Snow and Smiles!

On Monday neither of our cars would start (stinky AZ batteries!) so the girls and I decided to play in the snow. The girls loved it and had so much fun even though it was really cold. We olnly played for about 2o mins but it was great and the girls loved to eat the snow!


Mayli making a snow angel, she was so happy to be making one but her eyes are closed because it was snowing on her!

















Tori is not quite sure what to do with this snow on her hands but after a while she just decided to lick it off!












Many of you might not know but Mayli had two big cavities in her front two teeth and they were getting into the root so on Tuesday she got them fixed. They put her under to do it and although I was very nervous about this it was really amazing. Once she woke up she was fine and only complained about pain once. She loves her new SMILE!






My silly Tori loves to put things on her head. One morning she kept tring to get this towel to stay on and would get really mad when it wouldn't stay on. So finally I put a clip in the back and she was so happy she wore it around for like an hour. What a NUT!

Sunday bests!

The girls were so excited to go back to our ward on Sunday and get to see their teachers again, luckily Mayli's teacher moved up with her so she has the same one and she just loves her, she is Mayli's Preschool teacher too!

Sweet Mayli with her cute little smile and much loved baby!



















My mom got Tori this cute little dress with matching bows for her birthday and she looks so sweet!

Cute Jewlery website!

http://www.arizonadesigner-jewelry.blogspot.com/
Hey everyone, just FYI when I lived in AZ there was a girl in my ward who makes the cutest jewlery and even showed me how to make the earrings one time! She has a website with her stuff on it and I thought that I would post it so that you could all check it out. Plus if you post about it on your blog you get a pair of earrings free! I am totally game! Thanks Kayci!

Christmas in AZ!

We had such a wonderful time in AZ with both of our families. Christmas is always such a fun time and our girls are at really fun ages for all the Christmas fun. I even got to teach Mayli a little more about Jesus and how Christmas is really about him. This meant a lot to me and I love getting to learn and grow myself as I share things with her. The girls and I got to go to AZ early and spend some time with my mom and Catherine, we had so much fun! I also got to go up to Show Low for Megan's baby shower and spend the night with my sisters, we stayed up way too late and laughed way too hard, thanks girls! Christmas Eve with the Nikolaus fam was lots of fun, and so was Christmas morning with the Rawlings fam, it is always so good to see everyone. The girls had a wonderful Christmas and got lots of fun things. They loved getting to see their grammies and papas and although we had a wonderful time it is nice to be back home.

We went to Target with Grammie Lori one morning and they had these huge Christmas ornaments on the grass. My girls loved them and we just had to take a picture!

Christmas Eve in their new pjs and with their new bedtime books.












Tori's favorite quote of the season "Oh my goodness" with her hands on her face like this. It was so cute to see her open her presents and be so excited.










Sweet Mayli was so happy Christmas morning, she loved the stuffed animals that Santa brought her and said "Santa is so smart, thanks Santa".











We went to the temple lights in AZ and the girls loved them. It is always really fun to go and not as cold as Salt Lake!

My baby Tori is 2!

Tori Lynn turned 2 on the 10th and I can't believe that she is so big. She is such a fun little girl and makes our lives bright and happy. I love her little personality even when she is a bit grumpy, I still think she is a sweetie.

We had a birthday party for Tori and her cousin Abby who turns 2 on the 19th. It was lots of fun and they got lots of presents and had yummy cakes made by Aunt Amy.



Then we went to the Kangaroo Zoo and it is a bunch of those giant inflatable slides and bouncy houses. The kids had a blast and just loved running around and playing. You can see that Tori is actually having fun because she is SMILING!

Mayli had SO much fun and is such a good big sister and cousin to all the little kids that came. If anyone ever gets a chance to take their kids there it is totally worth it!

Wow what a weekend!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with Aj's family. Way too much yummy food and lots of little kids going up and down the stairs was the main focus of the weekend. We started out going to the free day at Hogle zoo because Aj didn't have school on Wednesday and we were quite the group. It was cold but I think that everyone that went ended up having alot of fun. Then we went up to Park City to stay in Spencer's aunt and uncle's house on Thursday and started in with the food. The kids had so much fun playing together (not to mention the daddys having fun playing video games) and us girls getting dinner ready, chasing children and talking. It was a wonderful two days. Then Saturday we went to Aj's cousin Amanda's so she could take our family picture. It was so funny trying to get a good one but Amanda is really good and we got some good ones and she also made our Christmas cards for us! Thanks again Amanda! Then we tried to go to temple square to see the lights and we couldn't even find a place to park so ended up just going home and putting the girls to bed, we will try that another night. After I got the girls to bed Aj's mom, Natalie, Trent and I went to see Twilight again and I liked it even more the 2nd time! Thanks for the wonderful weekend Nielson Fam, love you all!


This one of Aj and Mayli turned out so cute!


















This is one of my personal favorites!

Here is one of the group shots with all eyes open and mostly smiles (except Tori of course)

Here we are at the zoo, Mayli and Sophie really got along well, we will have to get together again with them soon.

And yes that is my Christmas card at the top of my blog so look forward to getting it in the mail!

Obsessed, I know!

So I am obsessed, at least I know it! My friend Danette had this picture on her blog and I just thought that it was the cutest that I had ever seen of them! So I just had to post it on my blog, hope you all like it too!