Big shoes to Fill

From the minute she wakes up she wants to be like daddy and wear a hat

Daddy's little apprentice

Our little chef cooking dinner, yummy

This Little girl is growing up so fast! She has gone from a Mama's girl to Daddy's girl overnight. Shadowing him on everything he does.
As she gets bigger and more independent it makes me hope that Heavenly Father has another special baby ready for us soon! But until then I will keep enjoying every minute with my Leta bug.

And the Verdict is....

GIRL....Yesterday I found out my sister is having another Girl! This will make 4 girls for her. I am excited for the new little one to come in May, babies are so sweet!
We will find out in February if my Sister in-law will be adding a niece or nephew to the family so stay tuned!

Doing our Part

I am so excited our Bishopric has given our ward a challenge for each family to have daily scripture study. And for every 7 consecutive days we read we get to turn one of these papers in...

Which will then be used to "wallpaper" the walls of the Bishops office! The goal of course is to help each family better there daily scripture study, which we personally need the push to do better, but it will be fun to see the office hopefully fill with these little blue papers throughout the year.

This one is for Grandpa idaho!

Comic Relief

No matter what this little girl can always manage to make me smile!

'Tis the Season

Getting ready for Christmas......



Leta loves the lights

Wheres the pup?

The finished product...

Learning to make Sugar cookies...



Leta was so much fun this year. My parents got her some small gifts to open for the Twelve days of Christmas so by the time Christmas rolled around she was an expert present opener.
Christmas Eve Jayme's parents took us to the Chipmunks the Squeekual ( cute movie, but not as good as the first one) and like the Princess and the Frog movie Leta enjoyed the singing and dancing. Afterwards we went to Denny's ( We where celebrating Jayme's Birthday a day late). So by the time we got home Leta was asleep in her car seat, but luckily she woke up when we brought her inside so I had her open her special Christmas Eve present ( Pj's of course). Then it was time to read the Christmas Story out of the Bible and The Night Before Christmas Story, it was fun to pass on family traditions.


Christmas morning was equally fun. Only problem was I gave Leta her stocking to inspect while daddy woke up so when it came time to open presents it took some coaxing to get the stocking away from her. And of course she wanted to open mommy and daddies present first so then she was to excited to open anymore( we got her a cell phone put out by Parents, Awesome toy!!). But before long she had them opened and was happy with all of it.








Jayme and I opted not to get presents for each other this year since we had and elk butchered and car repairs to pay for. But the parents got us some awesome presents. Jaymes mom got me a cake pan with a lid, which I have been wanting for years, and it was even personalized! And some much needed Tupperware. My mom got me some new PJ's and some super cute slippers and some scrap booking stuff. Jayme also got some PJ's and slippers and from his folks a solar powered/ crank powered emergency radio. Leta of course was spoiled by everyone. She got a super cute Ladybug tent/tunnel from Grandma and Grandpa Allen. And From my Mom she got a shopping cart with groceries and a play milk carton that you put cookies into and when you drop them out it moos.




We tried to deliver cookies to everyone we where close to but money and time ran out. This year we where super blessed with goodies from friends we received everything from goodie plates and jams of all varieties to a blanket! Thanks to all our awesome friends.

All in all it was a great Christmas Season, but I am glad for downtime and normal life to resume.

Over The HIll to Grandmas house!

Okay so I am playing catch up ...The first part of the month we decided to Go to my Parents in Idaho for a few days, a late Thanksgiving early Christmas visit.
We always enjoy ourselves and get spoiled with trips to the movies and out to eat (When your on a tight budget these our treats [: )
Leta loves her Grandparents and Aunt Katie, and all of the fun animals around there place.





Leta is continuing to amaze me everyday! She can reach all the drawers now in my kitchen and bathrooms so instead of just having disarray to my cupboards its my drawers as well.
She is trying to cut a molar so our nights have been a bit on the horrendous side, but during the day she is usually my little sunshine still.