Our Valentine's Baby

 One year ago, I was trying to help Spencer put together our DVD cabinet but soon started to have contractions. After a couple of hours of continuous contractions, I ended up in the hospital in labor and around 9:00pm I had received the best Valentine's gift I could have asked for. Our little Ansley brings such a sweet spirit to our family and home. She is always and I mean always happy. She loves Clay and wants to be with him where ever he is. She is a huge Daddy's girl and is always excited when Spencer comes home or wakes up from sleeping. She follows him when he is getting ready for work in the mornings and when he leaves she crawls over to the door whimpering. She has just started the separation anxiety which is a little new to us since Clay really never had that when he was little. She loves music and can find her dancing and twirling her toes when ever she hears it. She loves taking a bath with her brother and loves splashing him which makes her laugh so hard. Her favorite place in the whole world is our bed. She could be crying histariculy and nothing will work to calm her down except putting her on the bed. She loves it when Spencer wrestles with her and rolls her around. She isn't walking yet but crawls like champ. When she wants to go fast you better watch out because she puts her head down and speeds off and may run into you. I can't imagine life without this little girl. I try to express how much I love these kids but words can't do it justice. Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!

 What do you get a 1 year old that is so content with her big brother's toys?

Clothes, shoes and hair bows.

Of course she was more interested in the wrapping, it was shiny. 

 Clay was supper excited because he was able to help Ansley open the presents.

For breakfast I made these awesomely delicious banana chocolate chip heart pancakes.

The kids loved them.

  

 On Sunday my family got together for family Sabbath, so we celebrated Ansley's birthday while we were together. I made these oh so moist red velvet cupcakes. Each kid had their own cupcake stand and heart shaped cupcake.  The boys I don't think noticed, but I'll tell you the all the girls that it was so cute and fun. If any of you have girls and their birthday's are coming up this would be a huge hit. It was fun to see all her cousins sing her happy birthday and watch her devour the cupcake. The kids love watching her get all messy they thought it was cute.

Some Family Fun

We love having family visit us, its always so fun visiting and watching the kids play together and building their relationships. They really do love each other even when they don't see each other for months at a time. Unfortunately Rylin threw up the first day they were here and than Jordyn kept saying her stomach hurt the next day. They were only here for 3 days so we only had one day to do some fun stuff. We ended up going to the Riverwoods mall. They have lights up and a Violinist playing in their gazebo. The kids enjoyed dancing to the music under the lights. We also went to Provo Beach Resort and played around there. That place it really fun for families.

even though we didn't do much it was still really fun visiting at our house and just relaxing together.

On Christmas Morning I'll Wake Up Bright and Early...

...Be the first one out of bed with a mistletoe above my head.

On Christmas morning we can sing and celebrate and make the feeling stay all through the day.

(Raffi Christmas Album)

I started another tradition this year were the kids open a book present each night before bed and we read them. I bought 12 books and Clay was so excited to open one each night.

Clay had a Polar Express Party at school, so we opened Papa and Nana's Christmas Eve present early. Had thought the slippers were "awesome" as he would call them.

Santa came to our house and brought Clay a robot just like he asked and Ansley a music table.

Clay also got a race car helmet that talks to him with a steering wheel. They go great with his Lightning McQueen PJ's.

We had a great Christmas this year. Clay was at a fun age (but what age isn't). He really got into Santa this year and actually went to sit on his lap and told him what he wanted. He was always excited to see any kind of lights on houses, calling it Christmas.

It was the off year for my family so we were all by ourselves for Christmas Eve. We decided to have the missionaries over for Christmas Eve dinner. I was so excited about this because I could make a big dinner (its hard to do that with only 2 people). It was really nice to have them over and to bring that special spirit with them in our home.

Christmas morning was great. Clay loved everything he got and Ansley could care less, of course. We loved being together just our little family this year.

Temple Lights

Little Tait in his mini Santa suit. I Love it!

Daddy kissing Ansley's neck

We went to see the Temple Square lights with Jorrel, Crista and their little boy, Tait.

We had so much fun looking at the lights and walking around. We ended up on the top floor of the Joseph Memorial Building to see the lights from above. It was beautiful.

As we were walking around we were stopped constantly by people saying how cute Tait was in his Santa suit. Crista even had 3 or 4 people ask to take a picture of him (I thought that was a little weird). I was a lot of fun, of course we always have fun with Jorrel and Crista. Thanks guys for going with us.

Contest Winner! Oh and Thanksgiving

Tyler, Melinda and the girls usually come up for Thanksgiving, but wasn't able to work it out this year so we spent the holiday with my family.

My family has some fun traditions, old and new. We always make gingerbread houses, watch football, and have a pie contest, which is my favorite. My family really gets into it, even the kids. We have been doing this contest for about 5 0r 6 years now and every year I have won the best presentation. I figure just in case I don't win the best tasting I'll make sure I win the presentation. I have tested pies with trail and error and take them to Spencer's work, but this year I didn't have time to do that so I just went with my gut. I made a banoffee pie, with graham cracker crust, bananas, toffee, and whipped cream on top. Needless to say it was so fantastically delicious and yes I ended up winning this year, but not the presentation. I was pretty exited about it. I even have a spatula embroidered with Webb Annual Pie Contest Best Tasting 2011. It feels so good to win. We shall see if I can keep it up next year.

It doesn't look like it, but Clay really loved doing the gingerbread houses... and eating it too.

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Of course we had to bring out all the Christmas decor the day after Thanksgiving. Clay has been at really fun age this year. He has been talking about Christmas since Halloween. He loves to see all the lights, hear the music, and all the sweets. I really can't wait for Christmas morning.

Clay loved helping decorate. This is him plugging in the tree for the first time of the season

Ansley likes to sit in front of the tree and look at the lights. We put the ornaments on top so she couldn't bit and suck on them.

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This year we copied a tradition Tyler and Melinda have done with their kids and bought an ornament for Ansley and Clay. We will be doing this every year. I love this tradition.

I really couldn't find a good one for Ansley so I bought this one. Of course she was born this year and is our daughter, but I also liked that it had hearts around it, you know, since she was born on Valentines Day.

Clay actually picked this one out. He loves Mater from Cars. We had a tough time telling me that these are not toys, they are for decoration. I don't know if he understood that or if he just forgot about it, either way it works for me.