Look Who's Rollin'!

Look who learned how to roll yesterday.

15 Weeks old!  She is growing too fast!

Is There Anything Better?

Is there anything better than chubby baby legs and ballerina tights? No, no there isn't.

Also, Anya got a new piggy bank.

And this makes me laugh.

Eighteen

I feel bad about not being able to give Griffin the kind of time I was to Mesha.  And I feel worse for Anya.  But there are definitely advantages to being the second child.  Griffin can already count!  He gets to 10 pretty well and after that it isn't consistent... until eighteen.  Funny boy.

Anya These Days

Our little baby girl is getting big fast.  She is now 3 months old.  Today I put her on her belly on my bed and she rolled over onto her back.  At three months!  Stop growing so fast!  She is still such a good little girl.  She is so patient and content.  We love our little Anya.

She is such a good smiler!

Halloween 2011

The festivities started with the ward trunk-or-treat.  Good times.  Monday during the day we got to trick-or-treat at Daddy's office and later that "night" (5pm) we did a short street.  The power was still out at that point so there weren't too many people home but I promised the kids we would go, so go we did.

Our carved pumpkins.

The ward trunk-or-treat.

Griffin the "ohh-ahh" and Mesha the horse (for the second year in a row!).

Anya the sweet pea.

Happy Halloween!

Really?

Really Connecticut?  An October snow storm?  ANOTHER power outage, this time in cold weather?  We were out of power for almost 6 days but some people just got power yesterday!  Really Connecticut?  On the 29th we had a snow storm with heavy wet snow.  The trees still had most of thier leaves so tons of branches broke and took out power lines.  We have electrical everything so we had no way to keep warm without power and no place to go until we did. So we drove down to the less affected areas to find a generator.  We had our refrigerator, a few lights and our space heaters powered up.  Oh and of course the DVD player, can't live without that.  We hung up some sheets to partition off our living room to keep the warm in so we ended up staying in ONE little room DAY AFTER DAY.

Our "warm room" or "cell", whichever...

Can you tell I went a little bonkers?  It was real.  It was not fun.  It was not real fun.

Happy Halloween.  Poor pumpkins, goodbye mums.

The storm at the beginning.

Boo to being cold. Later in the week it got down to 45 in the house.

New York

While my parents were in town they offered to watch Mesha and Griffin so that Sterling and I could go to New York. We just did a day trip but it was a lot of fun. It was cool and a little bit strange to see some of these places you have seen a million times in movies and on TV in real life.

Looking at "the ball" in a museum by Times Square.

Times Square.  We walked into it on accident and all of a sudden I recognized where I was without ever being there before.

The Empire State Building.  We were too close to see it very well.

Riding the subway.

On the Staten Island Ferry to get a look at the Statue of Liberty.

Manhattan Temple.  It looked so out of place from what I am used to which is why I think it is so cool.

Good ol' Deseret.

Central Park.  Sorry to Anya for cutting her out with our not so great self portrait skills.  Sorry to Sterling for the look on my face (I was running out of patience waiting for him to figure out how to put the camera on night mode...)

Radio City Music Hall.

Rockefeller Center. Anya wasn't impressed.

I haven't ever seen it without the ice rink.  It would be fun to go sometime this winter.

I can now put a big ol' check mark on my bucket list. Yay New York!  I'm still not a Yankees fan though, sorry.