What We've been up to...

I have been meaning to post these pictures for a long time! We went down to my parents house a couple of weeks ago and these pictures are of us playing on the ice out at the Christensen's cabin. My dad is the one with his hand in the air-this picture was taken RIGHT before he fell down. It was hillarious....too bad I wasn't recording!!!Brookelynn holding our last puppy that is still looking for a home (any takers?)
Monte sliding on a piece of wood
This is the cabin in the backgroundThis is video of Brookelynn pulling Nini on a piece of wood. I thought it was cute! I was watching from the car because it was SO COLD!!

While we were there Bronco got hurt. We have no idea what happened to him but it was nasty looking. When we got home he was very sickly so we decited to take him to the vet. As you can see he had to get stiches and they had to keep him overnight-- it was expensive!

For family night we frosted some heart sugar cookies and the girls got to put sprinkles on all by themselves. We had lots of fun. Nini cannot wait until Valentines Day.

Monte's cookie (notice no sprinkles)

Isn't she SO cute!

Mmmmm......

She licked more frosting off of the sprinkle container than the cookie!

Nini LOVED putting more and more and more sprinkles on her cookie.

Look at all those sprinkles!

When we all were done eating our cookies Nini was finially finished putting sprinkles on her cookie. This is her licking the sprinkles and frosting off the top.

We are going to.....

DISNEYLAND!!!

We will be going with my parents and siblings, and Granny, Grandpa and Judy!

My mom told Nini that she has to go potty on the toilet like a big girl so we can go to Disneyland... so we started potty training this week! She has done really well and is officially wearing big girl panties!

I told Nini that at Disneyland they have a train and she was so excited. The other day she told me "I don't want to go on the potty train-I want to go on the choo-choo train at Disneyland!"

She is so cute and CAN'T WAIT!!

White Christmas...

I know that it is way past Christmas now but I have been so busy lately that I haven't made time to get our blog updated.

Hope you enjoy!

The Saturday before Christmas we had our ward Christmas Party. I thought the girls looked so cute in their matching dresses but I could not get a picture of them together. So I had them hold a present (which was not the best idea) and Minster wanted to hold the one she got from Aunt Judy. So of course Iya had to do the same. Minster was SO excited to open her present from Aunt Jude. She sent everyone their own individual gift. It was so sweet! We thought FOR SURE Iya would SCREAM when we put her on Santa's lap....but she didn't! She just stared at him while Minster did all the talking.


The Girls

So we left on the 23rd for Oklahoma and were so happy we came then because there was a huge snow storm on Christmas Eve. The winds were in the 40's and it was snowing all day. It was just amazing how cold, snowy, and windy it was. Dad and Isaac had to go feed cows and were gone for 5 hours and had several near deaths experiences! It was amazing they made it home. When they got back Dad was so cold...

Brookelynn and Emma played Princesses with the girls and as always they loved it! It is officially Minsters new favorite thing!

Iya in her cute tinker bell outfit

The windows looked so festive with the snow on them.

Brookelynn and Iya

Preston and Iya

Isaac and the girls dancing to Christmas music

Iya and Granny

Minster was so ready for bed after dinner when it was time for our Christmas program. She only wanted Granny

Christmas Morning! Santa found us in Oklahoma! The girls both got BIKES!!

Iya loves her new puppy

and her new bike

playing with her new toy from Uncle Alex

Helping Granny make breakfast
Nice hair!

HAPPY on IYA'S bike. She said that hers is "broken" and that "Santa brought me the wrong one" so we have to take her bike to Walmart to "get one like Iya's"

Me and Monte on Christmas morning. He got me the Carheart vest I'm wearing.

Minster in Grandpa's truck on the Saturday after Christmas. We went to go see Grandpa's land.

Iya in the truck loving being out of a car seat

Can you believe how much it snowed in OKLAHOMA! This is Uncle John's Creek which runs right through Dad's land.

Isaac and Preston played in this snow drift that was just along the road. It was really deep. On Christmas day when we were on our way to dinner at Bryan and Donna's house we got stuck in the snow in the van. It was crazy, we were just going along and all of the sudden the road in front of us was completely covered in a snow drift. We got completely stuck! This farmer happened to be outside right where we were and he started up his tractor and pulled us out. It was so nice and we were so grateful. My Dad and Alex both got stuck too-in separate trucks. The snow was just crazy-the drifts were so deep!

When Puppies ATTACK!

How could something so cute cause crying, screaming, and pandemonium......

She made it!!!!

If you didn't notice her hair -is is all pulled out from the first time she ran and got knocked down and mauled by the puppies. It took three times for her to be completely taken down before she was ready to go inside. And they called it puppy love...

Christmas Tree

So for some reason I cannot change the order of these pictures! Anyway, I just wanted to share some fun ornaments we have on our Christmas Tree. This is definitely one of my faves! If you can't tell what it is, its Ralphie from A Christmas Story. Ya gotta love it!
We bought this ornament this year for Minster. She LOVES horses for those that didn't know. (just a side note.....ITS ALREADY BROKEN!!)
This ornament is what our Christmas tree is all about "Cowboy Christmas" :)
I made this one for our little cowgirl in 2007. I just love the memories of picture ornaments.

We got this one from Cabela's last year. The story behind it is.....Monte bought me a cowboy Santa for Christmas the year before. I never took it out of the box, we just put it away with our Christmas stuff. So last year we got it out with all the Christmas stuff and ...... THERE WAS NOTHING INSIDE!!! Monte bought the "display box" with the display ON display!!!!!!

So we took it back to Cabelas and tried to explain that we bought an empty box LAST YEAR and they took our word for it.....but they had no more cowboy Santa's. So we used our in store credit to buy some cowboy ornaments.....
We bought this one this year at Atwoods (comparable to D&B) There is really nothing special about it other than I thought it was cute.

This is one of the first cowboy ornaments that we bought and I just love it.

And here is the tree......in our new "cowboy room"

I decided to make another picture ornament this year and here is how it turned out.

FYI we count BSU as a cowboy ornament :)