Merry Christmas!

Santa brought Emmy a little water baby, grocery cart and Zhu Zhu pets! The Zhu Zhu pets were not as entertaining as Santa thought they'd be!!
Here is Brodyn with his Thomas the Train track...he kept saying to me, even days afterward..."Mom, Santa knew just what I wanted!" It took awhile for dad to set up, and then Grandpa Brenchley came and fixed it up even better, he loves trains!
These are the frames Dan made me for Christmas...all from scratch! I just showed him a picture and he fixed them up for me and painted them too! He is so talented!! We just need to get some glass cut for them! Then they'll hang from that bar!
Brodyn with Santa's plate of cookies and his letter to Santa! We forgot the milk and Santa left a letter for Brody, saying...remember the milk next year!
Making Christmas cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve!!

Opening up our stockings on Christmas Eve from Grandma Brenchley! Of course we did the money game! It's on for next year...Berry you cheat!!

More fun from Grandma Brenchley's stocking!

Fun in the snow!

Eating snow...hopefully it's not yellow!

Playing "Christmas Bingo" at Grandma Thatchers!

Thanks Santa, this is what Santa brought all the kids when he visited on Christmas Eve!

Here is Steve and Mira sitting on our Santa's knee, our Santa is amazing, he does this for us every year! Thanks Santa...you are awesome!! Santa looks a lot like Berry!

Brodyn making a deal with Santa!

Emmy and Santa...she's not quite sure what to think but she didn't cry!

Christmas morning, Grandma and Grandpa Brenchley and Thatcher came to check out our loot, and Nick came along!

Dan got Emmy a little bumble bee, because she was our little bumble bee on Halloween, and is the "Queen Bee" at our house!

Brodyn with Ivo and the circus carts!

This was Christmas Eve just after the Elves dropped off our new p.j.'s to remind us that Santa was really close and that it was time for bed. Those Elves are so messy they leave magic dust and confetti wherever they step! Our front porch is covered with Elf glitter and confetti!

Brodyn in his new jacket from Grandma Thatcher.

Emmy with her new dress from Grandma Thatcher.

Christmas can't be complete without the re-enactment of the nativity, here is our little donkey this year!

Emmy and Abby were our angels!

The Thatcher cousins!

This is what Brodyn got on Christmas eve from whoever picked his name, and I can't remember!

Angel Emmy!

Thatcher clan!

Brody with his red cheeks!

What a cute little donkey!

Happy November Birthday Emmy!

Here is our little 2yr old! It was Saturday, I wanted to take Emmy and Brodyn to 'build-a-bear' at the mall in SLC for Emmy's birthday. We went to Park City first to pick up some pants at baby gap for Emmy, Brody started feeling sick, a fever started and he was coughing. I laid him in the stroller put a blanket over him to contain whatever virus he had. I was afraid he had the swine flu and I was exposing everyone in the store to it. I grabbed the pants fast and left the store, buckled the kids in the car and then Brodyn threw up all over himself and his car seat. I had a dilemma, I hadn't brought an extra pair of clothes and I wasn't about to drag him into the store again to buy something so I put a blanket on him and we headed for home...forgoing "build-a-bear!" If the smell of barf in a small enclosed car wasn't bad enough, a terrible snow storm hit as we were leaving SLC, the roads were so icy, cars had slid off every where on the interstate. It seemed as if there were car accidents at every mile. At Willard we were caught in the snow storm and crawling on the freeway, I didn't dare go through Sardine Canyon so we went through Tremonton and of course got lost...adding an extra 45min to our drive, luckily the kids slept the majority of the way and we made it home. Miraculously we were still able to celebrate Emmy's birthday that night!
Here's Emmy with her cousin Meagann! Emmy reminds me of Meagann!

Emmy with Jade, Caroline, and Meagann! Dan was in St. George with his buddies they had planned a bike riding trip for the weekend, he missed Emmy's Birthday, and since Brodyn was sick I told my family to stay home, but then Mira the amazing grandma that she is showed up anyway with the three girls, and we all celebrated Emmy's 2nd birthday...on one of the most horrible days!
Princess Pea, playing with her tea set Grandma Thatcher brought.
So excited...Happy Birthday princess!

Carebears!

Emmy and Brodyn with the girls and Mira!

Brody enjoying the Birthday celebration, regardless how sick he felt!

This face shows more of how he was feeling!

Cabbage patch babies, there is a funny story about these dolls! I bought them at Sam's Club, They were cabbage patch newborns in which you didn't know if they were boys or girls. Well if you looked close some of the babies had a patch of hair underneath their little bonnets, I assumed that meant they were girls. I looked for blue eyes since Emmy has blue eyes, and I wanted at least one girl, I couldn't find one with a bald head and one with a patch of hair, so I thought I'll just get these with the blue eyes and patches of hair...at least she'd get a girl. Well upon opening them and reading their birth certificates I came home with Gavin Joe and Andre Manuel! All that digging through boxes of cabbage patches for a girl, and I brought home two boys...with patches of blond hair!

Grandma Thatcher and Emmy.

Halloween 2009

Here is our little bumble bee, she was pretty good to keep her antennas on!
Here is Emmy's cousin Abby! She was "Abby Kadabby" from Sesame Street!
Brodyn as Batman with his little cousin "Casper the Ghost" aka...Dash! Batman doing some stretches, before he heads out to combat evil!
The Thatcher cousin's all at the "trunk or treat!"

Emmy is not excited about posing for a picture!

Halloween party at Grandma Brenchley's house. Lance and Brodyn racked all the leaves into a pile and Grandma Brenchley hid candy in it, and the kids had to search for their candy in the pile of leaves! It was so much fun!

Throwing Leaves!

Grandma Brenchley as a "Scarecrow!"

The "Queen Bee"!

Scarecrow and the little Bumble Bee!

The Candy has been found!

this was our 'Couple's Halloween Game Night,' with all my friends at work, it was a blast! We are actually Popeye and Olive Oil, if you couldn't guess...minus the height and lankiness for Olive Oil and muscles for Popeye!!

All the girls from work! From Left, "Alex the Pirate", "Witch Kelli", "Cave-girl Katie", "Cleopatra"...aka Tauni, Me as "Olive Oil", and Brittany aka "Deb!"