Nothing new

Boston

So nothing new is really going on in our lives. We had a great Valentine's day. We went out to eat at a restaurant named Ted Turner's Buffalo grill. I didn't get any Buffalo but Nate did. He said it was good. Nate got me some pink roses and Cupcakes, b/c I love cake. BUt that was about it.

We are going to be going on a trip to Boston, New york and Pennsylvania soon so I thought I would do a countdown of that b/c we are really excited to go. I think I'm a little nervous for the airplane ride with my almost 18 month old. At least my family will be with us so they can help entertain her.

Nursery Time For Lilly

Last Sunday Lilly started going to nursery. Since my friend is over Nursery she got to go in a month early. There is only one other little girl so Lilly gets to go to Nursery now! WOHOOO!!!! I was so excited! Maybe I'm a bad mom but I needed the time to do my calling in primary and Nate hasn't gone to Elders quorum in a while b/c lilly is well very disruptive. For those of you haven't met lilly shes a bit of a pill and likes to be mischevious. My mom says that I was not like Lilly at all and that I have my hands full. But I still love her very much. She had a great time in nursery and didn't cry at all until Daddy came in to check on her. But she got over it quickly. Yeah for Nursery!!

My little China doll

When we went to San Francisco in October, we bought Lilly some Chinese PJs. She didn't fit into them until recently. But I think they're pretty cute on her!

Christmas and new stuff

We had a great christmas this year. My brother and his family came from New York to be with us for christmas. We started out going to a light show in town on Monday. Then Wednesday we went swimming at our fav. Swimming pool. On crhistmas eve we had some friends from our ward come and we put on the story of Jesus' birth for everyone. Nate and I were wiseman. Lilly and her cousin Garrett were sheep. Brooke was mary, Crystal was joseph. Grant was a donkey and Shepard, Aleisha a wiseman and Alaina the angel. Even though it was kind of crazy it was fun. Then nate and our friend bro. Dalley played the guitars and we sang christmas songs.


Garrett the sheep





Christmas Morning



Lilly on her new dinosaur from Grandpa and Grandma. She loves it!


This is a ragged quilt that I had been working on for nate's parent's for christmas. It has all the grandkids handprints and some blank ones for new grandkids. I had to wait to post pics of it til after they got it. But I had fun putting it together. They have 21 grandkids and 1 on the way. Its made out of flannel. When I was thinking about what I wanted to make it out of I wanted it to be comfortable, something that you would want to cuddle up in. So I thought of flannel pjs and I went with that.

Quilt upclose, I embroidered " Families are forever" on the front.

The back

Christmas morning


Garrett and Lilly at the pool


This is my salon that we had been building in our basement for the past year. Nate and I worked on it together. I can now say I have Drywalled and plastered and painted, and laid flooring. It was fun to do together and to have it done. I really enjoy having it in my home where I can stay with lilly but still make some extra money. The salon name is Colette's Salon de Cheveux. I went with a french theme and high fashion. I have coutour pictures on the walls. The phrase "Salon de Cheveux" is french for Hair salon. So I just added my name, so in french it says " Colette's hair salon." My name is also french that's kind of how I got the idea. I hope that makes sense.

Thanksgiving

So this year for thanksgiving we went to Billings, MT where Nate's family is. I'm kind of upset at myself b/c I didn't take any pictures. But we had lots of fun. Nate has 4 siblings that live in MT. Only one that lives in Utah. We were able to visit all 4 families and spend some time with them individually which was really nice and Lilly had so much fun with all her cousins. She loves little kids and trys to hug them everytime she sees a little kid like her. Nates nephew Kade who is just one month older than Lilly was scared of her the first time he met her but lilly went right up to him and hugged him than he started crying. Every night lilly went to bed sweating from playing so much. We appreciate all the families and nate's parents for having us!! Nate got up at 4am in the morning on Black friday to get a pistol for 200 when it is usually 400. There were only 50 of them. So he was pretty excited to get it and I'm excited b/c now I don't have to hear him say how much he wants another gun, and that he didn't have to pay 400! But we had a great time!

surprise

These lovely deer were in our flower bed in my front yard. The one scared me a little bit b/c I was downstairs exercising and I came up and there it was in the view of my front window. But they were there for quite a while. I took the pictures from our front room. We always see them at the neighbors and they ate some of my pumpkins but this was the first time they were so close.

Halloween and my new love!

For Halloween I was a 50's girl, nate was a skeleton and Lilly was cinderella. We went to our ward party on Friday and I won "One of a kind" chili in the chili competition. I was just glad I won something. It's getting really hard to take pictures of lilly b/c she just wants to come grab the camera. This is her with pigtails for the first time. and her cute pumpkin outfit.










This is my new Love!! I was so excited when I got this piano. The delivery man asked if I was taking lessons and I said nope, I had lessons for 12 years. So to have a piano for myself is wonderful. I sat down and lilly and I started playing.