Wednesday, January 25, 2012

birthday parties......

Brenna turned 4 on January 10th.

We had a birthday party the Sunday before her birthday with my side of the family since my mom was going to CT to be with Linds.
Brenna wanted a Batman themed birthday party, which was easy!

Lorena made her cake. Brenna loved it! And it was super tasty.




All the kids got masks and a Batman bracelet
Even Uncle Brett got in on the action :)
Sweet baby girl
Brenna woke up on her birthday with balloons all over her bedroom floor and a poster made (and signed) by mommy and daddy. I remember growing up, we always had a poster for our birthdays. And she got to go to school and bring treats. She wanted red cupcakes. So I made red velvet cupcakes with red frosting. That's why her lips are red, cause that's what she had for breakfast :)
That night we had the Wentworth's and the Zumwalt's over for cake and ice cream. Again, Batman themed :)


We're so grateful to have family and friends who love Brenna as much as we do. Thanks everyone for coming and making her birthday the best! We love you.

Happy Birthday Brenna. 4 years ago you changed mommy and daddy's life forever. And now we can't imagine it without you.
Love you kid!

Thursday, January 5, 2012

my baby at 6 months.....

Maya is now 6 months.This girl is so smiley and happy! She is doing some fun things these days:

-She can now sit up by herself.
-Started on solids a month ago and she's doing great. Except for the constipation, that's not so great.
-She loves to eat rice cereal, bananas, pears, peaches, and applesauce. She's even been eating prunes mixed with her cereal and she loves it!
-She has eaten some carrots and peas. These she did not love as much as the fruit.
-Does not like to take medicine.
-Has herself a tooth.
-Loves Brenna! Brenna is the only one that can get her to laugh really hard.
-Can play peek-a-boo
-Was sleeping through the night until the tooth and the constipation hit. Now she's waking up at least once every night.
-Still pretty bald compared to what Brenna had.
-She gets frustrated at times, and starts swinging her little arms and hands around. SO cute.

Oh, how I love this little girl. And this is such a fun stage. She is showing her personality and we just love her. Now here are some pics that my amazing and talented sister in law did for me.

I love every single one of these.










Love you Mymy!

sunbeam.....

Brenna is finally a sunbeam this year. She missed the deadline by 10 days last year, therefore being the tallest kid in her class this year.
I asked what she learned in her class and she replied " I don't know."

Going to be an awesome year :) Love you kid!




Friday, December 30, 2011

christmas 2011....

We had such a great Christmas this year. We're so thankful for our wonderful blessings and our family and friends. It's always such a busy time, but we love seeing all of our loved ones.

Christmas Eve we had the Wentworth's over to make pizzas. I made the pizza dough and everyone brought some toppings to share. I think it was a hit, and hopefully will be become a new tradition.




Brenna slept in until 8 Christmas morning, which was so nice! She found that Santa had indeed been there because he ate the brownie she left him and all of the carrots for the reindeer's were gone. Santa left her a note that said she had been a nice little girl this year, but she still needs to listen to her mom and dad. Ha!
Santa was good to us this year. Brenna got a lot of fun stuff. The Batcave, a tool set, a unicorn PillowPet, Rockstar Mickey, a Cars 2 track and a big girl bike. To sum up Brenna, her big girl bike box said it all.....'16 inch Boys Roadster Bike'. Haha! She loves boy stuff, what can I say?
Maya just sat in her Bumbo and screamed the whole time. (video below!) She was so excited she couldn't stand it! She got Topsy Tumblers, a toy to hang on her car seat, puff cereal to eat, and lots of toys she can put in her mouth.
Ooh, I could just eat her.
After our sacrament meeting, we headed up to my mom's to open more gifts. I love my family and being with them. We have so much fun together...and let's not forget my mom's omelets...Oh man, they were SO good! After that we headed to the Wentworth's to be with them for the afternoon. I also love my in laws! They are such kind and giving people. Had such a great day with all of our families.
here's a video of Maya screaming. When she gets excited this is what she does. Enjoy.

Merry Christmas!

Friday, December 2, 2011

thanksgiving 2011

This year for Thanksgiving we spent it with the Wentworth's. They rented a house in Park City (well, in Silver Summit which is 5 minutes away...).
I have to be honest.....
I really wasn't excited about it. Packing up the kids, packing up the food to cook up there, sleepless nights....

But we had a blast. The house we rented was amazing!! Each room had their own bathroom. There was a theater room, a pool table, a hot tub, and an awesome kitchen.
We took the master bedroom downstairs :) which came with a walk in closet. So that's where Maya slept. And she slept well, let me tell you. Brenna slept down the hall with Lily in a bunk bed. Lil was on top and Brenna was on the bottom. Sure it was a struggle every night to get her to go to bed. But she had the time of her life.

The food was great! Here's B helping stuff the turkey...


Love this girl.
And this one too...
Daddy took B sledding. That's all she would talk about!! We had to buy her new snow gear (which she loved!) just so she could sled with Dad. What a great daddy.
playing with Aunt Teresa. she's so good with Brenna!!
her new snow gear. It's shocking to me that she chose pink :)
So, this Thanksgiving was a great one. We have so much to be thankful for this year. We're so blessed.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

halloween 2011

We were so excited for Halloween this year. Brenna was BatGirl (or as she would call it BatmanGirl) and Maya was a bumblebee.

We stopped by daddy's work and went Trick or Treating to his coworkers. She even got $1 from his boss.
Then we headed out to Bountiful to see Grandma Rosser and Great Grandma Rosser. GG Rosser always has a couple of goodie bags to give each of them.
Maya caught a cold, so her eyes were sad and red :(
Then we stopped by the Wentworth's for chili and scones, our favorite tradition.
We had a busy, busy day. But so much fun!



pic taken with my phone
And here is a picture of Brenna's preschool class all dressed up. Her friend Emery is dressed up as a princess riding a unicorn. HA! love it.
Happy halloween!

pumpkin patch....

We took the girl's to Mabey's Pumpkin patch a couple of weeks ago.
Brenna loved it.





And Maya was just along for the ride.