Disney on Ice!

I was so excited to be able to take my girl Bryn for a mommy/daughter date... I kept it a surprise until the morning when she woke up, I told her we would be going to brunch with some friends and then to see Disney Princesses on Ice! She was so excited and I was glad to be able to spend the time with her.

Lucky for me I work for an amazing company {The TomKat Studio} and we had the opportunity to style a dessert table for a huge Disney on Ice charity event the same weekend... As a thank you, they gave Kim a block of tickets for the show and she invited us along! Below are two pictures of the desserts - this event was incredible - it was a benefit for many terminally ill children - oh my these kids were AMAZING!


Brunch at Sweet Tomatoes
All of the girls before the show! {with thei
Brynley and I waiting for the show to start!
Bryn and her cute new friend, Madison
Brynley loves posing for the camera - it's the same pose every time!
Mickey and Minnie started the show
One of our favorite moments...
And another favorite moment...
Brynley was waiting for Cinderella and Prince Charming to kiss

We had a fantastic time!!! Thank you to Disney on Ice and to Kim for letting us have this time together!

Temple Lights 2010

We always love going to the Temple Lights - the funny thing is our pictures all look the same every year! The kids are aging a bit and we usually have different people with us so I guess I'll keep posting every year. The kids love seeing all of the Nativities - my favorite part!

Christmas Day 2010

We had such a great Christmas this year... Honestly, I can't think of the last time we had a bad Christmas, but whatever! The kids woke up to open all of their presents from Santa. Some of the highlights included basketball hoop for Zac, Tech Deck ramps and skateboards for Hayden, Hermit Crabs for Hayden {which were later returned and replaced by the Leopard Gecko}, Bryn and Hayden both got iPod shuffles, and so much more!

I was able to surprise Andy {with a bit of help from his Dad} with an iPad! This was the best surprise ever and I was so glad I actually pulled it off! Andy and I were not doing gifts for each other this year - we never do - and yet we both end up somehow getting awesome gifts! Andy got me a gorgeous Nativity {I collect Nativities and this one is my new favorite!}, he got me a new point and shoot camera, and The Incredible Shrinking Woman on DVD! It was really a great day!

We had our annual Christmas brunch at our house - it was just as tasty as ever. We invited out cute neighbors Jeff and Diana over with their cute little baby Ty!

Ty and Mia together!

We spent the day being very lazy - letting the kids play and watch movies, playing Twister, until dinner which was a huge buffet of really awesome appetizers, etc...



I might add that Meredith and Steve were the only adults to actually play Twister!

After brunch we headed over to Aunt Shelly and Uncle Joe's house for more present opening! All of the kids wanted a pillow pet for Christmas and so Aunt Shelly delivered!

After we opened presents, Uncle Joe pulled out his annual bag of Christmas goodies! Each was labeled and we each got to choose numbers to determine what our gift would be... there was much trading and bartering with Andy ending up with the canned ham!
We finished the night with a rousing game of "Hot Rudolph" {Like Hot Potato only you play with a rudolph toy that lights up and when it stops playing music and lighting up, you're out!}
Pretty much Zac was the best player ever!!!


The night was capped off with a viewing of The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a perfect ending to a perfect day...

Someone had a Birthday!

Our "little" Zachar Man turned 3 last week! He continues to melt my heart every day {even on days he's being naughty - like yesterday when I was making dinner and he apparently was squirting Mia with a squirt bottle from less than a foot away. She never made a peep but in the end was SOAKED!} When he woke up I had a surprise for him - cupcakes for breakfast! He had been singing happy birthday all week and was thrilled that we all sang it to him!

Eating his cupcake

He and Mia eating a cupcake and the mess they made!

What the heck? Seriously... Zac used to be the cleanest baby... Not so much now.

Just for good measure we better include a picture of Mia's dirty face!

Check out this post for some super cute pics

Remember this post from two years ago when we knew Zac would be going in soon for abdominal surgery?

And finally, I remember these days like they were yesterday...

Zac has come a long way in his short life.... He has gone from barely being on the growth chart at a year to being over 100% on height and weight! Amazing... I look forward to watching his personality develop even more! {Like today when we were out to lunch and then went outside to run around - there was a big huge fountain - Zac ended up fully in the fountain, nice!}

Love that guy!

Seriously? Don't be jealous...

But I know you will be when you see the following pictures... Jealous about what you ask? The fact that I get to hang out with this beautiful thing ALL Day long! Seriously, Mia is a JOY and I just love watching her waddle around the house, her bum moving from side to side! She is one amazing little girl ad she just turned 9 months - holy cow!!!

(The pictures look bad, not sure why but if you click on them, they are a lot clearer!)

My only child who actually liked the pickle the first time we gave it to her!

The other day she was so happy just crawling around and playing - it made me happy too!

She managed to find someone's marker on the floor... Hmmm...

The first glance I had of the marker!

It's Official!!!

For those of you not on Facebook... you may not have seen my official introduction on The TomKat Studio that was posted today. Go click on this link to see my picture and Bio! It feels so good to have people appreciate what I do! Anyway, click below to check it out and you can also see the amazing people I get to work with! http://www.thetomkatstudio.com/tomkat-team-meet-molly/

Christmas 2010 - Can I backtrack that far?

I have had several posts I've been in the middle of.... I figured Christmas was as good a place as any to pick up from...

We were planning on having Christmas Eve at my house this year... when our super, amazing, awesome friends {Maddy and Dustin Rogers} invited us to come to their house with Meredith and her family, and Grandma of course! This sounded like a great idea {considering I had just had surgery 4 days earlier and wasn't quite feeling great yet!}


We had some awesome soups along with some equally awesome rolls {brought to AZ all the way from Utah} YUM!!! My mouth is watering thinking about them -anyone heading to St. George want to pick some up for me???


It was a perfect, low key evening - complete with a Nativity reenactment - probably the best one I have EVER witnessed! If you weren't there, you totally missed out. Especially when Nate was helping Brynley give birth!

(You must click on this collage and look a bit closer at the pictures!)

After the Nativity we had the kids play Left, Right, Center - good idea gone terribly wrong... It was an epic failure. Kids were crying right and left as their treats were being taken and given away. I'm pretty sure it must become a new tradition!

(This picture was before the massive bouts of hysteria!)

We then let the kids decorate cookies for Santa - they were really cute! And lastly, Santa dropped off some pj's at the door for all of them! Yay! They were all nice and tired when we left the Roger's house and went right to sleep when we got home!





It didn't take Andy and I too long to get the kids presents under the tree. Grandma was in town and helped get Christmas ready {hence the reason for Days of Our Lives being on the TV!}


It was a very relaxing and perfect Christmas Eve!