I'm TWO!

December 25, 2010

Our (semi) Sweet Ezra boy is TWO!

Ryan has been calling him two for awhile as he has been acting *two*......why must they go through this *two* business?

That being said we are blessed to have this little guy in our family!

My sweet boy

Christmas was such a long day! Ryan was at work all day and looking forward to celebrating Ezra's birthday when he got home, but as you can tell, this little guy was pooped! We snapped this photo and took a sweet little video of me holding him. It was one of those heart warming mom moments. I held him and reflected on his birth and just enjoyed my SWEET baby boy. He was out cold when all of a sudden he woke up. He was wide awake and ready to go. The babies were asleep so we were able to spend some time just the three of us. I was really nice! We sang happy birthday and he blew out the candles. He liked it so much that we repeated this about twelve times! It was cute. We would light the candles and he would start singing to himself. Sometimes he would just sing part of the song before he would blow out the candles and other times he would sing the whole thing. He always clapped for himself at the end.

What a big boy!

Enjoying his cake!
So this cake is sugar free (a little bit of honey was used to sweeten) and gluten free. Do you want to know what it's made of?.....
BLACK BEANS!
It was very moist and pretty darn tasty. Next time I make it I'm going to make a few changes that will hopefully make it even better.
Ezra is wearing his Lightning Mc Queen pjs and using his Lightening Mc Queen bowl, he LOVES them! Thank you Grandad Great!!!

Dear Ezra,

You are such a wonderful boy! You are smart, happy and handsome. There is no way for me to truly express how much I love you and how impressed I am by you. You have great verbal skills! You speak so well, clearly and in sentences. Because of this I sometime forget that you are only two and get frustrated when you act *two*. You Love to sing. Some of your songs you've learned at church, some from me and the others you make up on your own. You LOVE to eat! You aren't a big eater at dinner but you beg me for food the rest of the day. Some of your favorite foods are...peanut butter and honey sandwiches, egg salad, rice, fruit, cornbread, biscuits, pancakes and *ice cream* (frozen bananas and strawberries), pretzels and raisins. You are a great big brother. You are always giving your "Levi boy and Lucy girl" love. You like to go to church and see your nursery teacher. You always say "I love my Sister Hall!" (your teacher) You talk about Jesus and about the temple. Unfortunately you currently think the hotels on the strip are temples. You know about the temple hopefully we can teach you where the real ones are:) You still love your Singing Time DVDs. Mommy and Daddy got our family the box set for Christmas so now we can watch them more. You are learning more and more everyday! I love you so much!!! I feel so blessed to be your mom! Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

I love you,

Mommy

Christmas Day

As you know my Mom, Dad and three youngest siblings live in Australia, leaving behind Myself and my three other siblings. Ryan was working so I had my sibling over on Christmas. All of my siblings work at night so Christmas Eve, after they got off work at 1:30, 2:00 and 3:00 am, they came over to stay the night.

Ivy in her new pjs

This picture is from Christmas Eve as we watch Ivy at night while Ashley works.

The children nestled all snug in their beds.....

Floor
Brennan

Or couch

Aaron

Ashley

Mom & Dad

The "twins"

My mom said they looked alike and needed a picture. I would say they were looking fairly similar that day.

My Grandad and Aunt Frieda came over to visit and skype with my family.

Aunt Frieda & Lucy

Mom & Andrew

Playing a song for the Aussies

Grandad trying out the didg

It was weird being the "Mom". What I mean is during the holidays my mom was the one up early cooking food and doing all that kind of stuff. Ashley and I got together a couple days before Christmas and made our traditional Hungarian nut cookies and a few other goodies. Christmas morning I made sausage casserole (another tradition) It was a hit! We had fun "hanging out" with the Aussies on their Boxing day (the day after Christmas is a holiday in Austrila called boxing day). We miss them but it was nice to at least see them!

In the afternoon we headed over to my Aunt Georgeanne and Uncle Rand's home. My Dad's whole side of the family was there excluding my parents and youngest siblings and my cousins Brent and Zach. Brent is currently serving a mission in Brazil and Zach in Mexico. Some of the family was able to speak with Brent and Zach and we were all able to Skype with my family.

We had a simple dinner of lasagna, rolls, veggies and salad. We had all been eating so much rich food and no one really wants to be in the kitchen all day so it was perfect! I made some toffee, which was loved by all especially My Uncle Rand:).....He was bragging to my Dad on Skype (just a little brotherly love).

It was nice to get everyone together as we don't see each other very often as we get busy and or live far away. We were very excited to meet Jon and Carleen's new baby boy Elias! We were also excited to hear the news of a new baby coming this August to Chad and Alli.

Merry Christmas to all....

and to all a good night!

Our Christmas, your Christmas Eve

This year, once again, we did our Christmas celebrating on Christmas Eve because Ryan works on Christmas day. We spent our day relaxing and spending time together.


We didn't do too much in the way of gifts because we don't really need a lot of stuff.
This is actually a gift Ezra got for his first birthday. I put it away and he got it for Christmas.
Thanks Chad and Alli :)

Ezra L.O.V.E.S. juice boxes

*Side story.......We were at a party and the kids had all finished eating and left their half eaten food and drinks. Ezra went around and finished off everyone's juice.*

Daddy did a great job making the kids stockings! That's right, I said DADDY!!! My husband is the BEST! They weren't done until Christmas eve so I didn't have time to stitch there names. Maybe I'll have it done by next Christmas.

