table for me. At first it wasn't going too great. But after the first week, he got it done really well. I am so proud of him. As you can see in the picture he put all the silverware on the napkins with the fork and knife in the same place for everyone and he didn't give himself a knife. This is a bonus since I had to convince him for a week that he didn't need one. And he is pretty much potty trained. Which I LOVE. He is really excited for Christmas. He is so sweet. Thanks to our frugalness, we don't have cable so all he watches is PBS. Which doesn't have commercials. So...for Christmas he really has to think hard for his Christmas list to Santa. I love that he has to come up with his own ideas instead of whatever commercial was just on TV. So he asked for a remote control car and a train set. When it snowed last week he asked me, "So now is it Christmas?" It is very confusing. I think our next craft will be a paper chain.

Let it snow!

We finally got our first big snowfall last week. It was fun to watch the snow come down all day long. Not so fun for Jon to drive in it. It took him 2 hours to get home from work that night. But, it is so fun to have a white Christmas. In Vegas that never happened, except for the years that we went to the mountains and got snow and brought it down.

A night out on the town

On Saturday, Jon and I went to his company's' Christmas party. It was downtown at the KC convention center. Being a black tie optional party, we got dressed up and had grandma and grandpa babysit. It was a lot of fun going to a formal party together. I don't think we had done something like this since Jon's Senior Design Award Dinner at UNLV. So sad... Anyway, we got there just in time for the last 15 minutes of cocktails and appetizers, which was fine with us. We all had assigned tables so we went into the ballroom and sat at our table. The tables were very formal (thank you etiquette night with Sis. Obermiller last week for the refresher course!) We had great conversation with Jon's boss and wife and also two other couples. They served a really fancy salad and bread. Then for the main meal they served an amazing steak filet, chicken breast, mashed potatoes, and veggies. They didn't skimp at all on the portions either. For dessert they had raspberry cheesecake. It was delicious! It was the perfect meal right before fast Sunday! They gave out door prizes and awards for people who had worked there for 5, 10, 15...years all the way up to 50 years! Can you imagine working at one place for 50 years! Amazing! Anyway, we left before the cocktails set in too much on the partiers. They started doing the electric slide and karaoke in their formal wear??!! No thanks!! We had so much fun together. It was a wonderful night, thanks Jon!