So I’m sort of going back in time here a bit as I try to catch up on a few recent events. About a month ago I took the girls up to Bear Lake for the weekend for our annual wood cutting event. Every year we cut down several trees to use as firewood through the winter and this year the girls got to help a bit. It always makes for a fun weekend (even if a tiring one) and this year was no different. And as an added bonus Hailey and Mallory got to play with Nana and Papa’s new puppy Dixie.

This years deer hunt got started a little crazy due to scheduling issues, but we all had a great time and both Stephen and I got our deer. Stephen shot his at about 290 yards about 10 minutes after we left the trucks Saturday morning and I got mine at around 240 yards late Sunday afternoon. The bonus to this was that we didn’t have to worry about hunting on Monday, the downside was that I ended up cleaning and hauling it in the pitch black Saturday night. There was no moon out either so when I say pitch black, you can take it literally. In the downtime though we found time to shoot some clay pigeons and to ride Tony’s horse around camp. All in all it was a successful hunt though and as usual, we had lots of fun.

So my first post back from my apparent blogging hiatus will be to show the nice gap in Mallory’s mouth. Recently, she started having a lot of mouth pain and we came to find out that it was because her bottom front teeth were coming in behind her baby teeth. It gave her a bit of a “shark” look for a few weeks, but we finally had to visit the dentist so that he could remove the baby teeth (they didn’t seem to want to come out on their own). Mallory did a great job at the dentist and in her own words she “…didn’t even cry!!”. Here’s the proof.

Once again I’m a couple days late, but I wanted to post a quick shout-out to the twins. It’s been a crazy couple years, but we made it to 2 years old. I know there have been more than a few days when Emily didn’t think she’d survive this long, but she does a great job maintaining sanity. I’m not sure I’d have handled it as well if I was the one home all day. But now is when the real fun begins. Two little people running around with opinions, desires, growing vocabularies and lots of personality. In the past 2 years they’ve learned to love being “ouside”, eating “sodie” (cereal), watching Pixar movies, playing with toys and getting into lots and lots of trouble. I never ceased to be amazed at the crazy ways they find to get into stuff and cause problems. However, for all the hard work and challenge they bring to our lives, we couldn’t imagine life without them. So in honor of the birthday kids, here’s a bunch of pictures that range from the day we brought em home from the hospital to last week. We love you Annie and Jack!