Reagan Lynn ~ 9 months old

Sage Jewel ~ 3 1/2 years old

Partners in Crime

Merry Christmas 2010

Annual Christmas Eve Party at the Simons house!  With of course the matching jammies from Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Christmas morning!

Wells Fargo gave Reagan a giant horse for Christmas!  They usually donate these stuffed animals to charity but because they know that Reagan is having surgery they gave it to her!  It was a big hit Christmas morning! 

We had went to The Pie the other night and I thought these were some cute pic's.  How did we get a picture of Scott and I together?  Well Sage is an aspiring photographer!  She really does a great job!

Hope you all had a very merry Christmas!  We sure did!

Little Reagan

For journaling purposes for myself and my family I wanted to share my thoughts and feelings about my little Reagan.  She is now 9 months old.  I can't believe how fast time has gone by, how much she has grown, and how much she has changed my life.   Reagan truly lights up any room she is in.  She is beautiful, happy, feisty, energetic, and full of love.  As I think about her and about our journey with her I can not deny Heavenly Father's hand in our life.  I can say that I know that He sent me special and very specific angel's to help me through this process.  Rachel, my dear friend that my sister set me up with, has given me hope by sharing her life with me.  Her sweet daughter Bailey also has FH (fibular hemamilia) like Reagan.  She is an amazing and beautiful girl.  Jessie, an incredible 20 year old who has FH, has given me peace.  Peace that Reagan will have a normal life and that she will be able to do everything and anything she wants.  My Bishop, who has shown us a wealth of sincere love and support.
Scott and I knew that the day would come when we needed to make a decision about Reagan's leg.  You see we had two choices. One option was to have her undergo many surgeries of leg lengthening procedures, followed by ankle and knee surgeries.  Or to amputate her foot.  We spent 9 months thinking about this, talking to people, researching, praying, fasting, and of course loving our baby girl.  I can say that I know with certainty that we should amputate her foot.  Scott feels the same way, as well as the Doctor when we went in for her 9 month appointment at Shriner's Hospital for Children.  Reagan will have surgery on January 5th, 2011.  She will be fitted for a leg 6 weeks after surgery and we should get it a week or so after.  After that point she will learn to walk with her new leg.  She will never know the difference.
Earlier today I had a very neat experience.  All that I will share is that it felt as though Heavenly Father's arms were around me.  I felt overwhelmed by his presence and know that he has not forgotten us.

Shutterfly Christmas Cards!

So now that I am getting ready to order my FREE Christmas Cards from Shutterfly, I thought I would share some of my favorite ones!  (and because I need to in order to get my free cards!)  Isn't it funny the things we will do in order to save a couple bucks!  Thankfully this is totally worth it!  I love the cards and I will seriously have a hard time choosing which one I will use! 

 

This is one of my favorites!  I love how simple it is, colorful, and so cute at the same time!  I could use one of our family photos or just one of the girls.

Okay this is so darn adorable!  Love the black and white photo with the black backgrounds and font colors!

I love the cards that you can put multiple photos on.  I think that Christmas Cards are so fun because not only do you get to wish everyone a Merry Christmas you also get so show off your cute family!!  Plus,  I love getting cards from everyone else!  It is another cute Christmas decoration to have in our house!

So that is just a sample of how cute these cards are!  I don't want to spoil the one that I will choose!  You must check these cards out!

I also checked out some of the other products on Shutterfly!  So many cute things!  I loved the Wall Calendars and it is such a great gift for Christmas!  My parents love looking at their kids and their grand kids every month!   And who doesn't love to send out cute Birthday Invitations for Their kids parties?  Shutterfly has some really cute ones.  I love personalizing the invitations with their picture!  It's great to keep for them in their scrapbooks!  Check it out!!

Holiday Cards

I like most of you are getting ready to send out Holiday cards!  Shutterfly is offering this amazing deal right now for 50 free cards!  All you have to do is click HERE and blog about it!  I am so excited! I am always up for a great deal!

Proud Mommy

Sage came home today from Preschool with this headband. On one of the feathers it says,"Sage earned a feather by helping Halle and Anna clean the kitchen toys!" It put a tear in my eye! I'm so proud!

October Fest at Our House

 We had a fantastic month at our house this October!  We have been enjoying the cooler weather, the beautiful Fall colors,the friend and family get togethers, the class parties, the pumpkins, the scarecrows, and of course the customes! 

 We of course have a tradition of going to the pumpkin patch to pick out our prized pumpkins.  Sage was very invovled with the selection this year and I think we were all pretty happy with our findings!  We love the kind of pumpkins with character.  You know the one's that are discolored and have lots of warts!  We had so much fun and were able to get some cute pictures too!

 We made it to the fun filled Corn Belly's this year with the Hewitt's.  We had a blast until the weather turned very cold!  Reagan and I found that sitting in the car was much more enjoyable than freezing.  Thankfully Scott and Sage were tougher than Reagan and I and they partied a bit longer while we waited in the car.

 The girls and I took a trip down the see my parents this month!  The drive there was gorgeous!  I couldn't resist taking a couple pictures out the window of the beautiful colors.

 We had a blast at my parent's house!  Sadly I hardly took any pictures.  Reagan was on the verge of crawling there and started about a week later when we got home!  She is so busy these day's!  She is an explorer!

 (Pooh had to be in the picture too!?)

 Sage had a Halloween Party at Preschool!  Here she is all glammed up as Belle this year.

 I have a feeling these two are going to get into a lot of trouble together!

 The Hewitt's came over for our annual pumpkin carving party!

On Halloween we went over to Scott's parents for tick or treating and some chili!  We had our little chicken and beautiful Belle (picking her nose, awesome!)

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween.  I know Sage wishes we could do it all over again!  She is already planning next years costumes!

Bath Time!

I could not resist sharing this picture! Reagan love's bath time!

So many pictures!!



We love day's at the park!!  Reagan and I enjoy laying on a blanket while Sage makes new friends!!





We played with Brighton the other day!  I love these chubby babies!!



Daddy with his girls on our Elk hunt!  So cute! 

Sage was very excited to fish.   She soon realized she had no patience for it and was off running around again!

These are our Simons cousins!  Trevor, Sage, Lily, Gabby, Hannah, and Reagan.  We missed Chloe!

We love the witches at Gardner Village!

Baby Sage

I was looking at some pictures of Sage when she was 7 months old! I forgot how awesome her hair was when she was little (it is still awesome today too)! It is crazy to me how different her and Reagan look! I love my babies! Especially at this age! It seems like they do something new every day!