I guess I better update.

We had a great holiday season this year. This post has lots of pictures so I will just tell you a little something about everything. Winter is starting to get to us at the Black house. Chandler is stir crazy and we make frequent trips to Toys R US just to get out of the house. I came in to the front room one night to find him sporting this awesome outfit. We have also resorted to face painting as a past time when Dave is off. Isn't he a cute little kitty cat?

Brinlee is now and has been for a while sporting a ponytail. She doesn't really like it but she will get use to it (didn't we all? at least she doesn't have ceiling high bangs and a side ponytail with sponge rollers in it.).

Chandler has become quite the photographer. I found theses pictures he had taken of Brigham one day. There were about 50 extra photos on my card. We laughed so hard.

He really likes taking ones of himself.

Like I said we are a little stir crazy and can 't wait until spring. Neither can Chandler(notice the Easter basket on his head and in his hand).

We had a great Christmas this year. We spent it in Santaquin with my family and had a really good relaxing time. Chandler was a little under the weather on Christmas Day but had a good time overall.

My little sister Mckenzie who is 17 almost 18 was SO excited to open presents she insisted we all open on Christmas eve. Chandler open sponge bob underwear and as you can see he has no interest in ever being potty trained.

This is Mckenzie's favorite part of Christmas. My parents have some reindeer in their front yard and Kenz "stacked" them. Yes we are from Santaquin and we stack our own deer. We are trashy and proud of it. It was hilarious! I am pretty sure there may have been some wet pants.

Chandler and his nativity scene.

Christmas eve at Great grandparent VanAusdal's. Isn't he a cutie in that train sweater?

We have had some problems with Chandler wanting to be like mom and dad. He decided one day to put on mascara.

It took a while to get it off.

Look at these two cuties. We are so grateful to have these little kiddos in our family. I even think they might like each other. Brinlee loves to watch Chandler all day and she just giggles at all of his silly sounds. Chandler likes her, sometimes, when it is convenient.

WE hope you all had a great holiday season and can't wait for what the new year has in store for us.

Purple Paisley Designs

My awesome cousin Erica Pratt Dixon has started her very own design blog. She does everything from Wedding Announcement to just about anything your little heart can think of. She is AWESOME and designed this adorable birth announcement for Brinlee. I posted her button on my blog so check out the right hand side. If you don't...............you better watch your backs people! :)
Thanks again Erica!

Merry Christmas

Warning: Big post with lots of pictures.

It has been a while since my last post. With Halloween and lots of other stuff going on I have been busy.
Brinlee is now two months old and is cute as ever. She is a very happy, calm, good sleeping, good eating baby. I haven't been to her two month appointment so I don't know how much she weights or how long she is. Sorry. Chandler is her best friend, or at least that is what he told me while I was taking her pictures today. She was crying and he said he needed to hold her hand so she would be happy. Guess it worked.

We blessed Brinlee on the 1st and it was great. We had lots of family support and are so grateful for all of them. Dave did a great job and Brinlee didn't even cry. She did however fill her diaper as soon as the blessing was done resulting in a wardrobe change in the chapel.

Our costumes for Halloween this year had no rhyme or reason to them. Brinlee was a flower and was not happy about it.

We carved pumpkins and Chandler dug right in. He didn't want to save the seed and was constantly trying to throw them away. It was funny.

Chancho and his BIG pumpkin.

Here are our costumes this year. Chancho was a puppy and we were a white trash couple. I even had a black eye. It was awesome!

Chancho getting ready to trick or treat.

Before and After....again.

When we purchased this home we knew the space under the front windows was a really strange space, not very functional. Some people with similar homes have put their TV or couch in front of the windows and it looks stupid. I can't figure out why someone would want to put something in front of a window especially low windows. So after watching lots of home improvement shows we came to the conclusion we needed more storage.

So this is what my handy man came up with. Four storage shelfs with a blanket box in the middle. It is awesome and the front room is staying clean.

I love it and Chandler loves driving his cars on it. Thanks to Ikea we now have lights above it and baskets to put our crap in!

More Before and After.

From this.................. To this.........................

What do you think? I love it! We bricked the front on the house, had new vinyl windows installed, a new garage door, new exterior door, and new lights.

LeGrande and Marcia did a great job on the brick and we are so thankful they were willing to do it.

I don't know if I will ever be able to leave our "little red brick house".

Crafty

Armed with the hot glue gun and other sorts of crafty stuff Chandler and I have created some fun things for around the house.
This is not a craft it is Brinlee doing what she does best. I have been wanting to make this for a while now. A friend from Ogden had one in her front room and I just loved it. All it is is an old window I picked up at the antique store, a piece of wood painted white (I used bead board because I am cheap and we had it), dried flowers, and moss.

What do you think? Too much bead board for the kitchen?

The other kid friendly craft Chandler and I have been working on is this cute little turkey. I know it isn't close to Thanksgiving but I wanted to make something fun Chandler could be involved in to put up as a decoration around the house.

Cute and super easy. All you need is pine cones, feathers, google eyes, and pipe cleaners. The pine cones came from a neighbor and the craft supplies were at Michael's.

JP Creative

A cute girl I went to high school with is a graphic designer and designs some great stuff. Everything from wedding invites to children's room wall posters. She is having a give away that will end October 30Th. Check her out at http://jpcreativedesign.blogspot.com/.

Kids

Brinlee is now three weeks old and is fitting in with our family perfectly. Chandler still likes her and is always wanting to hold and give her kisses. Life with two kids has been a little bit of an adjustment but we are all getting use to this new routine (as if we had one before now). Dave has been back to work for four days now and we are still surviving. The house is messy and our dinners consist mostly of breakfast and stuff out of a box. It has only been three weeks so I am not really pushing myself to hard. Although I started going to the gym this week and my legs are pretty sore. Oh well I did just have a baby, did I think I was going to be able to run a marathon?

Still not sure what to do with Chandler all day long. Sometimes I wonder if I am cut out for this stay at home mom thing. I mean don't get me wrong I love it and would never ever want to go to work, I just don't know what to do with little kids all day. If any of you have good ideas/websites or anything like that pass the info on.

Pretty cute kids don't you think?

Baby

Just some new pictures of the baby.

Brinlee Rae Black

She is here! She even decided to come on my birthday. Brinlee was born Sept. 20th, 2009 at 8:10 p.m. weighing 8 LBS 5 OZ. She is super sweet, cute and has tons of hair (check out the white streak). More to come.

Phone pictures sorry about the quality.