Christmas 2009!!!

Lets just say this is their FAVORITE present! Even little Bailey can climb up the slide and go down! Little goof balls!
We visited my parent's home on Christmas Day, it was fun to see everyone! Their house always looks so pretty for the holidays!
Yes, as usual, I am the only one looking at the camera!
Grama Collier gave the girls this little vacuum, Abby LOVES it! She is a little mama, I'm training her well I guess!
My Mom gave the girls these adorable dresses and red shoes for Christmas, I love them! They looked so cute :)

Bailey cheesin' it up!
Um, notice how she is sitting on top of a present, she is climbing on EVERYTHING lately, we can't control the little wild thing!
the heap of wrapping paper! We were given so many nice gifts!
ahhhhhh, toys toys toys!
Abby loves jewelry and princess toys all of a sudden, so here she is putting on a princess watch...
We couldn't keep Bailey off of the slide, she didn't even want to see any other presents........

Christmas Eve pictures....opening pj's
Christmas Eve cookie decorating, I even got Gavin to join in, well, he frosted like three cookies, but that was better than nothing!
Abby loved helping me cut out the cookies, she loves doing anything in the kitchen these days

We visited Gavin's parents a few days before Christmas, and here are a few pictures from it! This is Laura and Abby (Gavin's sister's daughter)
Here is Gavin's brother, John, and his cute family!

We had such a wonderful Christmas! This was our first year staying home, and it was so fun to do our own little holiday traditions this year! It was a little bit lonely here in Provo because all our neighbors (BYU students) were gone, so we felt like the only people here. But it was still fun!

5 YEARS!!!!

Our wedding day, Dec. 21, 2004, in the Salt Lake Temple....
Happy 5th Anniversary Gavin!!!!

I am so lucky to have Gavin as my husband. Every day I realize what a wonderful husband he is to me. He is always so thoughtful and loving towards me, even when I don't deserve it! He has always made me feel so special and loved and I am thankful for him in my life! He has been such a sweet father to our girls and is working so hard in school and work. He is the husband I always hoped for and I love him so much!!!!


For our Anniversary this year we were lucky to have a few days to ourselves! Gavin's sister, Jenna, was SOOOOO nice to help watch our girls for two days this weekend as we celebrated our Anniversary a little early (our official Anniversary is on Monday). But we went to the Salt Lake Marriott Hotel for two nights and did lots of fun things! It was nice to just be alone together for a few days, but we totally missed our girls!

Here we are in the hotel room, our view was SO pretty! We were overlooking the Galavan Center with all the people ice-skating.
The first day, we did a session at the Salt Lake Temple and then went out to eat at the Gateway and just walked around the expensive stores for a little while. It was FREEZING cold though and so we tried to stay inside as much as possible. Gavin ran into an old friend while we were waiting to eat dinner, so that was fun for him!



On Saturday, we went skiiing at Brighton Ski Resort! It was so much fun, and neither of us had any falls amazingly! I haven't been skiing for quite a while, so it was so much fun to go with Gavin. His first time skiing was actually on our honeymoon, and man he is just as good as I am now, if not better! He just catches onto everything so fast!
Here we are after our day or skiiing, worn out and sun burnt :)
We always love the view at the top of one of the ski lifts there, it is so pretty! It was such a fun weekend and we are so thankful to Jenna and her family for helping watch our girls! I can't believe five years has already gone by since our wedding day! Love you Gavin!

Christmas Fun!

Last Sunday the girls got to wear their Christmas dresses! They looked so cute! I love getting them dressed up!
Abby in her cute dress, being shy :)
My Parents and Grandma are doing the Twelve Days of Christmas for us this year (as well as my siblings families). They are so cute to do this for us! Each day, we get to open a present, and Abby gets SO excited! Below is a picture of Day #1's present, this cute Elf! We still need to name it....
So far our Elf has been a little bit mischevious around the house, but we did find him dusting our furniture one time..... Abby gets excited to see the Elf because she knows we get to open a present when he is out!
Here is our little Christmas tree, it is a perfect size for our little place :) We hope you are all having a fun holiday season so far!

Just some cute pictures...

Abby passed out against Daddy after a long Sunday, and Sundays are long because these girlies wear themselves out being naughty at church!

Bailey is full of it!

All snuggled in her winter coat, she LOVES anything soft that she can lay against :)

Elf Yourself NYC Invasion

Elf Yourself Takes over!
(Click above)

This is funny!

Thanksgiving!

We had a fun Thanksgiving holiday at Gavin's oldest sister, Jenna's, house! It was fun to see everyone in his family! Here is Abby after we got home, you can tell she had fun and looks worn out!
Okay, this picture is horrible, but it made us laugh, thanks a lot Gavin, you always get the most embarrassing pictures!
Gavin's brother, John, and his cute wife, Michelle
Tired out from turkey....
Bailey being cute, and also tired from turkey..
We only got goofy pictures, sorry
Gavin wouldn't smile, his brother, Brian, was taking the pictures, and they couldn't stop laughing!

We had a fun holiday with his family, thanks to Jenna for hosting and lettings us all visit!

Another flashback...

I was looking at some pictures from our engagement days, back in 2004, just wanted to post a few pictures. It is fun to look back, those were some fun times! I like Gavin in his glasses :)

Flashback.....

You'll have to search for our faces, but here are some scanned pics from our highschool days. I was looking through pictures when I was cleaning out our closet and these just make me laugh. I can't believe it has been 7 years since we were in high school, time flies! The colored pics are our senior year pics, black and white were our junior year pics... Many of these are embarrassing, but gave me a good laugh.





Okay, just so you know the quote they put by my picture WAS NOT what I said, they changed my quote, so it sounds totally retarded!
See if you can spot Gavin in the mix, this is his soccer team.
Can you see him? Gavin was actually all state in high school for soccer, he was pretty good!

Sorry Sarah and Brittany, I didn't realize you were in the pictures, hope this is okay :)