Loganisms

Logan has always been a very funny boy, and lately he has been saying really funny/adult sounding things.

-"How peculiar. The lephrechaun put tape on his footprints."

-Logan-"Hilary, will you take this chair up to our clubhouse?"

Hilary-"No it's too big."

Logan-"Then how in carnation did I get it down from there?"

-"Hilary do you want to come over and play at the Quinney house?"

-Logan-"Mom can I play with play-doh?

Me-"No, wait til Leslie and Hilary come over."

Logan-"Well when will they be arriving?"

-"I really want to go watch some television."

-His favorite movie right now is Little Rascals and while he was watching it he said, "Mom, Darla sure looks cute in that dress."

The next day he was watching it again and he came and told me, "Actually Mom, Darla looks cute in everything she wears."

-I told Logan we had to leave soon so he turned his movie off. I told him we still had about ten minutes and he could keep watching and he said, "I would be honored to keep watching my show!"

The next one was mean, but also funny.

-(while on the phone with Emily)Logan-"When is Friday?"

Emily-"In 4 days."

Me-"Actually its only 3 days."

Logan-"No its not Mom. Its in 4 days.

Me-"No its only 3."

Logan to Emily-"Sorry about my mom she is just being obnoxious about this."

We just keep wondering where our 4 year old boy is. He talks like such an adult and keeps us laughing all the time. I couldn't imagine my life without this boy!

St. Patrick's Day

We had a great St. Patrick's Day this year. It all started Friday night. The Lephrechaun came to our house around 11:00. Well Logan woke up shortly after that. He came out, looked at the floor, and said, "What the heck!! The Lephrechaun already came." Oops... He will have to be more careful next year.

The Lephrechaun left Logan and Brooklyn lots of yummy treats. He even turned our bread green...


...and our milk. Logan knew right away in the morning to check to see if our milk was green. He was sure excited when it was.

We had green shamrock waffles (courtesy of my mom for letting me use her heart waffle iron).

That silly and mischievous Lephrechaun put footprints all over the house and the kids bedroom. He even opened all of their drawers. When Logan woke up he said, "That's peculiar, the lephrechaun put tape on his footprint." I guess he didn't want to feet to end up everywhere.
I could not get a good picture of these two together. Brooklyn wanted nothing to do with standing still. She only wanted to play with the camera. Logan was a great sport, Brooklyn just cried.

Got an ok one of Logan. At least he was happy and willing to pose.

And because of her great brother playing Peek-a-boo we finally got a great picture of her.

Logan loved going around and pinching family members that weren't wearing green. He still keeps talking about this day!

Disney on Ice

On Wednesday we took Logan on a date to Disney on Ice. We had been looking forward to this for 6 weeks and couldn't believe it was finally here. We were supposed to go to Olive Garden for dinner, but because of time went to Rumbi instead.

Logan is so excited to finally see Toy Story 3 on ice!!

Logan watching the show. For pretty much the whole show he sat and watched and was so excited. He started to fall asleep at the end so we went and bought him a snow cone and he stayed awake for the whole thing.

Some of the cast. It was so awesome to watch the bigger characters skating. Like Slinky Dog, Hamm, and Lotso.

Little Green Aliens.

Logan and Daddy.

We had so much fun on our date. We will definitely be going to Disney on Ice again!

Valentine Party

For most of the major holidays a lady in our neighborhood has a party for all of the young kids in the neighborhood. We were able to go to the Halloween party and yesterday we went to the Valentines Day party. It's so much fun to get together with the ladies in the ward and let the kids do fun activities and play.

First, the decorated Valentine bags.

Logan's finished bag.

Next, they decorated cookies. Of course Logan chose red frosting.

They played BINGO...several times.

And then they delivered their Valentines into the bags they decorated.



Brooklyn was there too, but she wouldn't stand still long enough for me to take a good picture. She just kept roaming around, trying to find candy and poke the other babies. Oh and she liked taking their toys too. We had 7 girls born into our ward last year. They will all be in the same grade, but Brooklyn is about 5 months older than the next one born. So she just kept poking all of the littler babies and trying to get in their carseats. We absolutely love our ward and can't wait til the next holiday party!

Saturday Afternoon

This is how we spent our Saturday afternoon. Watching Hercules in a fort in the kids room.

We all watched the movie, ate popcorn, and took naps.

My mom made Logan an awesome fort kit for Christmas. We decided to use it on Saturday and it was so much fun. We will definitely be making more forts and using more of the stuff in the kit!

ONE

I cannot believe my baby girl is 1!! This past year has gone by amazingly fast. She is such a joy to have in our family.

The changes in the first year are absolutely amazing. Some things about Brooklyn at 1:

-She says mama, dada, grandma, grandpa, cracker, sticks her tongue out to say Hil, Leslie, Emily, and Ashley. Pretty much any name that has an L in it.

-She signs more, all done, please, thank you, fish, and milk

-She sleeps pretty good most of the time.

-Has been walking pretty well for a couple weeks now. She took her first steps before Thanksgiving and I can't really pin point a day when she really really started walking.

-She has 6 teeth. 3 on top and 3 on bottom.

-She loves to look at books.

-She hates baby food and will pretty much only eat the food we are eating.

-She absolutely loves to be in water!

-For some reason she loves to carry around clothes.

-She puts her hand up to her ear and pretends like she is on the phone.

-Whenever she sees any animal she says "woo woo woo", like she is barking.

-She nods and shakes her head correctly when she is asked a yes or no question.

