Day to day stuff

 

 

 

 

Lindi got a new bib from aunt Jael.

She crocheted her name on it.

We randomly matched by accident.

Totally went in public like this, too.



 Rusty likes to make his own pb&j's.

Ai yai yai.

I would always proclaim that I couldn't wait for the

day when my children could make their own lunches.

Now that he refuses my help, I get to clean up an extra mess

and double the time it would take for me to just make the darn sandwich.



 

After church snuggles

 Lindi is Rusty's sidekick.

She saw that he had an apple, so she needed an apple too!

 I find Rusty in Lindi's crib almost every morning.
She thinks its the greatest!

 

 

My all time favorite thing.

Rocking a sleeping baby.

I postponed putting her in her crib for 30 minutes:)

 

 cutest pink piggy's I've ever seen.

Marcie watched Lindi so I could get my teeth cleaned.

They did pedicures while I was gone:)

I was in a rush to pick up Rusty from preschool

 so I didn't notice them till about an hour later.

Casey noticed the second he got home from work, ha!

 Probably the best park day happened last week.

Beautiful weather, fun toys. All were happy.

 

Claire and Rusty are becoming buds!

We got to watch Claire for a few hours the other day

and they had a ball together.

I think it's fun for him to feel like the older cousin since in his boy cousin

 groups he is the younger one.

And you can't leave aunt Shelley's house without eating a bag of Cheetos:)

 

the days after Christmas

 

Holy moly, Christmas vacation can sure get packed full of activities!

Thankfully the days after Christmas were a whole lot more relaxing than the rush leading up to it!

The boys loved riding their new ziggler bike contraptions.

Grandma and grandpa gave each boy one as their Christmas gift.

They are pretty cool!

 

 Dinner out at San Tan Flat.

 A bike ride at Tempe Town Lake!

 My hideous face.

Its hard to ride a bike and take a picture of the peeps behind you at the same time!

Potty break up on a hill for everybody to see.

Rusty learned how to ride a bike without training wheels!!!!!

 New years eve we basked in the sun and went swimming...

while others prepared for a polar vortex.

Soaking in the last bit of 2013:)



Our New Years eve night was pretty lame.

We stayed home.

Baked nachos.

Kids went to bed at 8:30.

Casey slept on my lap while I watched tv.

Called it a night at 11pm.

 

We did go bowling with our friends the Yamamoto's New Years day!



 

Not pictured:

Cutting 11 inches off of my sister in laws hair.

And about 5 inches off of my brothers (she had shorter hair than her husband for 30 minutes).

Dinner at Gecko Grill with my family then dessert at the My Waffle Crush truck.

Play dates at the park with friends and cousins.

A trip to the doctor and double ear infections for Lindi.

De-cluttering the house and filling the back of my car with Goodwill donations.

 

Bye, bye 2013!

 

 





Christmas came!

 

 

We may have started a new tradition for our little family.

Christmas Eve Casey and I decided to take the kids to Cheesecake Factory for dinner.

We were unsure how it would go.

Crazy wild kids at a swamped crowded restaurant?

 Or a good night out just with our little family.

Luckily it went the second version.

It was the most fun we have had together in a long time!!

We waited 10 minutes for our table.

The kids were so well behaved.

It was awesome for Casey and I to see and feel their excitement

for Christmas as we sat together in our little booth.

Plus they thought it was pretty rad that they each got to choose their own

flavor of cheesecake!

Lane chose s'mores.

 FYI, superb. And I'm not a s'mores fan.

Rusty chose cookie dough.

 

 

 

Lindi enjoyed her puff's and bread crumbs:)

 After dinner we made a few more last minute treat delivers then home for bed!
But first Lane wrote a note for Santa and we left him some cookies.
Translation: To Santa, there are some cookies and chocolate chips.

 

And what do you know, Santa came!!!!!!



 

 

Santa brought Rusty: Jake and the Neverland Pirate Legos, Lane: a nerf basketball hop game for his room, and Lindi: a baby doll that has a giggle that sounds just like hers!

 



 

Then it was off to Grandma and Grandpas!

I got my hands on Jeffy's hair:)

 

 The whole gang together on Christmas!

We spent the afternoon at Grammy and Papa's.

Rusty was so excited to give to Kamryn in the cousin exchange.



and it's a bad picture but all of the grandkids got umbrellas with

 money hanging from ribbons!

 

It was a very Merry 2013 Christmas!!!

The days before Christmas

 

Another Christmas season has come and gone.

Christmas really is a magical time of the year.

It's a time where you get to stay up late and party after party with the ones you love.

Eat your most favorite foods.

Seeing the joy on your kids faces as they find yummy goodies that

have been left on your door step.

And envelopes in the mail that have familiar faces inside instead of papers

 that require money send back.

You get to watch treasured nostalgic movies like

 The Grinch, Elf, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and my personal favorite,

While You Were Sleeping.

 

It is all sooooo good!

 

Lane had his school Winter sing at Mt. View

 

Rusty had his Christmas preschool program.

 

Casey set up the Christmas tree and before I knew it Lane had pulled out the
decoration bins and went to it, all by himself!
I left it decorated like that for about a day then re-did it:/

We added more lights on the house this year.
Poor Casey thought he about lost his life trying to get lights up in the tree.
The things men do to please their wives:)
He dreaded the take down all month.


Christmas cards started coming in.
The boys had a good rotation of who's turn it was to tape the card up on the wall.
I wish I had a picture of them all!



I loved getting these personalized ornaments for my tree.



 We had a Lindblom Christmas party at my parents house with a hay ride!

 

Stephanie and Travis drove in that evening so the sisters were united again!

And apparently we all got the memo to wear black leggings:)

We also had the Udall family party at my parents house.
Gathered together to read Luke 2 and sing songs.

All the great grand kids with their presents from Grandma and Grandpa.

 And one of my favorite pictures of Christmas.
Our ward Christmas party. With a plastic Santa.
Lane wasn't having it and Lindi wasn't so sure either.

The Goodman progressive dinner.
Casey reading a book to the kiddos.

My view on the couch next to him.

 

A line up of all the babes.

2 more are coming in February!

 Papa and Grammy with all the grand kids.