A late, but very Merry Christmas!!

Wow, this is kind of a picture overload;) But here it is. We had a great Christmas. Claire was hilarious tearing through all of her (and everyone elses) presents. It has been a wonderful week of family and friends and we really have so much to be thankful for. We also had an engagement party for Griff and Lauren yesterday and it was so much fun! They are so loved and you could really see it! Happy New Year to everyone and here's to a fantastic 2010!;)

Claire and Daddy at the engagement party. She takes off her clothes all the time these days. We'll have to work on that...

Gracie, I haven't put a pic of her on for a while. Claire loves her so much and Gracie couldn't be more tolerant;)

At Grandma Kari's house. The girls: Elsa, Maddie and Claire

Claire and Elsa spinning in the chair. How cute is she?!?!?

Aunt Karissa;) I forget what this stuff is called that she is feeding them, something sweedish I'm sure

Claire snuggles everything. So cute

Checking out her new Berenstain Bears movie

I LOVE this pic. Uncle Griff helping Claire put on her new dress up shoes. She is better in high heels than I am!!

She still really does adore her feet, like love them. She kisses and snuggles them all the time;)

Claire and Grams after Christmas Eve dinner, yum! And that is the dog collar... She is obsessed with it. She wore it all night

Griff and I after church.

The annual family post church in front of the tree pic. She really did wear the tutu to church;)

Sweater party 2009 and ENGAGEMENT!!

So, I am SOOOO happy to say that my brother Griff and his now fiance Lauren are engaged!!! First things first though, Dec. 5th we had our annual ugly sweater party at the Pugh's house. Wow, there were really some doosies this year!!! It was a great time as always and here are a couple pics from the event. Then, this last friday the 11th, with the help of some of Lauren's kids from the Boys and Girls Club, Griff popped the question (finally!!!). Brandon, Claire and I got to be there and watch and lemme tell ya, Lauren had a GREAT reaction!! It was awesome and we all just love her and really can't wait for the wedding!! And of coarse I had to stick one of Claire in this post because it just wouldn't be right without her!! Oh, and almost Merry Christmas!!!

Brandon rolls Claire around on the fit ball and I think it's safe to say she loves it;)

Lauren, Griff, me and Brandon at the Pugh's sweater party. You can't see but Brandon's had bells sewn to the bottom of his shirt and it was just long enough that he wore it as a dress! Yep, that means no pants!!

Brandon and I in our sweaters, He did have shorts on but it was still hilarious. And I'm trying to showcase one of his bells;)

Griff clearly loves his sweater, it really was a beaut!!

Griff and Lauren right after the proposal, we had to have them reinact a couple of scenes because we missed a few key pics

This one was not reinacted. She was so surprised!!

I love this one they are both so happy!! also not reinacted

Beautiful couple. We love you guys!!!

Claire is obsessed with sniffing thing and LOVES flowers. Lauren was nice enough to share with her and she sniffed the petals right off;)

Jump and Bounce!!!

So Yesterday I took Claire to Jump and Bounce and it was awesome!!! If you have kids and haven't tried it I strongly recommend it. Here are a few pics and a video from our adventure as well as a couple of fiest snow of the season shots.

She climbed all these stairs by herself! She is getting to be such a big girl

Jackson and Claire

This place was huge!! And how cool??

Here I come Mom!!!

I think she liked the ladder as much as the slide:)

I had to add this Thanksgiving pic of The Naslunds and Kari's delicious flamboid (sp?) dish!!! It was a hit

Just loved this one. Claire always has to be wearing bows, necklaces, bracelets... she is such a girl

Yum!!!!

Eating the snow was definately the highlight

And here's a little video of Claire going down one of the slides. So cute;)

Claire and Daddy

Here are some pics of what Claire and her Daddy do together!! Brandon is a workout fanatic and Claire is always so curious about what he's doing. He had her doing pullups, squats, you name it way early on;) Check out the video of Brandon doing handstand pushups with Claire being her normal busy self!! I have no idea why the video is sideways or why there is no sound but you get the idea.

I let Claire feed herself yogurt and this is what happened;)

Both tired after their pushups, Claire really worked hard here;)

She loves this! I remember when I was a little girl my dad doing pushups like this too;)

Most everyone says she looks more and more like daddy! What do you think?

Here are a few pictures of the fam from my 28th (gasp! when did that happen??) birthday. It was a great day filled with family and I am reminded again how truly blessed I am to be surrounded with such wonderful people!!

Claire has pretty much always been a terrible solid food eater! She is getting better especially when she has her cousin Maddie around to show her how good it is!!

Yes, this is a Dairy Queen Blizzard cake and wow, YUM!!!!

Claire couldn't wait to dive in! Even though it was my bday, she insisted on the first bite;)

Her godmother Lauren and Uncle Griff got her this cute san diego shirt and Claire just had to sport Lauren's heels too!

This is my cousin Kelsey and her little guy Keegan, how cute is he?? He wil be one on Christmas eve;)

Trip to the park, our little climber and Claire's new friend

I'm horrible at updating our blog on a regualr basis so here is another slew of Claire-pics. Instead of writing much here I'll caption the pics for your viewing enjoyment! Take care and Happy Fall to all=)

Claire's latest thing she loves to do is snuggle her toes. Yes, I realize that sounds odd but it's so cute and she actually does love them=)

I love how she is standing here! Such attitude...

Nothing cuter than a daddy and his little girl holding hands

Deep in thought, 'what should I do with this branch?'

Ready to go down the slide. This girl LOVES slides

One of many tunnels.

Looking through, "hello??"

Another one of my favorites. She can't get enough of spinning around.

I love CDA! And how cute are these two?

She has figured out how to climb our breakfast bar chairs and get onto the counter. I found her like this after coming out of the bathroom the other day=)

This is Claire's new friend, Mr. Spider. She looks at him all the time. He is HUGE and I HATE spiders but my Dad told me he is the "good kind" so we decided to leave hime alone.

It really is kind of fascinating to watch him, especially from BEHIND the window=)