& The greatest of these is love

Friday, January 15, 2016

Catching up

Lets catch up a bit and go back to Christmas! We had so much fun!

Christmas Eve started with going to my grandmas for a few hours to visit. I love to visit her and my aunt and her two boys. This is a pic of me with my mom and sisters there!

After we left there, we headed to Josh's aunt's house for his family's annual Christmas Eve party! We had so much fun as always. I hosted a Christmas Family Feud game which was so fun. Then we played our dice game. The kids had a little game too that they got to play while we waited for Santa to come. Josh's aunt is such a wonderful host. Her home is beautiful and she always has it decorated so nice. It was definitely a success!

Kanzis is not a fan of Santa...yet!

Christmas morning came and Josh and I could not wait to wake up the girls. We both woke up at about 5:00 a.m. but figured that was a bit too early for them. So, we went back to sleep for an hour and got them up at 6:00! I could not wait any longer. I love that the spirit of Christmas has not left me. I hope it never does. Kanzis was so excited to open her gifts. Each one she opened, she had a smile on her face, and if they were clothes, she would pull them out and say "cute". It was adorable. My heart was so happy to see how excited she was and how thankful she was. Like every gift to her was like we gave her the moon. What a sweetheart we have! Kamzlin was just happy to be there and loved playing with the wrapping paper.

About 8:30 a.m. we loaded up and headed to my mom's. We were in charge of breakfast. I made a bacon, egg, hash brown casserole in my crockpot. So easy, I just put it in the night before and it was ready to go in the morning and it was delicious! We got to my moms and opened gifts. We were so excited to give my mom her gift. Josh made her a bench for her kitchen table and it turned out awesome! She loved it too.

After that, that we headed to Josh's mom's where the girls got to play with their cousins.

Aren't they just the cutest!!

We were excited to give Josh's mom her gift too. We got her an infinity necklace with the birthstones of all nine of her grandbabies! It is beautiful.

For Christmas from Josh, I got a new camera which I already love so much. I have been playing with it a lot and I am so excited to take tons of pictures with it.

I loved everything about this this Christmas time and have so much to be thankful for.

A couple days after Christmas, we went to Temple Square to see the Temple lights with Josh's brother and his family. It was so beautiful and I got to practice taking some shots with my new camera!

Wednesday was my mom's birthday, my family and my sisters and their family's showed up to her work flowers in hand, to pick her up and take her to her favorite restaurant, Joe's Crab Shack. She was so surprised.

The ladies at her work all dressed in black and decorated her office to, as my mom put it, "mourn my youth". Lol. It looked awesome!

When I told everyone to look at me, Jake looked away, so my mom came over and made him take one, just with her. Lol.

Jack was here too, he's too cool for pictures, and he was playing in the cool playground anyway.

I love that kid!

I sure have one beautiful mother! Happy Birthday to her!

Yesterday, we took Kanzis outside to play in the snow. She enjoyed it at first, then it was time to come in because she was cold and wanted lunch.

I finished "Kaizen's corner" in our home. I love that I did this and that I get to see it all day everyday.

To end, here are some random pictures...

Oh my heart!

such a cheeser!

I sure love those big blues! I wish the camera would show better how beautiful her eyes are!

I love that she is getting more hair and that she actually lets me try new things.

She loves her bike from grandma DeAnn!

I am looking forward to what 2016 has in store for us. Happy belated new year!

Monday, December 7, 2015

Joy.

Have you ever woke up and just been so happy. Happy with your life, madly in love with your spouse, and so very grateful for your children? I have been feeling this way a lot lately! Don't get me wrong, I love my family every day, and all of the time, but some days are overwhelming with love. Every morning I wake up, I feel so blessed with the life that I have and so thankful for the people who are in it. I love feeling this way.
I will never feel fully happy. I will never have that fullness of joy. Not ever. And that's ok, I have accepted this fact. I have accepted that my fullness of joy has been taken from me for a short time but I will get it back one day thanks to my knowledge of the Plan of Salvation. But for now, I sure get close. These two girls here make every day an adventure, one that I cannot wait to start every . morning. Their personalities crack me up and I love watching them all day.
Kanzis is talking a lot. She uses so many words and sentences, I find myself amazed at just listening to her and seeing her imagination come to life. I know it's silly, how can someone get so fascinated at listening to another person talk? But I do. I love hearing her and it astounds me at how smart she is. She says something to me and I am just like, how did you know that? I love her.
Kamzlin is growing so fast. Too fast. She has been army crawling for awhile now and just the other day she got on all fours and is trying to figure that out. I have been making homemade baby food for her and she loves it. Her favorite foods right now are avocados and bananas. She "talks" a lot too and I love waking up to her sounds. She's adorable and I love her!
And Josh, well, man I love him! He does so much for our family and is such an amazing daddy! Those girls have him wrapped around their fingers and he wouldn't have it any other way. They love him so much and are definitely daddy's girls. Which I love but then I am like, wait, I did all the work, what about me? Lol!

So some things we have been up to...
First off, one of my best friends got married. She is the most talented person I know. There is literally nothing she cannot do. If she wants to do something, she will find a way and get it done! I love that about her. She is amazing and so very beautiful! I am so lucky to know her!

The wedding was absolutely beautiful. I am so happy for her and her cute brand new husband!

We went Christmas shopping the other day. The kids are still young enough that they don't know what is going on so they came with us.

We are the coolest parents! We are so cool that when we go to the toy store, our kid falls asleep. Cool or boring, I'll leave it up to you! Lol!

We bought one of those christmas light projectors for our house this year. Thank goodness for ~~lazy~~ smart people who invent things like this. Kanzis stood in front of it....