Umm.....

This is how our dinner conversation went tonight...

Me: Cambria you need to eat your dinner. Do you not like it?

Cambria: I like it, I'm just not quite sure I like the poop in it.

The "poop" was beef. We were having hamburger helper.

Too Bad

It is too bad that our camera died because the dance was about to get really good!


Last Sunday in Primary Cambria was being really funny, but it would have been better if it was someone else's kid. You know, the kid at church or school that is really loud, and you are glad they aren't yours... well this time it was mine. During the prayer that a little girl was saying Cambria said in her very loud I don't know how to whisper voice, "say chiki, chiki milk!" (which is what she calls chocolate milk). I do not know why she was telling the girl to say that. Then during a boy's talk she started crying and asking when it would be her turn. For everyone who knows Cambria, she only has one volume and it is LOUD! She got pretty upset so I told her to come over by me and I explained that someday she will have her turn but not today, and that she needs to sit in her chair and listen to the lesson and be quiet. So then she said "Oh darnit!" and stomped all the way back to her chair. THEN during sharing time she actually went up the stairs behind the poduim and grabbed the microphone and said, "ok it's my turn now!" It was funny and kinda cute but it would have been better if it was someone else's kid acting this way because I had Ashlynn with me and she was crying so I already felt like everyone was staring at me. She really makes me laugh sometimes.

Skiing in Utah

This past weekend we went to Ogden to take Cambria skiing for her first time. She was so good. Even the guy working there was surprised that she was only 3. She was so cute because she wasn't even paying any attention to where she was going most of the time, she was looking up and all around instead of in front of her, and she was humming jungle bells the whole time. It was so funny to watch. The weekend was great until Monday when we were almost all the way up to Powder Mountain and our oil pump in our car broke. We coasted all the way down to a town so that we could call a tow truck. It is a good thing our insurance covered that, but we ended up having to stay in Ogden until last night waiting for our car, which is still broken. They can't figure out what is wrong so Aaron's mom came to get us because Aaron couldn't miss anymore work. The girls were getting cranky, we were our of clean clothes, and we were stressed out about how much it is going to cost to fix our car, but we were grateful that Jaymee let us stay at her house!! To top of our weekend when we got home we didn't have a key to get in our house because it was on our car keys in Ogden, so we had to pay a locksmith $50 to come let us in. The good news is that it is impossible to break into our house!

This was the Dew Tour at Snowbasin. Jaymee works there and so we spent the day there walking around getting free stuff, and watching the men's snowboarding finals. It looks cold but we were all actually sweating because it was such a nice day and so warm!




This was on Saturday. I thought Cambria would be scared but she had no fear going down the mountain! They even took her up the ski lift on a bigger run and she loved it. This girl doesn't even like it when Aaron throws her up in the air and catches her, she is scared of the water when we swim, and she is pretty clumsy, but she loved skiing and is already asking to go again. Maybe we have a future olympian!


I rode the ski bike down the hill. It goes really fast.
The magic carpet takes you back to the top of the bunny hill so that you can go back down again. The place where we went was perfect for Cambria to learn because the hill was small and not too steep. We will have to take her again!

This was Ashlynn's first ride on a ski lift. She seemed to like it. It always kinda makes me nervous when we get on these.

Spa Day

She loves to soak her feet and relax!

Snow and Stuff

We got so much snow last week. Cambria and I played outside while Aaron was in Utah snowboarding. We got about 4 or 5 inches and then the next day got about 4 more!
It is a good thing Corey decided to stay in El Paso a week longer... Before one of our neighbors shoveled our driveway with his 4 wheeler you could barely see her car.

The piles of snow around our house were as tall as Cambria. She wanted to shovel too.
Every little bit helps, except that she was putting it back on the car!
I forgot to post this a while ago, but Ashlynn has been sitting by herself for a few weeks. She only falls over when she gets distracted. She loves to roll over to the stairs and look down them.
She is getting so big.
Someone got some play dough for Christmas, and no it wasn't the big kid on the left.


The first video is of Cambria in her dance class. She loves it and she looks so cute. There is a future rock star in the second video... and a baby almost crawling in the last one.

