Christmas 2010- UTAH

This year we celebrated Christmas in Salt Lake City, Utah. My Brother Aaron is station there and he was deployed to Kuwait City, Kuwait in January 2011. We all thought it would be a great idea to spend Christmas with him before he left. Marley enjoyed ALL the snow!!! We went to Parks City one day and went shopping, it is absolutely beautiful there. There was a pub called Flanagan's so we all took our picture in front of it. On Christmas there was a surprise visit from Santa Claus, you can see a picture of him below. He does this for a hobby and happened to be next door. Marley wasn't too excited to see him.

FUN WITH SHAYDEN

Shayden Turns 2-Dallas

Shayden is already 2... I can't believe it! We traveled to Dallas to visit with her for her birthday. We went to the zoo and the stockyards. At the stockyards there was a petting zoo that the girls LOVED! Marley wanted to see all the animals, but was too scared to touch them. Shayden on the other hand wanted to pet them all. The girls had such a great time playing together. We miss you Shayden.

PUMPKIN PATCH

We took Marley to the Pumpkin Patch and had a great time. She enjoyed petting all the animals and playing on the swings and slides. It was perfect outside. There wasn't a ton of people so we were able to walk around and enjoy everything. Marley kept saying "pumpkin pumpkin!"

Mommy and Marley

Nana and Marley
Marley Swinging

MARLEY & MACY

I finally caught Marley and Macy! Marley thinks Macy is her pony. It is so funny to see. Macy gives us the look like PLEASE HELP ME. She is a good sport about it. We've gone 3 weeks with NO ear infections..hip hip hooray. Marley's immune system kicked in and fought off her last infection. We also started taking her to a chiropractor which I think helped out tremendously. She can identify just about all the animals, is saying her ABC's, up and down, knows her flash cards and we are working on 1-10 and colors. Sometimes I think she knows her colors and then all of a sudden blue is red... I love every second about being a mother. Each day is a new adventure with her. We have no idea what she is going to say or do next.

Violet Turns 1

Marley, Violet and Lilly

Marley has two new buddies... Violet and Lilly! For Violets birthday they set up two pools in the backyard and the kiddo's thought they were in heaven! They splashed and splashed! It was so much fun to watch them interact with each other even though Marley is kind of anti-social...who would have thought!

Unfortunately Marley was sick all last week. Her immune system finally kicked in and fought it off. Since she's been on so many antibiotics I really don't want to give her any more unless I have to.

Her new thing to do is hug Macy, our Beagle, then she slowly puts her leg around her, like a horse, and she will say Getty Up Macy! It is adorable. Except I don't think Macy is enjoying it too much. This is the next challenge...trying to get a photo of this craziness. Marley knows what the camera is so as soon as i get it out, she stops what she is doing as if she knows I am trying capture the moment.