Park City, UT

We had a great time in Park City with Tracy, Wayne, Logan and Dekin. Isobel and Logan had so much fun together and thankfully Isobel loved the snow. She liked to throw it at you - well try to anyway; it mostly stuck to her mittens. She still talks about the snow now and says that its melted. We can't wait until next year when we can get her out there on a board! :) We tried to take her tubing but she didn't really like that. We'll have to try again next year. Maybe it won't be so foreign then. In the one picture Isobel and Logan are holding hands - it was so cute. The girl in the picture is Micah, the nanny we had for Friday and Saturday. She was AWESOME!! The kids loved her. And in the picture with the bear, she had just said hello and given him a hug. Such a lover!

I had a private snowboarding lesson on Friday. My riding has improved tremendously. I love it. And I didn't fall off the lift once!! Yay!!! We had such a great time that we are already looking at taking another trip this season. Here are some pictures from our trip. I'll update with video soon.

Isobel is 26 months oldher

Our 26 mo old girl is growing and learning so fast. She can easily count to 12 now and she's singing her ABCs. Her favorite thing to do is read Go Dog Go with you (we have two copies so she tries to read along with you). Her vocabulary and sentence structure is phenomenal. She is asking questions like "Daddy, where is the kitty cat?" She still needs reminding on Please and Thank You but we couldn't be more pleased with her progress.

She is loving her play room. She can whip through that room like a tornado in 5 minutes flat. But that's what it's there for. And she always has to help clean it up.

Isobel still isn't using the potty. She tinkers with it now and then but we can't seem to get her interested in it long enough to actually start using it.

Here are some pictures of our baby girl enjoying the cold with PaPa, playing dress up, sleeping in the car and kicking the pine cone down the sidewalk. We definitely have to get her into dance and soccer! :)

Merry Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas!!! Santa and his elves went overboard this Christmas as you can see. He brought lots of goodies...a kitchen set, a new dollhouse, an outside playhouse, lots of puzzles, some dress up stuff, some animal hand puppets and the rest of the Sesame Street family. Isobel was a bit overwhelmed this morning and took a while to get started but she eventually got into the spirit. She's been playing all morning going back and forth from her dollhouse to her kitchen to a puzzle and back again. It's been a wonderful Christmas morning.

Isobel's New Playroom

Well it took several hours of painting, retouching and cleaning, but we managed to finish Isobel's playroom this weekend. We did the ceiling, walls, hung the TV, put down the carpet and assembled furniture. Quite the productive weekend. We never could have done it without Nana, Paw Paw, Grandma and Grandpa. So glad it's done. And now we know that we will most certainly not be painting the rest of the house ourselves. Much too much work. We'll save to pay someone else to do it. :)

2009 Holidays

The holidays are upon us. Here we are at the Christmas tree lighting in Vinoy Park. It was cold that night but all Isobel wanted to do was look at lights. Thankfully Paw Paw was there to accommodate our little princess. And when she got cold Grandma, Nana and Mommy were there to warm her back up. And here she is looking at the moon, stars and planes with Daddy.

So it's our first Christmas in the new house and in the Family Room we have slightly vaulted ceilings. Tim took this as his cue to get a big tree. Well our eyes were bigger than our ceiling. You can see the tree didn't fit and Tim and Bob had to measure it to see how much we had to cut off. Thankfully we got a GREAT deal on the tree so we weren't upset we had to cut off over a foot. Here's Tim hanging our Christmas lights and Isobel helping. By helping she's kicking the ball in the yard. :)

The holidays also means our elf comes to visit. Isobel decided to name him Snewman. We think she meant snowman but it sounded like Snewman (Newman with an S at the front).

So right now Isobels big thing is being a princess and doing a princess dance. You can see her doing it here. She shares a dance with me every night before her bath. I'll have to get it on video to show you all.

Hope everyone is well.

Isobel's 2nd Birthday Party & other videos!

Sunday was Isobel's 2nd birthday party and it went great! Everyone had a wonderful time. And the best part is I didn't have to clean up before, during or after! :) We had a good turnout with Logan, Landon, Cameron, Alex, Zoe, Nia and Kelley. Here are some pictures from the party. And I also found some old videos that were never loaded.

Singing

Sliding

Halloween Honey Bee

Ball with Grandpa

Being Silly

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Isobel is 2 years old!!!

Well, it's official. Isobel is now 2 years old. It's hard to believe its been that long. It seems like just yesterday we were in the hospital. But alas, 2 years have passed and we have the most beautiful, smart and funny 2 year old girl. Isobel spent her day with Mommy and Daddy. She got her presents, which included a new tricycle, and then we went bouncing at Planet Jump. She refused to take a nap in true diva fashion so we emptied her piggy bank and went to the bank to deposit into her account. It was so cute because she kept thinking we were going to see Count from Sesame Street. Tomorrow is her birthday party at Gymboree. We are really excited because we know she will have a great time.