I'm 2!

We had a fun family dinner to celebrate Ashley turning 2. Amy, Dave, Wes, Seaka, Andy and Leisl came over to eat and have cake and ice cream! It was Wesley's birthday a few days after Ashley's, so he shared some of his Lego Star Wars cake with us too.

Can you tell we got the curling iron out too? We had fun. Poor Ashley had just whacked her forehead on the floor right before blowing out her candles, so don't mind the goose egg...

Time to open presents!

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Hanging out with the cousins

We all went up to Derick's parents house for Christmas Eve. It was fun for all the cousins to play together and get excited for Christmas! We also had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. Thank you Mary Ann for the wonderful food! It was such a fun and relaxing time having everyone together!

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer...

I loved the antlers he had to wear :)

Christmas Sledding!

We went sledding on Christmas up in Layton. The kids loved it! Ashley had fun playing with Grandma.

Here is Derick going down holding Ashley and Andrew on his own sled. He has no fear!

Uncle Ryan was having a lot of fun with Derick too. It was an all around good time!

I love my cute kiddies!

Time to catch up!

It seems like we have been so busy lately, but I don't have many pictures to prove it! Here are a few I came across...

She may be stinkin' cute, but she is into everything! I can't keep her off the table or counter!

We had a few girls nights the last little while. Here are some of my good friends around Lehi!

I took Andrew to go see a movie. I thought the one on one time might be good. He sat covering his ears the whole movie. Oh well, it was a good thought I guess.

My good friend and neighbor Branden went through the temple! It was such a special day and I am so glad she invited me to be a part of it! Here we are early in the morning heading in, and the whole group that came to support her!

GO LEISL!

My cute sister-in-law, Leisl, ran the St. George Marathon! It was so fun to take a quick road trip down there and cheer her on!

I made these shirts in like 20 minutes right before we left. Andy had one already, and we thought it would be so fun to have matching ones!

My cousin James and good friend Nancy were running too!

Andy ran with Leisl the last few miles. They were so cute!

At the finish line. Look how good Leisl looks and how tired Andy looks!

We walked around the St. George Temple before we left and had to stop at the big rocking chair on the drive home! Way to go Leisl, it was a lot of fun to cheer you on!

Halloween pictures....finally!

We had a lot of fun this Halloween. Andrew had a party at preschool and Derick took the kids out trick or treating while I passed out candy with some neighborhood friends! Ashley looked so cute in her tutu and pigtails, and Andrew was a dinosaur (Thanks Carrie Ann for the costume, it was perfect!)

The kids had a lot of fun at the ward party too. The YW were in charge of face painting. Here is Ashley getting hers done. When they were cleaning the party up, Andrew was towing Ashley around on the cart for the tables. I had to take a picture before I made them get off. It was too cute!

Ashley loved getting up close to the pumpkins. I was afraid her tutu was going to catch on fire! She also snuck a lot of candy out of Steff"s bowl...

Here is Andrew after eating WAY TOO MUCH candy! He was rolling around on the kitchen floor that night saying he was too sick to go up to his bed!

Thanksgiving fun with the Newman's

We were so lucky to have my parents come down from Alaska for Thanksgiving. They were here to help my Grandma move, but we got to spend a little time with them. I don't have any pictures of our actual dinner that we all made, but these are the ones I did take....

My mom and dad had flown all night so my dad was a little wiped out. He crashed on the couch, and Andy took a nap on his shoe! After their nap, Andy thought he would try to take down my dad....its never worked before and it didn't work again!

When my grandma moved she gave us all a HUGE barrel of wheat each. I had all 6 in my garage and was ready to have them out! We decided to borrow our Stake's canner and canned it all. It was fun to work together as a family :)

(Paul-oldest brother, Dad, Kara-Paul's wife, Andy-brother, Leisl-Andy's wife)

This is one of my favorite pictures from the time Grandpa Wesley and Gramea were here. She was reading Andrew a book and he was just snuggled up to her totally loving it!

This would be a lot easier!

My mom sent me this picture the other day, I think I might go this route this year for Christmas decorating. A lot less stress!

(Look at the neighbors house if you don't see what I mean)