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You are about to witness a very pathetic attempt at getting my blog caught up with all of the photos and videos from our phones over the past THREE MONTHS. If you follow us on instagram then lots of these are old news. Otherwise, enjoy!

↓↓↓I don’t usually like baths, but this one was heaven//newborn Alice showing us her beauty↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Alice loves to take naps with me—I love it too//Ames makes Alice’s headbands look good haha↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Air drew and Ames helped color Christmas pictures to hang up//Ames loves rides in our bucket shovel↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓We’ve been trying to take Ames outside to play now and then… but gosh it gets cold out there!//Our friends Kyle and Nicole are so awesome. Plus they love our babies and that’s extra cool↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Just a couple of best friends eating breakfast//photo of Alice taken by Air’s cousin Taylor↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓photo of Alice taken by Air’s cousin Ashley//Alice’s first time going to church. I didn’t have a small enough dress for her so she wore a neck warmer as a skirt↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames says, “Weese (Rhys) is my best!”. We love having him over to play, these two are so fun↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓the missionaries shovelled our driveway during a terrible snowstorm. Then they went and shovelled for our neighbor who’s husband recently passed away… so kind//Here’s where Alice sleeps↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓We scored a free turkey at Superstore and Air roasted that baby up on American Thanksgiving. Yum… he’s amazing//Ames loves meat haha↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames and I had fun sledding and building a snowman one day.

 

I managed to build the tallest snowman ever and Ames pointed out that his name was Olaf an he liked warm hugs… which quickly led to warm kisses, as it goes↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓A few days before Christmas we went with the whole family to see the lights on candy cane lane. It was so much fun. I really like this little tradition we’ve got going.

  

↓↓↓Air’s Aunt Tracey seriously spoiled our babies this Christmas and even gave Ames a bat mobile! He loves this little car and drives it around the house daily//I finished the Book of Mormon at the end of the year and started fresh this year! I am loving this reading schedule over 365 days on instagram↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Air and I have been playing Scrabble together some nights. He kills me every time, but I still enjoy it↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames is still twisting his hair around every night and getting it tangled into the most incredible knots you’ve ever seen. This one even has a little toy dog in the mix//A new pool opened up by our house and I was so excited to take Ames swimming with Tessa last weekend. We need to do more fun stuff like this these days.

 

↓↓↓Air caught me putting on the wrong coat as I was leaving the house last week. Where did my brain go??//I am seriously depressed over the loss of our Target Canada stores. They just opened in Canada two years ago and they are already going out of business. This is ruining my life! Where am I supposed to shop!??↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓I was reluctant to put little Alice in the bumbo, thinking she’s still too small—nope! Our chubby lovey fits just fine. This girl is growing much too much, much too fast↓↓↓

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aaaaaaaand a whole bunch of videos!

↓↓↓Alice being cute↓↓↓

↓↓↓Ames likes to help↓↓↓

↓↓↓Air's Mom took Ames to sleep over for a night. He had a blast, and I have to admit it was pretty nice to have a day to ourselves↓↓↓

↓↓↓On a really nice day I took Ames to a new park to swing and explore↓↓↓

↓↓↓Alice when she was tiny↓↓↓

↓↓↓this was Ames's first time on his bike on Christmas. Pretty timid little guy↓↓↓

↓↓↓Aunty Tara gave Ames a kazoo and he has been obsessed ever since↓↓↓

↓↓↓Ames loves stories. Mostly hearing them, but on occasion we are delighted when he decides to tell us one↓↓↓

↓↓↓Alice loves to have deep conversations like this where we just take turns cooing back and forth for a long time. Its amazing.↓↓↓

↓↓↓About this video Air wrote, "This might just be a testament to our crappy parenting style but we've always employed an open door policy here. Ames seems to like the ambience it creates..."↓↓↓

↓↓↓Alice loves to laugh and smile all day↓↓↓

↓↓↓still regularly building things out of our cushions around here↓↓↓