Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! I love this holiday! All the hearts and pink and red and telling people you love them, it is just so fun!Gabrie took these pictures, first she told us to put our hands on our hips but those ones didn't turn out as well. Then she told us to make different faces! So here they are (:

Here are our two little sweethearts!

She asked me this morning "Mommy, did I tell you that it's never to late to care enough?" She cracks me up!

I told her to smile with her teeth, she replied "This is my Valentine's smile!" So here it is!

So I guess this is Livvy's Valentine's smile? (: She kept saying "eeze" with her lips pushed out so this is the closest to a smile I got!

Valentine's two years ago... Can't believe that is the same child!

They have gotten so big!

Love you all!!!!!!
XOXO

Luke's Award

Luke received an awesome award this week, Earth Systems Teacher of Year! We are so proud of him and all of his hard work! His colleague/friend Ricky presented him the award.
Here he is with one of his middle school science teachers, Mr. Monson!

Here he is with some of the other science teachers from his school who came to support him.


This is totally unrelated but I had to post this picture of Livvy with her "tups" she has been playing with all week. I was downstairs and couldn't hear her so I came up to see she had all of her "tups" lined up with water in them and each with a "fok" (meaning fork or spoon). She is sitting outside the bathroom where she would stand on the toilet to fill them up with water from the sink. She is saying "eeze" and was very proud to have her picture taken with the "tups".

Ice skating

Gabrie has been wanting to go ice skating for awhile now so we decided to go for family home evening last week. She was SO excited and kept talking about how she was excited to go for her "first time!" After hearing her mention that she was going to do a pirouette on the ice, I decided I better warn her that it might be kinda hard her first time and she wouldn't be able to do all the tricks she had seen "Angelina Ballerina" do on her cartoon.
But here she is with her skates on! We could have gotten some for Livvy but decided not to even try.

She realized quickly that is was pretty hard to stay up so Luke helped her quite a bit.

She also did some "tricks" sliding on her bum (:

Livvy didn't quite understand what we were doing but had fun anyway.

As you can see there are no pictures of me because it was a lot harder than I remember! That or I am just a bigger chicken now. We didn't last long in our skates but then tried it again in our regular shoes and had a lot more fun!

Livvy Turned Two!

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY OLIVIA!

Our cute little Livvy turned 2!

Some fun things about Livvy are:
She loves her "sisa" and wants/has to do everything Gabrie does, she cries when Gabrie goes to school or dance without her.
She loves to watch "Diego" and say "Go Diego Go!" or "Go Mommy Go!"
She loves Care Bears (not quite as much as Gabrie) but calls them "powa on" because they say "Care Power On!" and she always talks about "su-sine" (Funshine Bear)
She loves Elmo (who doesn't?)
Her favorite food is still soup especially canned soup, she will pull cans out of the cupboard and bring them to me.
She is still extremely attached to her "pass" pacifer and "nee-nee" or "nay" blanket.
She's also very picky about the way you tuck her in at night. If you don't put her three blankets on in the correct order with the correct sides facing up and down, she will let you know.

Some not as fun things:
She climbs out of her crib, opens her bedroom door, and comes into Mommy's room every morning (:
She is a pretty picky eater especially for breakfast.

Cute things she says:
-"it weady!!" means "It's ready!" she likes to yell it up the stairs to tell Luke and Gabrie dinner is ready even sometimes when it's not.
-"wook sisa!" or "where's sisa" means "look sister!" and "where's sister" she doesn't say Gabrie very much and when she does is sounds a lot like Daddy but it is so cute when she calls her "sisa"
-"wook wights!" means "look lights!" she said this a lot at Christmas time, as we drove she'd look out the window and yell "wook wights!"
-"uh-too" means "I want one too"
-"dat one" means 'that one" she uses the words one and two a lot.
She doesn't say her l,s,z,r,g,k,th correctly, luckily her mommy can translate(:

In the morning, about to open some presents

Opening her first one...

Clothes! She was really excited to give them to Daddy
and then didn't care about them anymore (:

Next one...

A bike! or "My Bike!" as she calls it. She was much more interesed in this present.

Later that night we had a little party for her.
Livvy and Grandma

Elmo Cupcakes!

Some of the ones Gabrie helped with and made her own creations. One is a cowgirl and one is a pirate (: She was a great helper and very creative!

Gabrie gave Livvy a huge marshmallow pop shaped like a cupcake, Livvy loved it. I didn't think she would blow out the candles and I was about to help when she surprised us and blew them both out herself!

Eating her cupcake and ice cream

Enjoying her party

She is quite the little girl and life would not be as fun without her!
We love our Livvy Jane!

Having Fun

We sure enjoy our cute girls and all the fun things they do.

Gabrie's friend Abby was over playing and they decided to "design" dresses. Here is what they came up with and of course Livvy needed one too!

Gabrie and Livvy having a tea party after church one sunday.

Livvy loved her crown from nursery so much she climbed out of her crib that night, got it off her dresser, and brought it back in her crib. I found it in there the next morning!

The other morning Livvy wandered downstairs and when I came to find her she had the earmuffs and one glove on and was trying to get the other glove on! I helped her with it and then she wanted the headband on, as well! She is so funny!

New Years

We rang in 2012 at Grandma and Grandpa Williams house. We played lots of fun games and ate lots of yummy food! 2011 was a good year but very busy,
here's hoping 2012 is a little calmer (:

Playing "Just Dance"

Now everyone was into it!

Mamie having fun, love that face!

Evan and the girls watching a show.

Not the best family picture for 2011 but, Happy New Year!

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star