Snow

While we were in Arizona, it snowed! All of the kids were pretty excited to go out and play in it. At first, Mylin was really concerned about it. She just kept looking around and saying, "Uh oh!" She had no clue what was going on. Eventually, she figured out that it was okay and she had a lot of fun playing in it. For some reason, I took more pictures of everyone playing in the snow than everything else on our entire trip--combined! So be prepared for a ton of snow pictures. These aren't even half of the ones I took!

I couldn't get a smile out of Mylin. It seriously took her forever to even play in the snow! Koy and Mia were loving it though! I love Koy's hat.

On Christmas Eve, we went sledding. We built a fire and roasted hot dogs and made hot chocolate. I think one of my very favorite pictures of this trip is the one with Mylin and my grandpa. My grandpa is so cute with her and was always taking her for walks and holding her. Mylin is crazy about him too! (Side note...we were in church on Sunday and saw a picture of Elder Perry and Mylin started screaming, "PAPA!! PAPA!!" Not that he looks anything like him, but still!)

Here are just some more pictures I liked of sledding. I obviously didn't sled, but I did fall down once. It was pretty icy and I just fell right down, but luckily I just landed on my knees.

One day at Tim's parents house, Tim took Mylin, Gavin, and Jordin on a sled behind the arctic cat. Jordin was not a fan of sledding though! They also got to pet the miniature horses and get the eggs from the chickens! They had a great time!

Our Christmas- 2011

We had a great Christmas this year. We went to Arizona and were able to see all of our siblings and their families, which was great. Being in California, we don't get to see everyone very much, so it was nice to be around family. Although...for future reference, I don't think I will be traveling that far again when I am that far pregnant! It wore me out! Anyways, we had a wonderful time. We went sledding (pics of that to come later), played in the snow, went bowling, went and saw 2 movies (Which is huge. I've been to like two movies since

Mylin's been born!), played lots of games, and ate lots of food. Here are a few pics of our time in AZ. I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked, but I was too tired to whip my camera out a lot!

This was like the only picture I got of Mylin on Christmas morning. I didn't even get one picture of her opening anything. I think she was really overwhelmed by everything. There were 16 people staying at my parents house, so it was a crazy Christmas morning! She opened her presents in her stocking (she loved the sunglasses!) and then pretty much just cried! We were like begging her to open presents and she wouldn't. She finally just wandered off and ended up opening her presents later!

After church--trying to get a family picture.

Banging on Spencer's drums---with a little help from Cinderella! She loved his drums!

Our annual gingerbread (graham cracker) house contest. My sister won. Again. Like 5 years in a row. But that's only because I didn't get to finish mine this year! Mylin walked by and grabbed Koy's house and smashed it...and then ate it! So his house was ruined. So he got to finish my house. Maybe next year someone else will win!

And now some random pics from the trip...

My mom bought some little princess dress-up outfits for the girls to play with and they were in Heaven. They slept in them and Mylin wanted one on at all times!

Having fun with the cousins!

Mylin's face cracks me up. --I told you..she wanted a princess dress on all the time!

Cute kids!

Welcome Home!

The Monday before Christmas, my little brother came home from his mission in Mexico. We were all so excited to see him and it was perfect timing, right before Christmas. All of my family went to the airport to see him off the plane. All except for Tim, who had to work. Also, some of his friends came too. (His friend TJ's girlfriend took the pictures for me so I could see Spencer and not have to worry about taking pictures at the same time!)

So here are just a few of the waiting pictures. It seemed we had to wait forever. Probably because my mom wanted to be like 4 hours early! (slight exaggeration. only two hours early!)

So there was this glass revolving door where Spencer had to walk out. We see him walking down the hallway with like 5 other missionaries (who were making connecting flights) and Spencer stopped right in front of the doors and gives all of the missionaries hugs and stuff. Probably just to torture my mom. Which it did. I think she was about ready to break down the doors!

Waiting while he hugged the missionaries!

Oops. This is out of order. My mom got the first hug. But I got the second one! I earned it though. I emailed him every week of his mission except for two times (both times were when we moved (Ventura and Huntington Beach) and had no Internet) so he said I got the second hug! Here he was meeting Mylin for the first time.

Slightly overwhelmed.

A family picture. Except for Kalli and Gav because Gav ran off right when we were taking this picture, so she was chasing him.

After the airport, we went to lunch. I didn't really take any pictures because Mylin is hard in restaurants and also because I was starving! However, I did get this one picture of Mylin and Gavin at the restaurant. They were having a blast being pushed on the rolling high chair by Nathan.

