Part of our Spring cleaning includes blogging from Christmas.
This is my little student, Andrew Boyacigiller, over for some holiday hanging out (his mom, Allison and dad, Can Paul)
Christmastime pics
Seb was Joseph at the Scheiber-Huber family Christmas eve party
Elle did the same thing
Cliff and Laurie Scheiber (our realtor and ward member)
Tammy Koncurat
Deborah Huber (on left)
We flew home Christmas morning. Seb slept until we left and Elle had time to open a present or two. We had Christmas morning when we got back in January.
Our typical winter vacation
Aunt Derri Dee's car and some nice neighbors
Gabe's family dinner party and book exchange at Juniper take-out
All of the Spencer siblings had a picture together so us in-laws went to the basement for our own photo op.
Sebastien in Aunt Tenessa's ski lodge boots
Uncle Goeff, Grandma, Aunt Tenessa, cousins Brooke and Logan from Atlanta
Elle missed Ethan
Our third annual three-some picture, June July and September 06 cousins
07 cousins, Seb wanted Franny to look at him for the picture
Christmas Eve party
Mike made this chair for grandpa from some old skiis. Everyone was jealous!
I heard someone laugh a few isles over in a store and knew it was Warren Burton. He's an old professor of mine and former cello teacher of Gabe's. We love Dr. Burton!
Running into old high school friends
Grandma Shurtliff
At grandma Daleen's cabin at Bear Lake
Grandpa John and Grandma Chiq off to snowshoe for the morning
View from the cabin, the fog over the lake
Aunt Sarah
Great Aunt Melva, turning 100 years old on June 15!!! We made sure to get a picture with her and our kids.
Aunt Eileen
You CANNOT go to Utah without stopping at Maddox
At lunch with Charlie and Sherry Poll, great friends of ours
Sebastien has to be touching my hair at all times, it's sweet until my hair gets frizzy
Visiting Robert and Dona Frost, my first viola teacher
We visited Max and Nancy Ditlevsen, Michelle's parents, before they move. We drove past the house I grew up in on Quarter Circle Drive in Nibley
Uncle Josh and Aunt Leah
Seb wanted to play the piano after Tanner performed for us
We stopped at Temple Square on our way to the airport
Eleanor plays and sings a little trump song whenever we see Moroni or a picture of a temple
Saying good-bye to Grandma Daleen
Back at home, we went to Julie Savage's book signing party- just published Women Making America (yeah Julie and Heidi!). This is Eleanor (Ella) Savage, who we named Eleanor after.
Julie, the author
Jody Olsen, Kelly Stewart and me- after Kelly's recital
Playing Bunko with friends
Sunday afternoon walk with the Hawley family, Eleanor's friend Sofia
Eleanor puts her leg up dancing like a ballerina. This is Seb's imitation of her, needed the fridge for stability
At the park, everyday
Stopping for a kiss
I watched the Hawley kids for a morning. All they wanted to do was lay in my bed and have me read them books librarian style. I read for an hour and a half with them like this.
Seb's hangs on Elle's every word
Me (viola), Kelly Stewart (cello), Emily Ricks (violin), Grace Boeringer (violin)- we played quartets all night long, had a treat to eat, talked and played some more. It was a great night playing for fun together!
Peek-a-boo (dinner got out of hand)
Columbia 1st Ward Primary activity, Mary Finnigan telling her family history story
We dressed up to demostrate our family history station. Kelly Queen was the ancestry detective and I dressed up in my fly-fishing gear and read a funny fishing story from my journal.
Eleanor observing her first Saturday morning group class before beginning lessons in the fall. She loved it.
Watching Gabe hem a curtain
On our one and only big snowstorm Elle and Seb ate snow off the back porch all day long.
Our open-mouthed sleeping kids, thanks Gabe
We often find Eleanor and Sebastien behind the table. Elle yells, "Seb, hurry, it's raining!" (pretending and looking up at the kitchen ceiling). They run for cover (under the table) and shut the doors (the chairs) and are safe and dry inside their little 'house'.
Bumped into the Adam and Natalie Ferguson at the National Zoo, friends from our graduate school years
The orangutans had a wire to play on high above the zoo walkways
The play tunnels at the zoo
Eleanor and Sebastien ran full-force into each other at the park. Seb walked away without a mark but Elle had a black eye for weeks.
Bellistons came to play, friends from Kensington
Eleanor was laying on the rug in the sun by the sliding glass door one day and said, "Mom's head," pointing up to the trees outside. She said it looked like a butterfly was sitting on my nose. Sometimes when we go outside she looks up and says, "Hi mom!"
She picked that out of this group of trees (middle bunch of trees)
Seb's red face and curls after dancing with Eleanor
Family Home Evening- acting out the gospel library pictures. This is the flight to Egypt (Elle is Mary, Gabe is the donkey and Seb doesn't like that he is Joseph walking next to the donkey). Now they want to act out the pictures every morning.
Enos praying with his bow and arrow
The Apostles catching fish in their fishing boat (shortly after Elle stood up and said with her arms up, "Calm down water, peace, be still.")
Liam Perrin's 2nd birthday party- friends from Baltimore
Crazy hat game in primary, an all-time favorite music activity, I was filling in for the chorister one week
Our super sick kids. We were inside for five days straight throwing up. They slept on me all day, each day.
They fell asleep after only five minutes of Charlotte's Web.
Compromise for both wanting to be on my lap.
Seb learned to get out of his crib this week. We watched how he did it- head first. We set up his toddler bed which matches Elle's.