February 2016

This is the sweetest sleepy girl!

Abby & Kozie - cutest BFFs after dance class...

... they love to hang out under this little A-frame, every single week after dance class gets out! 

Abby knows just how to make herself comfortable. She loves her "binks" and blanket time.

This is what a typical Sunday night looks like after dinner at Grandma and Poppy's house.

The 1st anniversary of Riggs's death was February 9th. We picked up some heart decorations and delivered them to the cemetery. Abby also bought herself a Valentines puppy - with her own money - that day at the store!

Abby conveniently has snacks at her level in the pantry!

I loved seeing this sight out the window as I was making dinner one night! The diaper without pants was funny and cute :)

 

 More of Abby and Kozie... this time, hanging out at the park. They are so cute when they're together!

Valentines day fell on a Sunday this year, so Abby got to wear a cute pink and red outfit to church. Afterward, her and Noah got to open a little gift from Russ and I. It was the traditional photo album of their life during the previous year.

Cute sisters enjoying drinks at The Soda Shop... this was after we rode our bikes there one day!

2 of daddy's favorite things... Abby and his dirtbike!

Abby loves to spot "city school bus"es on the road (city buses)... so one night we decided to go for a ride on one. We actually did the light rail instead of just the plain city bus. She was so excited and is seen here with a ticket in her hand, waiting for the "city train" to pick us up.

We took the light rail to Mill Avenue where we walked around and found some dinner. Abby was in heaven riding the light rail!

January 2016

I have lots of random pictures of Abby in this post. She's at such a funny age right now and every day I'm surprised about how smart she is... here she has propped up my old phone to watch you tube on it while relaxing at her little table.

Sophie and Abby hanging out under an umbrella at Noah's basketball practice :)

This was Abby's first time to be in charge of family home evening. She gladly put everything to use that Suzanne had given us in our "family home evening kit" for Christmas. Abby loves to pass out props for singing time, be the leader, and then tell everyone "thank you for singing" or "great singing" as she collects the props afterward. She also likes to tell us to hold our starts or animals or whatever it is we're holding "up high"!

This really was the best gift from Aunt Suzy. Abby LOVES it and we all love watching her be our music leader!

Abby's first french braid!

What a righteous 2 year old, reading scriptures!

For Riggs' birthday on January 14th, we met at the cemetery and talked about him, celebrated his life, and then sent off 17 balloons since that would be his age this year. Afterward, we all went out to dinner together for pizza!

Abby's pretending she's on the phone in this picture. After riding her bike around the house, in her pajamas! haha

Some days, she has the best bed head ever!

While mom was away on a girls' trip, Bryan and Dad took the kids out riding in the desert. They all had lots of fun!

I can't ever resist taking pictures of Abby when she sleeps...

Aunt Suzy stayed with the kids while mom and dad went away to Texas for a weekend and these are the cute pictures she took of Abby...

 

I got these dance pictures back at the end of the month but they were actually taken in December when Abby performed "I'm the happiest Christmas Tree" at her dance recital. So cute!

 

December 2015

December Pictures...

Abby & Davis being best buddies in grandma & poppy's garage

Abby getting her hair done up for her "Happiest Christmas Tree" pictures

The cutest Christmas tree!!

Abby with her friends from our ward - Rylee Peters and Kozie Manutai

 

Sunday night fun at Grandma & Poppy's house! (Ellie, Abby, Lucy, Davis)

I captured the sweetest moment in a picture, when Abby was staring at baby Jesus... our elf Simon decided to hang out in the manger one day and it was killing Abby that she couldn't touch!

The theme for the ward Christmas party was "A Cowboy Christmas"... not many people dressed accordingly, but Russ and Abby and I did. Here's Abby wearing Russ's hat and looking pretty cute!

Abby was too scared to tell Santa what she wanted this year but she made sure all season to tell Mommy that SHE had to be the one to tell him that Abby wanted a bike and toys!

Here's Kozie and Abby waiting for their dance recital to start. I was pretty nervous about how Abby would do. She didn't do much dancing in class up to this point, because she was too shy. So I thought that she would for sure be WAY too shy for the stage...

... I was wrong. She LOVED the stage. She is second from the right in this picture. She did the dance better than she ever had up to this point, looking down several times to make sure she was standing on her mark!

Her hat fell off of her had and she was of course worried at first, but moved on and continued to dance soon after.

I had the biggest smile on my face and tears in my eyes as I watched my cutest little dancer up there! She did so great and totally surprised me. After the recital was over, she wanted to get right back up on the stage and dance forever. We were one of the last ones to leave (besides the clean up crew) because she couldn't get enough!

