Lots of pictures!!!

We had such a nice Christmas this year! We stayed home for the first year since we were married. The kids had so much fun opening presents and playing with new toys. Evan loves his new cooking set, ball popper and his leap frog ABC magnet toy. Kiah got some cute clothes and stuffed animals and lots of books, but I think her favorite was the wrapping paper! Dallas is now wasting away his break watching movies (he got a lot!) and I love my new cookware set! (thanks Mom and Dad!!!) It has been lots of fun spending Christmas with my little family! That is really the best part of the holidays. We sure miss everyone back home!




I had another photo shoot with my kids and I got some cute pictures. One day they will enjoy sitting by each other so I can get a good picture of them together. I made Kiah a jean skirt out of Evan's old jeans and it turned out really cute! It looks good with her stripped tights! I also made her some head bands out of some tights which turned out to be cute too. Now I am working on making some bows and clips. Evan refuses to look at the camera! The only good one I got with him looking turned out blurry :( The other one just has a cheesy smile. Oh well he is a cutie!

(This is the one of Evan I love, it's just blurry)

(This one is my favorite)

Christmas letter

We decided to start a Christmas letter blog :) Click on the link to read our letter :) http://batemanfamnewsletter.blogspot.com/

I also wanted to show some pictures we took of our family, enjoy!

Its been too long

I feel like it has been way to long since I've written anything. This blog has been like a journal about our family and I miss having the internet at home! Anyway, now I feel like I have to catch you all up on what you've missed!
I'll go back to Thanksgiving...
We had Thanksgiving with the Allen's and the Maas' at the Allen's home(some friends in the ward, and now our new neighbors). The food was so yummy and it was so nice to have friends to be with since we couldn't be with family. Evan had lots of fun with the other kids and he loved sitting at the kids table to eat (back in the day I hated eating at the "kids table" but he had fun!) I made my Mom's yams, pumpkin pie, Dallas' Mom's Jello salad, and some rolls (that turned out great- I now have the best recipe for rolls!) Evan is now a huge fan of pumpkin pie. He would've eaten it all if I let him!

The next morning Makiah woke me up at 3 am right before my alarm went off. I gave her to Dallas and got ready to go shopping! I always thought people were crazy for shopping the day after Thanksgiving, but I had so much fun! I went with some friends and so we were able to wait in lines for each other while we all shopped. It's crazy how many people get up that early to hit the sales, but it's definitely worth it if you know what you are going for. I got gifts for the family, some new clothes for Makiah, and I even got myself some frames:)

Kiah's new clothes :)

On Saturday we set up our (very) little Christmas Tree. It's only 3 feet tall but it's perfect! Evan loves the lights and his reindeer ornament that Grandma Johnson gave him last year. Now our house is all ready for the holidays. We loooove Christmas and We cannot wait!

We had a ward Christmas party last week and guess who showed up?

Classic

Evan really did like Santa-until I put him on his lap! After he got down he said bye-bye Santa!

We are finally moved in!

We finally moved into our new place last Thursday, and so far we are loving it. We haven't had the internet so I'm at the library doing this - sorry, no pictures of the new place. Hopefully we'll get the internet soon, I am going through withdrawals! I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Anniversary :)

Three years ago today Dallas and I were sealed together in the Jordan River Temple. I will always remember that day and how happy I was (and still am!). I love you Dallas!!!



P.S. This is the slide show that Lark put together for our reception. I thought I would share...

no laughing at our old pictures :)

Kiah, Kiah, and more Kiah...

Makiah is 4 months old now and she is getting so big...

I love this picture! Her cheeks are so rosey, she looks so pretty.

Makiah loves her Dad! She is looking at him in this picture.
She'll look around until she finds him and then she just lights up!

She is so chubby! look how round and cute those cheeks are!

Makiah's laugh is so funny, we love her so much!

Big Boy!

Evan Loves to help out and he was so excited when I let him vacuum yesterday. He did a good job and he didn't want to stop!

I finally took some videos of Evan talking and singing (well Dallas does the singing, Evan likes doing the actions). He loves making the sounds of the animals, his favorite is the gorilla and cow. He also likes the elephant but he can't say it so he calls it a cow. Watch his impression of the gorilla and elephant it is really cute. Today I was visiting teaching and there were other little boys there playing with Evan. The other boys started acting like gorillas and Evan thought it was so funny so he joined in. I love that he is starting to get along with other kids, he usually just keeps to himself.

Evan loves Makiah so much. He has been paying more attention to her lately and she loves it. He likes to rock with her in the rocking chair and when he hears her cooing and laughing he thinks it is pretty funny. The other day he was rocking her in her car seat and she loved it. Soon enough they were both laughing at each other.

Twilight!!!!!

I am sooooo excited to see this movie! I probably won't get to see it this week (because we're moving!) but I can't wait until I can :)

Free Stuff :)

I was emailed this link today, http://freebies4mom.blogspot.com/ and it's a really fun blog! Lots of free stuff! Right now you can get instructions on how to get a free photo book from snapfish and also free photo cards from Kodak. Fun stuff, check it out!

Poor Makiah...

So, this morning I had Makiah in bed with me and I was trying to get a few more minutes of sleep, but Evan kept coming in and waking me up. At one point I woke up and Evan was on the bed with a pen, I didn't think much of it until I saw Kiah's face...poor girl, she always gets picked on :(

Dallas came in the room and he thought it was so funny, so I had to laugh too. Thank goodness Evan didn't poke out her eye, I'll have to keep an eye on that boy.

What's goin' on

I thought I'd take some time to let you all know how things are going around here. Both of the kids are asleep so I thought I would take advantage of the time :) It actually has been kinda boring lately, the kids and I have been sick for over a week and now Dallas has it. It started out as a cold and then I got a sore throat. The kids were not doing well on Saturday so we took them to the doctor. It turns out Makiah has croup and Evan needed antibiotics before he got an ear infection. So the past few days have been lazy days... the only time I left the house was to pick up Dallas, who got on the wrong bus last night. I think I am going crazy in here! I hope to go over to our new apartment today and clean up a little. We have been moving some stuff over to get started on the move and we need to do some organizing. I also get to go play volleyball tonight at the church with some girls from the stake, it will be so nice to get out of the house for once.
We are getting a washer and dryer today for our new apartment and I am so excited! Now I don't have to go down to the creepy basement to do laundry! (You know your getting old when you get excited over such silly things, or maybe it's just a mom thing, I don't know!)
The warm weather is gone :( now we have the heat on instead of the AC, oh the sadness... I am already excited for spring. Oh yeah, I have to put up this music video! this is for my little sister, Bethany, who got to meet One Republic after their concert on Friday night...I wish I would have been there!

Cute Stuff!

GrosgrainStore.com Grand Opening & Giftcard Giveaway!!!!!!!!
Above is a link to the Grosgrain blog, if you want to enter to win a gift card to the Grosgrain store (link below). If you have a little girl or if you know a little girl, you should check this out! This girl makes some really cute clothes and she does giveaways all the time. If you go to her blog and post a link then you have the chance to win some of her cute clothes! I figure the more often I enter to win the better chance I have at winning :) So that is why you are always seeing these posts on my blog :) Check this out, you will love it!
GROSGRAINSTORE.COM

Grosgrain Grand Opening

Grosgrain Grand Opening !!!!

Check out this fun mini online store that just opened today! The skirts are so cute.