Family Photos/Mormon Battalion

This weekend was the Mormon Battalion in Old Town.  As usual, Peter and his dad participated in the dutch oven bake off.  They won third place for pumpkin bread and best in show for their black forest cake.  We went and cheered daddy and grandpa on when they took the cake to the judges.  Everyone had great things to say about how beautiful the cake was and of course how delicious it was.  We went back to the cooking area and chowed down on cake..it really was the best in show cake.

Connor, Chloe and I watched the bake off for awhile and then went to the main area and listened to story tellers and some song/dance/music groups.  After awards were announced for the bake off, we went and made bricks, pioneer dolls and played with pioneer toys.

Chloe even sat down and "made" a pioneer doll.  The lady at the front handing out the aprons for the dolls said that many of the boys turned the apron around and turned their doll into a super hero with a cape.  So Connor made a super hero and Chloe made a doll.

Cute picture of Chloe from last week

This morning Connor came to show me his church clothes.  I said, "wow look how handsome you are."  Well, today after church Connor ran up to everyone in the hall and said, "look how handsome I are."

Our sister-in-law Amy took these awesome family pictures for us in December

Daisy Does Dishes

The pictures speak for themselves...Daisy does Dishes!

Silly pooch!

4 months old

On December 26th Chloe turned 4 months old and we introduced rice cereal.  She thought it was amazing and every time we feed her she gobbles it all up. 

Still happy even though the cereal is gone.

Connor shows how he puts on his shoes.

On the 31st Chloe had her four month appointment.  She was super happy going in and super ticked off coming out.  She was smiling when the nurse came in with the shots and then it was downhill from there.  She screamed while receiving the liquid vaccination and then hollered during two shots.  She calmed down as I picked her up afterward, but then screamed as I tried getting her dressed and into the car seat...and continued all the way to the car.  Then she was happy when we got home.

We arrived home to find the boys planting flowers in the front yard.  There used to be a huge bird of paradise here, but Peter pulled it out and we put our dwarf blood orange tree here instead.  It looks so much better, and I enjoy getting out of my car and not worrying about ducking under plants.

Seems pretty happy for just getting some vaccinations.

Connor has taken to doing cheesy smiles.

Still smiling

She weighed in at 12 pounds 12 1/2 ounces.

New Years Parties/Stomach flu

For New Year's Day we went to Greg and Ellen's house to have an east coast party.  Leina and Derek and their three kids, Dan and Gretchen and their three kids, Greg and Ellen and their two kids and us and our two kids had a great time.  We ate pizza and snacks.  The kids made cute party hats and noise makers.  At 9pm (midnight east coast time) we celebrated the new year.  Connor and Chloe were not fond of the noise makers or popping balloons, but the rest of the kids had a great time.  We enjoyed some sparkling cider and then went home to put Connor to bed.  Chloe and I then headed to the Leavitt's for some more fun.  We played Minute to Win It...out of 9 people, I scored last place.   We also played another game-can't remember the name of it...I didn't know how to play it and therefore also sucked at that game.  We came home at 2am totally exhausted!

We took it easy the next day and took down our Christmas decorations.  Thursday Peter had to be at work, so Connor and I did some major house cleaning.  Friday Peter had the day off and we planned on doing fun stuff.  Unfortunately around noon Connor started throwing up.  He didn't stop until about 6pm.  Peter took care of Connor while Chloe and I left the house.  We didn't want Chloe to get sick.  Saturday morning rolls around and Connor is going nonstop from the other end.  He went through 5 pairs of pants.  Oh I forgot to make a post dedicated to him being OFFICIALLY POTTY TRAINED!!!!!  Well, no amount of training was helpful Saturday as he couldn't make it to the bathroom fast enough.  By the afternoon he was fine.

Sunday he was also fine.  We went to a party at Chris and Mary's in the afternoon.  Peter and Connor went on the trampoline a little bit and then Peter came in saying he didn't feel well.  Connor started coughing and then threw up.  We left the party with a puke bag just in case.  While driving home Connor coughed some more and threw up on himself/car seat.  Then Peter announced he was going to lose his cookies.  I don't know how I held myself together.  I rolled the windows down and drove with my head out the window the rest of the way home.  Peter and Connor went to bed downstairs at 5pm.  Throughout the night Peter got up and puked.  I went to bed around 10,  I heard Peter barfing at midnight, Chloe woke up at 1:30 and again at 4:30.  My alarm went off at 6:30 and it was time for me to get ready for work.  Oh I was so tired on Monday.

Peter took Connor to the doctor Monday and she said he was fine and not contagious anymore. His throwing up was induced by coughing/gagging on phlegm.  So today-Tuesday was his first day of school!  He was really excited and cute.  His teacher gave him a good first day report as well.