Without a doubt, THE cutest girl in all of Tacoma!!

Ok... So I am a little bias, but just look at her!!! I really think she is SO cute! She has gotten a few new tricks to impress anyone that is lucky enough to bask in her beauty.

She now has decided that fish lips are oh so fun! I just giggle every time she does it. You all are very lucky that I caught it on my camera phone, she will not do it on command and if you do it to her in hopes of her copying, she looks at you as if you have broccoli growing out of your nose.

I just think this is cute. She is crawling now (which the picture does not show). Her method is unlike any I have ever seen. She (unlike any other child I have ever known) learned to do her legs first. So she gets her cute tush up in the air, pushes a little and eventually lets her arms catch up, army style. What a cute little bug!

Landon's Backpack

For Halloween I bought the boys some glow-in-the-dark buckets to put their candy in. These buckets have been used in SO many ways! I put toys in them as I am cleaning, when there is something that Abby (the lady that cleans my house) doesn't know where it goes she puts it in the buckets, they make great bath toys, the kids even used them to puke in when they were sick (after which they were disinfected thoroughly). My favorite use; however, has been Landon's use. He uses it as a backpack. He doesn't store anything in it so I guess it is more like a camel hump, but he goes EVERYWHERE with it!

Here he is in his room (please ignore the mess in the background) just chillin' with his little camel hump.

Here you can kind of see how he goes about sporting it. He wears the handle across his chest as I do with my purse strap.

Here he is in the bath even! Not such a good picture of Landon but I think it is SO funny! Hope you all got a kick out of it as I did.

Christmas Day!!!!

What a miracle for us here in western WA. We got snow, on Christmas day!! It was so beautiful and the kids loved it; that is until their little fingers got so cold that they felt like they were going to fall off.

I know, I am horrible, I forgot to bring any mittens for any of my kids when we went to my parents' house so, yes, they got quite cold. But in my defense, it was NOT snowing when we left our house, it was raining.

Here are Ezra and Landon not sure what to think about it.

Max (my eldest nephew) and Ezra

Gabe (still with black hair) and my insane husband in the background. No, he is not wearing any shoes.

Apparently Gabe thinks that Aaron is just as crazy as all of us do.

We really had an exceptional Christmas. We loved the time spent with Rachel, Ella and Bryant, we loved being together and we loved the snow.