baby walker

elle and i have been in texas this past week visiting my sweet baby nephew walker. he is soo teeny tiny! we have joked the entire week that he (7 lbs. 1 oz.) was elle's size when she was still in the womb at 30 weeks! when he left the hospital he was 6 lbs. 4 oz. EXACTLY 3 lbs. from Elle's birth weight! my daughter as a newborn will be walker's size when he is two months old...i can't believe it. we have had a great time and can't wait to come back in may and see how much bigger he is.

i have tons of great pictures to show, but here are a few for now.

the proud daddy

NYC (december)

Mathew was offered FIVE internship offers for this summer and chose to go with AMEX! As a part of the sell day they flew him up there (and I tagged along) for a long weekend trip. Another guy in the program (and his wife and kids) came along as well. Sharla and Kendra, Elle and I cruised the city while Mathew and Tim where being sold on the company. We tried to take a ton of pictures to document the trip, but when you get back and start looking at them it doesn't feel like we took that many.

Mathew and Elle Belle as we are waiting to take off
Elle (and myself included) LOVE having an extra seat on the plane so she can hang out in her car seat

this is Elle pulling the ladies hair in front of us....she wasn't happy, nor did she think it was cute

in the front room of the hotel, Kendra and Elle (1 month apart) were having a ball of a time

the two bundled up as we cruised the city

Elle and I in Time Square

toy soldier = toy store

in central park Elle was watching the ducks

the wind/rain cover...worked like a charm!

like father like daughter

Mathew and Elle downtown

every time we go to NYC we have a picture taken on this bridge

Weehoken, NJ (thanks familia de Giles for letting us stay with you Saturday night!)

at the airport our flight was delayed a few hours and Elle was anxious to leave

more pictures to come!

Walker Dean

He's here! My sister Brittany delivered a beautiful baby boy today! I can't wait to meet him next week!

7 lbs. 1 oz

18 1/2 in. long.

Thank goodness for Skype...I have been able to watch all the family hanging out in the waiting room and watch them measure, clean, etc. in the nursery!

New York

It has been months since I have updated the blog, so here is a re-cap of the past few months. We went to LA, CA to visit family for Thanksgiving. Came back and two days later left for NYC, NY. Came back, then two weeks later left for OKC, OK (for Christmas) for a week and then headed down to DFW, TX. We have been going non-stop! Elle has become quite the little traveler. I still need to upload photos and then will post them on here...so keep a look out.

Videos!

This was a lot of fun. I don't know if she really knows what she was saying, but it was still cute!

Halloween

this is elle in her halloween day outfit with her friend bryson (he was a BYU football player)..so cute!elle's peacock costume on the hanger mathew was gone during the "trick-or-treating" part of halloween, so we went with brittany and her two adorable childrenshe made these fabulous treats for dessert. she CARVED oranges and put jello inside (ADORABLE!)

bangs

dear bangs,

welcome to my world. i am excited to have you here with me. i only have a few requests...

1. please always look as good as you do right now.
2. please don't part right down the middle.
3. please swoop perfectly every time i ask you too.
4. please say STOP CUTTING ME every time i think i need to cut you a little bit shorter.

i can't wait to show you off.

me

p.s. i am so glad you came into my world when michelle did such a great job coloring my hair. this is going to be the start of a beautiful relationship.

a few randoms of sweet baby elle

i have recently fell in love with black and white photos. here are a few of elle in a tutu i made.

my little girl still looks great despite the bed head.

this darling little hat is perfect for elle! thanks robin!

NO this is NOT mine!

A HUGE congratulations are in order for my little sister Brittany! She found out yesterday that she is having a boy. So far she has had the easiest pregnancy ever, because she just found out last week that she was pregnant. If only we could all be that lucky!



I can't wait to meet baby P.

the monkey is growing up!

Our little monkey is growing up. She turned 7 months old on Sunday and is growing like a weed. She is just on the verge of crawling and I am not sure how I feel about that. She will be ALL OVER THE PLACE!

Per the request of her Aunt Brittany, this post is mainly dedicated to showcase our growing girl.

she loves riding in the stroller. i love when she starts to get tired when we are walking around, because she just chills.

on our way to elle's first football game, she fell asleep.

On the first day of school, it was Mathew's birthday (Happy Birthday Mathew!)
this is elly (our neighbors daughter). elle just loves elly! she is hilarious and at 21 months old speaks better than some 4 yr olds.

i made some abelskebers....delightful.
elle gets the biggest kick out of mathew tickling her



in a lame effort to copy elle's best friend (ava) and her material bow.

she goes about one crawl and then pancakes. Almost caught it on camera.

the move to provo

As many of you know we moved to Provo, Utah in August for Mathew to start the MBA program at BYU. The drive was long, but we had Ben to assist with the driving! He was a huge help. I honestly don't know what we would have done without him. (Thanks B!)

These are some of the photos we took along the way (from the car). Mostly in Southern Utah, because it is gorgeous.

the sunflower fields were incredible. we weren't ever able to stop, so hopefully this photo will do the region a bit of justice.

Our little Elle was such a trooper!

As soon as we arrived, Mathew had to leave to go on a rafting trip. It was just Ben, Elle and I. We made our way up to Park City, where we putzed around for a bit.
again, she is such a little trooper!

We drove up to the Olympic Village and this was the view from the top. Ben and I both got a bit sick on the way back down to Salt Lake City. Neither of us were use to the altitude.

We were also able to meet up with the Vincent side of Mathew's family and eat dinner. It was so fun and the first time they all met Elle.