Year 2011

I just received my kids scrapbooks for last year, and I decided I should update my blog by posting some of the layouts I did for their books.  That way it won't take me forever, and you still can see an update of our life.

Christmas started about a week after Halloween for us this year.  Felicity had so much fun decorating the tree.

We had a Lovell Christmas party on the 23rd of December.  It was filled with delicious food, fun games, the nativity, and lots of presents to open.  Might I say, I was absolutely spoiled by my parents.  

The morning of Christmas Eve, we headed for St. George.  We went to the Spilsbury Christmas Party that night, and we had a good time with lots of family, food, games, nativity, and snatch grabs.  Easton got $35.10.  That is a big jump from his 25 cents two years ago!  Felicity also did well with a total of $16.79.  Thanks to Uncle Clark for throwing his handful of money right into her cup!

Easton got sick a week before Christmas, and Felicity got sick two to three days before Christmas so on Christmas Day, Felicity was miserable.  I don't think we really got any photos of her the entire day.  It was so sad.  Easton had a blast.  He was so excited about everything.  The present he asked for was Giant Man, a mighty mugg.

Felicity and Easton both had so much fun making gum drop turkeys.  We spent Thanksgiving weekend in Leamington this year.  I finally got a cute picture of Kenzee and Felicity together!  I hope it is the start of a great friendship.  We gave Felicity a piece of candy right before she sat on Santa's lap this year so she didn't cry because she was eating something sweet.

October was filled with multiple trips to Gardner Village.  We went with Zeke and Dempsey one time, our friends another time, just us another time, and Kari and Daxton a last time.  Every single time was tons of fun.  We went to Leamington two weekends in a row.  We carved pumpkins one weekend and trick-or-treated the next.  On Halloween, we went to my mom's school to watch the Halloween parade and afterwards, we visited my grandparents.  It was so wonderful to see them.  We don't see them enough.  Felicity was a candy corn witch.  Easton was Snake Eyes and Raphael.

 

Easton mutton busted for the second time at Leamarado Days.  He kept telling me he fell off the sheep.  Felicity absolutely loved the swing.

We had a wonderful family vacation during the summer.  My parents got a huge cabin for all of us to stay in.  It was a really nice and very spacious cabin.  We started the vacation by visiting Jackson Hole.  Then we went to Yellowstone for the next several days.  On the way home, we went to Bear World.

Easton was drawn out to mutton bust at the Hinckley Rodeo.  I was so excited.  He was too until he got on the sheep and it started to move.  At that point, he decided no way.  But, Grandpa laid him down and off the sheep ran.  He lasted half a second!

We went to Utah's Hogle Zoo with my family this year during the KFC party.  I absolutely loved the Dinosaurs, but Easton was terrified of them.

Polly and York flew us to Chickamauga, Georgia for a few days in May!  We had so much fun.  Grandma Winsor was there at the same time.  We wish we were able to stay longer, but John didn't have enough vacation days.  Little did we know, he was going to be promoted a month later and lose his vacation days so we could have and should have stayed longer.  It was crazy seeing the tornado damage to the homes within miles from Polly's home.  We visited the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  We also did one of the things on John's bucket list.  We went to an Atlanta Braves game.  It was so fun.  Easton got an awesome Atlanta Braves Mickey Mouse hat.  Too bad he lost it last Fall because he took it off while we were out shopping, and I didn't notice until after we left the store.  We went back, but it was nowhere to be found.  Thank you to York, Polly, and Victoria for making it such a wonderful vacation for us.  We truly had a lot of fun.

Easter weekend was filled with our normal traditions of Sand Dunes on Friday, Easter Egg Hunt, picnic, and softball game on Saturday, and Easter on Sunday!  I did not put sunscreen on Felicity during the Sand Dunes, and she got huge blisters.  It was so sad.  I hope I learned my lesson.

We went and helped grandpa do cattle.  Easton thought it was fun seeing the cows. 

