New cousin!

We took a long weekend to see Isabel's new (and first official) cousin, Pricilla!  Of course, I did a terrible job taking pictures, but got a few on the iphone....

Isabel had fun seeing her second cousin Cameron.

Hugs!

My only picture with Grandma Esther, or "Grammy."  Isabel loved spending time with her and was sufficiently spoiled!

Izzie loves her new Hello Kitty purse from Ashley.

Isabel was not excited about Pricilla, and even had some jealousy when mom was paying attention to a new baby - so we will see what happens when a new sibling comes someday.

Still not interested.

Ummm, no, not going to pose with her.

I enjoyed holding her - such a calm and content newborn.

Sassy girl.

Got home today, traveling can be rough! Isabel did great!

Painting and more

Working on Valentine's cards with paint for the first time.

Then another kind of paint - Izzie requested blue nail polish.

Playing with cars and trains

Cool girl.

Out and about

I can't believe I haven't posted for the past MONTH!!! It has been a little crazy lately, and I just finished 2 weeks in a row of hospital call, so maybe I can catch up here....

We have enjoyed being outside in this very mild winter.

Sugarhouse Park

Zoo!

Winter brings the tigers out!

 It was so fun to have residency friends Aaron/Ann and Jesse/Lindy call us when they were in town this past weekend:

Lark and Izzie are just a few weeks apart in age - and some people asked if they are twins!

FOOD!!!

There are a lot of pictures of Izzie with (not so healthy) food this past month.

Izzie's (and mom's) first trip to Chuck E Cheese!

Making some funny faces...

Isabel helping us scrape wallpaper in our current living room...

Because we bought a new house!!!  We will be there in a few weeks, we are sad to leave our current neighborhood, but excited for the new place!!

Winter fun

Izzie was so excited to finally see snow after our December drought. 

Making snowballs (and giving her fake smile)

Snuggling with dad

Post bath hair combing.

Isabel's latest thing - taking off her PJs at night.  But we were surprised this time to find her PJs off and the stroller in her bed, still confused how that happened.

I made Izzie a snowman and she decorated it with "eyes", "hair" and a "body".  I love her interpretation!

Proud of her work.  :)

Christmas!!!

Ok, Christmas was pretty fun this year - probably more for me than for Isabel.  It was hard not to put up tons of pictures...here are the highlights.

Christmas Eve:

On the way to the Christmas Eve party at Grandma Connie's house.

Having fun with her family.

Waiting for some food.

Hanging out with Scott post-meal

The nativity - top row: shepherd, wiseman x 2, Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus.  Bottom row: black sheep and angel.

Her favorite gift of the night - from Great Grandparents Karen/Walt.

Still enjoying.

Cheesehead (in celebration of Great Grandma Karen receiving Green Bay Packers stock from her husband, Walt)

New Christmas PJs!!

With Grandma Connie.

What Santa left Izzie.  Disney, who's that?  :)

Isabel showing off her gifts (I don't mind that the books and slinky were her favorite things)

Pretty good at opening presents.

One of my fav childhood games that is still around.

Taking a few gifts to Grandma and Grandpa's house to show off.

Santa visited their house too!

Helping hand out the gifts.

Loved the new shoes and had to put them on. (Izzie was tired after one round of gifts. I had to bribe her with "time out or presents?", to which she would glumly reply "ok, presents."  What a hard life)

With Uncles Drew and Scott.

Loved the seal from Uncle Spencer.

The men in their Indian attire (Andrew's gifts that he bought on a recent humanitarian trip to India)

With Grandpa Mike.

Merry Christmas!!!