California Wedding

My baby sister Melanie got married the 17th of December at the Sacramento LDS Temple.  The day before all of us siblings and spouses (minus my hubby watching our 3 kids) were able to see her take our her endowments.  It was an amazing spiritual experience to have us all there together.

We had such a great time visiting with our extended family and friends from Sacramento.  The cousins LOVED being able to play together as well.  The wedding turned out PERFECT and we're excited to have Kyle part of our family now.

{Brock's Blessing}

We decided that while we were all together in California for my sister's wedding it'd be a good time to bless Brock.  And the ONLY advantage for Scott being in the bishopric is that we didn't need a member from a local bishopric there to preside.  It was awesome!  Brock had his Papa Fred, Uncle Grant, Uncle Scot, Daddy, Uncle Charlie and new Uncle Kyle there in the circle for the blessing.  

Brock is such a cutie and finally starting to sleep a little bit better at night! He went to his 2mo. wellness check-up and here are his stats:

weight: 14 lbs, 1oz. (90th percentile)
length: 25 inches (95th percentile)
size clothing: some 0-3, 3-6
size diaper: 2

We LOVE having you in our family Brock!

Happy Birthday Scott!



Scott's actual birthday day was a little uneventful, since we just returned from California the day before and he had to get back to his "dungeon" to study.  His 4th year boards are this week, so he had to study all day but took one break for pizza and cake & ice cream. 



Can't believe year 33 is already here. You were only 25 when we got married, and boy does that time fly when you're having fun!  Scott, you're a great father and husband to us, we love you so much.
Happy Birthday!

{Santa's Lap}



Here are the kids at our ward Christmas party. I am SO proud to say this is the first time my kids are NOT screaming their heads off.  Every year we try to get a nice picture of the kids on santa's lap... and was always a failure in 2010, 2009, and 2008.  Check out the previous years for proof!



(Brock started getting a little fussy though... but I'm still gonna say it's a good picture. )

The Circus is Coming to Town!

Last weekend Scott decided the night before to take the kids to the circus. He always wanted to take them and just found out the Ringling Brothers were in town! They actually had a whole day  planned out of eating "Breakfast with Santa" at Ella's school,  then downtown  to the circus, and finally to the mall for Christmas shopping. It was a day Brock and mommy got to do some quality bonding time.

The kids LOVED it, and Scott was just as enthralled as they were.

They saw the elephants, tigers, lions, bears, camels, monkeys, etc...  but they both came home sad to tell me no doggies were there.

There were some amazing acts they saw as well.  Flying trapeze artists, men in tall bendy stilts, clowns, and more.  Can't wait until we can all go as a big family someday.

Deer Hunting

Most men on Thanksgiving morning like to go play a game of Turkey Bowl, or run the Turkey Run 5k... but not Scott this year. He went hunting and shot a deer.  It was his 4th time going this season without any luck and was so excited to shoot one here in Indiana where the meat you can actually eat.  True story.

Our freezer is now full of salmon and deer meat to last us until we graduate in May. So proud of you honey for bringing home the bacon meat!

and there's all the meat