Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Christmas at the Fairbanks'



After christmas morning at our housewe went over to the Fairbanks' and celebrated with them. Their whole family was there too. We had a blast opening presents and seeing Kambria and Madalyn playing with each other. Weston even enjoyed himself...see picture of Jacqueline and Weston... Some of the big things we recieved as gifts were; Kambria got an mp3 player that is kid proof and allows downloadable songs, (so she can play honey, honey of course) and a set of table and chairs that are pink! She was so excited and carried them all over the house! Bryan and I opened our BIG present: a WII!!! and along with that came our WII fit! That was what Bryan got up at 3:30 for black friday morning and waited in line for!!! So he got to finally open what he was wanting and has been waiting for for a whole month. I told him he could not play it until christmas. And so here is to the new year of health...we sure hope anyways!!!! Bryan also got to open one of Weston's presents from Erik and Lisa...a football!!! There is a slight joke behind that...Weston is a linebacker in training since he is so big and Erik needed some ideas for gifts to Bryan and said that if he did not give him any, he would just give him a football...but Erik came through and Bryan got the cd of David Archuleta as well as the football :o)





Nap time with my new toy...songs to put me to sleep! Don and MaryEllen got a WII for christmas too...so now we have to have competitions. They also got Mario Kart which we debated getting, but said maybe later. So we have been playing that a lot at heir house. I am not so good at it, but am getting better.

Our Little Family

I thought I would finally post some things. These are our family pictures for 2008. We got them done on Saturday December 20. And i finall got around to scanning them into the computer. We got them done at a place called portrait innovations. They print the pictures the same day, so I have had them a while, but been too busy or forgotten, so here they are. Not bad huh?

Friday, January 02, 2009

Kambria's jabber...

Just a little update on Kambria...

"Hey, What's going on here?" as Bryan stopped the car suddenly.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas Morning at our house

Christmas morning at our house. Of course Kambria slept for part of the night in our bed. We even had to wake her up at 7:30! That was a miracle!! We enjoyed opening presents and seeing Kambria's face! Weston was clueless, but none the less happy!
Kambria got a horse, just like Woody from Toy Story 2, her FAVORITE movie, and we even named it Bulls eye just like Woody's. And of course she had to have her Woody hat, which happened to be her Easter hat!Kambria got a fun stuffed bear and book from Natalie!
Weston and Kambria opening their videos. Weston got Elmo and Kambria got Shrek...since she stepped on the old one we had...now she can watch Shrek and not just Shrek 2
This was one of Kambria's favorite presents!!! More pretend food!

Bryan even got a few surprises...pirolines...which he guessed from feeling the package! ;o)

And a new wireless mouse for the laptop so he can play games easier!!!


And of course Weston the happy baby!
This is Kambria after Bryan put some sticky black stuff on her....



We enjoyed the morning being a family and experiencing our first little family Christmas all by ourselves!!! Then we were off to the Fairbanks' for more fun!

Christmas eve

We were at my parents house Christmas eve, since that is our tradition. First we meet at Target and had our family pictures taken. I thought it turned out ok...and we will be posting them as soon as we get them back. Then we went to the hosue and had appetizers of crab and cream cheese, bri and filo bread, artichoke and spinach dip and of course frozen slush! It was a grand time. We tried to do the christmas story...although it was not too easy to get the kids to cooperate. And then the kiddos in the christmas pjs. I did not get any pictures of the twins though ;o( So leah, if you have any please send them my way! Thanks!







Christmas cookies


We had Lisa, Erik, Madalyn, Amanda, Don & MaryEllen over for FHE last week to make sugar cookies. The kids had a lot of fun eating the frosting...








Wednesday, December 17, 2008

My sis is HOME




So excited to have my sister home from her first semester away at college! Can't wait for christmads eve so I can spend some more time with her!!! Congrats Tess on being one of Kambria's favortite Aunts. Kambria would not leave Tess alone when she saw her.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Kambria

So I have had some challenging times with Kambria (potty training and being a big sister who obeys her mother etc.) and so to make upfor it, she likes to have her picture taken. So these are my attempt to make her happy and give her a cute hair do.




I also let her wash dishes...notice she is only in underwear? This was due to one of the "challenging" times again. But she enjoys washing dishes...or rather just playing in water.

Weston

Weston has started to mimick peoples mouths. We finally got it on video. So this is me trying to get Weston to say Na Na Na...

FHE

We have tried to be good and make sure to do FHE with Kambria. She even has a nursery manual that we bought for her lessons. She knows right where it is at and that we talk about Jesus for FHE. So last week we talked about the prophet becasue she had talked about it in nursery the day before. So we were talking about the prophet and she starts singing the song "follow the prophet." So we had her do it again and got it on video this time. We were thoroughly impressed! Way to go nursery leaders!!


Smash pillows

Kambria has some pretty funny word for things lately...She calls marshmallows smash pillows! It is the funniest thing to hear her call them that... for a long time I didn't know what she was referring to. I think she calls them that in part to my mother calling ravioli "pillows" so that Kambria would eat them. Whatever works right? Right!

And then she also will NOT call a piano a piano. She calls it a Plano. So we tried to get her to say PEE ano...and then she said PEE PLano...So that is what a piano is called at our house. PEE Plano. No sense in trying anymore for I don't want her to get too confused!

Kambria has been really lovey as of lately and I think it is due to the fact that I have to tend to Weston when he is crying. She can not figure out why I don't like it when she cries and I tell her to stop, but when Weston cries, I hold him. So I am really trying to make it a point to give her praise and tell her I love her and that I like it when she is a big girl and does not cry. We are still working things out.

Weston is now holding things and LOVES to be held. Kambria still likes to try and lay on him, but he doesn't seem to mind too much. He loves his big sister and they giggle at each other once in a while!

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Painting Christmas cookies

We got a TON of snow here today and so I let Bryan take my car to work. (his car has REALLY bad tires, and until we can afford new ones we will just let him use the red car...or Ruby as she is named! ) So we were stuck in the house all day! So instead of being bummed about it, I don't like the snow just yet, we made sugar cookies and Kambria painted them. Yep, I said Painted, not frosted. I saw this idea on another blog and tried it... Since frosting is harder for little ones, it worked fine. The "paint" is egg whites with food coloring. They are not the best looking cookies, but we had fun doing them together. It was Kambria and my time alone together, while Weston took his morning nap. Fun times.






And then when Weston woke up, and Kambria went for her afternoon nap, I decided to take some cute pictures of Weston in his Christmas outfit...hat and all!

This one is my favorite!!!

Decorating the Christmas tree




So Sunday Bryan got out the christmas tree and put it together during Kambria's nap, yes it is a fake one. It was SO much easier than trying to do it with her awake. We got the lights on and then went to dinner at Bryan's parents house. Then on Monday night we decorated it for FHE. It was so much fun to see Kambria so excited. She even said that, " Mom, I so escited..." It was cute to see her trying to figure out where to put the ornaments and to hear her giggle with joy. Weston of course was clueless but cute otherwise.