Sunday, January 6, 2013

Happy New Year!




Happy New Year!

The Holidays:


We invited a friend over to decorate "Christmas Trees" made out of ice cream cones.  Logan wasn't interested in making the tree, but made a really neat blue-icing and sprinkle stuffed cone instead. :)



In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Logan became more and more excited about Santa.  This is a sight I was used to seeing by Christmas Eve... Logan in a santa hat, with a bag of toys (hidden in this picture), perched upon his (Mia's carseat) sleigh.  

The Enz Family Christmas in Ogden was a lot of fun, but unfortunately I have no pictures of it.  I forgot my camera, and Kathy loaded some of her pictures onto our computer for me.  But then Logan "burned out the monsters" in our computer by spraying it with grape juice, destroying the hard drive, and I lost every picture I had taken over the past 3 years, except those that I have on this site.  So, all these pictures are from what was left on my camera.  On the bright side, we are now the owners of a shiny, new expensive Mac.  There goes Logan's college fund. ;) 

Here are two presents Logan received that Christmas... a dart gun and monster jammies.  These monster jammies are probably his favorite thing in the whole world.  He wants to wear them all day, and if they are dirty at bed time the world ends.  


Gingerbread house!



Mia had her very first sink bath at Grandma Poulsen's house.  She loved it. :)  You can also see the lovely rash she gets every time she eats anything besides breast milk.  She is making life exciting. :)



Uncle Aydan giving Mia rabbit ears.  If there was ever a little girl that had an uncle wrapped around her little finger...





We tried to recreate a picture of me when I was a baby.  Here is what we ended up with...Mia seemed pretty happy with this experiment. :)


Mia and Great Grandpa Poulsen.  He was the best at putting her to sleep.




Ry, Me, Stubborn Logan, and Aydan


Christmas morning at the Poulsen house.  It was a miracle any of us survived to this point.  The stomach flu, night terrors, water leaks, and falling ceilings made up Christmas Eve.  Somehow, the kids were still awake bright and early, and Logan did NOT want to wait for everyone to come up the stairs. 



A beautiful Christmas day!  The kiddos must have been good, because Santa delivered... LightningMcQueenWalkieTalkies and a Baby Einstein jumper!




Despite mountains of presents, Logan is happiest with his trusty scissors and a piece of cardboard.

Mia having a girls' night with her aunts.

Daddy saved the day when girl's night became too much for the sleepy baby.

Mia and her Grandpa Poulsens

Ryley's quest to build THE BIGGEST SNOWMAN IN THE WORLD continues.  This one made it to 9.5 feet, and would have been a lot bigger if temperatures would have ever reached above 20 degrees, and the snow would have stuck.  This one was named "Zombie Snowman."

Drooly little lady.

Our big 6 month old!  Mia got her first helping of carrots on her unbirthday, and loved them!  I can't believe how much she has grown, and we feel more blessed every minute that she is in our life.


For our last night of vacation we went bowling.  Logan did amazing, and the highlight was that his bowling shoes were blue.   We sure are going to miss having Daddy around!





With the New Year came changes in Primary.. and I would like to introduce you all to our newest Sunbeam!
(This kid takes after his father... it takes at least 5 pictures to get a normal smile)

2012 was a packed full, wonderful year.  We moved, Ry did amazing on Step 1, Mia came!, and I got a job.  Here are some of the kid's accomplishments:

Logan
Potty Trained! 2/12
Big Boy Bed! 2/12
New House! 5/12
Big Brother! 7/12
Started Preschool 9/12
First Dentist Apt 10/12

Mia
Born! 7/12
Smiled 8/12
Roll over 11/12
Sat all by herself 12/12



Monday, December 3, 2012

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....



Happy Holidays!  I just love the Christmas Season, and having two cute kids and one handsome husband makes it about one million times better.  Logan is so excited this year, and wakes me up every morning wanting to open up another little door of his advent calendar.  This year he wants Santa to bring him "Talkie Talkies" and Mia just loves staring at the Christmas tree. :)  The next two weeks will be packed with cookie making, gift giving, and serving.  And then it's family time!  Woohoo!  No medical school for three. whole. weeks.  I don't know what I will do!  Here is some of what we have been up to so far:


In her free time, Mia works on her snake charming skills...

Logan copied his name all by himself.  I am one proud momma!

Beautiful, happy girl.


This is what happens when I ask Logan to wash his hands before dinner....


He told me that he just wanted to be Santa Clause.


It snowed!  And hasn't since.  Which I am totally fine with.  But, we did have lots of fun sledding and building snowmen.






Mia slept through our snow adventure.



Giving Frosty kisses


After she woke up I took her outside to get some snow shots.  She wasn't quite sure what to think. :)




I wanted a shot of her beautiful flowing hair, so I took off her beanie.  This is the look she gave me. :)



Logan pretending to be Iron Man.  If you look closely you can see the cheerio he stuck to the palm of his hand.  


Just because she's cute


Logan was playing in the dress up box, and came dancing into the living room like this.  I asked him what he was doing, and he told me that he was, " a mommy lizard" and that he needed to "exercise his five senses."  Then he shot me with his spiderwebs and ran out.  I guess I should just be glad he wasn't pretending to be a princess?


Logan helping make apple pie for Thanksgiving.  This is his castle.

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Logan's turkey apple.



Great Grandpa Poulsen and Mia


Logan and Aunt Kassi in the back of Grandpa's truck getting our Christmas Tree.  Grandma gave him a candy cane...


Our cute mini Christmas tree!


Mia helping decorate...


Logan decorating



One corner, about Logan height, was very decorated. :)


We checked out the ZCMI candy windows.  So glad they are back!


Daddy got to come with us!


Then we walked on over to temple square to check out the lights.



Mia and the lights


Us :)


She won't technically be 5 months for two more days, but Ryley was home to control the boy the other day, so I took some pictures then.  


Love this lady





Mia rolls over!  A lot.  I have it on video somewhere... 


Logan playing the fishing game at the Festival of Trees


No one can make this little girl laugh like her brother can.


Mia's first kind of solid-food dinner.  She did so well!