Christmas Eve

Like every year, we spent Christmas Eve with my parents and my siblings. We missed Luke and Lisa, but everyone else was able to get together. This year was a bit more lively with the three one year olds. I think my brother, Brent, who just got home from his mission was overwhelmed by the noise. I told him that I thought he'd gotten even more quiet while he was on his mission, but he just said the kids had gotten more noisy.

Abigail is 3!

Abby was excited for her grandparents to come over to help celebrate her birthday.
 She wasted no time opening her gifts.

She tried on her new outfit from Grandma Sharla

She had a Strawberry shortcake cake, and strawberry ice cream. She had a lot of fun, and said thank-you many times for all the fun presents.

Things Abby loves....

-Babies... She's always bringing me babies and blankets to wrap them up and also asks me to babysit. Her babies are from left to right, Shelby, Alyson, Minnie, Dora, & Cindy.
-Locking Carly in her room... it's not as bad as it sounds, but she's always luring Carly into their room with pretend treats or dolls, then she shuts the door behind them, therefor, forcing Carly to play babies with her. I always hear Carly yelling at the closed door, and Abby saying, 'just play with me!' Other than forcing Carly to play with her, she's such a sweet sister to her.

-Luke... She loves her brother. These two do everything together. Sometimes I forget that they're not the same age, because they play so well. Abby wanted hot chocolate the other day, so I got out her snowman mug, and she said, "get Luke's" . She assumes if she wants something, so does Luke. I had Abby wear a towel around her neck so she didn't spill on her shirt (she had a movie date with Grandma Barb) so she got one for Luke too.
-cutting her hair... It was finally starting to grow out again after going through 6 mo. on and off stint of cutting her hair. I was so excited to be able to do new things with it, when she decided to trim it again. You can see in the above picture that her bangs aren't as full on the left side. It wasn't too bad this time, but I'm thinking about throwing away ALL scissors in the household.

-Pink!... She likes me to ask her questions... I ask,"what's your favorite game?" "PINK!" "What's your favorite movie?" "PINK!" You get the picture... just any game or any movie, or any food, doll, shirt, etc... with pink on it. She's pretty easy to please.

We love our sweet Abigail!

"Hey, look that says book!"

Hallelujah... He can see! We've known for a while that Luke really can't see. Little hints like standing directly in front of the T.V. Saying 'I can't see' all the time. His pre-school teacher telling me he can't see. Trying to wear my glasses to watch movies. Last Sunday he had his primary program and his teacher kept trying to point him to where we were so he could see us. And we even scooted up towards the front of the chapel that week. So you get the picture, anyone around him for more than a minute knew he couldn't see. We took him to the eye Dr. in January, he said Luke was fine and not to worry... well I knew that wasn't the case, so I took him to a new Dr. this last week, he did great with Luke, and Luke was so excited to look in the binoculars, he did a really good job. He got to pick out his glasses, and he was really excited to wear them. On our way home from picking up his glasses Luke was looking out the window, there was a big sign that said Seagull Book, and Luke could see Book. He's so happy that he can see. He keeps telling me 'I can see that' , pointing to something.

home sweet home

Here's the house. We love the ward, the neighbors, and the location. We are at the end of the road and so not much traffic comes by. We don't have any backyard neighbors, just wetlands and goats. It will probably be a while before I post any indoor pictures, I'm still in the process of getting things where I want them.

Grandma Dawson got the kids new church clothes. They all liked their outfits, but Abigail LOVED hers. Anything girlie makes her happy.

Like these roses she picked from our yard. She also LOVED the roses. She called them her babies. Then when she was done playing with them, she picked all the petals and scattered them around the living room.

one year pictures

I asked Eli to take some pictures of Carly for her birthday. I love them all, but these two are probably my favorite. She loved getting her pictures done and smiled the whole time.