Christmas pics- Finally!

Ok- so it's only taken me a month, but I'm finally posting some more of my Christmas pics. Enjoy!

Gwen had a blast opening her stocking.

She loved all of her gifts and loved this ballerina from Aunt Jessica. :)

Downtime after a busy morning of opening presents with her cousins- nice Cheetos smile. :)



Pics over at Nana and Papas with the cousins


Andi and Molly showing some sisterly love.

Gwen loved her play kitchen that her daddy worked hard putting together. Thank you, Nana. :)

December

This December has been a very busy one for us! I still have more pictures of Christmas to post after this one, but I thought I'd share photos of our visits from Beau's family. Elliot, Andrea and the boys, Andi and Molly all came to visit us during Christmas. It was a great time and Gwen loved having her cousins to play with.

Gwen, Brock and Scott chillin' on the the couch.

Andrea, Elliot, Brock and Scott

A trip to the Riverwalk

We had fun at Lights of the South

Picture with Aunt Molly


We attempted to get pictures of Gwen sitting with Santa, and this is what we got... Luckily, this Santa was very adept at adjusting to nervous kids like Gwen. He told Beau to sit in the chair and we all just waited to see what would happen next. He walked away and at the last minute ran up behind the chair for this photo. :)

The whole crew at Lights of the South- we're so glad you all came!

Gwen's Birthday

We celebrated Princess Gwendolyn's 2nd birthday on December 13th. We had a small family party and encouraged Gwen's girly side to come out even more (not that she needs any coaxing to be girly). :) We had Cinderella decorations and Gwen enjoyed playing with her cousins. She loved opening all of her gifts and the big hit was her princess dress trunk from Nana. Thank you to all who were there and to those who thought of her!

Gwen tried her best to play with everything at once- notice the back pack as well! :)

Birthday Girls

Here are the birthday girls- Myla, Reagan, and Gwen. :) Gwen attended a "Baby Doll Party" at the Arnolds house a few weeks ago and had a great time. She brought her own baby doll and played with many of the little girls from our ward. They had cute baby doll cookies and took home handmade baby dolls thanks to Jenny and Leigh's hardwork. Thanks for the fun time!

It wasn't nearly as loud as you would think! :)

Do we have a futre doctor? I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

Some pics

I found tons of pictures on our camera from about the last two months, so here's quick update. :)

We were able to stop in and see our good friends Megan and Mitch in Columbia, SC as we headed to Beau's Reserve Unit for Family day. We loved staying with you guys and hope we can visit with you for a longer period of time soon!

Gwen absolutely loved the Moon Bounce that the Reserve Unit had at the park. We went to the park on post for activities and food. Gwen loved the playground and all the room to run, but this was definitely her favorite spot!

She saw a nearby pond and it was all I could do to keep her from walking right into it!


Daycare project for Thanksgiving

Fun with the cousins. :) The best part is that this was completely spontaneous (the hats anyway). I keep a stash of hats in Gwen's playroom for her to dress up with. The kids had been quietly playing after Sunday dinner and then one by one came out with their hats on! We just had to take a picture!

Daddy's Girl

Flutter kicks!

Maestro

A few pictures of our future musician... :)

Gwen loves to sing with us at church- even though she doesn't know the words- we love it. :)

The Movie

Okay, soon I will be posting more family pics, but for now I thought I would deviate slightly from my normal updates. Who saw the movie last weekend? I'm sure a lot of you did. :) I went with some girls from work and we had a great time. We all really loved the movie and we're all avid Twilight fans. Yes, we had to put up with some twitterpated teenage girls, but we weren't much better once the character, Edward, walked on the screen. :) There was a bigger mix of people in the theater than I was expecting. It seemed like quite a few boyfriends/husbands decided to make the sacrifice and and came with their loved ones. Of course the movie had to leave out some parts of the book- it's inevitable. They also added some ethnicity to the characters (I didn't think so and so was Asian, but whatever). They also took some liberties with some action scenes ( I'm pretty sure no one was climbing trees in the book). Otherwise I thought the characters were right on. Okay- maybe Jasper was a little too bug-eyed the whole time, but that's pretty much how he's described, so oh well. The leads were perfect and I'm glad we went to see it. I'm still trying to convince Beau to read the series (don't think it's going to happen), but I might be able to drag him to the movie since he's put up with me acting like a teeny bopper everytime the previews came on tv. What did you guys think of the movie? I'm looking forward to the next one. :)

Halloween

Better late than never, right? Here are some pics from Halloween. Enjoy our little "Dorothy!"

There's no place like home... And yes, that's Toto under her arm. :)

Ringing Nana and Papa's doorbell...

Enjoying the spoils...


Singing "Happy Birthday" to the pumpkins and trying to blow out the candles.

Our little pumpkin family

As an update, Beau and I are doing well. We're very busy with school and work and Gwen. :) We'll get a small break in early December from school so that will be a nice little breather. This will come just in time for Gwen's birthday, Christmas and visits from Beau's family. :) If we haven't spoken to you in awhile, know that we think of all of you and look forward to free time when we can visit and call again. Hope you're all doing well. :)