Where It All Began...

On December 30, 2000, Dave and I were married in the Mt. Timpanogas Temple for time and all eternity.

Who would have thought we would go from this:

To this:

To this:

To this:

To this:

It was fun to put all these pictures together and to see where our life has taken us. Not to mention all the different hair styles. It has been the best 9 years and could ever ask for and I am looking forward to the many years to come. Dave, thank you for being such a wonderful and supportive husband and for loving me with all my imperfections. Thank you for being the father I envisioned for my children and for the unconditional love you show them. I could not do this without you. I love you! Happy Anniversary.

The Best Ugliest Christmas Sweater Ever

The wait is over. Here is the creation we sported for the ugliest Christmas sweater/attire at the Ellison's Christmas Eve party. And if you were wondering, we won 1st place.

And yes...those are real deer horns. I should have taken a picture from the side to get the full effect. And it is hard to see but the nose was lit up with a red light from Dave's head lamp we strapped around his waist.

m&m's anyone? gross, I know. Gotta love it. Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas 2009

Pre-Christmas project
The girls loved putting the gingerbread house together


This is the gingerbread house Julie made at school

I will update a pic of Julie shortly. The snaggletooth is gone. I tried to have her pull it before Christmas but she was not having any of it. So it came out the next day....courtesy of me. Dave was thankful.

Can't have too many Pet shops. Oh wait...really you can.

My three ladies. Oh how I love them.

My sweet baby with her baby blues.

Stay posted. We had an ugliest Christmas sweater/attire contest at the Ellison Christmas party and Dave won first place. It is a gem. Dave the model and I was the creator. Picture coming soon.

Field Trip Fun

It was my week to teach preschool and we have been learning the letter 'D' so I thought it would be fun to take the girls on a field trip to the Dinosaur Museum.
It couldn't have been more perfect. The girls were so well behave, Jill didn't squawk once and the best part... no one was there.

Megan was on cloud nine and loved having her little posse with her. She tends to get left behind a lot when Julie gets invited to do fun things so this was really great for her.

Emma was our little diva. She had some sweet poses every time I tried to take a picture.

Old Mother Hubbard and Two Sisters

Julie had Nursery Rhyme Festival at school where each student picked their favorite nursery rhyme and they recited it as people walked by. She did such a good job.

She will find any opportunity to bring a stuffed animal to school, especially a stuffed toy dog.

Megan was not about to let Julie steal the show and all the pictures. She made sure I snap a shot of her in the toy truck in Julie's classroom.

Jill is growing up so fast. She is starting to lean forward to almost a crawling position. Seriously already? She is constantly kicking those little feet of hers and the open mouth is pretty typical too. Oral fixation kid #2, Megan being my first.

A Year Later

Here are Julie's school pictures. One from preschool last year and her Kindergarten picture this year. I can't believe how much she has changed in just a year. She is getting so big.

Preschool 2008

Kindergarten 2009

Balloon Update

Touchdown is confirmed for November 20th. That is 14 days people. I really think it would have gone longer but the balloon made it's way over to our second story overlook and Julie got her hands on it. She wasn't up for continuing my little experiment. She said she wanted to play with it. (Shrug)...kids.