We love Aunt Aubrie!!!

Sad for us but fortunate for the Canada Toronto mission, Aubrie left for the MTC the day after  the New Year.  We know she will be a great missionary and we already miss her!  The hardest part for me was realizing how big Sophie will be when she gets home.  She will be 2.  I am so glad Sophie has such a great Aunt and example to look up to.  We Love Aubrie!!!

Christmas!

We started out the Christmas Holiday with a Woodward Celebration a few days before Christmas.  Everyone was spoiled and the grandkids got lots of new princess dresses, hats, puzzles, etc to play with at grandmas house.   The coon skin was Sophie's pick and she pulled off the look pretty well!

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas at the Waldron household.  This snake quilt was made by Sophie's great Grandma Julie.  Isn't it cute?

Trying on mom's scarf

And here she is with all her treasures!  She did really well opening presents.  Once we would start ripping them she would finish.  She had a lot of presents to open and was pretty worn out for the last few but somehow managed to get them opened.  

So as you can see the only Christmas pictures we got were of Sophie.  Colton and I had a great Christmas too.  It is so great to get to be with family, eat good food, and just relax and enjoy the break.  We love our families so much!

Sophie has met some famous people!

First she got to meet Santa at our Ward Party.   (She really liked his beard)

And then she was lucky enough to get a picture with  Big Blue.  By the smile on her face I think  she liked him!

We are very excited for Christmas at our house and hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Season.

Thanksgiving!

Our Thanksgiving was spend in Idaho this year with my family.  We had a wonderful time, ate way too much, and stayed up way too late playing games every night. 

This was taken the Sunday before Thanksgiving just relaxing after church.  Do they look alike? . . . Most definitely!  I love these two so much!

 Here are 3 of the little babies.  (Just missing Mckay)

 We tried to get a belly pose picture.  As you can see it worked really well. :)

 Here is our family Thanksgiving morning.

 And the Beautiful table

 Cute little Soph

 Does it look like we had enough pies?  (Never enough)

 My contribution was the Oreo pie

 That evening my brother Nate wrote a little play for the kids about the Pilgrims and Indians.  The kids loved dressing up and acting out their parts and dancing the music.  Sophie thought sleep was more important than being in the play but she did make a cute Indian.

 Here are the cute little Indians

And the cute little Pilgrims.

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and now we get to look forward to Christmas!!!

Sleepy Sleepy Sleepy

It is hard to wake up when it is dark outside.

We had to wake her up because it was getting late and we wanted her to sleep through the night but as you can see she did not want to wake up.  She was happy just super sleepy.

Almost 5 months old!!!

Sophie is quite the little lady.  She is growing up so fast and  amazes us everyday with everything she can do.  She has such a cute personality.  Lately she has enjoyed eating dinner on our laps because she doesn't want to miss out on anything.  Her new favorite thing is to drink out of a cup and thinks every cup she sees is hers.  

I had her playing with toys on a blanket while I was getting ready and I looked over and realized she was asleep.  It was so cute.  She is such a perfect baby!  

She can sit up by herself in the boppy now and I think she likes looking at things from this angle.  (Something other than her back)

Stork Landing had a diaper decorating contest for Halloween  so we dressed her up  as a little lamby.  

There were six different categories you could win and she won the "Cutest" award.   I must say she did make a stinkin cute little lamb. 

We finally got around to carving pumpkins the night before Halloween and  Colton  insisted that we do a plain jane jack'o'lantern.  

It turned out pretty cute though!

And here is our cute little Strawberry on Halloween!  

Isn't she cute?  

Mini Golf

It might come as a bit of a shock to most of you but we actually have some friends who are also our neighbors and we all went miniature golfing at a really cute place in Providence.  Colton and I have been to this course many times before but we have never been in October when it is Haunted and decked out for Halloween. 

 Colton told me I overdressed Sophie for the occasion (maybe I did) but she looked so stinkin cute all bundled up.  She slept the whole time too.

 Each hole had a different theme and poem that went with it.   It was so cute!  Here I am with Sara.

 Proof that Sophie was there just asleep and very warm and cozy.

 The whole group.  

These pictures don't even do it justice how cute and decorated it really was.

 These last two pictures have nothing to do with golf but
I wanted to add them in as well.  This picture was taken a few weeks back right before the Utah State vs. BYU game.  I really didn't care who won but we all had matching attire so I decided to be an Aggie fan that night.  (I would have to say my roots are probably with BYU though)

And here is our little Sophie.  She won't roll over but at least she somewhat enjoys tummy time now instead or screaming the entire time.  She is getting so big and is already 4 months old.