Audrey's baby blessing

Sunday, January 6, 2013, Audrey Jessica Baird was blessed in our sacrament meeting.

The boys were not very happy to be forced from their fun with cousins to have to take a family picture.

All of our immediate family that lives in Utah were present.

Christmas time

As is our yearly tradition, we celebrated my niece, Katya, and my dad's birthday together. It is December 23 and ever since her family moved from Utah from Phoenix when she was 4 or so, we have spent it all together.
We played "snow" games indoors - building a snowman - as evidenced by the toilet paper mummy wrapping.

Here the little boys are trying to keep a marsh mellow on their tongue.

We played Burn the House Down with Kirk being the big money money winner.  Here's the fam after another game with silly hats and accessories.

The birthday kids

Christmas Eve-Eve

We celebrated Christmas Eve with my family the night before since my sister's family would be leaving Monday morning back to their house.

Nativity re-enactment

Christmas Eve

Brigham City got a lot of snow on Christmas Eve, which was very nice since it had been quite a few years since we'd had snow on the ground for Christmas morning.  However, in North Ogden, we didn't have any snow even though it's only about 25 miles away.

Audrey wore a pretty little outfit to Christmas Eve dinner. It is one of those completely-unpractical little outfits that you get as a baby present but they are so cute!  

This is Pope Audrey. Her hat looks like the Pope's hat, which I just googled and is called a mitre.

The Baird family dinner consisted of his parents, Uncle David, Grandma Bonnie and Aunt Vivian and the Walker family.
This Nativity re-enactment was done with the kids holding up pictures they had colored. Angela read the story and the kids tried to juggle which picture to hold up.  As an added element of disaster, JD, the toddler, would grab the papers and mash them up into a ball if they dropped to the ground.

Christmas morning

The boys opened their Star Wars jammies last night.  "Dark vader" as Campbell calls him.  

Campbell woke up about 7:30 and Bronson about 7:50, which was perfect, since I told my parents and Kirk to come at 8 am to see the boys open their presents.

Here they are anxiously waiting at the top of the stairs to see if Santa left anything.

Our little family on Christmas morning. Little Audrey was still sleeping.

The boys were excited to see Santa had brought them a roller coaster to ride on. Hmm. Looks like I don't have a picture of it - only video. I will have to post one later. It will be kept in the basement.
Santa brought them both Nerf guns, Hungry Hippos game and Star Wars Angry Birds game (a big hit).
Bronson asked Santa for trains for Christmas. We thought this odd since they have a big train table upstairs with lots of tracks and trains.  Oh well. Santa obliged and gave him some new trains.  He also got a flute/recorder, Playmobil knight set and construction truck play-doh.

Campbell  had a Christmas of Legos. Probably not the last, either. He got a big army set with 717 pieces. That's insane. Plus a Star Wars Lego ship set. Plus he inherited 2 big cases of basic colored Legos from dear Jessica.  Campbell asked Santa for an army jeep -it's in the right side of the picture. It's still in the box unopened a week later! Some toys are a hit, others not so much.

Audrey: "I have been a good girl - I even slept through the night until 7 am on Christmas morning and all I got were these shoes!"


Around lunchtime we went to Grandma and Grandpa Baird's house. This is always Adam's Christmas highlight. He likes what Santa brings him there better than what Santa leaves him at our house!

Grandpa and Grandma Baird gave Bronson several Thomas the train cars. (He better play a lot of trains from now on!!)

Campbell got a big set of Star Wars  - Millennial Falcon ship.

It was really fun to see Adam's surprise and excitement when Santa Baird gave him a much-desired iPad. Lucky Adam to have a nice daddy that will spoil him!  He was very generous to all of us!

Adam and I are not known for being on the technological-gadget forefront.  We both got smart phones for the first time in our lives in October.  It does not take long at all for little kids to catch on.  Our boys are obsessed with Angry Birds (yes, I know the craze is SOOO 2 years ago).  They drive us nuts begging to play.  Here they are playing on daddy's devices.

We later went to my parents' house.  The boys got some fun games from Uncle Kirk and a keyboard from Grandma and Grandpa T and some money too.  

It was a great Christmas surrounded by people we love!

After Christmas highlights

Wednesday our dear friends, the Ereksons, who currently reside in California came to visit us.

The kids got along well as did the older adult kids.

I don't have a picture of the big boys' epic Nerf gun war, sadly.

 

Here's me and Melissa and our 2 Audreys.  They stole our name from our days in Provo. They admit it, too. They were just the first ones to have a girl. It's OK, no hard feelings :)

Friday the boys went to the farm to sled behind the 4-wheeler with Grandpa T.  After riding for approximately 20 seconds, they tipped over and Bronson fell out.  After that he wanted to ride on the 4 wheeler.  Both had fun. Mommy even got to ride a few times with Campbell.

I have loved being home and being lazy. The holidays are an awesome time of year.

I think the boys have been in their pajamas for several days in a row.  The living room is still a mess with Legos and Nerf darts. I have watched way too many movies on Netflix. It's great, isn't it?!!

Leading up to Christmas

Our second decent snow storm of the year was around the end of the 2nd week of December. Here the boys built a very small snowman - about the size of their attention spans.

For family night we went to the Ogden Christmas village. This little house has a family of bears sitting around their table.  Afterwards we went to Kneaders for hot chocolate and a carb sweet of your choice--sugar cookies for the boys and big cinnamon rolls for Adam and me.

Here is a picture of a man selling "black-market" Hostess Twinkies and ding-dongs out of his car for a huge mark-up. Now that the factory is closed and they are in bankruptcy, those goodies are hard to come by!
I thought it was funny.

Campbell had a preschool Christmas concert on the Thursday before Christmas.  They sang Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer, Jingle Bells, and said the Pledge of Allegiance.  Santa even stopped by he was so impressed at their singing.

Lately Bronson has been causing us trouble. Consider it early terrible threes. Most days he won't take a nap. He won't stay in bed at night after we tuck him in and he gets out multiple times. He is regressing in his half-of-the-way-there potty training to zero-percent-there. And Christmas Santa/Elfie is watching bribes do NOTHING. (They work quite effectively on Campbell, luckily.)  The other night after sending Bronson back to bed several times, when we went upstairs to bed, we found him at the top of the stairs asleep.

Newborn photos

Here's some of little Audrey's photos from her newborn photo session. She's 6 days old.

Baby nursery

Working on a girlie room has been a fun project for me.  I wanted to do board & batten and Adam somewhat reluctantly agreed.
The color of the room was originally this yellow color.




We changed the crib from a medium wood to an antique white/ivory color.

I love cherry blossoms and found a bedding set I liked, so that dictated the theme for the room.

There were these darling wood block letters on Etsy, but at the time, the seller was not selling them. I thought they would not be that hard to make but I didn't have a Cricut to cut the lettering.  Well, bless my sister, Stacie. She made them for me and sent them - all the way from Virginia! What a good sister :)  I think they are darling!

Here's the finished room!