Reception

Karen's reception was beautiful.  It was fun to watch my little sister look so happy.  We all had a great time.  I was glad that Jesse was able to come to the last hour of it.

 he loved the player piano!

 Finally Jesse made it!

my silly boys

Jade, Rachael and Kaylee.  They liked to Dance!

Karen is married!

    Well the big day came and went!  My little sis is married!  Still so crazy that I can say that!  The wedding day was perfect.  Karen and Kevin are very cute together.  The day started with them getting married at ten in the salt lake temple.  It was beautiful!
       We were having fun taking some pictures of Dawson while we waited for Karen to come out!

 We love to see the temple

 RaNea and her kids!

They finally came out!

 She looked stunning!

 Karen and Kaylee

 My mom and the cute couple!

 Karen and all the kids!  It was kind of crazy!

 Sisters!

Mel, Barb and Jade hanging out!

He got so tired at the lunch in.....ZZZZZZ  alseeep on Monte!
I'll post the reception later!  :)

18 months old

    Dawson is 18 months old today!  
18 months old and......
He loves books, he would read them all day if you'd let him
He started saying "Pi Pi" for Piper and "bro bro" for Brody.  (His first names!)
He loves Dad and says "Dad?"  a million times a day
He loves my phone!  Steals it and starts talking
He is talking a lot more now.  I love how he says, "Beep beep" for cars and "choo choo" for train
He runs, fast
He sleeps from 8-6ish
He still loves his bottle
He loves to try on my jewlery and comb his hair
He loves the bath and brushing his teeth
He can always eat yogurt and applesauce
He loves waving and saying, "bye bye"
He hates blankets and stuffed animals
He loves cars
He loves being outside.  Lots of times he'll stand by the window and say, "side"
He doesn't get scared easily
He hates being alone
He laughs alot, at nothing
He is such a happy little kid!  I love my baby boy!

He is so funny he takes my camera and holds it in front of him and says "Cheese!"  

We threw Karen a bridal shower and it was so much fun!  I hosted it at my house and it was a really good turn out.  I'm getting so excited for my little sis to get hitched!

 Pin the mustache on Kevin! or karen, hahah!

 Dawson loves balloons, he thinks they are hillarious!

My pretty sis and Mommy  :)

Not much

   Well we haven't been up to too much lately.  A lot of hanging out at home and just working.  This last weekend Jesse and I were able to get away for the weekend and it was so nice.  Jesse's parents watched Dawson which was so nice of them!  Dawson had so much fun!  When we came back to get him he didn't want to go home.  He had a blast.
     Jesse and I went up to Snowbird and hung out.  On Saturday we went hiking and brought a sled and sled down the big mountain.  It was really fun and it was so nice to be outside!  It was beautiful!  We also went swimming outside, hot tubing, watched tv and just hung out!  It was a nice little break from everyday life.

 Nap time...ZZZZZzzzzz

 One night Jesse and I made popcorn and watched tv and Dawson loved the popcorn.  He had to have his own.  Yummy.

 He loves to brush his teeth!  Daddy says, "time to brush your teeth!"  Dawson goes running up into the bathroom.

 

 Love this little busy boy!  He keeps me going!

"Look up, it helps"

    It's a new year!  Crazy how fast 2013 went by for me.  I feel like now that I have a child time goes by 10 times faster.  I think because in a small little way you wish that your precious little baby would stay little forever.  Forever little, forever in your arms and forever right by your side.  2013 was a good year.  I have really enjoyed watching Dawson grow and learn.  He is a happy boy that has changed my life forever in a good way.  I love him so much.  I have also loved watching Jesse be a Dad.  It's amazing how much he loves his boy.  The other day I went dress shopping with Karen and Jesse had to watch Dawson all day.  I asked what they did all day.  Jesse said he painted some of the upstairs and I asked him what he did with Dawson and he said that he would hide crackers in Dawson's room and Dawson would go and find them.  He loved it!  He said he would have 10 crackers in his mouth at once!  That just shows that Jesse is a very creative Dad.  He is always making me laugh.  I also came home that night to a fort built in the family room.  These boys had fun while I was gone!  The fort had tunnels and a huge blanket.  Jesse is such a good Dad.
    While my sisters, Mom and I were dress shopping Mel said something that I loved.  It is our new quotie!  We have an inside joke thing and anyways.....I started to cry and she said, "look up, it helps."  Isn't that sooo true!?  When we have hard times we need to remember to look up.  Our Savior can help us with anything and everything.  He is always "UP" there.  Although 2013 was wonderful, we are always going to have hard times as well.  We are here to learn and grow and go through trials.  I hope that this year I remember to always "look up", during the hard and good times.
    On New Years Jesse, Dawson and I went sledding by our house.  It was so much fun.  It is my new favorite family activity.  Dawson absolutely loves it!  We went down the hill probably 20 times!  I feel so blessed.  I hope 2014 will be even better!  :)

Dawson with a sucker.  He was being funny

After this it was bath time....sticky mess!  :)


 
  

Christmas

   "Maybe Christmas means a little more......"  Christmas was wonderful this year.  I had so much fun watching Dawson enjoy family, toys and getting a lot of attention!

      I've thought a lot about what Christmas is really about this year.  To me it is celebrating our Savior and really truley showing Him that we love him by serving others.  I'm so grateful for my little family this Christmas season.

   We went up to Jesse's parents house for Christmas Eve!  We spent the night and had so much fun!!!

 We had a nice little program.  We read of Christ's birth and sang songs.  Lori and Jacob played a really pretty song on the piano.

 Santa!

  "We are excited for Santa to come!"

 After we put in the "Elf" and snuggled up and watched it.  (I was asleep in 10 min!)
I woke up at 7:30ish....and I was so excited I wanted Dawson to wake up!  He woke up shortly after and had a quick bottle and we all went downstairs to see if Santa came!

And he did!....

  

He needed some cuddles before opening his gifts

He loved the stocking the most.

 Everyone!

After opening gifts for a while we took Dawson outside and let him play in the snow.

 I thought this pic was so funny....Dawson is playing with Ethen's toy and Ethen is playing with Dawson's!  haha!

We played a quick game and than we were off to my Mom's house!
He fell asleep instantly!

Than at my Mom's house we ate yummy food, played lots of games, talked and opened presents!

 My mommy and Sophie!  Sophie always gets spoiled

 These two are so cute and fun to watch together

 Daddy got a shovel that Dawson didn't want to leave alone!

 The two love birds!

So one of my favorite memories of this Christmas was when Jesse and I played hide and seek with a bunch of the kids.  We played for almost an hour!  It was really fun getting into it and watching the kids love it!  Jesse and I had some good hiding places!  (I got smooshed into a very small cabnet!)  hahah!  Jesse also helped me crawl into a box and he put stuff on top of the box so it looked like I wasn't in there.....it took the kids a while to find me!
   I'm so grateful for Christ and hope that I can better serve Him this upcoming year.