Callen 11 months

This past month has been the best month ever!! Callen is sleeping in his own room and all though the night. Yay! He takes 2 good naps a day and the happiest baby is the world. I am not kidding! He smiles, laughs, plays, crawls and is content ALL day. I love him more than I ever thought I could. I even sneak him into my bed at night to snuggle with me (I put him back eventually). I just can’t get enough of his sweet face. He is at a perfect stage of babyhood and I LOVE it. The girls are especially close with Callen. They play with him whenever he is awake and he adores them. They take complete care of him and I don’t mind at all. They love making him bottles, changing his diaper, and getting him dressed. Callen, you are so so loved! 

Baby’s First Christmas 

Christmas 2018

We had an absolutely magical Christmas season! It was a good mix of learning about our savior and the fun of Santa. I LOVE spending this season with my sweet kiddos and seeing how wonderful it is through their eyes. My favorite was Jack’s constant singing of Christmas songs ALL December. That boy melts my heart. We had a great Christmas Eve at the Milne’s with the Strobelt family and then we had Christmas dinner at my parents with Emily, Nate and Brynna, ryan and Caity, and Clarah and Skyler (and of course all the crazy kiddos). My favorite part of the day was having Christmas morning with just our family and seeing how excited they were to see their gifts! Ahhh I love it! So does Nick. He loves to torture the kids and make them wait and wait upstairs while he gets things settled downstairs. Haha. Scarlett and Alice got tons of Harchimal and hydroflasks (which was #1 on their lists). Jack got a bike and ramp (he says a “bike with pedals”)  They loved it all and we all can’t wait till next year!! 

2018 Christmas season

We played HARD this December! We filled our days and nights with so many fun traditions. We saw Santa, decorated gingerbread houses, went looking for great lights, watched every holiday movie, drank hot chocolate every night, and read all our Christmas books. One tradition our kiddos really love are advent calendars. We had 3 this year: the nativity one, chocolate one, and the coveted harchimal one. Everyday really was magical! 

2018 Christmas season

We played HARD this December! We filled our days and nights with so many fun traditions. We saw Santa, decorated gingerbread houses, went looking for great lights, watched every holiday movie, drank hot chocolate every night, and read all our Christmas books. One tradition our kiddos really love are advent calendars. We had 3 this year: the nativity one, chocolate one, and the coveted harchimal one. Everyday really was magical! 

Scarlett’s 9th Birthday

We are half way done raising Scarlett and it has gone by in a flash! She is such an amazing and talented girl. She is my biggest helper and loves to mother Callen. In the morning she gets Callen out of bed, makes him a bottle, feeds him the bottle, changes his diaper, and gets him dressed. I get back from the gym at 7:30 and he is sitting in his high chair happily eating Cheerios and ready for the day! I love her

Scarlett is super creative and loves to draw, color, craft, and do anything with art. We go through tons of paper, tape, and stables these days. I love see

What her imagination can come up with. Scarlett is not a tv or electronic person at all. She loves to play in her room with all her tiny collectibles (hatchimals and shopkins) instead. She is great at playing by herself but I know she can makes friends easily. She is well loved by her classmates and is a good friend. She is slow to judge and easy to forgive. All around Scarlett is an amazing kid and I am so,so lucky to have her as a daughter! 

For her party we took some friends to the movies and played games at the house after. It was all Scarlett’s idea. I stole her away for her birthday from school so we could get a manicure and ice cream. We both loved it! 

Newport Trip 2018

The week before Thanksgiving we spent a wonderful week in Newport Beach with Emily, Clarah, and my parents. The weather was perfect and it felt like summer all over again. The first day was spent at Disneyland where we played all day and chased Jack around like crazy people. Jack just loved running from us and getting lost. Lucky I had my name and number on his arm so we was always found pretty quick. That darn kid!!  The kiddos LOVED the rides and all the yummy snacks/food we got. Callen was especially well behaved and loved sitting on my lap for the rides. He would just look around in such amazement. I was praying for a good first time at Disneyland with the kids and we got it! Favorite ride for all of us... space mountain. Best part was wrong Jacks face in Splash Mountain haha. 

We spent the next couple of days swimming in the pool, visiting the temple, going on scooter rides, and playing at the beach. It was beyond wonderful to get away and spend some time as a family.