4.13.2014

Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Picture this.  Gorgeous trees with light pink flowers.  Beautiful tulips and daffodils in bloom.   Amazing weather.

Of course I’m going to want to make Winter wear her sheep coat and take some pictures.

Winter, however knows when I want cute pictures and she plots and plans on how to make our photo shoots as painful as possible.  Weird faces, crying, running away, being stubborn …. oh dear.

 

Our little wolf in sheep’s clothing … but seriously.

 

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Mitchell and I took our first “hike” of the season.  And when I say hike, I really mean a short trail with absolutely no kind of elevation change whatsoever.  

 

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Mitchell and I both agreed that we feel kind of weird without Winter. 

It just doesn’t feel right when our little monster isn’t at our side.

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Winter updates:

She loves when we sing primary songs to her

She loves pointing out letters of the alphabet in stores, on license plates, on t-shirts etc.

Petting horses is on her list of favorite things to do

She loves Elmo, Arthur and Curious George.

Shopping used to be fun until she decided that riding in the shopping cart was for babies. 

She has developed a very fake and high pitched laugh

She says “sorry” about 3 bajillion times a day

favorite phrases:

“do ya hear dat?”

“what happened?” – she will throw her food on the floor and then innocently throw that question in my direction

“dood job”

“don’t like it”

 

And here is another fine example of how much Winter hates it when I break out my camera. 

What a sass-a-frass.

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1.18.2014

whoopsies.

Oh hey.

It’s been a while.

Whateves.

Cliff notes version of our lives … ready … set …. go.

(and yes, I am fully aware this post should be split into about nine separate posts … once again …. whateves.)

The ever so Lovely Ransoms came to visit this summer.  

And seriously … when the heck did everyone grow up?

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We spent some time up at Silver Lake with the Ransoms and the Church family

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This is probably one of our very favorite pictures of Winter … ever.

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We headed down to Cedar City in July for a weekend of camping and spending time with family

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Had a rather hairy birthday party for my mom in August …

 

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Had a wonderful wedding and introduced some more estrogen into the Hicken family in August. 

Woot woot Max & Brittney.

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Drove out to Denver in Sept to see our Fillmore side

 

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Took in a little hike with the McKinnons and Melayna while we were there …

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Watched Clara and Winter kinda sorta become friends …

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Bought a new camera lens and tested it out on this loverly guy.

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Sent these wonderful missionaries out into the mission field – the DC temple mission is lucky to have them.

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Enjoyed the awesome fall weather …

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Took some family photos in October ….

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Had our annual Halloween Hicken party ….

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Drove to Cedar City for Thanksgiving with the Hicken side …. and had some awesome pizza on the way.

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Mitchell had a serious man crush on our pizza man and his dough tossing skills ….

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And took pictures of this girl who can’t seem to keep a straight face anytime the camera comes out.

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And celebrated one of the coldest weddings EVER …

Dan & Mara – thanks for getting married and all …. but no thanks for getting married in December.

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Oh and two more pictures because there clearly were not enough pictures in this blog post.

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And now some Winter videos for you viewing pleasure