Anyways, welcome home Spenc!

Christmas Time

I am all caught up! As caught up as I'm going to be before I leave for AZ for Christmas! Mylin and I are heading to AZ tomorrow because my little brother gets home from his mission on Monday! We are so excited. Tim will be heading down sometime next week. Anyways, I have some pictures of Christmas crafts that Mylin and I have been doing, but that will be for another time. These pictures are all out of order, but I don't even care because I'm done! (And now I actually have Christmas pictures to go with my Christmas background. It was driving me crazy to have the Fall ones on.)

This was after Mylin put the star on the tree. She LOVES Christmas. The first thing we have to do every morning is turn on the Christmas tree lights. And anytime she sees anything Christmasy, she will say "HO, HO, HO!!!" Usually really loudly.

Ok--so we went and saw Santa at the mall. Mylin was not a fan. But, it was set up so cute in the mall. It was set up like Santa's village. There were little trains and snow covered mountains and little elves building toys. It was really one of the cutest set-ups I have ever seen. Here was Santa's Workshop. You could buy wood toys or ornaments to decorate and Mylin picked out the star.

They had a carousel just of reindeer! Mylin was scared at first, but then she got the hang of it!

Mylin waiting in line...

See how cute the set-up was?!

Another waiting picture...

She calmed down a little once she got a candy cane!

This is a random one...It was supposed to go with the last post about Thanksgiving, but I was too lazy to go back and edit that one, so I just threw it on here. She was helping me make a pie for Thanksgiving and I just love her face in this one!

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving 2011

For Thanksgiving this year, Tim's parents, his two brothers and their families came and stayed with us. We had a house full, but it was super fun! I think there were 15 of us! It was fun to see all these little ones.

This is like the only group picture I took. This was our Thanksgiving meal. I was pretty pleased with how everything turned out. Mylin missed Thanksgiving dinner though! She was napping and I didn't want to wake her up to eat. But we saved her some food!

We went to the beach a few times, but I never took my camera. I need to get a little point and shoot camera for the beach because I hate taking my nice one there. It is really hard to keep the sand out of it. Anyways...one day we went to Balboa Island. It's just this little island thing with fun shops and restaurants. You take a little ferry to get there, which the kids loved. This is on the ferry.

Mylin rode the Ferris Wheel for the first time. I couldn't tell if she liked it or if she was scared.

For those asking to see my baby-bump...here ya go. Getting huge!

Also---Chelsee took way more pictures than I did, so if you want to see more, go check out her blog!

Thanks for coming everyone!

Shoes and more...

Ok--so for my second post of the day, we have a picture overload! But guys...I only have TWO more things to post about after this! I am almost caught up! This is very exciting news for me!

This is the last random post, I think. It's just a bunch of pictures that don't really fit anywhere.

One day I couldn't find Mylin anywhere. Finally I found her here. It was funny but then when I got her out, she was all covered in soot. Not fun.

Mylin is in LOVE with shoes right now. She is always putting them on and taking them off and she will get really frustrated if she can't get them on. One night, right before bed and after a bath, she came out of my room wearing one of my high-heels and one of my tennis shoes.

She found some of my fuzzy socks and loved wearing them.

Ignore her bedhead! Wearing daddy's shoes.

This is how she sleeps now. The second I put her into her crib, she turns and sticks her feet out of the slat things. Every night after she falls asleep I go in her room and put her legs back into the crib! I have no clue why she sleeps like this because it doesn't look comfortable. At all.

One day she was being super quite and I found her like this. I have no clue why she has on the Easter Bunny ears, but it was pretty funny!

The week after we moved here, Tim had to be out of town for the whole week. I was super lonely in a brand new town. My awesome friend Regan (Yes, I know I am lucky to have her as a friend!) and Rylan came and stayed with me and Mylin for a night. We had so much fun and we were so glad they came to stay with us! I think Mylin was needing friends more than I was! She was sooo excited to have Rylan here and when they left Mylin ran into the house and looked in every room, saying "RYLAN". For like 20 minutes. I almost started crying because she kept checking the house for her. It was sad! Anyways...while they were here, they had a slumber party and watched Tangled and ate popcorn. The popcorn actually wasn't planned. They got into Regan's bag where she had a few treats and took her bag of popcorn! Then they just ate it off the floor! Good thing it was clean!

I reupholstered my kitchen chairs and Mylin was "helping" me.

Ok....only two more posts to go! Then I think I'll take a break from blogging for a while!