Seriously. I suck.

Wow. It has really been forever since I've blogged.
I started a post over a month ago and didn't ever finish it.

Umm... so...brief synopsis of life to get everyone up to speed perhaps?

We'll go back to September...

My sister got married! She actually trusted me enough to take her engagement pictures (good thing since her photographer only just barely released all of her files to her 2 months after the wedding). She was a beautiful bride and had a gorgeous and fun "wedding party".

Alex actually started warming up to Kaitlyn! I think it's because she's become more interactive and loves to both laugh at her brother and make him laugh by being silly herself.

I love when I catch great looks like this

one of my new favorite pictures of Alex. It makes a FABULOUS desktop background. :)

So cute!

Alex had a birthday. He turned 4. He was SO excited to have a party! We went to Kangaroo Zoo with his cousins, then to McDonald's for his birthday dinner, and then home for the party with the fam. He requested a Lightning McQueen cake and since I had been rushing all day to get a couple of mermaid costumes mailed, we bought a last minute cake little cake at the grocery store that had oreo crumbs around the outside edge that we put his Cars cars on like they were on a racetrack and then put green sprinkles in the middle of the cake like grass.

And he loved it.

Halloween!

Alex was a frog (again. Halloween was far too crazy this year with mermaid sewing to make him something new. Plus, he loved being a frog anyway, so it was all good!) and Kaitlyn was... a mermaid. I was SO thrilled that it was actually warm the day before Halloween when we were out doing Halloween-y stuff and Kaitlyn didn't even have to wear a onsie with her costume! It felt like Texas and I was THRILLED.

Alex and his cousin who made an ADORABLE Snow White. Sooo... a princess and a frog, right?

I wasn't very successful at getting a good shot of all 4 kids, obviously.

This is all that Kaitlyn was interested in doing

Mmm.... CANDY!

SOOO CUTE!!!!

Throwing a tantrum. Such a girl.

And onto November!

Kaitlyn turned 1. And she let me take some cute pictures of her on her actual birthday before her little party.

This is my FAVORITE and also makes a fabulous desktop background. :)

The girl has been able to stand for awhile, but she just doesn't really have the desire to walk more than a couple of steps here and there. She looks so cute standing there all by herself!

And since I was taking pictures of Kaitlyn, Alex wanted some of him too. He got such a kick out of making silly faces and looking at them on the camera afterward. Such a silly boy.

He gets this one from his daddy

Here are a couple of pictures of Kaitlyn's cupcake and cake. Not the greatest pictures, but it was a cute cake and, best of all, it was SUPER easy. :)

We got to spend our first Thanksgiving in 4 years with ALL of our family! That was fun! (Honestly though, I still love Thanksgiving with Kenn and Amy in TX) I'm used to being in charge of several things and this year I was in charge of just the cheese bowl and crackers. Talk about a step down!

We definitely missed being able to wear shorts and the ward Thanksgiving football game was far too cold to attend. Ahh... TX. I miss you.

Here are some pictures of Kaitlyn on Thanksgiving. Yes, that is all you get.

go utes!

The girl loved pushing the stroller/baby around... until she tipped over with it. Then she walked behind it crying. SO funny!

Cute little walking girl!

We got to visit with Santa at the first family Christmas party we've been able to attend in 4 years. The last time we went to this was when Jon and I were newly (6 months) married.

He looks like he's excited to be there, right? He asked for trains.

and Kaitlyn

happy she got a candy cane out of the deal

I don't have any pictures from December on my computer yet, so I guess I will have to blog that later. Hopefully you enjoyed the pictures and seeing the big events. I promise to have better blogging skills from now on. Remember when I used to blog every day? Ya... maybe I'll do that again. :)