The icing on the cake

The best part of the whole weekend was having the opportunity to be sealed to Nick, William and all of our future children forever. Nothing says "I love you" more than choosing to be with that person for all of time. This was the best present anyone could ever ask for.

Birthday weekend

This weekend all of my sisters came into town for our sealing, and celebrated my birthday with me.

William felt a little bombarded at first, but soon he was loving all of the attention.

 My sister Kim brought here three kids, and they all had such a blast rough housing and playing together.

 It was so nice to have all the girls together again, even though it was a crazy weekend.

 

 William loved having all of the attention, from Grandma, all of his Aunts and cousins.

 Saturday night we had some cake and William was more than happy to help me open my presents!

We all had so much fun, being silly together, laughing and getting to know each other better.



Our Christmas gift

This year our Christmas gift came a little late. We decided that instead of buying eachother presents, we would spend a little money, and a lot of time, and put some work into the house.

We tore down the hideous textured wallpaper they had on one of the kitchen walls, to find about a dozen holes behind it. So, we patched them all up and painted the wall white.

 

I turned an old couch cover into curtains for the living room

 

and did a little art project in our bedroom.

We are slowly turning this house into our own, we have lots of plans, and one by one they are getting crossed off of the list. My goal is to have both bathrooms painted and three of the four walls in William's new room finished by the time Nick gets back from his deployment training in March. Cross your fingers I can work quickly!

William's First Birthday

Saturday we celebrated William's birthday, a friend made a cake for him to smash up and have all for himself.

He really did not want much to do with it, maybe he was full from dinner, or maybe he just does not like cake.

 

 

After playing with the frosting for a while, we smashed his hands into it, to show him how it's done, and he still wasn't having any of it. Not the most exciting cake smash of all time, but it was Williams, and that is what makes it special.

 

It is hard to believe that my baby boy is already one year old. He has learned so much, some things I love, others, not so much.

 

 

He has brought so much laughter into our home, always making us laugh or smile at the silly things he does.

 

It does not seem like more than a few days ago, we brought this tiny baby home, fresh into this world. Now he is growing, jabbering up a storm every minute of the day, and running around like a crazy man.

 

First snow

We got a little snow storm a few days after Christmas, just enough for a little William to go experience snow for the first time.

 

 

So we bundled him all up in his snow suit, he looked just like the little boy from the Christmas Story, it took him a few minutes to figure out how to move and crawl in it.

 

 

He had so much fun exploring the frost yard, and surprisingly, he did  not even eat any of the snow.

Little hands get cold easily though, so we cut it short, saving more fun for another day.

Christmas

Christmas was wonderful this year, we did  not have Nick's parents and brothers here like we had thought, but we spent the day enjoying being together none the less.

 

 

This was William's first time opening presents, and most of the time he was more interested in the paper, than what it was wrapping.

 

Eventually with our help though, we got them all open. So many great presents this year, thank you to everyone who sent him something.

 

Our eternal family

It is official, on January 19th Nick and I will be going to the Louiville temple to get sealed for time and all eternity. We have worked very hard to get to this point, and we can are so excited to finally be able to do this. Most of my family is coming into town for the weekend to be there, but everyone who wants to come, is more than welcome to come.