CALIFORNIA sunshine!

We spent a week in sunny So. California at my parents house and the weather couldn't have been more perfect, it was just the break I needed! It was sunny and 75 while we were there, and Danelle loved playing outside all day in the backyard. The best was our trip to the beach! Ahhh the sun.Listening to the ocean waves put him right to sleep.
I love that Lane has to go to California for work every so often, so we can tag along in the winter and get a bit of nice weather. It was also a good practice run for when we go out for my brothers wedding in March. The kids traveled great- we start training them young to handle the roadtrips! :)

Baby Blessing

Sunday, January the 16th we had our family and friends come for the baby blessing. It was so nice to be able to have so many people come celebrate our cute baby boy!

Lane smoked a ton of meat the day before (he got a smoker for Christmas) and we had some good ol' Texas BBQ for everyone after church. The kids all had a blast playing together as well. Danelle still talks about "boys and girls coming to her house to play". She thought that was the coolest thing ever!

Ski bunnies (and boarders)

A special shout out to the grandparents for helping with the kids so we could go skiing and snowboarding. I hadn't gone in 2 years and I have really missed it! This is Danelle's first year trying out skiing and so far she loves it. Lucky for her, Lane has enough patience to work with her. Her favorite part is the chairlift- which I was scared of my first time at age 12 :)

We figure if we start her at 3, she'll be ready for the olympics (or youtube) in a few years.

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 :)