Baby H is getting much bigger and cutter. He recently started smiling:

We blessed him in Church last Sunday. The only picture I captured is him snuggling with his grandma:

I don’t let my children get on the computer that much. We’ll do a show in the afternoon and maybe a few games, but that’s it. We have “media free mornings” and the kids aren’t allowed to get on the computer to do anything, including listening to music.

So instead they do this:

Both of the love books. PB is an excellent reader. He’s not even in kindergarten yet and already he can read almost all the books we bring home from the library. Usually he reads most books before I have the opportunity to read them together. I was trying to read him a book today, but he wasn’t listening to me at all, just reading in by himself.

I was happy it snowed. Mostly so we could do this:

I love coloring snow. We used condiment and squirt bottles in a variety of colors, and now my front yard looks awesome.

We are all loving this little guy a lot. C will fight his brother to have exclusive rights to play with him. He asks where he is if he can’t find him, and I’ve convinced him to do things by saying that the baby will like it.

This is a self-portrait by PB. He likes taking funny pictures. Sometimes he takes a normal picture too, like the one of C.

We have been getting back into routine a bit, and I’ve been getting bored just staying home. So we’ve been out doing fun things, including a trip down to the Aerospace Museum that PB was begging for, and sledding while there was still snow on the ground.

2014 was a fun year. We didn’t move. It’s the first year I haven’t moved for a long time. Looking back through my calendar, we spent lots of time with family and friends. We visited ice caves, fairy gardens, water parks, hiked a waterfall, wind caves and biked around a lake. We took road trips to Wyoming, Nevada and California to visit cousins. We went with my brother to Bear Lake, and with my sister to Yellowstone. The kids did preschool at home with mom we invited other friends to join us. The kids took swim lessons, and PB did t-ball and karate. We visited parks, went swimming, took the raft out on the lake and played disk golf. At home we played cars and enjoyed the sandbox. We raised nine chickens, lots of tomatoes, and started to renovate our landscape. The biggest event was the birth of baby H right before Christmas.

Here’s some of my favorite pictures from the year:

For my goals, I finished a Permaculture Design Course, volunteered with a community garden, read 40 books, started to go to the Temple twice a month, and started a new blog. I grew a baby inside me and had a natural birth. I also started to meditate and use hypnosis more, which really helped me emotionally.

PB learned to read incredibly well for his age. He likes pepperoni sandwiches, find-it books, Wild Kratt’s, hiking and his favorite color is red. His favorite activities are playing cars and in the sand-box.

C loves trains and chocolate peanut butter. His favorite activity by far is playing in the sandbox. He learned how to talk better and sing songs.

Here is Mr. C pretending he is an adorable Frosty.

Due to a certain adorable little baby, I was dead tired for most of Christmas. It did provide a wonderful opportunity to ignore chores and spend the whole day playing or reading. The boys had a great time and enjoyed all their presents. They ate mainly candy, woke up early, and then crashed for an afternoon nap.

PB asked Santa for a car, airplane and tootsie rolls. He has complete confidence that he is getting all of them Christmas morning.