Our Top 10 of 2010

Here's our review of the past year -in chronoligical order... this is what makes blogs so good, it's easy to look back!!

*(the highlighted ones are the links back to that post)

10. Road trips to visit family in Missouri in January (for New Years) and in April

9. Finding out we were pregnant!

8. Lane & Elise's trip to Japan

7. Moving from Austin, Texas to Utah (bittersweet)

6. Elise's solo trip for Nathan's graduation & househunting

5. Celebrating our 6 year anniversary in Park City

4. Summer travels to Jackson Hole & Boise

3. Lane & Elise's trip to New York City & Boston

2. Getting Danelle potty trained

1. Birth of our baby boy Gunnison

This was one year ago.... can't believe how little Danelle (and I) used to be! :)

Hope 2011 is just as good!

Happy New Year!

Danelle got to go skiing with her dad up at Brighton. She did the "magic carpet" and bunny hill for about 30 mins and was loving it! After that I took her back to my grandparents and Lane stayed & enjoyed the fresh snow with his friend Bryan, his little boy Mack and his dad. This was the night before doing some test runs in the backyard. She told Lane she wanted to do it all by herself!

My sister and her family came down from Idaho and we got to hang out with them for the New Years. The little kids went to see Tangled with my Aunt and they loved all getting to play together.

These crazy kids loved getting to stay up super late. I wish I was as excited to do the same ;)

A rare "quite" moment:

And of course these two loved being together also! Gunnison and his cousin are 6 weeks apart!

Happy 2010!

Christmas photo-op

All dressed up for church!
This is her trademark "cheese" smile.

Danelle was excited this year to meet Santa. She wasn't totally sure how the "whole thing worked" but was still happy that Santa was going to bring her a Snow White dress.

Christmas

Decorating Christmas cookies with Aunt Megan!

Gunnison was happy to be up nice and early on Christmas morning. We actually didn't start opening until 8am so it wasn't to bad.
Danelle's big gifts from Santa were a Snow White dress (an after halloween purchase) along with a VHS of Snow White from D.I. as well as a baby doll set.

Danelle was kind enough to help us open our gifts as well.

Doesn't he look all grown-up!? Can't believe he's almost 2 months now!

Merry Christmas!

Danelle's 3rd Birthday

Our little "princess" had a birthday party on Saturday!We decided to go with the mouse theme this year

I can't get over how grown up she's looking these days. I'm sure being 3 and wearing 4T clothes explains some of that though.
She got shy when everyone started singing Happy Birthday to her.

I wonder if she thinks Mickey Mouse and Chuckee Cheese are related somehow...

The best part about going to Chuckee Cheese is that she doesn't even care if you put money in or not, she likes to push the buttons either way.

She had a blast with her Aunt Megan and Uncle Nathan- this is them with their 300 tickets worth of prizes:

All things Christmas

We took a trip to see the Christmas lights downtown Salt Lake & at Temple Square! Always a favorite Christmas activity!

Apparently we had worn Danelle out with all the walking.

Heading back to the car she decided to lay on the ground as we waited for the light...

We cut down our own Christmas tree this year up in Idaho, and finally got it decorated.

Cards are done, gifts are shipped, tree is decorated- Merry Christmas!

He's ALIVE!

Baby Gunnison is starting to show a little "personality". He will be 5 weeks Friday, and we've started to see a preview of what his smile is going to look like... (these are all my phone pics)

* I was sad he moved his hand in front of his mouth right when I took this one.

We still get a lot of "sleeping smiles" :

His hair is getting a little lighter, and sticks straight up when it's just been washed.

He might have his dad's infamous foxtail barley hair :)

Several much needed updates...

Scroll down on the blog to see some (simiplified) posts of what we've been up to the past few weeks of November. Other than feeding, changing, burping, rocking, snuggling, etc....

Snow Day

We got some snow and this little girl just couldn't wait to play in it. She stayed out there forever! Thank goodness becuase any parent knows it's a pain to get all that snow gear on!

We lucked out and have our own mini sledding hill in our backyard!

She was very helpful in building her FIRST SNOWMAN! Really she just kept knocking it over as soon as Lane would put the next part on... :)

Thanksgiving 2010

We kept things pretty simple this year- thanks to our newborn! Spent Thanksgiving at my grandparents in Salt Lake- thanks for all the wonderful food grandma! She's so sweet to always cook for such a large group! Danelle enjoying her rolls...

This is pretty much what Gunnison did the whole time...

And our family photo- chilln' on the couch watching some football!