Christmas Morning

Tara running down the hall on Christmas morning..by this point in time she had already seen her presants from SANTA!

Tara's baby was the first toy she saw and after she saw it she wanted nothing else.

Christmas Jammies

Thank goodness for Christmas Jammies..and thank goodness for Grandmas!!

Our Little Family Traditions

Ever since I can remember we have spent Christmas Eve with Mom’s entire family, grandma & grandpa, aunts & uncles, cousins..everyone around eating, talking, laughing..pure chaos, I know, but I absolutely love it! But this Christmas Eve..it SNOWED, and it SNOWED, and it SNOWED..very disappointing. Yes, you are all probably thinking, how can snow on Christmas Eve be disappointing..it’s PERFECT, this is what everyone wishes for..a WHITE CHRISTMAS! Normally I would agree, but not this year, oh no, it meant no Christmas Eve party with my noisy, crazy family. After Garth told me that snowed equaled no traveling I became a little irrational, with tears in my eyes I decided then and there it was time to move out of Logan, and this is when Garth had to remind me that we now have our own little family and it was time for us to make our own family traditions (sometimes he can be soo smart)! I’m still not convinced that being surrounded by my family on Christmas Eve is a tradition I’m willing to give up, not quite yet anyway, but I also know that I am looking forward to starting a lot of new traditions with my own little family.

monumental event

a MONUMENTAL EVENT took place at the Gnehm household today..we now have INTERNET access..yes, we can now proudly say that we have moved into the 21st century!!! i never thought this day would come. i have been talking about signing up ever since we moved in, Garth on the other hand didn't think it was necessary..as you can see it ONLY took me 4 LONG YEARS to persuade him!

The Last 18 Months

The day before Thanksgiving Tara and I spent the entire day baking. Everytime I did anything with the oven Tara would run over grab the oven mitts pull them on to her hands and stare up at the oven. I had soo much fun spending the entire day with my little girl, it's days like this that I wished I could be a stay at home mom!

"Weee Weee Weee" on her rocking horse

Tara didn't let her broken arm stop her

Tara found Daddy's candy stash

Tara's First Christmas

Tara showing her attitude

Thought it would be fun to show some pictures of Tara throughout her first 18 months of life!!

Eighteen Months

Tara is officially 18 months..time flies when you're having fun!! It makes me sad to think how fast my baby girl has grown, but I wouldn't change the age she is at now..she is a riot. Garth and I have soo much fun watching her learn new things. Who needs to go out to be entertained when you have a little one at home. Tara has developed such a quirky little attitude; from her fake laugh and her funny faces to the way she says "weee weee weee" while she is rocking back and forth on her rocking horse. Our newest adventure is potty training!! Saturday at Grandma Gnehm's house Tara dragged her into the bathroom stood in front of the toliet and proceeded to pull down her pants. Grandma didn't know if we had been working on the whole potty training thing, which we hadn't, so she sat her right up on the toliet to go. Now it's her favorite thing to do, she screams when we try to take her off. I am so greatful that to be her mom, she is the best addition too our family. I honestly don't know what I ever did without my little Tara. Love ya baby girl.

San Diego

Well we all made it back home safe and sound. San Diego was a lot of fun, we kept ourselves busy up until it was time to go to bed (which was around 8:00 California time..soo sad, we are soo old). We visited all of the kid friendly tourist spots, Sea World, Mission Beach, Old Town, and the San Diego Zoo. I would say that the zoo was by far my favorite. It was a perfect day to go, it was a little cooler so all the animals were out and about..Tara and I especially liked visiting the orangutan!! But the best part was being able to spend time with all of my family, I don't get to do it very often. Love you guys!!