Happy birthday to me!

Yesterday was Cora's 1st birthday, and my 29th.
She is the best birthday present ever!

No singing at the table!

When I was growing up, we had a rule: No singing at the table. When Silas and I were first married, I found out that he had the same rule at his house. We wondered why our parents would have such a silly rule about something so innocent as singing.

Oh how naive!

When our three boys the ages 6, 5 and 3 who sing "The Imperial March" from Star Wars at every meal, or better yet, all sing different random songs at the same time, we realize why our parents had this wise rule.

Stockings

When Silas was a teenager, his family made flannel stockings with individualized appliques on them. Silas's was a set of bagpipes. We both liked this stocking so much that each time we have a new family member, we add to our homemade stockings. This year I made one for Cora. It seemed a little weird, because she is almost a year, but she was born two days AFTER Christmas, so this is her first Christmas.

Anyway, we love our stockings! Oh, and I know, the angel is a little big compared to the others...Haha!

Halloween

I know, it's December...but here we go.

We had a great Halloween. We usually tag along with our friends the Warbys, which is always fun. We went to their ward's Trunk or Treat, which I am convinced is the best way to spend Halloween! We just sat there at the car and watched our kids in a safe environment. They had so much fun!

Silas got to finally be Mr. Rogers, since he had a homemade wool sweater knitted for him my a co-worker. Cora was a chick, Grant was a monkey, Ryan was Mario and Cleod was Luigi.

Girly stuff!

So, the other day, I felt painted Cora's toenails for the first time and curled her hair. She was very patient and nice while I played house. It was fun...and she is adorable!

Cora is cute

That is all I have to say!

Salt Lake Trip

Last week we were able to go to Salt Lake for two days. Silas had a work conference and so while he was busy, the boys and I visited Temple Square, did a little shopping and best of all, got to spend time with my brother Darin, his wife Kira and her 4 kids. Darin and Kira got married in July and we hit it off right away but hadn't spent much time with them. The kids LOVE Kira's kids and Silas and I do too! It was a BLAST!
My sweet Cleod loved visiting the temple. He's getting so old and learning more and more about the Holy Ghost. He's starting to read the Book of Mormon on his own...he's not even 7! He's amazing!

That's all the photos we have. Sadly, we don't have a working camera right now, so Silas's phone is all we have. Hopefully we can fix that soon.