Christmas Eve 2011

holiday shoot....

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the kids, an update...

CHARLY

seriously this girl is a crack up! can't get enough of her sometimes, and wanna pull my hair out others! she's just busy, always has been, i'm sure always will be! so she's always getting into something, pushing her brother down, taking his toys away, and sassing me around! right now she's really obsessed with making sure sawyer does NOT touch any of her toys. if he does she says, "he doesn't want to play with that!" and therefore its ok to take it away from him. or she says, "it's too small, sawyer will choke on it!" okay that one is my fault because she tends to throw everything on the floor so i have to get after her about it! things she loves, movies, and movie! playing with grandmas and grandpas! eating pie! playing abc games on the computer! the snow! the christmas decor! shooting dart guns with boompa! watching dancing with the stars with me and then danging with her puppy dog around the room! i swear i could probably go on and on about her! she is such a sweet girl, super smart, very much full of life and always leaves us with smiles on our faces!

and yes, her dimples are deep!

oh ya, she also doesn't like to smile normal!

sawyer adores his sister, he looks at her with complete adoration! we are in trouble then!

 SAWYER

9 months, 19 lbs. 1 oz., 27 1/3 inches

 has this kid gained a personality since the last time i wrote anything about him! i can't believe he is 9 months old! my time flies! sawyer has got a little temper that just erupted recently! he was so mellow, and still can be at times, but others he just throws tiny little fits! just like his sister used to! oh great i really am in trouble! he doesn't crawl, can't quite get the mechanics down for that one, but he rolls and rolls and rolls wherever he wants to go! and he's fast! sawyer has a hook finger (i'll have to post a pic of that another time) that he reaches out to touch anything! it's hilarious! he also has 7 teeth as of today. three on top, four on bottom, and he's got another on the way! teeth really screw up his sleeping! lately we haven't been getting any! however, sawyer is a joy! he is always smiling a cheesy grin our way and laughing with his sister! it's been so fun to watch him grow and learn! next stop, 1st birthday, cue the tears now!

he's one solid boy!

all things halloween...

my skeletons dressed up when we first got their costume/jammies

masquerade party at the neighbors

we look totally different with the same mask

then we tried on this sweet mask

and carved pumpkins at our annual monson carving party the face is charly's, snow white is mine, and mike wazowski is coreys

my spooky skeleton who let me paint her face twice that day!

and the two cuties! i wasn't even going to attempt to paint sawyers face!

what a fun holiday we had! lots of treats, parties, friends and family time! charly loved halloween this year and trick or treating!

doubles...

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pumpkin walk...

this was our first year going to the pumpkin walk. of course corey wanted to go hunting instead of going so my mother came with! it was sooo cute! here were our favorite parts!

dispicable me...it looks just like those girls!

one of my mom's favorites...guilligans island

bambi

tangled...even my favorite scene

charly loved the waterfall, the water came out of the pumpkins mouth

 OUR MOST FAV PART...

apparently woody and buzz are a little sleepy

what a cute harry potter you make mother

wild thing...fits her well!

so cute he is!

how can you resist putting a cute baby in one of these things?

cinderelli, i feel like her sometimes!

ariel

seriously so cute! we will be going back next year!

6 years...

an all things wedding post

i'm sorry i think we pretty much look like babies in these photos!

baby L...

what a beautiful baby boy, congrats Danielle!

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our end of summer...

yes i am counting last weekend as summer. it is starting to feel more like fall and that's okay, but i will miss summer! we have a book titled "Summer" by Alice Low at the lake house. i read it to charly this weekend and got sad thinking that we won't be able to enjoy all the things that summer brings anymore. however, each season has something that it brings to the table so we will be happy as we move into fall, then winter, then spring, until next summer!

the ditch at grandma & grandpa johnsons i spent a lot of time here growing up!

my handsome boy with gigi!

i think charly liked it as much as i did at her age. anything she can throw rocks into makes her day!

two kids pooped out, i took this picture because i think they look so much alike (looks and sleeping positions)

bubble baths together, i couldn't snap a cute picture of them both before my camera died

too dang cute!

great grandma j holding sawyer for the first time. we've visited many times, but she never felt strong enough to hold this big chunk until last weekend!

i had to get a picture of chuck playing with the toys at great grandma j's. funny thing is those are my pots and pans she's playing with. toys sure have come along way since i was a kid!

the lake was perfect for canoeing! corey and i took a lovely row and then charly wanted a ride too! corey said she was much less scared than i was. it seriously feels like your going to tip right over!

wagon rides. charly's decided it's okay if sawyer rides with her.

our nature walk on the first day of fall, we even saw a snake!

one of my favorite pics of charly this summer. oh she loves her goggles!