Happy Valentine's Day!

I saw this on a friends blog and asked Elsie the questions to add to this post. Here are her answers...

1. How do you know who to marry? 
Well, you... go to the temple!
2. What is the right age to get married? 
Like Mommy and Daddy
3. How can a stranger tell if two people are married? 
Ask them
4. What do you think your mom and dad have in common? 
They have kids
5. What do most people do on a date? 
Go to the house
6. When is it okay to kiss someone? 
When you love someone
7. Is it better to be single or married? 
Married
8. How would the world be different if people didn't get married? 
Well, everyone not get married and go to the temple
9. How would you make a marriage work? 
You go to one truck and drive in the truck
10. Where do people get married? 
At the temple
11. Who are you going to marry? 
I'm not going to marry anything

Little Walking Girl

Alice's Evil Genius Laugh

Happy Birthday Alice!

Alice had a fun birthday. We opened presents after her nap when she was in a really good mood. Here she is opening up a book from Aunt Becky.

 Look! I'm actually in some of the pictures!

 Stacking boxes from Grandma DeeDee and Grandpa Ken.

 I love her face in these next few pictures.

 Stacking bowls with a little ball on top from Grandma Nean and Grandpa Boyd. Alice loves the little smiley face ball that came with this toy. As a matter of fact, she is playing with it as I write this post. She thinks it's pretty silly.

 Dinosaur Train books from Grandma Nean and Grandpa Boyd. I have to say these were a big hit, especially with Elsie.

 Even Elsie got a present! She was a little sad that everything was all for Alice and was so excited when we pulled out a present just for her. (Thanks Mom)

Lace up patterns! Elsie works on them and tells me all about how she is sewing like Mommy.

 Finally Alice gets to open her present from Mom and Dad.

 A new carseat! It might look like a boring present, but Alice loves sitting in it. She climbs in it and demands toys like a little princess on a throne. She still fits just fine in her old carseat, so it will still be a little while before we put this one in the car. That just means she has a longer time to play with it in the living room. :)

 Alice with all her presents (minus the book from Becky which somehow missed this picture... I think Elsie had stolen it and was looking at it.)

"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to..."

 After a dinner of Alice's favorite food (meat and more meat), we brought out the birthday cake.

 Lots of messy cake pictures. Alice tried to shove as much of it in her mouth as she could as fast as she could. I think the cake was a big hit.

 Mmmm, tasty birthday cake thumb...

Happy Birthday Alice!

Twelve Months

One year old today! How did that happen? Alice's walking has taken off today. I guess she decided that she's one year old now, and one year olds need to walk everywhere. She is crossing the entire room to get to where she wants to go before falling down and crawling. She has a total of nine teeth with a tenth about to pop through any day. Four on bottom, three on top (with one on the way), and two back molars on the top. She is in a hurry to get teeth so she can eat all the yummy food we have. She still loves to eat and out eats her sister at every meal. She has developed a very diabolical laugh and will throw her head back and cackle like an evil genius when she thinks something is silly. She is still very loud and likes to speak her mind. She can say Mama, Elsie, hi, uh-oh, and a mimics a lot of our words.

We love you Alice! We're so glad you came into our lives one year ago!

Snow day

For Katie

I wish we could go out for our walks again.

I wish I could take Olivia for a few hours and give you a break.

I wish we didn't live states apart.

All I can give you right now are these funny videos and hope that you can watch them and laugh for the 8 minutes or so you spend with them.