Sunday, March 29, 2009

Nathan and Amy's Wedding

Here is the Dougal Clan... Plus Sam... guess he has just always been a part of our fam, so we couldn't leave him out.



Here is Marcella and Amy. Marcella loved Amy's dress and everything about the wedding. She had so much fun. She really can't wait until she will get to to get married.


Here are me and my Brothers. You guys are simply the best. Thanks for all the fun times. I love you guys!!
Here is the Happy Couple at the luncheon. They sure are cute. Thanks for the fun day guys!
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Our trip to Vegas


This is what Claire did when I put on her sunglasses and told her we were on our way to Vegas.


She was super happy her big sister was coming as well.

We went with our friends the Laws. Where's Gavin?
(you have to love a sleeping baby.)

Here's the Girls in front of the Bellagio.

Marcella loved looking through the holes to see the water.

Daddy and Claire Bear with Peter and Hallie.

While Marcella kept looking at the water...

Claire was just chillin' in her stroller loaned to us so graciously by Dave and Rose. Seriously this trip wouldn't have been fun without it. Thanks guys.



Marcella loved the pool. Before we left she reminded me that we need to buy her some goggles so she could go under water. Everyone knows you can't go under without them. So here she is strutting her new goggles and loving every minute of it. Claire on the other hand got so cold the first time we took her in and after about 5 minutes, if that, she started screaming. Hopefully she will enjoy it more this summer.

This was after a nice long cry at the pool. We put the girls in the tub and then I got Claire dressed and put her on the bed. After we got everyone else ready for bed, this is what I found. She was so tired. This is one thing I love about Claire she will fall asleep anywhere really. The best is that I can rock her to sleep. Marcella would never just cuddle up to you and go to sleep, she had to be wrapped up and but in a bed. Claire on the other hand has been my snuggle bug and I love it.

Here is Marcella lovin' her BIG bed. It was super cozy. This was Marcella's first time sleeping in a hotel, as far as we can remember. She had so much fun.


This is Marcella's friend Hallie. They sure were enjoying all the food you could get at the morning breakfast buffet. It was so yummy!




This is one of my favorite pictures of Marcella. She was having so much fun running around and looking at all the flowers. Every few seconds I would hear, "Mommy, can I please just pick one flower?" It was pretty cute.


This is one of my favorites of Claire with a bunch of Poppies behind her. When I saw all the poppies I couldn't help but think of Grandma Noni. She had so many growing every spring in the front of her house. Crazy enough it made me miss seeing them.

We are a Happy Family.


I thought this was cute and I couldn't pass up the moment to take a picture. These were animals that you could mix and match the parts to make up different or the original animals. These two had a fun time putting them all together.



This was Saturday night after we got back to the hotel. Claire was being so snuggly. This is when she really started to not feel so great, but she was a trooper and we are glad she came with us.


Last but not least. After two Great days of buffets, we ate at IHOP for Breakfast. By the time we got to the restaurant the kids and the adults for that matter were starving. Let's just say it wasn't the best meal we had the whole trip, but I think this picture was taken before all the kids had a little melt down.

No trip would be complete without a little bit of car trouble. Yep our little car made it all the way to Nephi and then decided to die. At least we were able to get it towed to a place in Orem and it only cost us $30. Thanks Spencer for coming to get us, you are awesome!
All in all we had a lot of fun over the weekend. Hope you all have a great Day!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Updates

Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to the past little while. We have been having so much fun that I have put blogging on hold and I now have a billion pictures I want to put up but I don't want to bore all of you completely. So here we go...


This was on Valentine's Day. Before she could go swimming in the hot tub she had to shovel Grandpa Wallin's drive way. (Man she has the meanest parents in the world!) I seriously can't believe how much it snowed.


For Christmas Jon got one of these and he has been baking a lot of bread. All I can say is Yum!

We took an adults only ski trip to the cabin the end of Feb. Here are the guys


and here are the gals. We had so much fun skiing and eating. Thanks for coming it was a blast!


When we got home from our ski trip Claire had learned a few new tricks. She can sit up for a few minutes now and is doing awesome. I can't believe how fast she is growing!