Halle's 2nd Birthday!

I can't believe my little girl is 2! I am having so much fun with her. She is such a happy kid. I love seeing her get so excited about everything. She is sooo affectionate, always hugging me and giving me kisses. I laughed the other day because she gave our car tire a hug! She is such a blessing to me and I am so grateful to have her in my life. I don't know what I ever did without her!

For her birthday we gave her a playhouse to put on our patio. She loves being outside even if it is freezing or pouring rain. When she wakes up in the morning the first thing she says is "Outside?" I didn't get a picture of it but about a week ago when it was pouring rain she was begging to go outside, finally I thought since it is raining if I let her go outside she wouldn't want to be wet and come right back in. So I put her hat and coat on and let her go outside. She loved it and played out there for quite some time. She wasn't going to let a little rain storm get in her way!

We also went to Chuck E Cheese with my sisters family. Her little girls, Addison and Madelyn, turn 2 a couple days after Halle. It is so much fun to have our girls so close together. There are the three little amigos. Halle also LOVES my sister's little boy Jaxson. I think she has a crush on him.

Halle loved blowing out the candles. I was impressed at how well she could blow them out.

Toph is a little kid at heart. Halle wanted to play in the jungle gym but she was a little to small to go by herself so Toph got in there with her. He even crawled through all of the tubes and went down the slide!

Me and my sister Mandy

Trip to China

Toph went to China last week to look at a Dental Lab there. He was gone for about a week and it was kind of hard to find the right time to talk to him. We I woke up in the mornings he was just going to bed. The time difference was crazy. While he was there he went to the Temple District which is where all of the shops are. He got me some really cute jeans and a bunch of other stuff . It is crazy how cheap everything is there. It was a good trip for him but I am so glad he is back!

Toph brought this dress back for Halle. She would not hold still to let me take a picture. She is getting so hard to take pictures. When I tell her to say cheese she closes her eyes and opens her mouth really wide.

Cruise to the Bahamas!

Last week we went on a cruise to the Bahamas. We had so much fun! We went with a big group of twelve and they were all really fun. The weather wasn't the best, but we didn't let that get us down. I got a spray tan before I left because I was so WHITE and I didn't have time to go tanning, so I joke that I was tanner before I left for the cruise than when I got back. On our stop at Nassau we went shopping, went to the beach and went the famous Atlantis hotel. We couldn't make our second stop because it was too windy so we had a "Fun Day at Sea". There was a comedian, and games and I even got Toph out on the dance floor! When we got back to Florida before our flight we went on an air boat in the everglades and saw some alligators. We had a really fun group and laughed a lot. It was so fun to dress up and the dinners were sooo good! It was so nice to get away, have fun and relax.

Our "Fun Day at Sea" We are playing a game.

Toph is singing like Miley Cirus

The air boat we rode on. It was so loud you needed ear plugs

Cougar Hunting

Toph went cougar hunting this weekend and got one! He said it was the hardest thing he has ever had to do. They had to hike up the steepest hill imaginable in waist deep snow to get to the cougar. Once they got to the cougar, it jumped out of the tree and ran so they had to hike even further. It then jump to another tree and then to another while almost killing one of the dogs in the process. The guy that had the dogs thought it was the biggest cat to be taken in eight years. I'm glad he and everyone else is safe.

Countdown for our cruise

We Leave this Thursday to go on a cruise to the Bahamas! I am so excited. This will be the first time we are both leaving Halle so I am a little nervous, but I know she will be in good hands. I will post pictures when we get back.

New Years Day

On New Years Day we went to the the park and went sledding.

This park is awesome, it has a slide that is three stories high.

The slide was really fast and there was no stopping so I had to land on my butt and it really hurt.

This park also has some good sledding hills.

My brother Brian and my nephew Colby

My sister-in-law, Rebecca and my nephew Zach. Doesn't he look cute in the pink hat!

Christmas Day

Christmas morning I woke up with the flu. This is the second Christmas in a row where I was sick. Hopefully it doesn't become a tradition. So, I didn't get very many pictures. I was barley able to get up and watch Halle open up her presents. I do have to say that she LOVED her presents and we didn't hear a peep out of her the rest of the day because she was so busy playing with all of her new toys.

The first thing she saw when she came down stairs was the car. She immediately got in the car and started playing. We had a hard time getting her to open up any of the other presents so next year we will hide the big toys until the very end.