Christmas 2009

Sitting on Santa's lap and telling them everything they want for Christmas. Okay not really Amelia didn't want to sit and Ezra well his face says it all. He wasn't that excited about the whole Santa thing!


Christmas morning the kids were so excited to open presents. It was a fun morning seeing how excited they were that Santa came!!

Here is Amelia showing off some of her presents!

Amelia pondering the true meaning of Christmas. Looks like she could be so we are just going to go with it!
Visiting Great Grandma Payne on Christmas. Amelia helped her open all her presents!

Amelia helping Grandma Payne put on her new slippers. Nobody even asked her too she just did it all on her own. It's good to know I will have a good nurse when I get old!!


Hugs goodbye! Ezra let her hug him for the longest time. It was so sweet! I think it made her day seeing all the grandkids!

A great way to end all the Christmas festivities by Zonking out in your new car! He had enough fun for one day!!

Playing in the Bear Lake Snow

The Kids had so much fun playing in the snow. They both got sleds for Christmas and so they had to test them out!


Ezra Trying to walk up the hill. He did a pretty good job, but it sure was hard to walk with all those snow clothes on!
Amelia sitting at the bottom of the hill thinking if it is worth walking back up the hill to go again!
Ezra's highlight was eating the snow!! Can't get a bigger smile then that!

Amelia's dance performance

Amelia was a little pig in the Wizard of Oz for her performance it was fun to watch her up on stage dancing her heart out!

Bear Lake 1/2 marathon

Shelley and I ran the Bear Lake 1/2 marathon we had so much fun running it. It rained on us a little, but over all it was a really good race!

Here is a picture of Ezra and Bryson trying to open the locked doors of the Tabernacle, what a cute picture!

All the kids posing on the stairs looking oh so sweet!
A picture of the family at the cave it was so beautiful up

Take me out to the ball game!

Amelia is playing baseball this Spring and this is pictures of her first game. Her team is the Mud Cats and she loves playing. Here is the team cheer before the game starts.

Here she is getting ready to bat all she wants to do is be a batter not a catcher. Who can blame her batting is way more fun then catching!
Her first time up to bat it was a swing and a miss! The second swing made contact and the she ran to first. We are just glad she ran the right direction!!

Amelia's 4!!

Princess Amelia is OFFICIALLY four!!

I can't believe my baby girl is growing up so fast. It just seems like yesterday that I had her. All she wanted for her birthday was a princess party. She is obsessed with princesses and so we gave in and threw her a party. Okay so she didn't have to beg too hard for a party. I think I had as much fun planning the party as the girls had at the party! Here are a few pictures of her special day.

Here the girls are making sugar cube castles.

This is the pretty little tea party table. The girls had so much fun playing tea party.

Here is the fancy smancy cake that I made. I am queen of ordering cake and so it was fun to make one for a change.

Here the girls are decorating princess crowns. I mean what's a princess without her crown?

Some of the girls wearing their masterpieces!Here is Amelia's favorite part of a birthday. Blowing out candles and having cake. It's just not a birthday without it!

At the end of the party Cinderella came and surprised all the girls. They were speechless. They could barely talk. It was so cute. We had the perfect Cinderella, thank you for making the day so special for Amelia. I am sure it's a day she will never forget!