Some pics from our winter fun

A big week in the life of a two-year-old!

This Christmas break has brought some big changes for little miss Emma. In one week she has successfully moved out of a crib and into a big girl bed and gotten potty-trained!! WOOHOO!!! We are so excited (mom especially) about the potty training!! YAY for Emma!!!

Christmas with the Hinckley's

We had a great Christmas this year. It was our first year that we had Christmas at our own house. We had always been at my parent's or Ira's previous years. It was so fun to have Santa come to our home this year. The kids had a great time and they even heard Santa's sleigh bells while they were in their beds on Christmas Eve! Ira took off the whole week in between Christmas and New Years so we have been loving having some good family time! We went to the Children's Museum up in Salt Lake and the kids thought that was about the coolest place ever. We went sledding yesterday with Ira's family. Taylor was a total daredevil as expected and flew down the hillside. Austin and Emma loved it too, but they preferred having mom or dad ride with them. It really has been a fabulous holiday season and hope it was for all of you too!

Little Emma is so Big!!

Wow!! Two years have gone by since little miss Emma joined our family. We are so grateful to have her feisty, stubborn, sweet, sassy, cute, funny, diva, personality in our family. She is 100% girl and so fun to be around. Happy Birthday Emma! We love you!!

Some things about Emma at age two:

• Her favorite phrase is No, No way!! to whatever we ask her to do.
• When she wakes up in the morning she loves to just talk to herself in her crib.
• She loves to read books and sing songs. One of her favorites is her potty book...although she not to keen on going on the potty (work in progress)
• She loves to color and knows most of her colors.
• She loves breakfast and makes her rounds eating off of everyone's breakfast.
• She can identify about 10-15 letters and tell you some of their sounds.
• She loves clothes and shoes and accessories.
• She love puppies but is afraid of them if they run up to her!
• She says please and thankyou and your welcome and excuse you and sorry, but not always in the right context.
• She is talking like crazy and says some funny things like one time when she told Taylor that he was rude.
• She has to have a million hugs and kisses from everyone in the family before she goes to bed at night and the hugs and kisses have to be given when she is tucked into bed or she thinks they don't count.
• She is full of attitude, cuteness, cuddliness, and we love her to pieces!!
  
  

Flag Football Season

Again, we finish another flag football season. This year was Taylor's 2nd year and we could see lots of improvement. Taylor played really hard and was really good at pulling flags on defense. He even had a couple long runs (one only yards short of a TD). We are really proud of him for working so hard this year.

Austin's Summer of Soccer

Well, we were really excited to start Austin in his first competitive sport this summer...good old soccer. He was so excited to start the season, he would talk about it all the time and practice in the house and in the yard. However, once we go him out in the field on game day, something would click, and he just didn't want to be out there. We got him to play a few minutes and he enjoyed being goalie, as long as Dad was right there behind him. I think he learned a lot, and there are still a few more games, so we'll see what happens.