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!

Gunnison- 3 weeks already!

Can't believe this little guy will be a month old this week! He's been such a good baby. I do miss my sleep though, but he makes it worth it :)

1st Bath (a few days after we got home)

Oh ya... her

It's been an adjustment for this sweet little girl to go from "only child" to a big sister. She's had her moments of meltdowns, but she's becoming a great older sibling!

Meeting the families

We have had a whole month of visitors! I'd be here all day if I tried to put all the pictures up, so here are a few for now, and i'll add more later!

Sunday morning before church.Meeting the great-grandparents on Thanksgiving.

Danelle and Gunnison with their Grandpa's!