Acting silly

My brother and sister-in-law gave us this 18-month outfit when Cameron was born, and he can finally fit into it. But I think it was meant to be worn in the summer time but Cameron is so tall that he already fits into it. And he's not even 14 months yet (he will be at the end of Jan.) Too bad it's still cold outside right now. So he was just wearing it around the house. Maybe he'll still be able to wear it when it gets warmer.

































Here are some rare shots of Cameron actually letting Leah hold him and sit still enough to take a picture. Most of the time when she tries to hold him, he will just push away and get mad.





























After seeing the Nutcracker at Christmas time, Leah has been interested in ballerinas. My friend gave us this tutu a while ago so she grabbed it out of her closet the other day and dressed up like a ballerina. Logan's mom and sister were over that day, and she danced for them.
































And in this last picture, she was just doing funny poses on the little ledge of our fire place. Cameron loves to stand up there so I was taking his picture, and she came along and wanted her picture taken too.

New Haircut

Before:
I have been contemplating on cutting my hair for awhile now, and I finally just did it! Logan didn't even know I was going to do it, just that I was out running errands with Leah. And I wanted to just surprise him. I really like having a cute style and some body to my hair. My hair is pretty fine so it's sometimes hard to get it to look good. But I was really happy with the outcome. Leah came with me to the salon and watched the girl cut it the whole time. And she kept saying, "I love your hair, momma!" Here are the two different way that I styled it.

After:

Our favorite pasta salad

I made this dish for my Relief Society's luncheon today, and it's our favorite pasta salad recipe that I found once in the Provo Daily Herald. Just thought I would share the goodness.

Sesame Chicken Salad

This recipe can be easily halved and I usually make just half of it because it still makes a lot.

Ingredients:

16 oz package bowtie pasta

1 cup veg oil

2/3 cup white wine vinegar

2/3 cup teriyaki sauce

1/3 cup sugar

½ tsp pepper

3 cans (11 oz each) mandarin oranges

2 cups cubed cooked chicken

1 1/3 cups honey roasted peanuts

9 oz package spinach leaves

6 oz package craisins

6 green onions, chopped

½ cup minced parsley

¼ cup sesame seeds

Directions:

Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and place in very large bowl. In small bowl, combine oil, vinegar, teriyaki sauce, sugar and pepper. Pour over pasta and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours. (I usually cook the chicken ahead of time too and throw it in with the pasta to soak up the sauce).

Just before serving, add the remaining ingredients. Gently toss to coat.

Starting Primary

I can't believe that I now have a child that's old enough to be a Sunbeam in Primary. I'm a little slow at posting about this since I forgot to take a picture the first Sunday of this month when she went to Primary for the first time. But here is this last Sunday just before church. The Sunbeams in our ward had to give the scripture, theme, talks, and say prayers which I thought was a little soon for them since they just started Primary. But I guess they have to get experience some how.

I was nervous about Leah giving the scripture since she is so shy in front of people. So I was talking about it with her all week trying to get her to practice but she didn't want to repeat it. She just kept saying the very last part. And that morning I was still working with her and she said "I'll just say in Primary". Well, when it was her turn to go up there, she just didn't want to say anything so I gave the scripture instead.

I think her shyness will eventually wear off when she gets used to Primary and being in front of people. I think I was the same way growing up. But for the most part, she enjoys Primary and loves to show us what she did in there.

I can't believe that she is growing up so fast and learning so many new things.

Matching pajamas

For Christmas we bought Cameron another pair of warm fleece pajamas with polar bears since he doesn't always keep his blankets on during the night. Leah didn't really need another pair of pajamas and got other clothes instead.

When we got back from our Christmas vacation, Logan's siblings and his dad got together for a gift exchange (we were too busy before to do it) and his dad bought Leah some polar bear pajamas as well. So now they have matching ones.

I've never thought about buying them similar clothes but I think they looked really cute in them.

Trying to get them to hold still is not an easy task.















About a second of sibling love




A few laughs















This is them most of the time together. Cameron doesn't always like to be held and controlled by Leah. At least I got a couple of good pictures of them actually holding still.

Before and After his haircut

I found some before-his-haircut pictures of Cameron to show the comparison. This particular day he rubbed food in his hair and slept and sweated on it so it was looking extra curly. Most days it would only get curly at the very bottom and just looked matted when he slept.

























I was torn about cutting his curls off through the whole month of December but finally decided he needed a little boy cut. And I must say that he definitely looks older and still just as cute with his new hair cut.