Monday, July 9, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Christmas 2011
Santa visited!!
Growing up, I spent every holiday with big groups of family. We would go to my mom's side and then my dad's side and just enjoy celebrating with everyone. Dave lived away from his extended family most of his growing up and so they spent a lot of their holidays with their own family and at times a few friends and family. So, our idea of how to spend the day is a little different. This Christmas, we finally just stayed at home the whole day. Dave was very happy and it was actually very nice. My parents came over in the morning to watch the kids open their presents. We had breakfast together. With Christmas being on Sunday, we went to church. Then, we had my parents and grandpa and grandma over for dinner. Afterwards we played some games, visited, and enjoyed a visit from my brother, Jarom, and his family.
My nephew, Dillon, and niece, Sadie, sure love Quaid!! :)
It really was a wonderful, laid back Christmas. We enjoyed it very much. And, what a special time we had with our new little Quaid. Our first Christmas as a family of 6! Awesome!
Growing up, I spent every holiday with big groups of family. We would go to my mom's side and then my dad's side and just enjoy celebrating with everyone. Dave lived away from his extended family most of his growing up and so they spent a lot of their holidays with their own family and at times a few friends and family. So, our idea of how to spend the day is a little different. This Christmas, we finally just stayed at home the whole day. Dave was very happy and it was actually very nice. My parents came over in the morning to watch the kids open their presents. We had breakfast together. With Christmas being on Sunday, we went to church. Then, we had my parents and grandpa and grandma over for dinner. Afterwards we played some games, visited, and enjoyed a visit from my brother, Jarom, and his family.
My nephew, Dillon, and niece, Sadie, sure love Quaid!! :)
It really was a wonderful, laid back Christmas. We enjoyed it very much. And, what a special time we had with our new little Quaid. Our first Christmas as a family of 6! Awesome!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Events leading up to Christmas! :)
We started out our Christmas season this year with a great concert from Paisley. She has been singing in a group called "Tavaci" this year and has been loving it. They sing fun songs with dancing and actions and have a great time. They put on a big Christmas concert which was wonderful!! Avery was so funny. She danced and did the actions along with them in the audience the whole time. She enjoyed it so much that I put her in Tavaci in January. So, at the next concert, both my girls will be up there! :) Super fun!
Here are some pics of my beautiful girl at her concert.
We had many fun get-togethers during Christmas. Our first one was with my mom's side of the family at my grandpa and grandma's house. We don't get together with them that often, so it was really great to see each other and visit. Of course, great-grandma and grandpa had presents for all the little kids. :)
Quaid (at 2 1/2 months) with my sister-in-law, Stephanie
My grandpa and grandma Hill with our family
Christmas Eve morning we got together with my parents, my grandpa and grandma Johnson, and my two brothers and their families for my family's celebration. We had a really good breakfast and opened presents. Grandpa and grandma spoil all the kids rotten, so we spent a good long time opening gifts. It was such a great time together. I love seeing my family of 5 growing up is now is now 16 1/2. :) Here are some pics of the morning fun:
Christmas Eve evening we went to Dave's brother's for a Pendlebury get together. We do it every year and have several fun traditions. First, a YUMMY prime rib dinner, then, a reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas by Uncle Dennis, then, the grandkids act out the story of the First Christmas while it is read from the Bible, and then...presents!
This year, Paisley was Mary, Quaid was the baby Jesus, Easton was a wise man, and Avery was an angel. It is always fun to watch them in this tradition!
Here are some pics from the rest of the night:
I guess the night got a little crazy and I didn't get many pictures. But, it was a wonderful evening.
Next....CHRISTMAS!!!
Here are some pics of my beautiful girl at her concert.
