The Big 2

December 27th was David's second birthday and he loved opening more presents. He also loved blowing out the candles which he repeated several times.
His party consisted of Mom, Dad, Lydia, and himself.

Here is our little grownup ready for church the next day. To prove that he is getting older he stayed in nursery the whole time without mom or dad!!

Happy Birthday David! We love you!

Christmastime

David was very excited for Christmas to come. He tried to explain it all to Lydia but the thought of eating candy out of socks while sitting around a dead tree didn't sound like much fun to her. Then she saw how pretty the tree was and thought it might not turn out to be so bad.

With sub zero temperatures and a few colds going around we didn't go outside to play in the snow. To compensate, we built a snowman indoors. David kept waiting for him to grow, "tall, tall, tall".

The good thing about being little is even if your tree in only three feet tall, it still looks big from your point of view.

A rare and random photo of me and David
A cute photo of Lydia whose smile always says, "you know you want to hold me!"

Anyway, back to Christmas: Grandma and Grandpa Salmon and Aunt Alita came to spend Christmas with us. Here are some photos of Christmas day..Lydia received her very first doll and loved it right away, thanks Aunt Joanne!
David putting together a puzzle with Grandpa Salmon.

David shooting some hoops on his new favorite basketball hoop.

Aunt Alita getting ready to read us a Christmas story for the tenth time just before being interrupted again (oh well, I guess you'll have to come again next year to read it to us!)

Scott and I on the "L" coming home from "Wicked" the greatest Broadway musical of all time (a Christmas gift from the greatest husband of all time)

Happy New Year everyone!

We love dad

I don't think it is possible to be more of a daddy's boy than David is. He can't even make it through the night without coming in to say hi at least a few times. This week is finals week for Dad and although he's not getting much sleep, he's still working hard. Thanks for hanging in there dad! We went to Canada for Thanksgiving and for Jeff's wedding. We loved seeing the family and we had a great day at the temple. Four handsome men...

and three gorgeous girls...