She's Two Alright

 Our Black Friday baby is now two years old but it's felt like that for awhile.

 Whenever you would ask her what she wanted for her birthday she would just say "cake, cake, cake." This year it was elmo.

Paige took the time to enjoy each present including her elmo book and imediately putting on her new shoes from Grandma Ogden. 

 

 Our loving Paige. And soon after the baby took a trip down the stairs.

 Thanksgiving was filling and it was wonderful to have the Manwarings and Hillams come out. Cade and Paige love their cousins and I love not having to entertain them.

Our Thanksgiving FHE project. We have so much to be grateful for.

 Like a wheelbarrow to get these home from the neighbors!

 Halloween was fun and included four wheeling around to all the neighbors. Gotta love trick-or-treating in the country.

Paige's new picture smile.

 

 We carried on the tradition of cutting down our Christmas tree. Thank you mom and dad for all your help carrying kids up the hill and the trees down.

I love this guy!

We treenapped our tree from Fall Creek - hence the name. I'd love to see it in the Spring.

 Thanks for still caring about us.

Living the Dream

Update: The last three months have been all play and little work! 

 

Eating too much at the Eastern Idaho State Fair

 Playing outside in the water

 Lift ride at Sundance to see the beautiful colors (Thanks Kevin!)

 Quick trip to Yellowstone

 Four BYU football games.

 And plenty of family love!

I am currently procrastinating packing for our vacation. Things are going here at the Ogden household. Enjoying the warm weather and family and my new camera. We're out job hunting and wondering where Heavenly Father will take us next. I am very grateful for family and friends because we can't do things alone though I always try to. Thank you everyone for just being who you are!

April

 So Cade is "helping" me right now so this will be brief.

 Our new preschool table.

 Easter was fun (especially with two dinners - one from each family. Thanks moms!)

 Can you find what is missing?

Kids did well during Conference - it will be harder when I have to make them pay attention.

April was great now we'll have to see what May brings us!

March Madness

We needed to go down to Provo so we made a little vacation out if it. The kids loved swimming in the pool (though it was a little cold!) and lasted over three hours at the outlet stores in Park City. It was a miracle people.

My attempt at getting both kids to wear their sunglasses at the same time. Will probably never happen.

Celebrated the birthday. Cade and Clay decorated my cake. Thanks to everyone who celebrated with us. We sure are blessed.

Visiting daddy at work.
These two make my life so exciting.

We've all been trading off whose sick for the past month and I am ready for us all to be healthy with good weather to play outside. We are still playing the waiting game with PT schools and may even be open to the idea of another path. So if anyone has an awesome job for us let us know. Everything will work out as it always does! Thanks for your love and prayers.

P.S. My bracket is totally beating Clay's right now though it won't last long since I had Missouri picked to win it all. What will we watch after March? How long until the Olympics?

Lazy Days of Winter

Today was a lazy day. Didn't do any of the things on my list and I kind of feel like chocolate chip cookies but I dont know if that desire is strong enough to get me to actually make them. We'll see. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be more motivated and make up for today but until then - yay for lazy days!

Catch Up

So Thanksgiving, Christmas? Was that really almost two months ago? I still haven't gotten the Christmas pictures from my parents because genius here remembered to charge the camera battery but didn't put it back in so I borrowed theirs. But it was great and we are very blessed. And we got to cut down our own tree this year.

Paige turned 1 in November. She had fun getting girly, pink things and loved her pig cake.

Cade turned three and Clay turned 27 in December. The cake didn't really look like Curious George but hey I tried and he loved it.

We've been enjoying playing outside but have to resort to playing in rocks and mud instead of snow.

Cade asks everyday if there is snow so he can make a snowman. Come on Idaho - seriously? The weakest winter ever.

Cade is improving in his photography and took this lovely one of Paige. Basically he gets the camera depending upon how desperate I am to have him leave me alone for a few minutes.

Cade loves learning new songs in Primary.

Paigey just being her cute self. Yes my kids are this cute and perfect all the time, they beg for vegetables and always go to sleep on time. We are waiting to hear from five more PT schools including our top two - ISU and Rocky Mountain in Provo. We are on a wait list at Tuoro University in Henderson, Nevada and won't find out until May where we rank on the list. I hate this waiting game. Do you think the blessings can still come even if you totally fail the trial of your faith? I can't wait to find out what the future holds for us.

Parents of the Year

We pretty much have the Parents of the Year award for 2011 all wrapped up as evidenced by this video. (I may have posted this last year - I can't remember.) I don't think I am in the running for blogger of the year. Stay tuned for more news and updates.