The last 12 months...

Since tomorrow is New Year's Eve I thought it would be fun to give a highlight from each month over the year. So here we go:

January:

We won a snowmobiling trip in Yellowstone. It was fun but very cold! Luckily the snomobile had seat heaters!

February:

My nephew Jack turned 8. We got to go to Oregon to his Baptism. In the picture are Jack, Taylor, and Lily.

March:

I found out I was having a boy!

April:

Marshall graduated with his Bachelor's degree for the University of Utah.

May:

We attended Lily's baby blessing.

June:

Marshall painted James's room.

July:

We went camping near Brighton. I was 8 months pregnant!

August:

James was born!

September:

James's baby blessing.

October:

We took James to the zoo (you can tell he really liked it).

November:

My parents left on their mission.

December:

Our family picture.

Christmas 2008

We had a wonderful Christmas and it was even more fun since it was James's first Christmas. We spent the weekend in Midway/Heber. On Christmas Eve my family has a tradition of going bowling. We always go to the Heber bowling alley. The highest score gets to take the trophy for the year. This year Angeline won with a score of 160!

Christmas Eve night we always go to Marshall's grandparents house for a party. Grandpa and his pet Monkey-Charlie- give each grandchild and great grandchild their present. James met him for his first time.

Christmas was fun and relaxing. We stayed in our pajamas all day except when we played basketball that night. James got some new toys and he had fun wearing Grandpa's boots.

James had fun playing with his cousing Kjersti who is 6 months older than him.

Over Christmas break we were able to go snowshoeing with Becky, Anthony and their daughter Lily. James came too. Marshall carried him in the front pack. He was all bundled up with Marshall's coat around him so you can barely see him.

Do I Look Like Mommy?

When James was first born everyone thought that he looked more like Marshall. In September there is a post with Marshall's baby picture lined up next to James. They have a lot of similarities. However, now it seems like James is looking more like me. Here is a video to check it out. What do you think?

Vroom, Vroom!

We are already afraid when James turns 16! He's way too comfortable behind the wheel.

Baby's thoughts

Have you ever wondered what babies are thinking? Sometimes they look so deep in thought. It would be cool to know what is going through their little minds. I snapped this one of James the other morning when we were out running. He was definitely in the zone!

Snowman

Do you ever have a project that you think you will never be able to finish? I've been working on this snowman for the past couple of weeks. It was taking me so long that I didn't think it would be finished before Christmas. Thank goodness for naps though. James took an extra long nap today so I was able to finish. I think it turned out pretty good considering I'm not a very crafty person.

Happy Birthday Marshall

Yesterday was Marshall's birthday. We had his parents over for dinner.


Here is a little trivia about Marshall:

-Born in Provo
-Favorite color is blue
-Lucky number is 17
-Favorite food is Lasagna
-Loves soccer, skiing, and biking
-Work as a media assistant doing video editing and designing web pages
-Love marshmellows
-can do a standing back flip
-loves to sell things on ebay
-loves D.I.


Happy Birthday Sweetie!

Blocks

James is learning new things and growing everyday. I was helping him sit up the other day and put these blocks under him to help prop him up.

Thanksgiving weekend

It seems like life became really busy the week of Thanksgiving and hasn't stopped. Although it is fun to update my blog, it has been moved to the bottom of the priority list for the last couple of weeks. Luckily today I have a chance to sit down and catch up on a few things.
Even though my parents are on the their mission, my siblings, aunts and my grandma were able to get together and have a nice Thanksgiving. Here is an idea for a Thanksgiving party favor that I got from my friend Joy. It is made out of black construction paper and cardstock.


Marshall's siblings were all together over the weekend so we had fun spending time with them. Marshall's mom bought all the grandkids the cutest Christmas outfits. They all wore them to church Sunday and so we were able to get a picture. James is on the left and the three girls to his right were all born this year.