Christmas in Utah

This year for Christmas I was 8 months pregnant, so we had to stay put here at home. My parents were able to come out and spend Christmas and New Years with us. It was so fun to have them here and Madilyn became best buddies with them.

When we were at my parents house for Thanksgiving, they had marshmallow chairs for the grandkids to sit in. Madilyn thought they were so cool so we got her one for Christmas. When she was opening it, as soon as she saw what it was she let out a squeal! It was so cute!

She sat in it right away!

She didn't even want to get out of it to open the rest of her presents!

Our Christmas gift to each other this year was new carpet for our house! The previous owners had 4 cats! They went pee everywhere! Lucas also replaced our linoleum entry way with tile.

Here is the NEW!

 Here is a glimpse of what the carpet throughout the entire house looked like underneath. Our house no longer smells like cat pee!!

We had a white Christmas this year!!!! Oddly enough, we haven't really had any other snow this season, other than small flurries.

While my parents were here we went to the Spanish Fork Festival of Lights. It was pretty and Madilyn loved all the lights!

We had my niece, June, with us for a couple days while my sister and her in-laws went to Arizona for the Boise State bowl game. The girls had so much fun together!

Christmas was different this year, but still so much fun! We got to make a couple of our own traditions and enjoy celebrating together! 2014 was very good to us and we look forward to a great 2015!

Halloween and Turkey Day

Lucas and I celebrated out 3 year anniversary in October. It was his year to plan and he took me by surprise. He arranged for my aunt and uncle to watch Madilyn over night and took me up to Salt Lake. We had dinner at Ruth's Chris (we ate at one on our honeymoon). We walked around Temple Square, went to the planetarium, and stayed at the Little America Salt Lake Hotel. It was a really old hotel that had been remodeled and it was cool! The people at Ruth's Chris treated us like royalty and had our table ready with rose petals, candle light, and a "Happy Anniversary" card. We ordered a special that came with a dessert, but since it was our anniversary, they said they wanted to buy us a regular dessert off of the menu. So, we took a nice, heavenly slice of cheesecake back to the hotel! The next morning we went and did a session at the temple!

Our first dessert, before they bought us another!

This year we decided to re-use our Mario and Luigi costumes we made a couple years ago. I made a Princess Peach costume for Madilyn so we all matched! I am really happy with how it turned out. (It is scary creating something without a pattern and hoping it turns out how it is in your head!) I had a hard time getting my costume on since I am pregnant this time around. I could not get the sides of the overalls buttoned, but it worked for the hour or so that I wore it.

We had fun carving pumpkins and making a monster door!

Daddy's pumpkin

Mommy's pumpkin

Madilyn's pumpkin

Madilyn thought it was cool that people kept coming to our door to trick-or-treat and she even tried stealing the candy out of the bowl. She spent most of the evening walking circles in our front room in between doorbell rings. She is such a determined little girl and when she learns something new all she wants to do is practice it over and over.

As the Halloween decorations went down and Thanksgiving went up, I realized I do not have many Thanksgiving decorations. I decided to make a "Give Thanks" banner, and since I do not have a mantle in this house, I hung it on the wall.

We were lucky enough to go to Colorado for Thanksgiving this year! Madilyn did an amazing job on the plane! We loved getting to see family and even got to do our Santa tradition with the Wastarts.

Madilyn loved playing with her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. It was fun to get her together with her cousin June since they are so close in age.

(I would have a cute picture of the two of them here, but they are all on my phone, which fell out of the diaper bag on the plane. Crossing my fingers that it gets back to me!!!)

She loved seeing Christmas trees at every one's houses and would point and excitedly say "Pitty!!" (pretty)

The trip seemed to go way too fast (we had hoped to be able to see more friends) and we were sad to say goodbye, but it is also good to be home!

Fall is Here!

Fall is my favorite time of year! I love the yummy smells (pumpkin and cinnamon), the cooler weather, watching football, and the BEAUTIFUL colors all around! I love wearing sweaters and snuggling up in blankets! 

Here's a quick recap of what's been going on with us since Madilyn's Birthday, which is the last time I posted. 

We had Lucas's sister, along with her kids, his mom, and niece all come out to visit over Labor Day weekend. We had fun with them and went up to Salt Lake again to take them to Temple Square It is always so nice to have family come and see us!

The day after they left, we had our ultrasound. The baby is very healthy and is a BOY! Lucas is so happy to have one of each now!

Madilyn discovered lemons and this video makes me laugh so much! She insisted on trying it and even wanted more afterward! 

We decided it is time to start re-decorating this house to really make it our own. We started with the front room and we are really happy with how it turned out!

 BEFORE:

AFTER:

Spanish Fork doesn't seem to have as many parks as Thornton did, but we found a park that had a pretty flower garden! We decided to stop and take some pictures!

We made a family trip to the pumpkin patch! We were very happy with the selection and the prices! We got two big pumpkins and a smaller one for Madilyn. She loved all the pumpkins! When I set her down to take pictures with the pumpkins she just kept laughing and clapping her hands!

This pig was huge! They say he weighs 700 lbs!

Madilyn was a little freaked out in the straw maze.

She loved walking through the kid size straw maze, though!

Here is my 25 week belly!

And this video is from a couple months ago, but it needed to be shared!!!

One Year Old and Summer Time!

I can't believe how fast time has gone by! August 15th was Madilyn's first Birthday! She has grown so much and is now 20lbs and 29 inches tall. Madilyn now has 4 teeth that have cut through on the top, in addition to the 2 she already has on the bottom. She loves to try new foods and is not a picky eater at all. She is eager to walk, but not brave enough to try without holding on to something or someone. Madilyn cracks us up all the time by having random conversations and randomly laughing! She loves anything that has to do with music. When Mommy sings to her to help calm her down she will try to sing along. She also loves clapping her hands any chance she gets, and waving to people. The bathroom has become her new favorite room. I know that's strange, but she is always crawling in there to bang on the tub and grab her bath toys. Madilyn has also become a pro at going up (and sometimes down) the stairs.

We have all three been sick a couple of times lately, so pictures this month were a challenge, but I gave it a shot anyway....

This summer has also gone so fast! Lucas completed his first semester of school and got all A's! YAY! In July we had our wonderful friends, the Wastarts, from Colorado come to visit us. We have missed them so much and had so much fun with them! We toured Temple Square, went swimming, ate yummy shave ice, and went to a carnival! We also had fun just hanging out like old times. Madilyn and baby Ally played so well together and loved to hold hands!

At the beginning of August we were lucky enough to go to Lake Powell with the Fannin side of the family! We stayed on a houseboat and had fun playing on wave runners! It was SO hot and humid, but we had a great time! We even had a Birthday party for Madilyn on the boat so the Fannin side could celebrate with us!

I used my photoshop to merge the photos of Lucas going off the slide on the boat!

Madilyn was very dainty with her cake!

As soon as we got home from Lake Powell, my parents were in town and we had another party on Madilyn's actual birthday with the Pitcher side of the family.

She LOVES to tear paper!

Saying goodbye to Grandma

And, in case you haven't heard on the world of Facebook..... We are expecting again!!!! We are having a BOY the end of January!

This was at 18 weeks, I am now 20!