MERRY CHRISTMAS

So Cordelle thought it would be a good idea to give a general summary of our family for this year on our blog, kind of like most people do in their Christmas card. And because I listen and go along with everything he says (:) I decided to oblige. Ah, I kid, I kid.
Cordelle is still busy working as a graphic designer at the Leavitt Group (an Insurance Brokerage with their head quarters here in Cedar City). He loves the people he works with, but is very busy these days being the only full-time designer. He spends most his free time either playing hoops or football with Seth or doing other freelance projects to bring in extra cash. One of which being our home business doing wedding announcements (cedarweddings.com). He is still serving as the 1st counselor in the Elders Quorum presidency and loves being involved and getting to know the people in our ward.
Wendy is just chillin' at home with the kids. She loves being a mom to a crazy, yet entertaining 2 year old and a sweet little 2 month old girl. She loves any chance to get outside or get some sort of exercise. She always has some sort of project to work on whether its a craft, a home improvement project, or some random idea she thought up to engage Seth for the day. She still serves as an advisor in young womens and works with the Laurels. She loves being involved with an organization in the ward and thinks the world of her girls and the other leaders. She also helps with the cedarweddings side business by meeting with the couples who are getting married, consulting what they want for the announcement and then relaying the information to the "Designer. " (That was difficult writing about yourself in the 3rd person)
Seth is two....need I say more? Probably not, but I will. Seth's most recent loves are Dancing and singing especially to David Archuletta's new song Crush. (which surprisingly he knows like every word in the song... he speaks in broken toddlerese, but knows all the lyrics to the latest pop songs..crazy!). He LOVES to help with dishes which usually means a mini flood on the floor, a soaking wet outfit, and dirty dishes mixed in with all the clean ones. But it distracts him long enough for mom to clean the rest of the kitchen. He still loves riding his bike, playing with his friends, watching his movies (sound of music, Tarzan, The Lion King, Toy Story, Cars...to name a few). He really is hillarious and is learning new words everyday. So dad and mom have learned we have to be a little more careful about what we say cause sure enough, clear as day, our little parrot repeats it.
Jaquelle is darling. Mom cant get enough of her, but already she is showing signs she is not a cuddler....but that usually doesnt stop us. She is smiling a ton and compared to a couple of colicky months ago, she is an angel. Other than that she cant do much, but she gets her fair share of photo shoots cause dressing up girls is far too much fun. We love this stage of babies!
Well we hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and hopefully you can spend a little time appreciating the gift we've really been given...our Savior. We love you all.

Happy Birthday Tallie!

So Sunday is my little sister Tallie's birthday and she's going to be 24! So I decided I wanted to post how much I love her! Growing up it was amazing we didn't kill each other. Although we did drop a TV on her violin because we were fighting over watching Star Trek the Next Generation or MASH (I know we had a strange childhood). There were typical sister rivalries like when I drew a line down the middle of our shared bedroom with tape, threatening her never to come on MY side of the room. And then there were times when we would be grounded to our bedroom till it was clean, but enstead of getting to work, we ended up staying in there for 2 days just playing with each other amidst the toys and clothes and who knows what. There were mutual backscratches where we both had to scratch each others backs for 15 minutes and after I got my entire allotted time, I conviently fell asleep 2 minutes into hers. Of course, I totally abused the older sister privileges. I would make her get me peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches, cereal or drinks of water late at night when we were supposed to be sleeping. (Although she did get me back a couple of times by putting toothpaste, or even worse, soap in my food/drinks as her funny way of getting back at my ordering her around.) We fought over clothes, cleaning the bedroom, her getting the pink stuff and me always getting stuck with the "boyish" blue colored toys. Yes, as kids...we were...well, kids. And I fully admit to being the big bully older sister. But sometime between high school and college something clicked. "Tom and Jerry" finally sat down and ate some ice cream together so-to-speak :) and now I honestly can say that that kid is one of my best friends in the world. She is downright hillarious and one of the only people that can still make me laugh till I cry or pee (preferably the former). She is always giving and always thinking about everyone else. Whether its spoiling her neices and nephews or shopping with her brothers (who completely owe their sense of style to her), she is always the first person to drop what she's doing for her family and friends. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and be the cool older sister that let her little sister tag along with her friends or that alway watched out for her. I wish I would have been a better friend to her while we were young but I suppose kids are kids, and siblings are siblings. I guess all I can say now is I am grateful we've become the friends we are and Tal, I love ya. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Picture overload....of Jaquelle, but their cute

Jaquelle is getting so big! Today at her 2 month appointment she weighed 12 bls 10 oz. So looks like she's healthy all except for her BM's. You see she only poops once every 10 days! Weird huh? And let me tell you, it just stores up in there cause when she does poop it is like never ending poop fest. If we dont catch her grunting in time, it will be up to her chin. Sick. But I tell you those days that she poops we all have a mini poop-party where we dance around and sing "Every party has a pooper thats why we invited Jaq, party pooper!" That song takes on a whole different meaning now. Anyways but she is doing great and I love it cause she's starting to smile and (knock on wood) I think the collick is slowly subsiding so perhaps there is a light through that tunnel or at the end of it, or however the saying goes. So thanks for all your advice.
Seth on the other hand is getting crazy! I think the jealousy might be sneaking in. Whenever we lay a blanket down on the floor for Jaquelle or in the swing he hurries and lays down on it. And if we go to put her in her vibrating chair and he didnt get there in time to snatch it from her sometimes he just sits on her. But the weirdest thing he does is in the car. When we put him in his car seat first and then go around the other side to snap Jaquelle into her car seat base (which is right next to Seth), he always has his hand on top of the her car seat base. So naturally we tell him to move his hand cause Jaquelles carseat will smash his fingers but he admittantly wont move his hand. So once I gently put it down on top of his hand and still...nothing. Then one time Cordelle was trying to put Jaq in quickly and forgot about this weird habit of Seths and he really did smash Seth's finger under her car seat. But even remembering how much it hurt doesnt deter him from keeping on doing it. Cause everytime its the same thing. Weird. Well I guess if he's trying to get our attention he gets it so, mission accomplished. Still though, why would he do that?
Anyhow enjoy the photos of Jaq from the last month.

A busy Weekend

Wow, its been like a month since I posted. How lame. Well nothing much has happened until this week anyways. Thanksgiving was fun but we literally ran from one thing to the next the whole time we were up north. We had dinner with a friend of Cordelles from High School, went to two movies (Bolt, and Twilight), hung out with my sister Krista and her kids, had Thanksgiving with my family, had Thanksgiving breakfast with Cordelles family, hung out with his 3 brothers, hung out with Tallie, played Rock Band with Brett, visited with Dave and Laura (who we hadnt seen in a while) and lastly squeezed in watching Wall-e with my parents. Seriously it was crazy. But it was fun to see everyone. Here is a picture of all of us getting a ride in Cordelles dad's newly restored Model T Truck and Model T. (I guess Jaq isnt in it, she was sleeping). And then I threw in a couple of pictures of Cordelle and Seth playing in the back yard and Jaquelle in her swing at Grandma Morris'.