Here she is again with her BFF Kozie after the performance.

Davis also came to watch and brought both girls a flower. So sweet!

These are just some of Abby's fans! Others included Alisse and Scott, Lucy, Suzy, and Grandma Vicki.

This year, we changed up our Sunday-night Sherwood family Christmas get together. In the past we have done a hay-ride and caroling, but this year we decided to have a little campfire gathering and play some games...

We played a "Christmas singing bee" game where everyone was paired up with someone they played against, and I would start to play a Christmas song, stop it, then tell the players to write down the next (however many) words in the song. It was fun!

Afterward, we had hot chocolate and donuts. Yum!!

And of course all of the kids got a little crazy!

Russ had to trade vehicles with one of his drivers one night, and took Abby for a little ride in the driver's truck. She loved sitting right next to Dad for the drive!

This year for Christmas, Grandma and Poppy gave all of the grandkids some money to go shopping with and buy their own Christmas present(s). Then on Christmas they played a game with those presents they bought. It was so much fun shopping with Abby. She was so proud of that little red envelope that had her name on it!

When I took Abby shopping, I also bought her a "treat" (toy) that I had promised if she danced at her recital. We bought this cute little black baby and named her Coco! Abby loves her so much and I think it's so cute.

Abby and Noah got to go on an actual horse-drawn-hay ride, with Russ and the other kids in mutual one night!

Little miss spoiled thinks she gets to ride on a toy whenever she sees one at a mall... and I usually give in because she's just too cute to say no to :)

This is us at the Clifford (Arnett) family Christmas party after Santa gave Abby her present. She isn't too fond of Santa! She was screaming.

Christmas Sunday!

Abby's a lucky girl to have her bff in our ward and her nursery class with her. I had to snap a picture of the cute matching girls this day!

... And as I was snapping pictures, Kozie's mom was too. I love Russ's face in these pictures. You can tell he thinks that "the golden child" is just the cutest thing ever!

A peek inside the cute nursery class during singing time!

Cute bro and sis :)

Abby spent a whole night the week of Christmas... throwing up. It was so sad! The next day she just laid around and was better within 24 hours. Thank goodness it didn't last longer and in to Christmas day!

Russ thought she looked so cute cuddling on the couch, and was trying to get himself into a position to take the perfect picture of her!

Usually on Christmas Eve, we don't have much going on. So we got together with other members of our family that were also not doing much, and went to see the temple lights. Afterward, we walked across the street and bought dinner from some food trucks. It was a pretty fun thing to do!

Before bed, Abby and Noah got to open one Christmas gift. I wonder what it could be?!

New pajamas of course!

We made sure that the house was nice and tidy for Santa to visit and mom  snapped this picture after he must have snuck in and out. He brought fun things for all the kids...

... and also stuffed everyone's stockings full of goodies!

Abby was so happy the next morning to find that Santa brought her a bike. She had been asking for this exact bike for months!

Grandma Price and the girls came over... here's the aftermath!

Look at the cutest queen dress-up stuff that grandma Price gave to Abby. The close-up picture of the high-heels show Abby's face on them, where usually we see a Disney princess's face!

We spent the whole afternoon at Grandma & Poppy's house for the Sherwood family Christmas and Abby received a stage with her famous green X on it! haha! Ellie was so creative to think of this, and her and Lance made it happen for Abby the performer!

Christmas night was spent at Grandpa Price and Kathy's house... look at these cute matchers!

I had to take this picture to document Abby's awesome bed head!

This picture shows what a big girl Abby thinks she is. She will drag that step stool all over the house so that she can reach things up high, and just helps herself. She is so funny lately and my favorite new thing she says is "what the heck?! I just tooted!" haha!!

Grandma Vicki gave all the little girls these cute little night gowns (like what I had when I was young) for Christmas, along with a matching pair for their dolls. Abby is obsessed and not willing to part with her "zip jammies" lately, so she wears her's over the footie pajamas.

The "doll" sized jammies fit Minnie Mouse perfectly!

I can't see a cuddly moment like this and not snap a picture :)

New Year's Eve, we got together for some yummy food and games at Grandma & Poppy's house. Poppy, Grandma, Bryan, Auburn, Roxy, Suzanne, Dad, Mom, Noah, Abby were there... but some of those people were party poopers. The dads didn't play the game with us but we had a good time. They fell asleep instead and we ended up leaving before midnight even!

We got home to our house just a few minutes before midnight, and our neighbors were setting off fireworks in the street. Abby was so concerned about what was happening!

New Year selfie!!

First sleeper in our house of 2016 :) It would be nice if this was a sign of things to come, but I'm sure it's not. Abby is still a night owl (like her mama).