Some of my favorite things!

These are the days that I live for and love here in Utah!! absolutely beautiful! Blue sky and sunny, but still crisp and cold (not to cold if you are walking in the sun!)

Daxton just waiting for dinner, which mom clearly isn't making fast enough

Daces new expression for anything he finds exciting! Oh, oh,oh

Dacen does the Harper eyebrow all the time, I was lucky to catch it on camera!

dax wanted some muscle pictures without his shirt on.

I decided it was time to take some pics of the boys. It hard to do when its so cold outside so inside it is. They actually had fun doing it and Dace is 10mos old and Dax is 3years old. I was really good at taking pics of Dax, I need to hop on the bandwagon with Dace, I just haven't been as good about it. Hope you like!!

I would like to introduce you to my new favorite cookbook! Until recently Dax has been wonderful about eating some veggies and liking them, but he has all of a sudden decided that he "does not yike them, Mom!" Jessica Seinfeld has come up with a creative way to blend in the veggies and fruit into to normal food that a 3 year old or any kid would eat. Just the other day Dax wanted a PB&J sandwich and I decided to put Jessicas work to the test, on one side I spread the peanut butter and on top of that I spread pureed yams and then jam on the other peice of toast closed it up and anxiously awaited the results of my test! To my surprise he gobbled it down and asked for a second one. Little did he know that his PB&J came with a side of Yams. She has a lot of creative ways to blend butternut squash into quesadillas, pink pancakes(with beets), carrot cake muffin with carrots and cauliflower, and Dax really likes the Chocolate peanut butter dip for apples with carrots in it. It sounds like it wouldn't taste that good but you really can't tell. She goes through the how to prep and get things ready and really some clever ideas about how to add to your own personal recipes. Love it, Love it!!!

A New Year Already!

They say the older you get the quicker time goes by, well I feel like I must be 80! where does the time go. It feels like yesterday that I didn't have any kids and we were poor college students, but that was like 5 years ago - what!? And I have not one, but two kids which somedays still seems wierd, but I wouldn't change it for anything. This has all come about because today I recieved from Dax after church his certificate of graduation from primary along with this picture. what? so big...

Let Christmas begin!

Snow filled fun right before christmas, building forts in the backyard with Grandpa Sample. Licking the snow off the your gloves is the best part of building a fort in the snow. Ummm tastes like water mom!

Daxton has discovered that bribing Santa and his deers with yummy treats may get you some extra presents, Santa drinks mountain Dew????? Where was mom on that one?

Christmas morning was so much fun, Daxton was the kindest boy of his age that I have ever known. He was so concerned about everyone getting to open some presents and helped Dace open his presents and made sure to stuff them as close as possible to Dace so that Dace would be able to inspect them especially well! There was never a mine, no thats mine. Just some glowing "oh I sink he really yikes this one mommy" As dax would help dace discover the buttons. I just know that Dax was who he is before he got here to our family and that he is a very special boy who will do a lot of good in this world, because how do you teach a 3 year old those things! Any normal 3 year old you can't, and thats why I know its who he was before he got here.

GG Harper was here in town for Christmas and we really enjoyed having her around. She is such a sweet Lady and Dax and Dace adore her. Yes if you look close at the picture of Dace with the wrapping paper, he has successfully bitten off a piece of paper and is eating it. Yummy!

Daxton is joyfully helping uncle Craig unwrap one of his presents. Dace is watching.

Mommy feeding Dace some breakfast before the festivities began (this picture is out of order, sorry) one thing mommy did learn this year is, if you sleep with your makeup on the pictures of the next morning won't be nearly as terrible and everyone wont have to wait for the fun to begin until mom looks ok for pictures.

Each year on Christmas eve we have gone over to Grandma and Grandpa Harpers home and the grandkids act out the nativity. Daxton was one of the wisemen who followed the star(hes holding the star they followed.) It always turns out so cute and in the picture of the kids it is Holland(hollys) Daxton, Ethan(Heaths), Packer(Hollys).

Dear Santa:

As a family tradition Hutch and I decided we wanted to have the kids start writing letters to santa. So that is something we did the other night as a family. (you can see dax with his letter) His letter was as followed:

Dear Santa,

I like a motorcycle bike for Christmas. I like a fast fast race car too. Please Santa Clause can I get a motorcycle bike? I have been a good boy.

We told Daxton that Dace needed some help with his letter and what should Dace get for Christmas, Daxton replied: He has been naughty boy, Santa bring you no presents. We said, No presents for Dace? Dax said Yes, no presents, he has been naughty and I be a good boy, he will bring me presents. Very very funny!

Happy Birthday Daxton! #3

We started off the morning by waking up to a room full of balloons, he loved it. So did Dace, surprisingly none of them have managed to pop yet?!

It was a lightening Mcqueen party of course and so the cake had to be mcqueen peeling out! Dax wanted to know if he could eat the car too. I said you can try!

Uncle craig was our very own balloon specialist! The kids were amazed that he could make all types of things like cool hats and sharp swords. Dace was especially pleased with his hat uncle criag took more time on it than anyone elses.

Uncle craig made these cool sharp sword and hats only to be taken hostage and beaten in radsome for the cake. As you can see from left to right we have Lucy Bromley, Cannon Brown, Noah Burnham, and Birthday boy Dax.

Dax and his favorite friends (Lucy wasn't here yet) and his attempt at blowing out the candles, he did manage to blow one of them out without spiting on the cake. All in all it went very well and the kids had a good time. They get big so quick, where does the time go. I remember as a kid thinking the adults were crazy, saying christmas was coming to quick or I was getting bigger so fast. It was taking forever if you asked me! Ahhhhhh...... Now I understand. Funny though I am certainly sleeping less, must just have more to do than just play huh.