Christmas 2011

I have been horrible blogging lately. I blame it on our kids! :) The holidays went by way too fast and we had one activity after the next and it got crazy. I have found that if I keep the kids scheduled with different things and they are busy they have less time to get into trouble and drive me nuts. Carter started basketball right after the holidays and he is enjoying that. I will do another blog post on that with pictures later. We had a great Christmas and enjoyed spending it with both of our extended families.

Christmas Sunday. This was our 5th try on a pic. It's so hard to get everyone to look at the camera and behave!
The boys got Hot Wheels Wall Tracks from Santa. They asked for this everyday for literally 2 months

Miss Felicity and her Glow Seahorse. She LOVES this! It plays ocean music and lights up and puts her to sleep every night

Unwrappin gifts

Everyone got super spoiled and we are all very greatful for all the blessings in our lives. We are so lucky to have so much and to have such great family and friends. Brandon and I really scaled back on Christmas this year and only ended up getting the kids 3 presents each. We feel like our kids have so much and we want them to be greatful for everything they have. They ended up getting one big toy from Santa, new shoes/boots, and an educational gift/something for school.

Felicity's blessing

Brandon blessed Felicity in church on the 27th (which is also her Great Grandma Maryanne's birthday). It was a beautiful blessing that he gave her and she slept through not only the entire blessing but the rest of sacrament and then half way through the dinner after. She is such a good baby and we are so blessed to have her in our lives. She wore the same dress I wore when I was blessed. My mom had taken good care of it and added some more lace and seed pearls to it. It turned out beautiful and I made her headband and her great grandma bought her a beautiful tiny pearl bracelet. Girls are so much fun to dress!

Still sleepy apparently

Halloween

Halloween this year was kind of hard for me to pull off. Lincoln got a bad cold the week before and ended up passing it to Felicity and on Halloween we ended up at the doctor with both of them having double ear infections. I then had to go get their perscriptions filled and the wait was two hours. We ended up going to Brandon's parent's house so they could see the kids all dressed up while we waited for our Rx's. It ended up taking longer than 2 hrs to get the Rx's and we ended up missing the ward's trunk or treat and with a very cranky Miss Felicity. So I fed the boys dinner and by then Brandon made it home so I handed him Felicity and I took the boys out to do the standard door to door trick or treating. They had lots of fun and I'm glad they made it out to at least do that.

Carter the soldier, Linc Buzz Lightyear, & cranky Miss Felicity the fairy

Soldier boy

Buzz Lightyear (we literally had to fight Linc to get this costume off. He ended up wearing it again the next day. I've had to hide it since then so he can look like a normal kid. He asks me daily where it is. On a side note, this is one of the most well-made costumes I have ever purchased. Carter passed it down to Linc and Linc has worn the heck out of it and it still looks and feels brand new. I would highly recommend Disney shopping.com for their costumes.)

Meet Felicity

Felicity Julia Long decided to join our family on August 28th at 3:45pm. After a very easy pregnancy (compared to my boys) she decided it was time to come meet everyone 2 weeks before her due date. This is the longest I've ever gone being pregnant (I delivered my boys at 37 and 35 wks) and I can't complain because the pregnancy was so easy. She weighed in at 6lbs 1 oz. and was 18 inches long, so needless to say I didn't get huge with her. I didn't swell up in my legs at all and I was never super uncomfortable. She is a great blessing to our family and we have seen many miracles with her in the short time that we've had her.

I had her all dressed up and Brandon had to pull out the phone and start taking pics

On our way home from the hospital

minutes after birth

First Day of School

All I can say is thank goodness for smart phones! I totally missed the first day of school for Carter because I was still in the hospital after delivering Felicity. Brandon was a great dad and was able to get Carter all ready and off to his first day of Kindergarten. Luckily his nifty phone has a great camera and he was able to also get some great pics for me because our camera was MIA for a few days. This obviously had to happen when I went into labor and when Carter had his first day of school. We have the camera back now and are very glad it is back where it belongs!

Lining up with his classmates

In front of the school

Baby's room is DONE!

After a few months of trying to figure out exactly how I was going to do some of this I have FINALLY finished the baby's room. The walls are still somewhat bare, but I have a few ideas for some of these, so I think this room will always be a fun ongoing project for me.

What Lincoln calls "princess" light

Super cute lamp (from Grandma Diana), baby book (from Aunt Laura), and piggy bank(from Ashli)

Curtains all hung and everything in place

Very greatful to my mom for her wonderful sewing skills and help with the bedding and valance!

Now that everything's done I just need a baby (hint hint little girl in my belly!)!

Fishing trip and itty bitty soccer

We decided a few weeks ago to pack the kids up in the car and head up American Fork Canyon to Silver Lake to have some dinner and go fishing with the cousins. The kids had SO much fun and Carter caught his first fish all by himself. He was so proud!

Lincoln obviously had no clue what he was doing and kept throwing his line out over and over. Brandon finally took the hook off and just let him play with it

We signed Carter up for his last session of Itty Bitty Soccer. His favorite position was goalie. He was so fun to watch and really enjoyed himself.

Trying to dribble the ball around the cones (it was really hard to get a pic becuase I was sitting about 30 feet away on bleachers. Sorry the pics aren't that great).

Next up for Carter is basketball this winter. Since he is turning 5 he will actually have real practices on weeknights and games on Saturdays. He is pretty excited for this.