Christmas 2009

This is the Christmas card I made that never got sent out. (Walmart never printed them!)

Christmas party at Steph's house with my family. Aaron won 2nd place for the ugly sweater contest. My bro-in-law, Jimmy, won (I don't think it was really fair because Jimmy was wearing a women's sweater).

My parents joined us at our home for a Christmas Eve dinner and a nativity play directed by Carly. The girls also opened up some new nightgowns. When they came out of their bedroom after changing into their new nightgowns Carly said, "Okay...this is really embarassing, but....I really feel like a teenager!"

Aubree with her glow seahorse from Grandma and Grandpa.

Carly and Ellie got a new bunk bed for Christmas! They were so excited! It's a twin bed on top and a full bed on bottom.

New Year Eve's party at our home. We watched While You Were Sleeping. (My parents and Steph and Bryant left at about 11:30pm -ha ha! We celebrated with Chicago.)

The Professor and other cute pictures

Aubree's hair usually sweeps over to the right side, but the other day Aaron tried parting it down the middle. My first impression was... Professor. So now we call her the Little Professor.


This picture makes me think two things:
1) I wish I had a nicer camera
2) Even though Ellie is so small, compared to Aubree she looks like such a big lady!


Aubree Elf. Ellise Elf. Carly Elf.


Aubree and Carly
Did any of you hear about the parents who had their children taken away from them for a few months because they took some pictures of their girls in the bathtub? Crazy!


Carly doing a "teenager" pose. She says she can't wait to be a teenager so she can have a boyfriend - ummm.... I asked her why she wanted to have a boyfriend - because she wants to get married so she can have babies.

Happy Birthday Dear Sophie!

We love you and hope you have a great 4th Birthday!

Love,

Carly and Ellie

Well, it's been over a month since my last post. I feel like I should apologize or say what an awful blogger I am, but honestly, I feel more guilty when I'm posting frequently because it usually means I'm neglecting more important things (cleaning, cooking, running errands and most importantly husband and girls). I have a love/hate relationship with blogging. I love keeping in touch with people and seeing what others are up to and also keeping track of what we've been up to by posting on my blog. But I hate it because for me it takes up a lot of time - checking all my friends' blogs, commenting (which I haven't been doing a lot of lately) and updating mine (downloading pictures/videos and typing up a post) I've used up A LOT of valuable time! (By the way, I just got done making this post and it has taken me over 1 1/2 hours (and that doesn't include the time I spent checking other people's blogs)! Pathetic! Just thought I would insert that here to illustrate my point. I can name about 10 things that I could have gotten done in that time!) Plus, after I've gone a while without posting I get all stressed out about what I should post about - if I should catch up on everything or just start with where we're at. I've thought about just giving up the whole blogging thing (at least for awhile) so that I'm not stressing about it. (I know it's not really a big deal anyway, but I think it just boils down to the fact that I feel kind of overwhelmed with life right now! I mean, life is good, but just a little overwhelming.)

Anywho...

We went home for Thanksgiving (spent 1/2 week in Rexburg and the other half in I.F.). This is our family picture - I wish I could download a better quality (Aaron will have to help me with that maybe). All of my siblings and nieces and nephews were home - 15 adults (including Grandpa Johnson) and 17 kids (ages 17 to 7 months) It was busy and fun and loud!

Grandpa horse giving Carly and Ellie a ride. I Love my Dad!

Carly decorating the Christmas tree in their room.

Aubree! :) 10 months old.

Even though this isn't Ellie's "real" smile I still love it, because she smiles like this when she's trying to be sweet.

Franci's girls and our girls at the Treehouse Museum.

Aubree doing what she does best - just bein' cute (and putting random things in her mouth)!

Aaron and the big girls just got back from the library, so we are now going to start our Fun Family Friday Movie Night with "Ella Enchanted".