The babies got teething toys from Santa and these cute little stuffed animals from G&G Petersen, they play music and vibrate.

We had a wonderful Christmas and hope you did too.

SANTA....maybe not

December 23, 2010

I dressed the kids up and feed them well in hopes for a good picture with Santa. As we were making our way into The Bass pro shop a women stopped and asked us if we were going to see Santa (there is no other reason to have kids so dressed up to go to The Bass pro shop) We told her yes and she informed us that she waited TWO and a half hours to see Santa! I went to see how long the line was, hoping that it might be shorter. As I walked in it didn't look so bad. But as I walked and walked and walked through the store to get to the end of the line I realized we would not be taking pictures with Santa. The line could easily have been a four hour line by that point. No thank you!!! Thankfully Ezra loves The Bass pro shop so we had a fun outing, even though we didn't get to see Santa. Maybe next year we will go the day after Thanksgiving:)

Ezra wants this for Christmas......oh, maybe that was on Daddy's wish list not Ezra's.


Ezra loves the fish

Feed Me!

December 23, 2010

Ezra's favorite food is peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I guess we didn't feed him fast enough..... "A Peanut, a honey.......PLEASE!!!"

Petersen Christmas

Dcember 17, 2010

Ryan's FAVOITE brother Branden came to town (one and only brother)........ He brought down two of his boys, Sawyer and Bridger. We missed His wife, Lynne and other son Caleb but we were SO happy to have part of the gang here! Branden and his family live in Alaska so we don't get to see them very often :( While he was in town we did our family Christmas gathering. Unfortunatly we were a small group this year. Ryan's sisters Michelle and Jenenlle and their families live out of town and were unable to make it. His sister Danielle and her family were suposed to come but her kids got sick. Amie's son, Dustin was sick and her daughter Lauren was working so it was just her and Brayden......Like I said, small group. We MISSED all of you who couldn't be there!!! The food was wonderful and we enjoyed a story read by grandma Diana and flute playing by papa Dennis.

Belive it or not I brought my camera AND took pictures:)

Ezra and Bridger had fun wresling with Branden!Untill it wasn't fun....Ezra started to cry. He doesn't have big brothers to "beat" on him, so he isn't used to having all out brawls.BridgerGrandpa & LucyAuntie Amie & LeviGrandma & LucyEzra eating ice, one of his favorite things about going to G&G's.Grandpa and Brayden playing their flutesGrandma and Grandpa got Ezra a marble game....his other favoite thing to do at their houseSawyer and I playing "cheakers" aparently I have been playing it wrong all these years. Sawyer's Rules: Sawyer may do anything that helps him to win.

Wild Ride

December 15, 2010

I've been wanting to get bikes for quite sometime. I thought it would be a fun and healthy activity for the whole family. The outfit we would need for our family is quite a lot....Two bikes, a trailer and a seat for Ezra. Even going the "cheap" route would still cost quite a bit. So I went to my favorite "shop" CRAIGSLIST! I was able to find the whole outfit (minus Ezra's seat) for $100! Granted, they aren't the top of the line bikes, but they are in great condition and they get us from point A to point B. Point A being our house and point be being Sam's Club. Yes, we ride our bikes to Sam's Club to do our shopping and ride home. It's really fun! Ezra LOVES going on rides and the babies sleep (something they rarely do...but that's another post). We try and ride at least once a week. So the title of this post is "Wild ride" well here's why....No it's not because we take out three kids two and under (although that does make it pretty wild). It's because of the wildlife we see.

Now I'm sure many of you have seen a butterfly on your bike ride.......And depending on where you live maybe even a horse.....

But have you ever seen a dinosaur?....

NO.

I didn't think so.

Daddy, a dinosar and our outfit

Sleeping wildlife

Mommy and a dinosaur

In all reality the costume are the warmest clothes that the babies have which explains the constant state of Halloween in which we live. But, they sure are cute.

"Oatman"

December 15, 2010

Ezra was sitting at the table eating his breakfest and Ryan and I were in the livingroom taking care of the babies when I walked into the kitchen and found this..... Ezra was no longer eating his breakfast. He was giving himself a facial. Good thing.....he has been looking a little aged. I hope this facial can bring him a youthful glow.

Remember this little one?.......
This was Ezra's first facial.

I did get a little video of Ezra but I don't know how to load them on here yet. He was saying, "I need to wash my eyeball."

Christmas pjs

I know most people open thier Christmas pjs on Christmas eve but I've thought of a new tradition that we will do in our family.... We will open our Christmas pjs on the day after Thanksgiving. This way we can enjoy them for the whole season.

The kids had several sets of pjs...some were items I bought but most were given to us.

*Funny story.....

So Last year after Christmas they had little baby pjs on sale. I knew I was expecting so I wanted to get some for our new baby. But what should I buy...boy or girl..what would we have? I had a feeling it could be twins and I've always wanted girl/boy twins so I bought pjs for a boy and pjs for a girl:)* The pjs I got for Levi were seen in the Santa run photos. Lucy's are seen below....Babydoll Their pjs say Baby's first Christmas

This is what our almost two year old looks like much of the time!

L&L

Family Pictures

November 10, 2010

We took family pictures and we didn't do to bad (if I say so myself) for having three little ones So here is our favorit picture... I used this photo to make our Christmas cards and I had them done by Thanksgiving...althought not everyone ended up receiving their cards. I do feel acomplished in the fact tha I got them done!