Miss Paigey

Miss Paigey is 8 months old now!
She has two teeth and loves to eat!
She can sit up and roll around but doesn't have much interest in crawling :)
She says ba ba, ma ma, and da da or something close to that.
She smiles and laughs and is completely entertained by her sister for most of the day.
She weighs 18 lbs
She wiggle her feet in circles and sticks her arms strait out like she is flying when she gets excited.
and we love her to death!!

just a little massage- what a good sister :)

ChRiStmAs 2o1o

Carmyn 2years

Paige 8 months

Christmas morning- waiting to go see if "Santa Closet" came!

He came and he left some presents too!

Carmyn and Paige must have been good this year!

We had a great Christmas and hope you did too!!!

Dusty and Michelle- Dec.17, 2010

A week before Christmas my studly little bro got married!
I don't have any pictures of the wedding yet but here some cute pics of the two of them!
We love Michelle- she is so much fun and we are so excited to have her in the fam!

The kids LOVE aunt Michelle and uncle Dust!

Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus - Must See!

Christmas is here!!

Time once again for family Christmas pictures.

I'm not sure why, but every year I end up doing family pictures around Christmas time. I guess it's just fun to pull out old pictures and say

"Oh look how cute you looked on your first or third Christmas!"
Paige 7 months

Carmyn 2 1/2 years

The top two pictures were my favorites of the girls.

The rest of the photo session turned out kinda like this:

Man it's hard to smile for pictures sometimes!

Carmyn is so excited for Christmas this year! She keeps talking about how she is going to open her presents on Christmas and she can't wait! I think she is pretty confused with the whole concept of it all though. We keep talking about Santa, reindeer, baby Jesus, wisemen, Christmas tree's, stockings, the notty list, giving, the manger, etc.... You can see the wheels spinning in her head but it's not all coming together just yet. She just sticks to the fact that she gets to open her presents on Christmas and that keeps her happy :) - How do you explain to your 2 year old that we are celebrating the birth of Jesus but this guy named Santa comes to your house at night and leaves you presents if you are good? - Seriously- that's gotta be confusing!

Utah weather

Last week was 70 degrees and we were playing in the park and waterskiing with Grandpa Horne

Monday we woke up to snow and a chilly 30 degrees outside.

Winter is here to stay- I Love the snow on the mountains- It's so good to be home!

Especially at Christmas time.

I do have things to talk about other than the weather :)

My little Paige is 6 months old!

She is such a sweetie

She is 15 lbs

Loves to eat- anything I give her

Starting to roll and trying to sit up

Loves to cuddle and be held

Squeals and talks all day long

and is completely entertained by her sister!

Sometimes Carmyn entertains her a little too much though-

I have to step in and save her every so often

But she's learning how to hold her own :)
I call this the pinch and scratch technique-

if you look close you can see battle wounds on both of their faces from this method.

We love our little Paige.

I can't get enough of her cute little baby rolls and her cuddling!

So far she is completely a Mamma's girl and I love it!

My chickens

Happy Halloween from the Horne ChicksI told Chad he was lucky to walk around with three chicks on Halloween :) of coarse it was raining- but that didn't stop us!

Some last minute fun

When we accepted the transfer back to Utah, we only had three weeks before Chad needed to be there permanently. So in the middle of trying to get our house on the market and start packing, we decided that we better take some last minute trips before we leave. My parents had already planned a trip to visit so we headed up to Iowa with them to spend time with my brother and his wife and their son Elijah. The kids had a blast together and we all had a great time checking out Nate and Kristin's new stomping grounds.

My parents with E and Carmyn

Then we took a trip down to Branson, Missouri to check out all the action.

Enjoyed the scenery-

Chad and I fell in love with the rolling hills of Missouri!

It's not flat like most people think

The best part of that trip was stopping every hour to let Carmyn go pee.

No rest stops or potty's for miles- ya we're a little white trash-
Chad mastered the side of the road hover method.

Lots of daddy daughter time-

We know Chad is going to be gone a lot in the next few months while he gets his new area going. So we have to enjoy him while he's here!
Fancy Nancy was the book of the week-Pretty sure they read it 100 times.

Finally one last girls night out!

I love these girls- I'm going to miss them so much!

Some well earned R&R at the spa for Tiff's B-day!

We flew home yesterday and I cried the whole way.

Kind of ironic that I cried the whole way to Missouri the first time too :)

I'm feeling a little lost right now- I shouldn't feel that way- I'm home. I think it's just going to take a little time to settle back in. We feel so blessed that we got the opportunity to come back so soon. We both thought it was going to be a struggle to get home but it all seemed to work out perfectly.

Home in Utah with Missouri in my heart.

One last photo shoot with my sweet friend Tiffany.
She has taken all of our family pictures for us since we have lived in Missouri and I am greatly going to miss her skills!!
Tiff has been my personal photographer, my babysitter, a shoulder to cry on, and basically my family in Missouri. She even took me to the hospital when I was in labor with Paige!
I'm going to miss having her down the street but I know she's just a phone call away :)
She gave me a plaque that said "friendship isn't a big thing- it's a million little things"- so true-
a great friend just knows all those little things that mean a lot. Carmyn handed me my phone today and said

" Mom-call Tiffy- I want to go to Baileys house."

It was hard to explain to a 2 year old that her best friend is now a thousand miles away-

Luckily Carmyn handled the news better than I did