Christmas!!

Aaron was in the shower one day and when he got out Cambria had laid out his clothes for him. I think this is hilarious because I used to do this with my sisters. It is weird though because I never taught this to her, she just did it on her own!

A few days ago it snowed and even though it wasn't very much Cambria waited patiently all day for him to be finished working and go outside to play with her.

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day in Blackfoot. Aaron's mom was trying to teach Cambria about why we celebrate Christmas, but Cambria said it was Santa's birthday so they ended up making a birthday cake for him instead of cookies. Everyone was really tired and fell asleep early on Christmas Eve, so it made it easy for Santa to go to bed early too :) I don't know how my parents did it, shopping for 4 people this Christmas was kinda hard, and they did it for 7!! My mom also had to buy 5 of everything for us when we were little.

Santa went a little crazy! Cambria was so excited to get that Mickey Mouse Clubhouse toy. She had asked Santa for it several times and was telling strangers at the store that she wanted it.

Stockings have always been one of my favorite parts of Christmas morning, but it wasn't a tradition in Aaron's family, so I wanted to be in charge of them and I did stocking for everyone. I don't know why I like it so much, I think there is something exciting about opening tiny presents.

When I was little our gifts from Santa were always unwrapped and I think Cambria liked it because it was the first thing she saw.

Ashlynn didn't know what to think about these glasses but they sure are cute!

Cambria is kinda in a Tinkerbell phase right now, so Amma and Appa gave this to her. It was wrapped in a diaper box so when she opened it she smiled and said yay, I got some diapers for my baby sister!

Grandma and Papa gave this doll to Cambria, she LOVES it. She has carried it everywhere with her, and has named her Emily. She wanted her to go to the movies with us and church. We talked her out of it though...

Grandma and Papa gave Ashlynn this little horse. It plays music and talks. She can't sit on it by herself yet but she gets really excited on it and tries to make it rock and kicks her legs.

Fiona got some Princess dress up clothes and she let Cambria play with them. They were so cute dressed up together having a tea party.

This is the tea set she got. It is the Beauty and the Beast characters so it has Mrs. Potts and Chip. I love it. The tray goes on the cart so she can push it around. She served us orange juice for breakfast.
The day after Christmas we went to the church to eat and play games. They set up the wii on the wall with the projector. It was fun to run around and eat a lot!
Ashlynn sat in her little chair and watched everybody. She is eating the gross looking rice cereal and it is her favorite thing to eat. She gets so excited when she sees us getting it out.

Jaymee gave this reindeer suit to Cambria for her first Christmas so it was fun to put it on Ashlynn this year.

This is still Ashlynn...

This was in 2006 when Cambria wore it. She just started laughing really hard and it was cute because she had never laughed so loud before. You can see how Ashlynn still looks almost exactly like Cambria when she was this age, but Aslynn looks a little more like me and Cambria looks more like Aaron. But looking at the 2 pictures together it looks like it could be the same baby!
I put this dress on Ashlynn earlier this month but didn't take a picture and it doesn't fit her now. Cambria was 6 months at Christmas and Ashlynn is closer to 7 months now so clothes don't fit her the same time they fit Cambria.

Well I am sad that Christmas has come and gone already, but it was so much fun. We had a crazy couple of nights because Ashlynn didn't like the pack and play, and so I slept on the couch holding her. The night when she did actually fall asleep in the pack and play she woke up around 2 and wanted a bottle, so I very sleepily went to the kitchen to warm one up for her, when I went to put it in her mouth the milk poured out all over her!!! I had forgotten to put on the lid. It got her face and most of her body wet. I felt so stupid because she would have gone right back to sleep with the bottle, but instead I had to take her out and get new blankets and pajamas for her. I wish someone else was awake to see the look she gave me, and to laugh about it with me. It was about a hundred times funnier when it happened than just telling people about it. Poor baby...

I have some videos from our new video camera that I will try to remember to post later, but we have to get a new charge cord for our laptop so we can use it! I feel like I could go on and on about what we did this week but I'm pretty sure it is just like what everyone else did. We ate a lot, watched movies, spent too much money, played games and had a GREAT time!!!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards