End of 2011, Start of 2012

This is Lily above, and me below. I think we look very much alike!This is Lily above and me below. Again, looks very similar.Me, Nate and Brad (2 of 3 brothers). We were camping.Grandma and Grandpa Roy (my mom's parents) with Brad. Love and miss them so much.My family (minus dad, who is taking the picture).
Josh is brand new, my parents are so brave to go camping with a new baby!!Dad in Vietnam.Beach with cousins last fall.Pumpkin carving. Happy smiles!!Lily as Boo from Monsters, Inc. for halloween.Lily's birthday. Bompie and daddy are cheering her on in this pic!Lily's new bike for her birthday. She loves to ride it!
If it's bad weather, she goes around in circles in the garage.Waiting for the bus for a fun trip around the city on public transportation. We ended up taking the local train instead. The bus was late and we were not wanting to wait in the cold anymore.

I made this 3'x4' picture of the Salt Lake LDS Temple for $7!! I got the print from Staples.com for only $4.99 (engineering print - black and white only, but that worked out great) and the "canvas" is foam board from Home Depot for $8, but I can do 3 prints on that 1 foam board. I LOVE how it turned out. I've been wanting a large print of the temple, but they are so expensive. So glad I learned how to make this!!

Lily playing like she is Mrs. Potato Head.

Wearing the dress Oma made her for Christmas.

My cute husband!

Matt with his real smile! I love it. You don't catch that on camera from a teenager very often!!
For Valentines Day, I decided to have a date with the whole family! I made heart shaped individual meatloaf, sweet potatoes, broccoli and heart shaped brownie ice cream sandwiches. We also had sparkling cider in champagne glasses and treats on the table. It went over so well,
I just might do this for more holidays!!Cutie pie sleeping on the couch.
Lily LOVES to dress up. If she isn't dressing up in actual "dress up clothes",
than she will find stuff to dress up with. Here are her pants on her head. She is so funny.
Here is a bunch of different outfits she put together into one. Let's see, Sponge Bob shirt, Princess white dress for a skirt, (she has on a brown tutu on under that white dress), a wrap around skirt as her shawl and a baby sun hat on. She is also wearing her fake princess plastic heels for her shoes too. She kinda reminds me of Ol' Mother Hubbard.
Here she is being prim and proper. We did her hair and she wanted me to take a pic,
so she sat up all straight and nice and posed for me.
Daddy and princess.
Again with the dress up, or is this dress down?? Pull up, moon boots that light up when you walk and fairy wings. Do you really need anything else?!
We did not get a lot of snow this year. In fact, we had 2 snow storms that left some snow on the ground at all. One was just this last weekend. Our front lawn has a slope to it, so Lily and I found her sled and she tried sledding for the first time. Oh my! She loved it. Too bad the snow melted within 48 hours, or we would have had to try some larger hills!!

Aug/Sept 2011

Lily made a bed on the floor for all of her dolly's and then decided to lay down with them. Pretending to have a nap.
Matt is teaching her how to kiss her muscles.
Cute Matt. That's not drool on his shirt. We were celebrating the 24th of July (Pioneer Day) at the park and it was REALLY hot. So, we went to the drinking fountains and drenched Matt's shirt and Lily's hat with water to cool them off. It was a fun family day.
Matt is tickling Lily's leg here. Very cute! They play so well together.

Matt's dad's uncle has a fishing boat and took Matt and his brother Zack on a fishing trip in August. Here is one of the fish Matt caught. He cleaned it, brought it home and I helped him fry it up to eat. What a good kid!
Lily and Tayson (Josh's little boy, 2 months younger than Lily exactly) eating popsicles.
Tayson loves his food! Here is his ice cream all over his face, belly and hands. We just hosed him off afterwards!

Tayson and Lily enjoying the water at Nannie and Bompie's house.
We went to see the floats before the Pioneer Day parade. They have it set up inside a building with air conditioning, so we went to this instead of the parade. Plus, the kids can touch the floats and stuff. Very fun.

Lily putting on her own headband. Scary.

Matt climbing the rock wall at the pioneer day festival. He got to the top so quick, they let him do it a second time for free. Good job, Matt!

September 2011

Jason and I were able to go to Torrey, Utah earlier this month. Jason is in a band that played a concert there. It is right next to Capital Reef National Park. Here are some of the sites. The mountains were beautiful!! The band paid for our cabin to stay in, too. It was so peaceful. Matt was at his dad's and Lily stayed with Nannie and Bompie (my parents) for the weekend. Wow. We really want to go back there!

Here is Lily posing for the camera. We did her hair all girly (moussed it, diffused it, french twisted the top....). She was really excited to have me take her picture.

Here is Lily's new bed. Our neighbors got a new bed for their daughter, and gave us this one. It's a captain twin bed (with the drawers underneath). For now, we just have her crib mattress on it, but she LOVES it. It happened to come our way the same weekend we were potty training, so we told her it was her present for being such a big girl. My brother, Nate, had the princess twin sheets set for his daughter, but didn't need them anymore, so he gave them to us. When Nannie put them on her bed, she ran up to the comforter and looked at the Disney Princesses and said, "My friends!" How cute.
This is what Lily looks like when she dresses herself. She chose the outfit and put it on. Then she wanted to go for a walk around the block, so we got to show off her matching skills.
Daddy and Lily. She is starting to cuddle quite a bit. We love it.
We had a family reunion again this year with Dad's family. His brothers, sisters and their kids. This is the fun reunion, because it's all of the cousins I grew up with. The picture above is Lily and 2 of my cousins girls. She had a great time! Matt was there, but too busy with a friend that he brought to get his picture taken. I'll get more of him soon.
Here is Bompie and Lily playing at the family reunion. There is a little stream at the park, and Lily was throwing rocks in and just checking it out with good ol' patient grandpa!