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Just thought I'd post a few recent pictures of the kids. I have been really busy with school and with teaching piano lessons and being a mom that I haven't had a lot of time to blog. So here are a few of my favorite pictures from the last couple of weeks.

Fun in the tub

Sledding-Daddy got some great pics of the kids up the canyon.

Terrible 2s...

Ok, so today is the official first day of London using sentences--that is, if you define sentences as 2 words put together. She has been using 2 words together all day. My favorite one was when she was carrying around a little backpack on her back and she found a little toy cow. She took the backpack off, put the cow inside, turned around and looked at me and said, "Moo moo ba-paCK." With the emphasis on the "ck" at the end. It was so cute.

Also, I thought the terrible 2's weren't supposed to start till age 2. Well, I am realizing this week that they are starting now. Here are just a few of the things she has done over the last 2 days.

1. Standing on a chair against the fridge pushing the water dispenser button as water streamed out onto the floor. (I'm not sure how long she did this, but from the amount of water on the floor, it was a long time--I was in the shower when it happened).

2. During my piano-lesson teaching today, she pulled every cushion off both our couches and put them in the middle of the room. The cushions are huge...she is small...??????

3. During another one of my lessons, the aroma of baby powder started wafting towards me so I got up to check it out....she was in her room on her changing table with powder ALL over-like an entire bottle while she gleefully squirted lotion from the pump bottle. There was lotion and powder EVERYWHERE!

4. Today I thought she was downstairs playing with Jackson and then I heard a little noise in the bathroom-so I peeked in and what you see in the picture below is what I saw--a naked rugrat brushing her teeth. Here is what she does: She takes off all her clothes and diaper, sits on the toilet and attempts to go to the bathroom. She then puts tons of toilet paper in the toilet, flushes, then gets up and brushes her teeth. Now, this doesn't seem very naughty. but after doing this about 15 times a day, it starts to get exhausting...for me. I am sure it is great fun for her.

I am sure this is just the beginning...

Here we have the pretty princess who is quickly turning into a tasmanian devil. (This was taken in August)

Cinderella London and Cinderella Emery (a friend)
I was trying to get London to smile so I told her to show me her teeth. It worked pretty well. I highly recommend it.

And here we have her brushing her teeth for about the 10th time today after successfully undressing herself for the 10th time today.

Sledding

We went sledding with Jim and Lindsey and Jenny and Jordan on Saturday and here are some pictures from it. It was fun. Also, our children are not attached to binkies at all...

Houseguest

My parents went on a 2-week vacation and we get to babysit their little boston terrior, Lucy. It is great for the kids and for me. We get to have a pet without actually paying for her or shots or food and stuff. And when I get tired of her after a couple weeks she gets to leave. Actually, she's not bad at all. She is housetrained very well, is very mellow, loves to snuggle, and has a pretty good tolerance to my kids when they are bugging her. Here she is in here little kennel. She absolutely hates it. I only put her in to take the pictures. I think it is too small for her though.

Ahhhhh, relaxation at last...

I love these Adidas outfits my mom got for the kids. They are so cute on them.

Happy New Year! 2009

We had lots of fun on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Jackson and Wes went shooting and sledding on New Year's Eve Day.
Wes shooting his new .22 he got for Christmas

Jackson trying it out

Sledding

New Year's Eve party at Jim and Lindsey's with Steve and Dana, Andy and Bri, Jim and Linds, and us. Jackson and Max having fun.

Having some yummy food at the party

New Year's Day in Park City with Jim Linds, Dana, Steve, Brianna, Andy, Kathleen, and Jeffrey. We ate at a fun restaurant and went to the outlet mall.

Brianna, me, and Kathleen in our matching Costco coats.

Our little family

Saying goodbye to Steve and Dana. We were sad to see them go.

We picked Uncle Sam up from the airport (he was in New Hampshire visiting a friend) on New Year's night and he is staying with us this weekend. It is really fun to have him stay with us. He is such a good help with the kids, and also knows a lot about electronics so I have him fix everything I can think of like my computer or help out with problems I'm having with our tv or tivo or ipod or whatnot. It's actually quite nice. Thanks Sam, we love you.

Merry Christmas!

We had such a great Christmas this year. We were able to see lots of family, and had lots of snow, so it was great. Here is what we did...

Christmas Eve-Christmas Jammies

Had dinner on Christmas Eve at home with Grandma and Grandpa Wood, and Aunt Lulu and Uncle Bryan, ...oh ya and Lucy, the boston terrior
Had fun with Grandma and Grandpa
London and Grandpa

Christmas morning in their new jogging suits

Santa brought the kids a new kitchen

And a Wii..... Jackson got a skateboard too.

These 2 pics above are out of place, but Jackson loved playing with his cousin Benjamin in Idaho. They were joined at the hip.

Uncle Bryan having fun with the kids

Lulu and Londie with her new doll and stroller

Christmas morning at our house. Dada, Bryan, Lulu, Grandma, Grandpa

The aftermath

After Christmas at home, we drove to Idaho to hang out with the Nye Clan-Paul Claudia, Ben and his family, Andy and Bri, and Steve and Dana. This is Jackson playing on Uncle Sam's drums

We went to the dunes and shot some guns

Jackson and Benjamin shooting BB guns, and Rachel monitoring

There was so much snow in Idaho; Wes spent an hour snowblowing my paren'ts driveway; then a tractor came and finished up for us. They buried my parent's mailbox. You can see the white tip sticking up next to the wooden pole I stuck in. I hope my parents don't need their mail for a while...

Saying goodbye to the family...Andy and Brianna, us, and Ben and Luisa's family

Grandpa Nye and us; Grandma Nye was fulfilling her calling at church when we left, so we didn't get a picture with her, but she will be blessed for not flaking out on church. We had lots of fun in Idaho. It was sad to go. But we are looking forward to more fun over New Years!