I hope you enjoyed seeing some of our highlights!  We had a fun year.

Holidays, Birthdays, and Milestones

We are back with a lot of updates!  I will start with the most current events.

Felicity is walking.  She was a little bit faster than Easton.  The tutu she is wearing was made by Liz.  We absolutely love it - thanks Liz!

Easton and Felicity were spoiled this Valentine's Day.  They received Valentine's from their grandparents, parents, and cousins.  Thanks everyone that sent/gave them a Valentine.

January is always a miserable month after the 10th, in our opinion.  It is so cold.  The holidays and birthdays are over, and it is just a dreary month, but this year we had a lot of fun.  Colby and York (families included) visited Salt Lake so Grandma, Anson, and Bree came too!  It was so much getting together with family.  We also did a birthday party for John's dad.  It was fun.  Easton also decided he loves to play in the snow so he was often outside building a snowman.

Easton had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle birthday party.  It was a blast.  We had a pinata, which Easton didn't dare to hit.  We made ninja turtles out of balloons.  We drank ooze, ate pizza, ate cake, ate cupcakes, and ate ice cream.  We had a lot of people come too.  When the party was over, he carried his turtles weapons with him everywhere.  I put him in bed, and later found him in a box sound asleep.  Thanks to everyone that came to celebrate this special day with him.

After Easton's birthday party, Jackee and I attempted to get cute pictures of our baby girls in their matching sweaters and hats.  I failed.  I am hoping Jackee got some good shots.  Jackee, if you did, please send them my way.

We planned on going to Leamington for our New Year's Eve party, but John had to work last minute.  I was not happy, but what do you do.  Easton stayed up with us.  We watched Alice in Wonderland and watched the ball drop on TV.  Easton had fun drinking out of his orange cider glass.  He thought it was so cool.

We celebrated Christmas in Leamington this year so we had a Winsor Christmas party in Salt Lake.  We acted out the Nativity.  John and I were lucky enough to be the Inn Keepers that let Joseph and Mary stay in their stable.  Easton was a shepherd, and Felicity was an angel.  We played several games including musical pillows, brown paper bag (is there a name for that game??), marshmallow toss, and the newspaper game.  It was a blast.

Our Christmas Eve party was in Hinckley.  We had a yummy dinner, played basketball, sat on Santa's lap, played games, and watched the kids act out the nativity.

Christmas morning was very interesting.  We all slept in pass 7 o'clock.  My parents could not believe we all slept so long.  Felicity was the first one awake.  She was so excited about her horse, my little ponies, and baby doll.  After Felicity saw what Santa brought, Cameron, William, Kadance, and Tristan woke up.  They had a lot of fun playing their guitars and drums.  Easton finally woke up after 8 o'clock.  He was so excited to get Buzz Lightyear that he wouldn't even look at me to get a picture.  He later got Woody and Rex.  John was spoiled like a little kid.  He got nearly 20 Mighty Muggs between Santa, me, and my parents.  I was also spoiled.  I got the American Girl Doll, Rebecca, as well as lots of clothes and jewelry.

We are so thankful for this time of year.  We truly enjoy celebrating the birth of our Savior.

Felicty had a Hello Kitty birthday party.  Actually, she had three parties.  The first party was on the 12th with my family.  After her party, we went to Temple Square.  It was a really enjoyable day and night.

Her second party was on her birthday with just us.  She was so excited to get her little Hello Kitty.

Her third party was part of the Winsor Christmas party.  Grandma Winsor gave her the cutest Hello Kitty keychain and Hello Kitty bubble blower.  Easton and Felicity absolutely love the bubble blower.

Lastly, we celebrated Thanksgiving in St. George.  Easton had so much fun playing in the leaves.  We talked, shopped, and just had fun being together as a family.

SCARY!!

Ho Ho Ho

Felicity's first word(s) - just perfect for a December baby!!