We had many fun get-togethers during Christmas. Our first one was with my mom's side of the family at my grandpa and grandma's house. We don't get together with them that often, so it was really great to see each other and visit. Of course, great-grandma and grandpa had presents for all the little kids. :)
Quaid (at 2 1/2 months) with my sister-in-law, Stephanie
My grandpa and grandma Hill with our family
Christmas Eve morning we got together with my parents, my grandpa and grandma Johnson, and my two brothers and their families for my family's celebration. We had a really good breakfast and opened presents. Grandpa and grandma spoil all the kids rotten, so we spent a good long time opening gifts. It was such a great time together. I love seeing my family of 5 growing up is now is now 16 1/2. :) Here are some pics of the morning fun:
Christmas Eve evening we went to Dave's brother's for a Pendlebury get together. We do it every year and have several fun traditions. First, a YUMMY prime rib dinner, then, a reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas by Uncle Dennis, then, the grandkids act out the story of the First Christmas while it is read from the Bible, and then...presents!
This year, Paisley was Mary, Quaid was the baby Jesus, Easton was a wise man, and Avery was an angel. It is always fun to watch them in this tradition!
Here are some pics from the rest of the night:
I guess the night got a little crazy and I didn't get many pictures. But, it was a wonderful evening.
Next....CHRISTMAS!!!
Monday, December 5, 2011
Quaid's Blessing
We have had a busy couple months in our family. Paisley turned 8, Quaid was born, Halloween, Paisley got baptized, Thanksgiving, and then Quaid's blessing. (Plus all the everyday craziness in between!) The sad thing about being so busy is that it seems to make the time fly even faster than normal! I really don't like the time to fly when I have this sweet little guy trying to grow up too fast!
Okay, back to the purpose of this post...Dave blessed Quaid on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The Monday before that, the Bishop called and said that since we are going to have so much family at church on Sunday that it would be a GREAT idea if we spoke in sacrament, too! Awesome! What a GREAT idea!! (Okay, so those weren't my exact thoughts! I did tell our Bishop that he wasn't my favorite person!) Ha ha! So, since the week of Thanksgiving was so busy, Dave and I didn't really start writing our talks until Saturday night. And, the extra sad thing about that is that my mom took our 3 oldest kids for the night. But, since we had put off our talks, we had to spend our almost kid-free night writing talks! :)
We decided to have Quaid wear the same blessing outfit as Easton wore. It is a super cute little white tuxedo complete with bowtie, cumberbun, and tails. But, it is not the easiest outfit to hold him in or probably for him to wear. He did look really handsome in it!
We had so many awesome family members attend the blessing. We had my 2 brothers and families, Dave's 3 brothers and families, our parents, my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle and family. I am so grateful for our family who is so supportive. Dave gave a really beautiful blessing. It is hard to believe that it was the last baby blessing he will give to our children. I didn't sit on the stand even though I was speaking. I just enjoyed holding my handsome little baby before and after the blessing. It was a very sweet time for me.
We took a few pictures when we got home from church:
My aunt joked that we should be able to relax for the next while. We got the baptism, blessing, and speaking in sacrament all done in one month! We are good to go!
But, all joking aside, it was a very special month. One that we will never forget.
Okay, back to the purpose of this post...Dave blessed Quaid on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The Monday before that, the Bishop called and said that since we are going to have so much family at church on Sunday that it would be a GREAT idea if we spoke in sacrament, too! Awesome! What a GREAT idea!! (Okay, so those weren't my exact thoughts! I did tell our Bishop that he wasn't my favorite person!) Ha ha! So, since the week of Thanksgiving was so busy, Dave and I didn't really start writing our talks until Saturday night. And, the extra sad thing about that is that my mom took our 3 oldest kids for the night. But, since we had put off our talks, we had to spend our almost kid-free night writing talks! :)
We decided to have Quaid wear the same blessing outfit as Easton wore. It is a super cute little white tuxedo complete with bowtie, cumberbun, and tails. But, it is not the easiest outfit to hold him in or probably for him to wear. He did look really handsome in it!
