December 2014

Suzy had an extra little scooter at her house and Abby knew just what to do with it. It was so cute and Suzy let Abby take the scooter home!

Sometimes Abby thinks dad's iPad is actually her's.

Abby was forced to sit on Santa's lap at our ward Christmas party and didn't like it one bit.

 She was in good company though. Haha! These are some pictures that our friends in the ward posted to instagram of their babies not liking Santa :) 

(Lucy and Davis Baldwin, Cora Elicio, Abby, Hudson Call, Parker, Marie, and Anya Nischan, Kozie and Boston Manutai.

Most of our December was occupied with moving. We moved within our same neighborhood and we LOVE the new house. We moved on December 20th (how crazy are we?). This is the night we moved in. Abby was so happy to have her toys in a new place.

Christmas Eve, we visited both Grandma Sherwood and Grandma Riggs, then we ate dinner and In-N-Out. After that, we drove around and looked at Christmas lights. Our plan was to go see the temple lights but it was a little chilly outside!

Each of the kids got to open one gift on Christmas Eve. I wonder what it could have been?!

New pajamas of course!

The kids made Santa some cookies and left him a note with the cookies and milk.

That night, Santa sure did come to our house! 

This is the note he left behind:

The kids waited anxiously to find what Santa had left...

Here are the 3 kids who wanted to do a sibling gift exchange, getting ready to open their gifts from each other. Sophie had Noah, Noah had Abby, and Abby had Sophie.

Abby loved her gift from Noah.

Opening gifts from Grandma Price

Abby, the panda lover, loved her new panda sweatshirt.

She also loved the new wagon that daddy got from Grandma Price.

We went over to Grandma & Poppy's house and were spoiled by them. Abby got a new cabbage patch doll!

She also had a nice little nap on Lance's lap!

Somebody loves their new doll :)

Traditional stockings from Grandma & Poppy...

4 cute girls cousins, with their new dollies!

 We have spent a lot of time at Lowes as we've been working on the new house and fixing up the old one for renters. Abby was being so cute this day as she helped Russ push the cart around.

Abby has got to spend some extra time with Davis lately as Alisse has taken her while I get things done. Lucky girl!

A few times, Alisse has taken her with them to the IDEA museum. She LOVES it!

New Years Eve, the Cummards and Baldwins came to our house to ring in the new year. It took us awhile to get started doing anything fun, but it ended up being a pretty fun night. We played pictionary and the name game and had lots of laughs :)

2014 was a good year for our family. We're excited to see what 2015 is all about though :)

November 2014

Abby turned 18 months old on November 3rd. We made sure to measure her height on the growth chart board. 

For her half birthday, we got her a little princess potty. She hasn't used it yet but likes to sit on it!

I captured this sweet picture of Russ taking care of Abby after her bath one night. She likes for him to sit on the exercise ball and bounce her, then she fake cries when he stops!

Daddy & Abby watching Noah get his football trophy

Alisse babysat Abby for us one night and took her to a carnival with Lucy and Davis. She also put pigtails in her hair. I LOVE them on her but I can't make them look as cute as Alisse did.

See what I mean... in the picture below, I had attempted pigtails and the hair just fell out!

This picture was actually taken in October but I didn't see it until November so I of course had to include in this blog post anyway. Abby loves her two grandmas!

It's no secret that I love sleeping pictures, even if I take them after sleeping VERY uncomfortably with a toddler in bed with me.

I had to take this picture of Abby and share with a few of my sisters because she looks JUST like the little girl on "mouths of babes".

We took a visit to Grandpa Price's house and Abby LOVED seeing the horses...

... the blonde horse, Chloe, was her favorite.

Sharing my drink with Abby one day was a big mistake. She thought that meant it was her's. #spoiled

Cousins Abby and Davis in their cute jammies!

She's sitting on her toilet with her pants pulled down. Haha! Still not going potty on it!

Abby inherited her mom's OCD genes and shares Noah's obsession of lining things up.

Our cutest baby girl at our night-before-Thanksgiving dinner. We went around the table and said something we were thankful for. She mentioned "daddy", "whoawa", and "gampa". She also just folded her arms like it was time to say a prayer one time after we asked her what she was thankful for. Haha! We are so thankful for HER!

A few hours later, we did our Thanksgiving lunch. We had Mary Ann and the Hess family join all the Sherwoods (+ Grandma Riggs) for a really yummy spread!

Friday night after Thanksgiving, we set up a scavenger hunt around our neighborhood for our kids... a big secret we've been keeping from them was going to be revealed at the end. The older girls didn't come over so only Noah and Sophie were participating. We rode our bikes around the neighborhood to find all the clues. Each clue had a problem to solve that gave them a number and also a hint as to where the destination was for the next clue. The very last clue told them to put all the numbers together in order, to find the address of a new house we would be moving to. They were so shocked and so excited. It was a really fun thing to do with them and we are so excited about moving. We get to stay in our neighborhood & ward and we love it here! That night, Abby kept randomly saying "shfun" as we were riding bikes. That means "fun" in her language :)

Our last event of November was the annual Sherwood family bike ride. We rode bikes from Grandma & Poppy's house and then we had a picnic and some people played flag football.