Meg and her favorite things

Pooh Bear: $10 Disneyland's Pooh Cornor Shop. She Loves her Pooh bear.

Baby: $2.99 stocking stuffer (or at least thats what I saw them for at Target...this one was from Santa.)

Pacifier: $2 or less

Stroller: $10 or less

Blanket: Gift from Grandma Fillmore--We could not live without it. (here is a little history about the blanket)

The little mischievious Smile behind that pacifier....Priceless!

Actually the blanket and the smile are priceless, but that just doesn't flow like it is supposed to.

Uh Oh...busted leg Meg

The picture says it all. Poor little thing broke her leg while trying to reach the light switch from her crib (she likes to turn it on and off). She usually is quite adept at defying gravity, but not this particular Sunday...almost two weeks until Christmas, great timing!

She broke her leg on the 13th, and earned the honor of having the first broken bone in our family. (I know some will be thinking, "surely Isaac has already broken a bone before". I know it is hard to believe but he hasn't yet. ) I guess it is common procedure to splint the broken bone for awhile before you actually put a cast on. The above picture is her with her temporary splint. on the 18th she got a real cast. Thanks to our wonderful doctor for making her look like our little Christmas Elf!

She has gotten very good at getting around with her cast and just recently started acutally walking with it. Before that crawling was her preferred method of travel and she has a well worn cast to prove it.

Meg's walking

On Easter Sunday Meg decided it was time to try out her legs. She has been pulling her self up for a long time and she has even been letting go and just standing there for a while but would only walk when she was supported by something. But no longer...

I know this clip doesn't show too much. Those were some of her very first steps! Way to show off for Grandma and Grandpa. She has taken about 5 or 6 steps together, so when I say "Meg's Walking" that doesn't mean all over, it means in short little bursts with lots of encouragement. She still prefers crawling, but it is an exciting milestone.

Christmas Morning

Packing up Christmas was a pain but turned out just fine. This photo shows where we set up, Jamie and Jed, Jamie and Kirk, Eric and I, Mindi and Dave, and my Parents all had our Christmases in the big family room so it was quite the sight to see...presents everywhere!

EMMA really liked her music box that was filled with jewelry.

ISAAC loved the rock polisher, he even got a book all about rocks and minerals to go with it.

GABE was super excited about his Ipod! The boys both loved the Nerf dart tag they got to share.

Our little babies slept in so we didn't open their presents until later that morning, so the adults got to go next.

ERIC was thrilled and surprised by his IPhone. I was really happy about my new black skirt and black boots. (even though there are no photos to document it, this photo of the babies and me was all we ended up with.)
When Elijah and Meg finally woke up they were more interested in breakfast than presents so after they were fed they finally got down to business

ELIJAH Loved both his toys, the dump truck was a huge hit and the little radio kept him entertained the whole car trip home.

MEG didn't know quite what to think but she still had a good time!

Everyone who lived nearby had their Christmases at home then made there way to Grandmas when they finished up for more gifts from Grandma and Grandpa.

The kids had quite the stash this year!!

The boys also loved the marble maze from our other Grandma and Grandpa. They had a ton of fun putting it together and even more fun watching the marbles go through it.

What a great Christmas!!

PS--all these pics were taken in the PJ's Grandma and Granpa Gave them, Here are the PJ's from Eric and Me:

Yoga Baby

We finally caught Meg doing her Yoga exercises.

She was downward dog all over the place when we were in Utah for thanksgiving. But every time I tried to capture it on film she would stop and look at me.

This is Meg doing upward dog.

Kids Pics by Jacki

My sister is a great photographer and took some real quick photos of my kids for me. I got there late so we were running out of daylight, but she still managed to get at least one good shot of each of my kids. The one of them together was a bust because my little Elijah was crying in every shot.

GABE

ISAAC

EMMA

ELIJAH

MEG

OUR KIDDOS

Jacki made this photocard for me on photoshop...She is so talented and creative! Thanks again Jacki!! I love it! I was trying to get one photo of all the kids and just get a photocard from a store or something, but since the group shots didn't turn out (because of one child that shall remain nameless) I asked Jacki if she could throw something together.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

1/2 way there

My little Meg is already celebrating her half birthday. She was 6 months old on the 6th. I took a few shots of her to commemorate this monumentous day.

I have a hard time keeping pants on her. She does her little army crawl and she has no bum to hold the pants on so they just slip right off her as she slides along the ground.

To move all she can do at this point is army crawl but once she gets to where she is going she will get up on all fours and rock back and forth.



She is doing better at night and is so much fun to have around.

Star Wars Halloween

This was taken after school right before the trunk or treat, I think Isaac's face paint held up nicely.

Star Wars Family

We got to celebrate Halloween for a full 2 days (Yeah). The kids didn't have school on Friday so they wore their costumes to school on Thursday. Then there was a Trunk or Treat at the school Thursday evening, followed by our ward party. The older kids basically wore their costumes all day. Then of course Friday was the real Halloween...the kids loved the extended celebration this year which of course meant more candy!!

Clone Gabe

Gabe was really excited about his costume and wanted to wear it as much as I would let him. He looked great. It was fun to have him so excited about his costume.

Darth Isaac

Isaac looked AWESOME. Luckily Eric didn't have a patient until 9am so he was home in the morning and able to do Isaac's face paint. Isaac doesn't know how lucky he was...it would have been a much simpler version and not nearly as cool.

Elijah didn't know quite what to think the new look.

Pad-Emma a.k.a Padme

She was a cute little Padme, or as Emma likes to pronounce it pad-eh-may. She really liked how her hair turned out.

Yoda-bug

Cute he is!

Just about the cutest kid in the cutest costume ever!


Princess Leia

Beautiful Girl!

Elijah needed a little encouragement to wear his Yoda ears; hence the sucker.


We had to wash Isaac's face about 10 times to get all the face paint off. For the real Halloween he opted to wear the mask. Which was a lot easier, but masks were not allowed at school on thursday.