I know It's been a while

I know, we were having too much fun over the Holiday. I will post again soon.

The Grand Reveal:

This last weekend we were in Santa Monica visiting some friends of the family and decided to check out the Temple lights. We wanted to make sure the lights we strung managed to stay up. Here is the tree we did:

Aubree had so much fun playing with the different lights. She loved that this one made her shadow huge. She loved the balls, Eli wanted her to say Crystal ball show me the future. She tried but didn't sound quite the same. Aubree's favorite lights were the "snowflakes" , Luke helped her to "touch the sky".


Hayley spend most of the time with Grandpa:Our sweet family, my most favorite time is when we are all together.

Fix it man for hire

NOT!! This is too funny to not write about. Our friend the Larsen's computer was having some issues, so Eli being a good friend offered to take a look at it. I am proud to say after 2 weeks of working on it during the little down time he has he fixed it. However while fixing it he needed some number off of the bottom so he held the LAPTOP up to read it while Erik double checked and corrected the number. I would have turned it over, wrote the number down, and then typed it in. That might just be my dad in me. However if they would have done it my way we wouldn't have this great picture.

How do you get bag balm out of clothes? anyone?

After Aubree's party Aubree was taking her nap, Eli and I were carrying things up the stairs, and Hayley was down stairs with her uncles, Luke and Kaleb. When Eli and I came back down the stairs both Luke and Kaleb looked like the bird that caught the canary and Hayley was just in her onsie. Kaleb started laughing and proceeded to recant the story of Hayley getting into the bag balm. Apparently Kaleb found the bag balm, smelled it, out the lid back on it and gave it to Hayley to play with. (bag balm is in a green tin that is square shaped, like a block). Hayley was played with it many times before but never had this much fun. Kaleb and Luke looked away for about 3 minutes and what happens next is hilarious. Somehow Hayley got the lid off and decided to cover herself in it. Because they are such great uncles they got her covered clothes off and cleaned her up. Here are the clothes after:
The bag balm afterI love the little finger marks. She obviously had a really good time.

It's your birthday shout hurray

Because Aubree's birthday is so close to Christmas and we celebrate it with a lot of people, we have decided to celebrate it about a week before. Last year when we celebrated it all on the same day she was a little presented out by Christmas. So we had her party with Grandma and Grandpa after her dance recital. We had pizza, opened gifts, played with the gifts and then had cupcakes. She got some great gifts and has really enjoyed playing with them all. Due to our families love of expensive cupcakes we went and got them as a surprise for Aubree that morning. She picked out a pink raspberry for herself and then Eli picked an assortment for the rest of the family. She was able to blow the candles out all by herself this year. She is getting to be quite the independent individual, but who thought it was a good idea to leave the 3yr old with fire? Luckily it was without incident.

I got no strings to hold me down

Aubree had her winter dance recital this last weekend. She danced to Pinocchio's I got no stings. She did so good and did exactly what Miss Claire asked them do to. I love to watch her dance. She is learning so much and having so much fun. Miss Claire suggested that we bring our dances flowers, so we did. Here is Aubree and all of her little friends from dance class.
Maleigha, Gretta, Julie, Aubs, and Izzy.

Don't worry we got the whole thing on film for posterity.

When your a princess anything will do...

We went out to one of my favorite Chinese restaurants with some friends and as soon as Aubree sat down she took her napkin and placed in on her head as her crown. She also was hilarious trying to eat with chopsticks. She insisted on eating every bite herself, which wouldn't have been that big of a deal if she would have used a fork. Lets just say by the end of the night she was stabbing her food with one chop stick.

PS mini DVD player is a life saver at restaurants.