We had so many awesome family members attend the blessing. We had my 2 brothers and families, Dave's 3 brothers and families, our parents, my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle and family. I am so grateful for our family who is so supportive. Dave gave a really beautiful blessing. It is hard to believe that it was the last baby blessing he will give to our children. I didn't sit on the stand even though I was speaking. I just enjoyed holding my handsome little baby before and after the blessing. It was a very sweet time for me.
We took a few pictures when we got home from church:
My aunt joked that we should be able to relax for the next while. We got the baptism, blessing, and speaking in sacrament all done in one month! We are good to go!
But, all joking aside, it was a very special month. One that we will never forget.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Our Dresser Renovation and STRIPES!!
One of the things that we had to purchase for Quaid before we had him was a dresser. A while back, Dave's parents gave us a really old pure wood dresser that we sanded down and refinished for Avery. It had turned out really well and so we decided to try to find a similar dresser to refinish for Quaid.
We happened to find a pure wood dresser on Craigslist for $25! We immediately called the guy and he told us to come the next night at 7:30. We pulled up to his house at 7:30 on the dot. He took us into his garage to show us the dresser. It was not that appealing. It was a rainbow of colors with crackly paint on the drawers. But, knowing that it was made of good wood, we knew we could make it look nice. As we were looking at the dresser, 2-3 more cars pulled up to look at the same dresser! We quickly made the decision to get it. What a steal for $25!! At a pure wood unfinished furniture store, you couldn't touch anything in the whole store with $25. We were excited about our purchase.
One night we finally got the courage to start sanding all the old paint off. That was quite a project! It took about 5 hours of sanding to get all that old paint off!
We were pretty excited to see it once all that "beautiful" paint was gone! We were again super happy about our bargain shopping!
We primed and painted the dresser white. We then painted the knobs chocolate brown to match his room. I am super happy with the way that it turned out!!
The other big project that we took on before we had Quaid was painting his room. We moved Avery into Paisley's room and made Avery's old room for Quaid. Avery's room had been a fairly bright yellow. I had the great idea to paint stripes after I had seen my brother and his wife do that for their baby room. I talked to my brother several times to get hints on the best way to tackle the stripes. Dave and I decided to do 3 different sizes of stripes with 4 different colors. By far the hardest part was taping off the stripes before we could paint. It was hard to make sure that all the lines were straight, etc. Dave jokes that we about got a divorce over the stripe project. That is of course an exaggeration, but we did have some tense moments! :)
We are so so so happy with the way that his room turned out. Check it out!
We happened to find a pure wood dresser on Craigslist for $25! We immediately called the guy and he told us to come the next night at 7:30. We pulled up to his house at 7:30 on the dot. He took us into his garage to show us the dresser. It was not that appealing. It was a rainbow of colors with crackly paint on the drawers. But, knowing that it was made of good wood, we knew we could make it look nice. As we were looking at the dresser, 2-3 more cars pulled up to look at the same dresser! We quickly made the decision to get it. What a steal for $25!! At a pure wood unfinished furniture store, you couldn't touch anything in the whole store with $25. We were excited about our purchase.
One night we finally got the courage to start sanding all the old paint off. That was quite a project! It took about 5 hours of sanding to get all that old paint off!
We were pretty excited to see it once all that "beautiful" paint was gone! We were again super happy about our bargain shopping!
We primed and painted the dresser white. We then painted the knobs chocolate brown to match his room. I am super happy with the way that it turned out!!
The other big project that we took on before we had Quaid was painting his room. We moved Avery into Paisley's room and made Avery's old room for Quaid. Avery's room had been a fairly bright yellow. I had the great idea to paint stripes after I had seen my brother and his wife do that for their baby room. I talked to my brother several times to get hints on the best way to tackle the stripes. Dave and I decided to do 3 different sizes of stripes with 4 different colors. By far the hardest part was taping off the stripes before we could paint. It was hard to make sure that all the lines were straight, etc. Dave jokes that we about got a divorce over the stripe project. That is of course an exaggeration, but we did have some tense moments! :)
We are so so so happy with the way that his room turned out. Check it out!
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