Easter!

We had a great Easter this year. Brighton woke us up nice and early and the search began for her basket. She was so excited when she found it hiding behind the couch. she said, "that Easter Bunny is such a tricky hider!" Then it was time to find all of the candy filled eggs around the house. Oh the fun. Lex and Nate came over for breakfast and we had fun hanging out with them for awhile. Then Bren, Megh, and family came over and spent the rest of the day. Bren and Megh did most of the cooking and everything was delightful, especially Megh's carrot cake! It was the best we've ever had. Yumm! Don re-hid the eggs a bunch of times and Bri and Ellie had a blast finding them again and again. We've been by ourselves for Easter since we moved to Oregon and it was so nice to have family around! Happy Easter everyone!

Spring Break n' Other Stuff

I haven't posted for quite awhile. Partly because we haven't been up to too much and partly because I have been pretty sick for the past few months. I am 14 weeks pregnant! We are due at the end of September and are so excited. It took lots of tests, drugs, and procedures to get here and we are so thankful that we are finally pregnant. I'm still in the lovely sick phase and am hoping to snap out of it any day now. I have been a lot more sick with this one than I was with Brighton and I'm afraid I haven't been a very fun mommy lately. The other day at breakfast Bri says, "Dad, you are so funny and fun." So I say, "What about me?" Bri thinks for a second then says, "Uh, no, you're not very funny or fun Mom." Sad. I hope to be your fun mommy again soon Bri.

We went to Utah last week for Spring Break. I thought I would be feeling good by this point, but no such luck so I spent most of my time taking naps, watching basketball, and reading books at my parents' house in Mammoth Creek. It was nice not to have to do the cooking or cleaning and it was great to spend time with family. We stayed with Quinc and Deb for one night and flew out the next day. It was fun to see them, but we wish we could have spent more time with them! Brighton loved playing with her cousins and the whole time at the airport just begged to go back to their house. We didn't see any friends while we were there. Next time for sure though! Better yet, we have a guest bedroom just waiting to be used. You are all invited to visit!

My parents still have lots of snow at their house so Brighton got to make snow angels, have snowball fights, and go sledding. She had a blast and was so excited to play in the snow! She also loved helping Grandma cook and had a good time playing with every barbie and stuffed animal in the house.

Snow in Portland!

This doesn't happen everday here and there were some excited little people at our house today. Hooray for snow!

Christmas 2009!

We usually travel to both Utah and California during the Christmas season, but couldn't fly this year because of Don's ear so we stayed in Oregon. Bren, Megh, Ellie, and Cam were here too and we had a great Christmas together. On Christmas Eve, we cooked a yummy prime rib dinner, made sugar cookies for Santa, read the Christmas story, and sang Christmas songs. It was just right.

Bri often uses the fireplace as her stage and here she is leading the group in some singing.

Christmas morning was great. The girls were super excited...so were the grown-ups.

Bri asked Santa for a RAINBOW CAT this year! Ugh. What? We...er...I mean Santa looked everywhere for a rainbow cat that Brighton said she had never seen before, but that she knew Santa would make for her. Finally, Santa located one in Hong Kong which barely made it here in time. Whew. Brighton was thrilled with her stripey rainbow cat and we were just glad it met her expectations of what a rainbow cat should be and that it arrived before Christmas!

Look out American Idol...here comes Brighton Lily.

It was all giggles and smiles outside on the new princess scooter. Oh the fun!

Bouncy Jingle Bell Singers...

Merry Christmas!

Zoo Lights!

A few more pics from Thanksgiving...

Christmas...Take One

My mom and sister came out for a week since we are staying in Oregon for Christmas this year. It was great to have them here. It was pretty low key. We did get some good shopping and a couple of good resturants in, but mostly just hung out at the house and spent some good quality time together. I loved it.

Grandma bought Bri this purple tree with pink ornaments for her room. Brighton loves it and apparently, so do her stuffed animals.



Brighton went to Grace's Sugar Plum Fairy party. It was adorable. The little girls got fairy wings, decorated magic wands and trees, played fairy games, and even ate fairy food. Seriously so cute and Bri was in heaven.


Grandma knew Bri was headed to a sparkly fairy party so she let her open a present before the party...sparkly pink shoes that went quite well with the rest of her fairy ensemble. Bri loves them. Shocking, I know.




So we celebrated Christmas with my mom and Lex since we won't see them on the actual day. (Mom will be at her house & Lex will be in below freezing temps in Alaska...yikes...um, I mean how fun). We all had a great time together. Yummy waffle breakfast and fun presents for all. Bri was a good little helper and made sure everyone had plenty of assistance opening their gifts. A good first Christmas of the season, or Grandma Christmas, as we called it.

Bri LOVES her grandma and was the saddest little person you've ever seen when it was time for Grandma to go home. Sigh. We miss you already Grandma! Come back and visit soon. Better yet, move to Oregon so we can see you all the time!