Happy 2nd Birthday Ashton!

Time keeps slipping away....Ashton is 2 today!

Birth Day

1st Birthday

2nd Birthday

We Love You!

Ashton's new cheese face looks like he's going to beat you up. He just started this on Sunday.
This morning he weighed 33 lbs. (although that was with coat, shoes, everthing) and I'm not sure on the height because I was trying to hold him still as he stood on my lap. The last month or so Ashton has become really clingy and he did NOT want to be at the doctors. He started putting on his coat to leave the second we went into a room. And his 2 year pictures last week were a joke. He sat on Matt's leg screaming and occasionally I would make him laugh.

The nice part is that he likes to cuddle more so I take advantage of that!

Sherwood Hills

Every New Year's we go to Sherwood Hills Resort just outside of Logan. This year they had one of our rooms mixed up and they gave us the Presidential Suite to make up for it. With so many of us it was nice to have a big room to play games in. I love this trip each year because it's a relaxing trip (which usually vacations aren't) and after Christmas that's always what I need. We saw movies, enjoyed the pool and hot tub, played games, went bowling a couple of times and even a little sledding.

Kaleb had fun with the poppers and horns on New Year's Eve.

I think I could title most of my posts catch-up posts since I don't blog as often and here's another one of those posts.

We have a new niece on the Snell side of the family and her name is Brea Kate. (I love the name) I was excited to make some girl bibs when we found out what they were having. I also made a simple blanket and appliqued onsies. They're really easy to make. (Pattern, Tutorial 1, Tutorial 2)

Kaleb had his singing program at school last Tuesday and it was cute to watch. Kaleb was so far away and they're all the same height so I didn't get a picture of him singing but this is him on his way in to sit down.

Christmas Eve was at our house and there was alot of food and family and fun. So much food we forgot to eat the Pomegranate Cheesecake for dessert. Don't worry, it made it's appearance on Christmas instead. I'll post the recipe along with other dishes we had on my food blog soon.

After all of the fun we had we cleaned up and Kaleb put out milk, cookies, and a carrot for the reindeer.

Christmas morning was a little different since my brother was calling from Germany at 9:00AM. So we knew we had to be leave for my parents by 8:30. I had made a breakfast casserole the night before so I set my alarm for 6:45 to put it in the oven. The kids were sound asleep so I went back to bed. Next thing I know it's 8:20 so it was a mad dash to wake up the kids and get over to my parents. Kaleb was so excited we heard paper and in about 30 seconds he had unwrapped 3 presents after we told him he had to wait. His response, "I can't help it, I'm just sooo excited!" We let Ashton open one present and then headed to my parents. It was great to be able to talk to my brother (over Skype even) and see how he was doing. We didn't end up getting back home to open our presents until 12:00PM. You can sum up Kaleb's Christmas with Transformers, Star Wars and Bionicle's. The three things he's obsessed with. Ashton's would be more generic like cars, trucks, and balls.

Here's some video of Ashton with his new ball. I guess it was so big he didn't know what to do with it so he starting rolling over it.

Christmas ended with a yummy dinner and our annual white elephant gift exchange. Let's just say I was glad to get my N'Sync doll after seeing the pink embroidered soft toilet seat. Although it would fit right in with our blue 60's bathroom.

And the most exciting part is that we finally have doors on our kitchen cabinets. It only took 8 months to get around to painting them. It's nice not looking at all of the stuff in my cupboards anymore. Now onto the basement!

Do you think Matt got carried away with the lights this year?

The Ghost of Christmas Past...

It's always fun (and sometimes embarrassing) to look back. Here's a look at the pictures we've used for past Christmas cards.

Christmas 2003

Christmas 2004

Christmas 2005

Christmas 2006

Christmas 2007

Christmas 2008

Which brings me to 2009. Saturday we decided to take pictures. We meaning us and our tripod (worked for 2007) and so we practiced and took 2 pictures in our living room. We noticed the camera battery was low so we started charging it but after about 10 minutes it was starting to snow. So we figured we could get enough pictures and headed off to Wheeler Farm across the street. It was freezing cold and windy and the camera lasted for only 4 shots. With 2 kids and nobody standing behind the camera to get Ashton to smile this was the best we had with only 4 photo's to choose from. (I know, poor planning with the battery.)

So looking at the 2 "practice" pictures we took in our living room before going to wheeler farm we decided to go with this picture. Every year I think I'll just pay someone to take our picture but they want $200+ for the copyright and I don't have that kind of money.

Christmas 2009


Backtracking....Thanksgiving I didn't take any pictures except for this picture of Kaleb and I in his bed after reading a story.


Did you know Santa even visit's Wal-Mart. The Saturday after Thanksgiving they had free pictures with Santa. Although I didn't want to wait the hour for the photo to print so I took my own. Kaleb was so excited, Ashton on the other hand...not so much. We're getting excited for Christmas! Hopefully I can finish the shopping I have left this week.