1 year stats

Weight: 17 lbs-10%

Height: 27 1/4 in.-3%

Head Circumference-10%

Our little Brookie Bean has so much personality and we couldn't imagine her any other way!

Christmas...Finally

I know Christmas was two weeks ago, but since this is the only way I journal I have to document it. We had a great Christmas. On Christmas Eve we started out the day by decorating Christmas cookies for Santa. Logan had been asking to do this since we put our tree up at the beginning of December so he was so excited to finally be able to do it.

Later, we went to lunch/dinner at Red Lobster with the Quinney family. This is one of David's favorite traditions.

To end the night we went to my grandparents house for probably my favorite traditions of the year.

We took our annual family picture on the stairs.


Logan decided to tell jokes for the talent show. He is very into making up his own jokes and that is just what he did.
Santa came. Logan told him he wanted a red bike.
Brooklyn was not too sure about Santa.

After Santa we did the nativity. Logan really wanted to be a shepherd this year. And he made a darn cute one.

I have one picture of Christmas morning. In my defense we do have video of it. We had a great Christmas morning. Logan got his red bike, legos, clothes, books, gift cards, Skechers, and nerf guns. Brooklyn got a baby and baby stroller, clothes, books, and more dolls. David got a new tablet and some BYU gear. I got new clothes and gift cards. It was a great Christmas morning. After opening toys we went to church. It was so great to be able to go to church on Christmas to bring back the true meaning of why we celebrate.

This is Brooklyn with her baby and stroller.

After church we went over to my parents house. And of course I have no pictures of that either. My parent were so generous and for Christmas gave us money to be able to get our awesome kitchen table.

After my parents we went to David's brothers house. We had lunch then opened gifts. Here is Logan with his stocking from David's parents. David's mom made blankets for everyone this year. She did an amazing job. We can't wait to use our new blankets at the BYU games!

We took pictures of the grandkids.

And Brooklyn enjoyed some goldfish she got in her stocking.

To end the night we went to my parents and played games. It was a very chaotic, but very enjoyable Christmas. I am so grateful to my Savior and for the true meaning of Christmas. Thank you so much to everyone who made it so special.

Elfie

This year we started a new tradition: Elf on the shelf. This was such a fun activity and I can't wait for it to continue year after year. Santa sent us an elf and the first thing we needed to do was name him. After some pretty silly suggestions from Logan we finally decided to name him Elfie. Elfie would watch Logan and Brooklyn every day and then return to the North Pole each night to report to Santa. When Elfie would get hom each night he would be doing some pretty silly things.

I forgot to take pictures of a few things like Elfie playing Xbox and trying to climb into Brooklyn's crib.

Here is Elfie hanging on the fridge, hanging on an advent calendar, toilet papering our tree, and pretending to be an ornament.

Here Elfie is reading a pirate book, hanging in a stocking, eating some chocolate almonds, and playing on the computer.

Here he is sitting in our holiday boxes, he colored on our family pictures, and trying to take a shower.

Elfie turned our milk pink, ate our M & M's, climbed in a tree and drank our syrup.

Elfie rode on Logan's toy dinosaur and poured flour on the floor to make a "snow angel".

And on the last night Elfie painted the kids noses red. This was my favorite. I could not stop laughing!
Logan got so excited each morning to find what silly thing Elfie was doing. I know next year will be even more fun.

FOUR

I cannot believe this guy is 4! He is such a great kid. He is so full of life and the funniest kid I know. For his birthday this year we had a birthday party at Classic Skating. It was wild, loud, and hot, but he had so much fun!

Some things about Logan at 4:

~He knows how to write his name.

~He loves preschool!

~His favorite color is red.

~He loves to pretend and has a great imagination.

~He loves his little sister so much and loves to make her laugh.

~He is THE FUNNIEST kid I know!

~His favorite drink is Root Beer.

~His favorite food is chicken nuggets.

~He loves to have sleepovers at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

We seriously love this kid so much. He definitely keeps me on my toes and tests my patience, but he is the most amazing little boy and I couldn't imagine our life without him.

Our day started out opening presents. He could hardly wait for his daddy to wake up to open them. I guess Christmas 2 days earlier just wasn't enough.

He got a new camera. He loves to take pictures with my camera, so for his birthday we got him his own.

We did his birthday party in the Superhero room. He is way into Batman and Spiderman.

Lots of the kids at the party eating pizza.
Blowing out his candles. He loves Batman, but we could only find Spiderman cupcakes.

Zoo Lights

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Groupon for Zoo Lights at Hogle Zoo. It was so much fun. The lights were so cute and Logan even got to sit on Santa's lap. This will definitely become a new tradition. Hopefully when we go next year it won't be so freezing!

Santa brought two of his reindeer. Comet and Vixen.

Logan and I in front of the reindeer. I was definitely not prepared for how cold it was going to be. Pretty much right when we got there me and my sisters had to go into the gift shop to buy ear warmers.
Logan got a cool tiger light sword. It was so much fun taking him on this little date with my sisters. I was planning on taking Brooklyn too, but am so glad my mom offered to take her since it was so cold. She would have been frozen.

Logan sitting on Santa's lap. He was such a great Santa. We had to wait a while in line, but it was totally worth it.

Logan drinking hot chocolate. I never knew he liked it so much!

Thank you so much Leslie and Hilary for coming with us and to my parents for watching Brooklyn. (David was at bishopric meeting) We had so much fun and I can't wait to keep this tradition going!