A New Year

One of my New Year's resolutions (well, actually, my only one at the moment), is to write consistently on the blog again.  So here I am, January 1st--and trying to start on the right foot.

My mother-in-law keeps pictures of all of her grandkids in frames in her livingroom, and the ones of Emilia and Mira are currently over a year old.  Mira was 6 months in the picture that's up.  So today, Steve bathed the girls and they had clean, matching outfits, so I forced them to sit in front of the camera for a few minutes so I could take some new pictures of them.  Mira has been sick for 4 days now and was REALLY cranky this morning, so I only got a few good ones of her, but I only needed 1! So I'm happy.

I wanted to not have the processing of the pictures hanging over my head, so while Mira naps and Steve and Emilia are out with Grandpa Watts and cousins sledding, I am processing pictures.

My girls are difficult to take good pictures of, especially when you put both of them together, but they sure are cute!  Here you go!

Winter Wonderland

Out our front window when we woke up this morning:

naked

I have tons of naked pictures of Emilia and I realized the other day that I have very few of Mira.  "I must remedy this situation!" I thought.  Of course!

 Emilia couldn't go through a whole shoot without being photographed.  She gave me a winning smile for this one.

I love sleeping babies

playing around

When I cleaned up the living room in anticipation of getting our new furniture, the girls thought it was great fun to have so much space to run around in. Here are some pictures of then being their adorable silly selves.

Halloween

For Halloween, we had lots of fun this year. Emilia was Ladybug Girl (she is a character in a series of really cute books), and Mira took over as Princess Leia. Steve had a work party where they had games for the kids and food for everyone. Emilia got some candy there.

Then we went to the ward's trunk-or-treat. I had never heard of a trunk-or-treat growing up, but they are pretty popular here. Instead of kids going around the neighborhood to trick-or-treat, a bunch of people decorate the trunks of their cars and park in the same parking lot (our church building for this one) and the kids go around to the different cars to get their halloween candy. My girls wouldn't eat the pulled pork at the work party, so we got some chicken nuggets and french fries. They ate those while waiting to get more candy at the trunk or treat.

After the trunk-or-treat, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Watts' house, where Steve took Emilia door to door for about a 1/2 hour. Then we got a picture tour of France from Nick and Wilda who had just returned from a week-long trip to Paris. All in all, it was a fun Halloween for all of us!

Hooray for a new house!

I was going to wait until  I got all caught up to tell everyone the news, but that is taking WAY longer than I thought it was going to, so here it is:

We FINALLY got a house!

After looking at around 60 houses and putting offers in on 8 of them (6 were short sales and we withdrew our offer on one non-short sale after the inspection came back), we found a house we are excited to buy.  We will close on the 26th of September unless we can manage to speed it up by a week.  It is in Springville for those of you who know Utah County. It's in a nice neighborhood right up next to the mountain and it faces south (which is good when it comes to shoveling snow). :)

If you want to see some pictures I can send you a copy of the MLS listing photos.  Just send me an email and let me know.

I'm looking forward to getting my girls into a more permanent situation, getting Emilia into preschool, possibly getting a pet, and painting the walls!  Give us a month, and then you are all welcome to come visit.  Hooray!