App development/internships

Richard is up to some pretty cool things these days. He developed an app which you can download on Windows phones. It was approved by windows and he has had over 3500 downloads of it! Pretty sweet. It's an Advanced music player. Some of the awesome features:
1) To pause the music, simply turn your phone upside down (screen touching table/platform), to resume the music you flip it back over
2) To change songs, just shake the phone and it will randomly select a new one (you are also able to scroll through and choose a different song manually)
3) Changes background colors with each song.

He is starting 2 internships as well. The first one is at a place called appible, which develops apps. He is doing really well there and they are impressed with how fast he has done the project they assigned him. (It's a live wallpaper). The second internship is for the BYU-I bookstore. He is working on various projects for their website (employee website, not customer website). Currently he is developing a program that helps with inventory.

first haircut

I cut Elliot's hair yesterday for the first time. It turned out surprisingly well (didn't even have Richard around to help). He was not too sure about the electric clippers and started screaming when I started to go near his ears. Luckily I was pretty much done with the back by that point and finished the top with scissors. I distracted him with grapes and had him in the high chair while I did it. He looks so handsome and old now! No more baby, this kid is a toddler. (if only we could convince him to walk). Here's a couple pics, we'll see if they upload since I'm on the tablet. If they don't check facebook, they are up there already

Merry Christmas



Picture with Santa a few weeks ago

Kids decorating the tree a few weeks ago

 

Chrismas started bright and early here... at 8:30. We welcomed the late start especially since the kids woke us up at 2 am and then Elliot slept in our bed till morning. I'm sure in a few years they will be up bright and early, but for now we are happy for the late start : )

Baby doll and blanket from Gma & Gpa Hill

Stroller for the doll from Gma &Gpa Coplan . Later she had her new Jessie and Woody dolls in there too

Elliot loving his new toy story toys--Garbage dump type thing, reminds me of a car track. He also got some clothes, cars/trucks and his own water bottle (now they don't have to fight over Libby's)

All of us in our matching PJ's.

He doesn't look super excited, but he is :)

Libby seriously made out like a bandit. In this picture, we got her the clothes and the Cinderella/Prince dolls. The rest was from awesome family members. She is so happy!

We made this cool picture holder ornament, we'll add a picture soon. I just thought it was cool.

Saw this idea on pinterest, we"ll get reminded of Richard's mission every year

Another Libby-made ornament

What's on Elliot's head?

So I was playing around on picasa making a new header for our blog while the kids played happily with their new Christmas toys in their room. I decided to check on the kids and they seemed to being havin glots of fun. I noticed weird spots on the back of Elliot's shirt. It looked like Libby had wiped something on his back. When I asked her what it was she said "I didn't wipe it on his shirt, it was on his head" Looking closer there was reddish nastiness on the top of his head. "Libby, what's on his head?" "I just barf on Elliot's head." EWWWWWWWWWW. Seriously, it smelled like barf and looked like what I imagine candycane barf  would look like (Libby's main food source of the day was candy canes from Santa). Just thought I'd share this. The kids are now in the bath with Daddy's supervision and Elliot's hair has been thouroughly washed. I think a thourough inspection of our home must be done in case barf got anywhere else. Libby says it didn't, but I don't really trust her. Why did it have to be on Elliot's head? Gross.

Let's Dance

Elliot entertained us last night with his crazy dance moves. By the time we got the camera he was mostly done and Libby had gone to bed so his audience was not as good, but it was still ridiculously adorable. I think he felt powerful cuz he got us all dancing like him. He was dancing so hard he kept falling over (that of course did not stop him)



Elliot has a few words now, not sure if I mentioned that before. He says "mama", "dada", "baba" (bottle), "up", "uh-oh", and "doe ta" (don't touch). The rest is jibberish. He understands a lot though and often gets this mischievious face when he knows he is not supposed to be doing something. He can climb on and off of Libby's bed now and tries to climb everything. If one of us is laying on the floor, instead of going around, he just hops on over like it's no big deal. He is so close to walking. If he's holding on to something and I ask him to walk to me, he'll turn, grin, let go and sort of half step-half leap to me. It's pretty funny. He'll walk soon.

Sears Portraits = extreme cuteness

Took the kids to get their pictures done finally. These are the first professional ones of the kids together and I also wanted individual ones since Elliot looks a lot different now that he's 1! I love the way they turned out. When I went to pick up our portrait package they had a deal that I could get the whole CD with the rights and enhanced photos for $25 (normally $120). I couldn't pass it up since there were so many cute ones. Now I want to cover all our walls with pictures of my beautiful kids!

cute collage they made

Elliot faces

This is the one for our wall

Favorite of them together. (this was our package picture)

Libby collage. The pic of her standing is going on our wall too! I am so surprised that she smiled so nice for the pictures. For me she usually squints her eyes, scrunches her nose and does a weird smile. That sears lady was awesome!

Love this

And this one! I'm gonna get this printed too! happy silly kids

You would not believe how hard it is to get a 1 year old to stay put long enough to take a picture. Kept crawling away or spinning around in circles on the slippery floor. Funny kid!