Life

We are doing really well. Felicity is getting so big. She loves when I try to make her stand by herself. She giggles and giggles, which ends with her falling. Here are some of her 6 month pictures that I forgot to post (my scanner was dusty):
Easton is so fun. For some reason, he has started carrying his Yoda and Darth Vader Mighty Muggs around the house so John decided to show him a Star Wars clip. He saw General Grievous and exclaimed in excitement, "Casey Jones!" As most of you know, Easton just loves the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It made us laugh.

I have nowhere to go this week so I am determined to get Easton a little bit interested in going to the bathroom on the toilet. I tried here and there this summer, then again in September, and then again last week (I tried last week because Kadee is doing so well, which makes me think Easton should be able to do well). Last week was awful, and I did not enjoy it one bit.

We decided Easton needs to be bribed. I made a chart that he gets to put stickers on each time he goes. Once he goes five times, he gets one of his favorite things, a package of fruit snacks. When he goes five more times, he gets a Mini Mugg (see pictures below - love them).

This morning I decided to make him sit on the toilet until he went. He was not happy. He finally went so we put a sticker on his chart (he seemed quite uninterested). Late morning, I decided to force him again. He ran away from me and screamed like a mad man. Finally, he went again. We put another sticker on his chart. Then something clicked. Immediately after we put the second sticker on his chart, he went again so we put another sticker on his chart. Then he went again (all in a row). He has seven stickers so far today (already got a fruit snack). I hope this means he is getting it.

Busy Summer!

I am so happy that it is FALL! I love this season the most.

We had a very busy and fun summer. I have posted a lot of pictures with small highlights of what we did!

Felicity learned how to crawl! She does the army crawl mixed with the normal crawl.

We went to the Petersen campout, and we had a blast. Easton loved, loved, loved the four wheelers. He also carried his and Kadee's TMNT's everywhere. He just loves them. Felicity enjoyed sitting in the dirt. We also went to the Winsor and Spilsbury reunions in Kolob. I am so mad that I forgot my camera for both of those reunions. We had a lot of fun. It was so fun being with our family, and we really enjoyed seeing those that we don't see that often.

Mike and Liz and their four boys came for a few weeks. I loved seeing them. Liz taught me how to make bows, and she made Felicity two dresses out of bandanas (see the red one below). After I made a ton of bows for Felicity, I made a bow hanger with ribbon to hang all of my bows on. It is packed with all the cute bows that we made. Thanks Liz and Susie for helping me.

We went to a Pioneer Parade in Lynndyl while we were staying in Leamington for a week. Easton and Kadee were dressed as pioneers. Jonathan pulled them in a wagon! Felicity was a pioneer as well. She was JaCee's baby. We celebrated the 24th in Hinckley. We went to the parade, a family reunion, and the rodeo that day. After the rodeo, we did fireworks at my Grandpa and Grandma Petersen's home. That is a tradition I will always love.

Easton and Kadee had a blast playing with each other this summer. One of the things they loved most was jumping on the trampoline while the sprinkler was on underneath it.

We went to the res. I have not been there for a really long time.

We had a lot of days that we went swimming at our condo's swimming pool. Easton started the summer off with sitting on the step the entire time. He is so scared of the water getting his head wet. He absolutely hates it. He became braver. We went swimming with a lot of cousins this summer, and we loved it.

We celebrated the 4th of July in Delta. We enjoyed all of the Delta traditions: parade, park, and derby. On Sunday (the 4th), we did fireworks at my parent's home. Easton had a lot of fun with the glow sticks Aunt Amy gave him.

Lastly, I opened a store. It is called Winsor Digi-Designs. As most of you know, I am absolutely obsessed with digital scrapbooking. John challenged me to start designing, and I took his challenge. It has been fun. I am learning a lot too.

My newest kit that I have created is called Fall Splendor. I will be releasing it in November. My blog background and header were made with this kit.

Day at the Zoo

We went to the zoo a week ago with my sister. We had a lot of fun as you can see from all the fun pictures! Thanks to my awesome nephew for the tickets.