Future Razorback

Elizabeth with her Razorback shirt on!!! I just thought this was too cute, had to share!

Our Valentine's Weekend!

First of all Thank You Mama & Papaw for the bears (and chocolate) we got in the mail this week! Here's the girls Friday afternoon with their bears!

Friday night we drove down to Brigham City (about 30 min. away)...
where we ate dinner as a family at Maddox (steak restaurant)...

and Michael picked up some chocolates and surprised me with strawberries from a downtown candy shop! yum!

Saturday we spent most of the day just hanging out at home, playing with the girls and watching the olympics! I have really enjoyed watching it. I have a whole new respect for all of the ski sports after just learning to ski myself.

This morning we had a bit of a photo shoot!
Aren't they so cute in their pajamas!

playing with the bears

We attempted another timed family photo before church this morning...we didn't have anyone to get Elizabeth to look up:)

The girls...We thought this one was hilarious of Elizabeth...

and lets both put our hands in our mouths...

Mommy and the girls...

Daddy and his girls...

and lets all put our hands in our mouths...haha

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I think we had too much fun!!

Our Week...

Monday I made some butternut squash puree baby food for Elizabeth. Then yesterday I made sweet peas puree. So far she has tried acorn squash, butternut squash, and sweet peas. I think she hs enjoyed the peas the most. With both kinds of squash she would start gaging on just about each bite, and she didn't do that with the peas! Next I think I'm going to try a fruit, but I'm not sure which one to start with - apples or pears - we'll see what I can find at the store!

Monday morning Elizabeth having tummy time, she's playing so good on her tummy!

Another first this week: A lesson with Madilynn & Elizabeth on sharing (I'm SURE it won't be the last!) Elizabeth was playing with a tea cup - as seen below - she got a hold of it herself. Well all of a sudden Madilynn saw that Elizabeth had her tea cup and she said, "Elizabeth, that's mine" and took it away from her. (I just wanted to die out laughing, I couldn't believe she did that!) Anyways, so then we had our talk and Elizabeth got to continue playing with the tea cup!

How 'bout them Cowboys?

Madilynn sporting Daddy's cap today before lunch!

And for perhaps the biggest first of the week: Elizabeth is sitting up, yes SITTING UP!

Wow! Can I really say that today?!?! She sat up and played for at least 10 minutes today after lunch! I sat beside her and let her bounce off of me every now and then when she got a little wobbly, but for the most part she sat there and played!
See the proof!

Poor baby is like her Mommy, it's going to be so hard to get pictures with her eyes open. She just anticipates that flash everytime you get the camera out she starts blinking a lot! So funny!!

That's my leg behind her, but it's not touching her. I was a few inches behind her just in case!

I'm so glad it's FRIDAY...and it really has nothing to do with Valentine's this weekend...we just LOVE it when Daddy gets to hang out with us more!!!

Papa and Ashlee arrived...

**Get ready there are lots of pictures!!**

Papa and Ashlee flew into SLC on Friday night and they arrived at our house at 2am Saturday morning. We waited until about 10am on Saturday to wake them up for Biscuits & Gravy!

Good Morning Ashlee...

Elizabeth and Papa
After lounging around the house Sat. morning we decided to head to the park for some sledding!
Here's Ashlee...

and Papa...

We had a blast! Madilynn and I decided to try going down the hill without a sled, just using our snow pants...and it worked! Ashlee and I rode the sled together and by the time we got to the bottom we were cracking up...it was hilarious!

Ashlee and Elizabeth playing

Madilynn wearing one of my old dresses, she calls it the "Mother Goose dress" and she loves it!

Then Sunday morning we headed out at 9am for Beaver Mountain...we took Papa skiing for his first time!

Papa and I shared an instructor to learn the proper techniques. Papa was good to go after just an hour!

Here we are out on the "bunny slopes"!

Nana, Ashlee, Madilynn and Elizabeth hung out in the lodge. Then Ashlee took Madilynn out and she did a little sliding with her snow pants on!

Sunday afternoon (after naps!) we took them out in the backyard to see the river...
Madilynn and Papa making snow angels!

We also did some more sledding in the backyard!!

Madilynn even carried her own sled back up the hill to go again. When it was time to go inside she said, "but I wanna go again, and again, and again, then we can go in!" Ashlee gave her one more time and then it was time to go inside.

Ashlee and Elizabeth

We had a great weekend! It was packed full of activities, but I think everyone had a blast!! Can't wait till ya'll can visit again! As I type Nana & Papa are flying back to AR, and Ashlee is sitting at the SLC airport waiting for her flight back to LA. It is so crazy that we are all living so far away from each other. We are so thankful to get to spend the weekend all together!!

Our week with Nana!

Nana spent an entire week with us! Yeah, we had such a great time! We did a lot...a lot of cooking, cleaning up, feeding baby, organizing, some sewing, etc....oh, yeah and playing!

Nana playing with the girls

So sweet...

Then Thursday afternoon we took Nana sledding...it was a beautiful day so we didn't want to miss out!

Elizabeth hanging out and staying warm

Nana taking a turn sledding!

Madilynn had a great time playing in the snow and making a snow angel!

Can't wait for Papa and Ashlee to get here too!!

A Date Night...

at Beaver Mountain...

SKIING!!!
Michael wanted to take me skiing on Monday afternoon. The mountains just got 16in. of snow over the weekend and the weather was perfect! We ended up going after lunch (he worked half-day)! They were having the last night ski of the season with cheaper prices and included ski instruction (Since I'd never been skiing before!!)

We had a great time! I was able to get pretty much one on one instruction for 1.5 hours and I was doing pretty good! It was definately a workout!! But so fun.
The night was beautiful and the stars were so bright!

Of course we stayed on the kiddie slopes and used the "magic carpet" lift. It was like an escalater that pulled you right up.

Can't wait to go again and take Madilynn!

Thank you Michael for a wonderful time!! So fun to experience it with just us!!

Thank you Nana for watching the girls!! I'm sure they had a great time.