Aaron & Amy's Wedding

My brother Aaron married the sweetest girl Amy, March 26th and we were able to go out to California for the wedding. It was such a crazy busy trip (Lane was in Korea for a week and flew back the day before the wedding). It was fun to have everyone together!

The nieces and nephews:

The food and reception was amazing! Such a fun wedding! The beautiful bride and groom.

Danelle was in heaven! The flower girls were so cute together.

Gunnison- 4 months old!

Two of my favorite things these days:

1. Smiles so big you can't help but drool: 2. Sleep, sleep and more sleep! Nothing more beautiful than a sleeping baby! Still not sleeping thru the night yet, but he gives me a 5 hour stretch every now and then... maybe tonight will be the night ;) if only.

Amy's Bridal Shower

My Brother is getting married!!!! Can't help but be excited about a growing family. For those of my family members that weren't able to attend Amy's shower a few weeks ago, here are some pics.

This little guy loved being around all the "ladies" The desserts (her wedding colors include pink if you haven't guessed yet)

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: