Little Els

I haven't been as good about documenting Elise growing up.  She is 10 months old now and is such a sweet little girls.  She is standing by herself and crawls all over the place.  She wants to be right in the middle of everything and loves playing with Eric and his toys.  She is definitely a mommy's girl, but I love her snuggles.  She is so precious.

Eric is 3!

July is our month of birthdays.  Eric turned 3! It is crazy to think he is 3 years old.  It seems like just yesterday that he was a little new born.  Eric is so much fun.  He loves to be silly with his sisters.  He loves anything with wheels.  His favorite color is pink--yes, pink.  He will choose pink 10 times out of 10 when given the choice  He has a pink shirt he loves to wear.  He chose to have a pink birthday cake.  He is that confident in his manliness. :)  Eric is learning his letters and numbers.  He can ride his bike with his training wheels.  He loves to go fishing and play games.  His favorite food this week is soup.  He loves to build towers and knock them down.  He is just so much fun.  We sure love him!

Meg is 13!

Meg turned 13 this month.  It is crazy to think she is getting so old.  We decided, though, that in order to become a teenager, you had to complete the Rockwood rite of passage of going canyoneering with Dave and I.  So, later this month she will be a teenager.  For now, she is just 13.

Meg enjoyed her 2nd year of girl's camp and is currently the 1st counselor in the Beehive presidency.  She loves playing the piano, and is getting really good.  She is good at hearing a song on the radio, finding some music and learning the song.  Meg is a great big sister to Brinn, Eric, and Elise.  Eric in particular thinks the world of her.  She loves hanging out with her friends and hates doing chores.  Pretty typical, I think. :)  We think Meg is pretty awesome and are sure glad she is part of our family!

December Happenings

 As I'm sure it was for everyone else, our December was a little bit crazy, but full of lots of fun Christmas traditions.  We didn't quite get everything done on our list (like those darn Christmas cards or sledding), but it was a great Christmas season.

Here are our amazing gingerbread houses.  This year I made notes about which recipe was good, since I made the same mistake as last year... I must say that Dave and I could be professional gingerbread house thatchers, and Steven is an amazing brick layer.  Just check out his chimney.  The girls each did their own house and did a wonderful job!  Lots of work for mom, but so much fun. Eric and Elise both decided to take a nap during gingerbread house decorating.  What sweet little angels!

Steven's, Brinn's, Dave/April's

Brinn, Dave/April, Meg

Eric thinks the world of his big sisters.

And a few pictures from Christmas morning.  I love having pictures, but I usually get too caught up in the events to take a lot.  Christmas was so much fun this year.  Eric LOVED opening presents.

I didn't take pictures, but we had fun sewing our own ornaments this year that were different symbols of the Savior.  We also had our little Christmas pageant and the big Rockwood pageant.  Elise got to be baby Jesus both times.