Kisses

Levi loves his daddy and as soon as Seth walks in the door Levi reaches for him. Last night Levi went straight to daddy and later Seth realized he hadn't gotten his welcome home hugs and kisses from me. Seth and I were kissing with Levi in Seth's arms staring at us. I looked down at him and he looked like he wanted in on the action too. He leaned in and gave Seth a great big kiss. (He didn't want to give me one.) He really is glad when Daddy comes home!

Haircut

The girls and I went and got our haircut together. Sadie had never had her hair cut, and Charity had only ever had her hair cut at home. We had a great time together. I wish I had gotten an after picture, even though I was the only one with a visible difference.

Happy New Year!

We were so happy to celebrate New Year's with some of our good friends from Santa Cruz. We started off with the afternoon and dinner at the Matesen's, and then went to the Nobis home to celebrate with more friends and ring in the New year. We rang it in early at 10pm.

Friends Lindsay, Emily, Sunny, Amy, and Amy.
Babies Chase, Malia, Levi, and Tyson.

All of the kids

Charity, Rachel, and Lily

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

While we were in Idaho we got to celebrate Grandpa's birthday. All day he would would say a different age, but he was turning 54. We sent him to dinner at Outback with the boys, and then waited to surprise him at the house. Each grandchild had a balloon for him. We waited in the dark for him to get him and then the kids jumped our and yelled surprise. They were so funny while they waited for him to come home. The kept telling each other to be quiet, and could not contain their excitement. It was so much fun.

Wedding in Idaho

The day after Christmas we were off to Idaho to be there for my sister Janae's wedding. We were supposed to leave early Friday morning and be there at the temple that morning. Thanks to our beautiful Christmas snow, that didn't happen. After getting off the freeway on the first exit after we got on, we went home and waited for the snows to get plowed. It was such a mess. We left again after lunch and the 3 1/2 hour trip took over 9 hours. We are just grateful that we made it safely and in time for the wedding.

Janae looked gorgeous, and poor Josh was sick. The Hirschi home was full of sick people, and Josh was worried that Janae was going to be sick. He could barely stand while getting ready to be married. By the end of the day he was feeling quite a bit better. Janae looked so beautiful, he just couldn't stay sick for long.

Josh and Janae Rose were married
in the Twin Falls, Idaho Temple

on Saturday December 27th for time and all eternity.

Lunch after the wedding.

Pictures before the reception.

Janae and Josh

Seth and Levi holding on to the flowers for Janae.

Josh's turn to hold the flowers.

Ammon and Mikey

Mike.....I tried to get a picture of him, but he managed to evade me all night.

Dad did not believe that David was taller than him. You can tell that he is a little shorter than David, and he was even cheating in this picture! I guess you lose Dad.
Levi loves his Grandpa.


Dinner at the church before the reception began.
We managed to get a table in the kitchen for the kids.

Janae with a mouth full.

Everything was beautiful and I know everyone was glad when it was finally over!!

Merry, Merry Christmas!!

Our kids must have been good this year because Santa came to our house.

Here are the presents before they got ripped into.

Ammon got a Leapster with a Sonic game and a batman game.

He also got a Power Ranger movie.
He just couldn't believe that Santa would know that he wanted it when he never told him.

Charity got a huge horse.
(Who knows where are are going to put the thing,
for now it is a another piece of furniture in the living room.)

Charity also got some other fun stuff in her stocking.

Sadie got a jogging stroller for her dollies.

Sadie got some yummy candy too.

Levi's first Christmas! He is so cute. Merry Christmas Levi!

With babies opening the presents and ripping the paper is the best part.

Daddy picked out a fun little toy for Levi. Push the bird and it rolls along.

We should have just given him a box.

Levi got some balls and some yummy baby snacks -
no candy for him.

I got all of my favorite candies in my stocking.

Seth got his traditional chocolate orange.

Both of the girls had fun on the horse.

After opening Santa's gifts, we opened the ones from each other.
Ammon got a Dinosaur game from Charity.

Sadie opening her new photo album.

Levi and Dad having fun.

Sadie and mom put together her new scooter.

We had such a great day together. It was a beautiful snowy Christmas.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we had a nice quiet Christmas dinner
and then our little family performed the nativity.

Charity played Mary

Joseph was played by Ammon

Sadie was the angel. Here she is "smiling" again.

Mary swaddling baby Jesus.

Dad was the shepherd and Levi was the best sheep ever.
He crawled all over the floor and followed the shepherd.

Here is our cute little cast!

Levi's Favorite place to play

Like most babies, Levi loves to play with anything that was not intended to be a toy. The dishwasher is a favorite. The other day he was trying to play in it, so I closed it. I needed to open it again for just one more thing. He waited hopefully, but I just opened it a crack. He reached up and tried to get it before I closed it again, but he was not quick enough for me. We always have to hurry and take out anything sharp before he climbs on.

We like that you can see his two little top teeth in this one.