Happy New Year!!!

I just wanted to wish everyone a very happy new year. We love you all!!!

Love 

Tim, Nikki and Isabella :) 

Christmas Morning 2008

We were very blessed this year to have Kevin and Susie with us this Christmas, we all had a lot of fun. The week flew by way to fast. Christmas morning was wonderful, we woke up ate the usual Christmas wreath then went downstairs to open all our presents. Izzie went first, she opened her little people and wanted to play with them right away, it took us awhile to even get her to look at another present.

We all had a very relaxed morning, it was fun to just take our time. After we opened presents we got to work making dinner. We had our friends Tiffany and Rick and family over, as well as our friends Karen and Bill and their kids too. We ate dinner played games and had a really great time.

What a site to wake up to!

Stuart wanted her toy sooooo bad!

Kevin and Susie hanging out on the couch.

Let me do it myself!

On Christmas Eve Tim, Kevin and I went out to get the last minute items for our Christmas dinner, we stopped for lunch at Rumbi's and Izzie thought it was time to feed herself. She just took the fork from Tim and went to town, she was even holding it right!!

Sorry about the fuzzy pictures, had to use the camera on the phone and the lighting was bad.

Check out the new mullet she's sporting, as Tim says business in the front, party in the back!

He Can Fly!!!

Tim and I decided to give Kevin an early Christmas gift this year. A few days before Christmas we drove up to Ogden, Utah so he could do a little indoor skydiving! Here are some great pictures enjoy......

Here he is suited up and ready to go.

He went pretty high up by himself.

But the instructor to him up even higher!

Does he look a little windblown to you?

Hello?

Here she is talking on daddy's old work phone. 

She's trying to walk over to me with the phone.

And here she's getting really mad at the phone because the cord won't go any further. This is the little attitude we talk about, it makes us laugh now but later I'm sure it will be a challenge!

She's playing with the kitchen David and Maria got her for her birthday she loves it.

She's such a ham!

And here the attitude is back! She got really mad at it for some reason, she started screaming at her little sink, scary!

WARNING MOMMY STORY!!!

I swore to myself I would not become one of "them", you know the mom that tells everyone she comes in contact with all the "cute" things their child did last night, the mom that thinks their child is just the sweetest, smartest, funniest kid ever! But it has happened. Tonight it is with great pride that I say that I have become one of "them".  

When it was just the two of us, a lot of our friends were having babies and telling us these kinds of stories, and don't get me wrong some of them were funny, some of them even make us laugh to this day, but some of them were painful to listen to at the time. I would be thinking to myself why are they telling me this? Please make them stop! Quick someone change the subject! But now that I have joined the "Club" I get it, I totally get it. I was young and not ready enter into that faze of life. I now find myself seeking these stories out, reading them on other moms blogs, when I run into other moms I know, I drag them out of them! Hearing them makes me feel "normal" that I'm not alone in the sometimes frustrating world of mommyhood. I know now that it can brighten someones day, like when I was talking to my Mom on the phone yesterday, she has been having a rough time lately, but it made her smile and laugh a little to hear about Izzies latest and greatest adventures. And when she said "heywo" to her Uncle Ryan on the phone it made him laugh, and it made her Aunt Stephanie very jealous. 

My daughter makes me laugh everyday, and tonight, in my eyes, she became the smartest little one year old to ever walk, I mean crawl, the face of the earth. And her little attitude, oh it makes Tim and I laugh all the time, we always look at each other and say "we're in trouble". And so I share my tales of Izzie with great pride here on my blog, I figure if people don't want to hear them they can just press their back key and spare themselves, because I won't, I will keep on talking about my smart, sweet, sassy and funny baby girl.

It's here!

The snow is finally here! We woke up to a few inches of snow this morning, Izzie and I peeked out the backdoor she was so excited to see all the white stuff all over her backyard, it got a long ooooooohhhhhh!!! We took her out front so she could touch the trees, I'm sure she's going to have fun this winter now that she's old enough to play in it.

We tried to take more Christmas pictures, it started off pretty rocky as you can see, but we were able to get a few good shots.

Tim and I bought this dress last Christmas, we couldn't resist the gorgeous green!

Here's the money shot!

More cute winter shots to follow I'm sure!  We are planning a trip up to Idaho to visit family next week before Christmas so check back soon for more pictures! I am in a mad rush to get the house clean for Christmas, gifts shipped off and homemade gifts completed before Santa gets here so please forgive me for the short post!