Timbermine and Birthday cake, yummm!

This year my parents have far exceeded expectations. They have taken such good care of us, we are ever grateful. So when they told us that we were going to celebrate my Mom's Birthday at the Timbermine I was again amazed at their kindness. Dinner was great and the company was better, I am lucky to have an awesome family :)

Santa baby

Smile Oaklee

I had to laugh! I told her not to worry the camera always adds 10 pounds :) I just love chubby happy babies :)

Oldest to youngest, Sam adores her baby sister **

Have a happy holiday!

P.S. Happy Anniversary babe, I have absolutely loved our 8 years of wonderful marriage, you are the best!

Christmas Dresses

We wish you a ....

Merry Christmas!

and a happy new year!

Cheese!

Success

I really love this picture. Sam loves to flat iron her hair, and today Sydney wanted to have her done too. So my typically curly haired girls had lovely straight hair. Love it!

My beauties

My goal here was to get the perfect picture of my girls, a bit difficult I am finding out. I finally snapped one that was great and I nearly missed all of Oaklee, ahh.

Sydney and Sam love to hold their best baby, not a day goes by without sister time :)

Happy Birthday Greg

This year was a most memorable Birthday for Greg. From midnight to 5:30 am Greg stayed with his crazy wife in the ER. I will leave out all the details of screaming and delerious pain, but it was all due to a tinsy tiny kidney stone. So needless to say I was in bed all day on his Birthday and thanks to a great sister in law Nancy he managed to get a delicious cake. She also watched my girls so they didn't go neglected all day, thank you Nancy from all of us! Here are the girls staying busy with Nancy.

Happy Birthday Greg, you are the greatest Dad, husband, and friend. Heres to a better Birthday next year :)

The Teuscher's

We are super lucky to have great neighbors, we do lots with the Teuscher's and their family they are awesome. Greg absolutely loves to tease and torment their kids, they are getting used to his pranks and are giving him some of his own medicine. You can thank Sydney for these photos, she was the one snapping shots, pretty good eh?
*Cute Sheila and Ainsley*

Crashed out Sydney!

We were on our way somewhere and we wanted Sydney to take a nap in the car, well this is how we found her minutes before we were ready to go. What a sweet sleepy head.

Go Jazzz!

Greg got us nose bleed seats to see the Jazz, it was fun. He was lucky enough to go down in the fan tunnel and get up close and personal with "D Will" and "Boozer" they are tight now, oh yea.

Cute family

Blessed Day

Oaklee Reese was the spotlight of the day and she definitely shined! She was gorgeous, thanks to two beautiful parents (of course) and one very talented Aunt Kirstin, who created the most gorgeous blessing dress ever! I was amazed at the whole day and really feel blessed to have such a great family.

Happy Halloween

Here are the cutest most ferocious tigers/tiggers ever! They loved it all, the candy, the trick-or-treating and the late nights :)

Welcome home Oaklee

I was so ready to come home, so the next afternoon we were on our way home. They didn't allow visitors under 14 so I could not see my family and I was bummed, so going home was awesome. The girls were ready to have her home and apart of their lives.

Baby Day!

She is here at last! When they told me that I could be induced at 39 weeks, I was so ready! So that morning they broke my water and 4 hours later Oaklee Reese Bell was born. She was a big girl at 9 pounds 7 ounces and 21 1/2 inched long. Lots of black hair that I am sure will fall out and be blonde, oh well. She is definitely a Bell and the girls are so happy to have her here :)

Cute big sisters :)

Her first bath, I love these pictures. Grandma Rose was able to be there to get her all clean and pretty.

Family fun

Brett and Kirstin had the whole fam to their place for fun up the canyon... it was great. We built fires, climbed rocks, and ate yummy food.

1st Day of Preschool

Samantha is a professional preschooler. This is her third year, thanks to a late birthday she is going to Miss Callee's school again. She loves to learn and go to school!

Pretty soon Sydney will be on her way to preschool too, yay!

Fun summer days!

This is Sam getting ready for preschool, making her 1st day of school necklace. She was sooo excited to get started!

Sydney is always excited for the camera to come out so she can pull her crazy face!

Lava Hot Springs

This summer was camping summer! We went to Moab, Ogden Valley, and Lava Hot Springs! Our awesome neighbors the Teuscher's have property there and it is gorgeous. Here we are at the pools and natural hot springs. I wished that I wasn't prego, I really wanted to get in, but my feet stayed nice and toasty!

This was a really, really, high diving board! Everyone thought that Greg was crazy for diving head first, what a nut!

Not my finest hour.

So here is the story. We have had this old coffee table in our basement and mostly it has been used for the girls toys to go on, or as a substitute office chair, we really need a desk chair. So as I was up late one night working on the computer, I was sitting on this table. Not in the center or anything, but on the edge. When CRACK! I was up and then I was in the center of the table on the floor! I was so shocked I hurried and got up, thankfully no blood, and went to see if the girls were still asleep because it made a massive noise! I got lots of bruises, and laughed really hard. I have never felt so fat in all my pregnant or non pregnant days. Delivery needs to happen soon before I break something else!

Down and dirty!

Life is messy and crazy and busy and beautiful. We are having a great summer and life is good. I such a slacker with the blogging these days but I have commited to catch up! So here goes! For those of you who didn't hear Greg got laid off his job at Williams and was unemployed for 3 months. He is now gainfully employed with Boeing and loving it!

I am still expecting our third baby, a girl, yes yes we know, on October 5th. It can't get here soon enough, I am HUGE!

Samantha is entering a way fun age and we are loving her to bits, she is still full of sass but now we can tease her out of most her crazy fits, yeah!

Sydney is still a total love and tease, but yes she has entered the terrible twos and is trying every last shred of patience that we have with her, so fun!

Overall we are the same crazy Bell's. We have been to movies, parks, pools, zoo, parties, and parades this summer and hopefully I can catch up on all of it, here goes nothin'!

The Best!

Before Angie and Nate took off we needed a family picture with us all there. I think that we are all pretty darn sexy.

Greg was the only one missing and yes, we missed you babe. He was away on business.

Here is the goofy shot and yes, I still need to email it to my brothers and sister. It takes me awhile to get around to all this stuff.

More party pics

Point of interest, not that I am proud of this fact, but I weigh the same as Chad! Last time that this will happen, I assure you.

The stinkin' cutest boy ever! I did not want to let him go. I loved all his snuggles and hugs.

Yumm, yumm, eat um up!

Farewell to Buttar's

This summer we were so happy to have my sweet sister and her family in town from Virginia. They are going to law school and we miss them. Sam and Sahara are close and Sydney and Scarlet are close and Gannett is the cutest boy ever! We will miss you all so much.

Sweet smiles.

Cambria, Samantha, & Sahara. Gorgeous.

Totally not posing at all, they are just naturally that cute.

Love you Angie!