Alicia is 1!

Last weekend we made the trek to Utah to visit and celebrate Alicia's 1st birthday.  We almost didn't go due to sickness but Emma was a trooper and suffered through the car ride even though she didn't feel well and we made it.  It was kind of a whirlwind trip but we had a great time and are so grateful we can visit more than once a year now!  Alicia was spoiled and loved her own tiny cake! We are so glad she is in our family!  The last year has gone so quickly, it seems like yesterday we brought her home for the first time and sat up all night cuddling her!  She is a super happy baby that really loves and adores her older sisters.  She is especially talented imitating sounds and noises.  Her favorite foods are avocados, bean dip, bananas and roast beef.  We love our Alicia!
P.S. Becca had thought Grandma Claudia would be at our New Years Party and planned to wear redlipstick and eat cheetos with her. Not really sure where that came from, but Grandma made her dream come true while we were visitng!

Who knew bean dip could be so exciting!

Had to add a picture of Grandma and Becca at their red lipstick and cheeto party!

Holiday 2014

So we finally moved into our new house 6 days before Christmas.  As you can imagine unpacking decorations was right up there on the list with unpacking the kitchen!  The girls had been waiting and waiting to put up a tree and all our other decorations.  So we had a great Christmas amid lots of still unpacked boxes! This was Alicia's first Christmas and she loved it.  It was fun to have an older baby at Christmas trying to take all the bows off the packges and rip the paper. We have broken the long standing tradition of ableskivers on Christmas and have our own tradition of cinnamon rolls.  We had a nice relaxing day and even stayed in our jammies all day long playing with all our new things.  Thanks to everyone for the gifts, we were spoiled as usual! Grant had a wonderful birthday too! He continued our non tradition theme and had applebars for his birthday instead of cake!
On New Year's Even we watched movies and made 2015 sugar cookies. Alicia loved her cookie, especially the frosting.

Emma's Baptism

So we are a little behind in our blogging!  I guess that is bound to happen when you decided to move across the country and are homeless for 4 weeks!
 So we decided to move to Laramie the week after Emma was baptized and my family came to visit us in Maryland.  So here are some pictures of her special day.  The program was wonderful!. Grandpa John and Spencer gave wonderful talks and the spirit was so strong when Emma was baptized.  We are so proud of her for making this wonderful choice!