30 flirty and thriving

I remember the days when I thought 30 seemed so old. Besides the fact that 

I'm a 30 year old with a pacemaker I feel so young! 

January 12 I turned 30! Joe and Kate made it such a wonderful day! I love our little family!

First Christmas

I feel so lucky to get to experience Christmas having Kate around. She is a ball full of energy. She loves to smile. She is growing and changing every day. I love watching her master new skills.

She loved having family around this Christmas. We were able to go to Burley on Christmas eve and Christmas. Kate enjoying being spoiled by her aunts, uncles, Grandparents and parents.  Later Christmas evening we came back to our place to celebrate as a family of 3!

Kate with Uncle Sam and Aunt Taylor and her new adorable puffy vest 

Kate with Uncle John and Uncle Tom. They started her Disney obsession with a
Minnie Mouse stuffed animal. She squeals every time she sees her. 

Kate and her Auntie Cheri and her new outfits

Grandma Nae and Grandpa Nae got Kate books. She loves books...eating and reading them, she isn't picky.

One of the things Kate got from Joe was a picture book of Jesus by Greg Olsen, she loves it.

Preston Family Christmas 2013

Our angel on the tree. 

More books for Kate

More toys. 

We are so grateful to our savior and his love he shows us and the huge sacrifice he made for us. We hope we can teach Kate all about him as she grows up. We are so grateful for our many blessings this holiday season.

Update

Life has been such a blast with Kate. I am so behind with updates on her, but better late than never.  

Cousin picture. Kate was about 9 weeks old.

It was so nice to have family up to our place for Kate's blessing. She loves her cousins. She is the 9th grandchild on my parents side, and the first on the Preston side. Here she is with all her cousins. 

Kate with cousins Phineas, and James. Kate is about 9 weeks, and the boys are about 4 months. 

It has taken me a very long time to get Kate's room decorated. I finally finished these "button animals" I am not crafty and would never be able to think of something like this if it wasn't for pinterest. You may have to use your imagination to be able to tell what animal I made.

giraffe

owl

butterfly

elephant. Kate talks so much and smiles when she see's this one. I think it is her favorite. 

I will try to put more pictures up of our little girl. She is growing so fast, and I swear everyday I she is more beautiful than before. She has such a personality. I feel so blessed to be her mother.

Frightmares with our skeleton

I must say that Halloween is so much fun with a little one. 

We were able to take Kate on her first of many trips to Lagoon. She got in the Halloween spirit and wore her Halloween costume. She was a skeleton, that glowed in the dark. 

We were lucky enough to have family out there to spend time with. 

Uncle Jeff, Aunt Suzanne and cousins Aaron, Emily, Jane, and Phin

We did not catch a picture with the Preston clan, but they were there for our frightmare trip. 

Loved riding the tea cups with my Jane and Jeff

Kate has a smirk on her face because she just had a blow out and I had not found it yet. 

Luckily I packed an extra outfit for Kate, she loved being in the baby bjorn and watching everyone walk by.
She also was a huge fan of the hat her Aunt Mary made her, it was so nice and kept her so warm. 

Kate had lots of fun handing out candy to our Trick-or-Treaters

Kate's blessing

Our sweet Kate was blessed on October 13, and we were lucky enough to have so many family members travel up here to be here for her special day. We are so lucky to have such awesome Grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins for Kate. I asked my Mom basically as soon as I told her I was pregnant if she would make me a blessing dress if we had a girl. She was wonderful enough to agree to share her talent and make a dress for Kate. My Mom is the most talented person, I don't think there is anything she can't do. I gave her a picture of a dress I liked and asked my Mom to recreate it, I am so in love with how the dress turned out. It is a perfect dress for my perfect Kate.

Our eternal family!

Kate in her beautiful dress with her Nona. 

I wanted the bottom to be similar detailing to the bridesmaids skirts my Mom made, I love how it turned out. 

I love the smocking detail! 

Perfection!

Curb appeal

I was so eager to get our sod put in on our house and 2 weeks ago my dream came true! I first have to thank Tom, John, Cheri, Tim and Renae for coming and helping out. They worked so hard to get our sod in, and I think we all did a great job, we could probably even open up a landscaping business because it looks so awesome. Enjoy the before and after pictures. Next spring Joe and I will put in the plants. 

I'm really excited for the peach and the pear tree for the backyard and my garden. 

 

Taking a break and testing out the sod to make sure it is Kate worthy.  

Meeting the family

A few weekends ago we took Kate down to Salt Lake to meet aunts, uncles, 

cousins and great grandparents. She did so great on this trip, and 

didn't mind all the attention she was getting from new faces.  

Here are some highlights from the trip...

Meeting cousin Phineas, they hit it off, he held her hand!

Kate with cousin James

Kate and uncle JB

Kate meeting Andrew, Max, and Ben

Great grandma Mamma D

Great Grandpa Dimond

Sweet Kennedy

Kate is very excited to grow up and play barbies with her cousins Emily and Jane

Hugs from uncle Scott

Class of 2031 cousins from oldest to youngest. 

Kate loves loves loves taking naps on her papa

Great Grandma Preston

There were many other family members that Kate met and loved that we did not get pictures with. 

She is very excited to get back down to Salt Lake and spend more time with everyone. 

She went through a growth spurt after this trip so she has changed so much, 

I don't know if everyone will recognize her.