The time has come....

This is Sophie. Princess Sophie to be exact. Anyway, we love her lots, but the time has come that we feel we need to find her another good home. We have decided that just having one little dog would be a nice little change for awhile. So if any of you know someone who is looking for a very cute, loveable, small little lap puppy, let us know. She is about 6 months old, house trained, very loveable, a mix of pekanese and chihuahua, and loves kids. So let me know.

All Boy... What do you think?

What can I say? Thats my boy's, notice the plural on the word boy. Matt and Eli have so much fun together. They are so cute. The first picture, well I don't really know what I could say to add on that picture. Eli was just being so silly, and so cute at the same time. I had to snap some pictures. The second picture is Matt trying to show Eli how you look down the barel of the gun to line up your shot. Eli is how old... yeah that's right... he is only one. I guess you are never to early to learn safe gun handling and proper shooting technique. Love you boys.

Snow, snow go away, come again another day

So these pictures don't really have anything to do with anything, but Matt took these pictures the other morning and I thought they were so cool looking. The top one, Matt took a picture of the antena of our car. I have never seen frost look so cool before. And the last picture is of our backyard. Nothing really cool about the picture. I just thought it was kind of pretty.

How do you sleep?

I just thought this picture of Eli was so dang cute. We have a matress that we put out in the living room when Matt's sister is coming to spend the night, and the other night before she got here, this is how I found Eli. He must have been warming the bed up for her.

Las Vegas... here we come

I apologize now, there are a ton of pictures on this post and the are really out of order. But this trip was so much fun, I wanted to share all of our fun experiences with you. Matt and I have been to Vegas lots of times, but I gotta tell you, going with a one year old and a three year old.... totally different experience, but a great one all in itself. Matt wanted to go down to the big CES technology confrence that is down in Vegas, but I didn't really have all that much desire to go look at a bunch of new technology things, so we invited our really good friends to go with us so that the men could go to the confrence and the women could just have fun with the kids. And believe me... we did!

Matt and Eli playing a game at the arcade in the Circus Circus hotel

Just a few more shots of Eli playing on some of the games in the arcade

This was a spongebob statue that was at the hotel and Eli was quite fascinated with it

Eli and John playing around on one of the rides

Matt and Eli watching the water show at the Belagio show. These are some of my favorite pictures. Eli was so fascinated and I thought that they looked so cute.

Matt and I showing off our true selves on Freemont Street

The three of us poseing with the Coka Cola bear at the Coke factory

John and Eli poseing in front of the M&M car the the M&M factory. They are the two cutest little boys. How were Matt and I so lucky to end up with such a cutie for a son.

A family picture taken at the M&M factory

John standing next to Red

Eli standing with Ms. Green

Mom and Eli with Ms. Green

Matt, Eli, and the Alien somewhere on the strip

Eli just bein his cute self. There was so much for him to look at walking down the strip, he was way fascinated and loving every minute of it.

Eli looking at the Lions of the lion habitat in the MGM hotel. He thought it was so cool to see the Lions although they were being kind of boring at the time that we where there but he still thought they were pretty cool.

Matt and Eli sitting next to the crocodile at the Rainforest Cafe

New Years Eve 2008

This is Eli on the way to Delta to celebrate New Years Eve

So I have to tell you the story behind this picture. As you can plainly see, Eli is not lovin life and he was quite upset with us, but it wasn't our fault. He didn't make it very late, he was a tired boy boy who went to bed nicely at around 9:30, but right before midnight (when we got the noise makers and all the celebration toys out) of course there was lots of noise. Well all this noise woke him up. So he was awake (sort of) to celebrate the New Year with us.

All of us standing on the porch welcoming the New Year

Heather, Taylor, Matt, Eli, and Joni welcoming the New Year

This is Austin playing in a pile of confetti. As you can tell we had great fun and made a terrible big mess.



Happy New Year everybody. I know, I am only about a month late, but my philosophy has always been that it is better late then never. So here are a few pictures to show how we celebrated our New Year. It was great to see family and friends and as you can see we had a really fun celebration to welcome in the New Year.

Christmas 2008

Eli on his bouncing Zebra

Grandma reading Eli some of his new stories

Eli playing with his new Gabba guitar

Eli standing by all his new Christmas toys

Eli's new Dragon set and some of his new books

This is Eli's amazing block set that his daddy and I made him

So Christmas was insane this year. It was so busy, we were all over the place. We went to Delta for Christmas Eve and then after my families Christmas Eve party, we headed up to Kearns to spend Christmas morning with Matt's family. It was pretty late when we got there, but honestly, who sleeps on Christmas Eve night anyway. Christmas morning was so much fun with Eli this year. He is big enough that he could crawl down the stairs and he was so excited to see all his new toys. He crawled over to them and knocked over his blocks. Then he tried to get on his bouncing Zebra. This was exciting for Matt and I to see. We were glad that he liked the things that Santa had suprised him with. Christmas was all around great for our family. I have a great husband and he got me everything that I wanted and more. And I'm pretty sure that Eli loved everything that he got. And Matt seemed pretty happy with what he got as well. Grandma Gaye gave Eli a Yo Gabba Gabba guitar and he loved it. He still loves it. It goes everywhere with us. He loves to push the buttons and hear the different gabba songs. I think that Matt's family knows this kid all to well because his Uncle Justin got him a Gabba shirt and a Brobee stuffed monster. If you haven't already figured it out, Eli loves Yo Gabba Gabba and pretty much everything that goes along with it. Eli got some new books and a Dragon figurine set, and lots of fun things. So, I just wanted to share some memories of our fun Christmas 2008.