Let It Snow!!!!

Kali and Abbi came out to play in the snow too.

Of course, Lauren is taking all of the credit while Matt is doing all of the work.
December 1st was the first real day of snow. Matt was so excited to go out and play with Lauren. It's fun now that she's really starting to understand the meanings of things like Santa and Christmas and snow. We remembered her coat and gloves, but we forgot the snowpants so we put her in some sweats and she pulled them up over her shoulders. She looks like some kind of creature. She loved playing in the snow and hitting her dad with snowballs.

Emori's baptism

Emori was baptized last Saturday and she asked Matt to baptize her. Matt was pleased that she would ask him
Here's the Brown Clan (except Jocie who had to work) and Traci's parents.

This is about as cooperative as our children will get for a family photo.

O Christmas Tree

Will likes to crawl under the tree. It has the perfect amount of space underneath it.
Merry Christmas! We got our tree up a couple of days ago. It's so fun to finally have room to put up a full sized tree. So far we've only had one ornament casualty. I'm sure there's more to come.

Crazy Lauren!

Lauren put her pj's on both their heads and said that they were rabbits. Don't mind their noses, they both have colds.

Here's a happy Will! Probably because he's looking at Lauren. (He worships her.)

We had fun taking pictures of ourselves making faces. Will, not so much.

The Crawling Machine

He loves to play under his crib.

Will is really long and skinny so I have to put him in 9 months pants so that they are long enough, but he really needs a belt. So he often crawls out of his pants. They're what's underneath him.

Will has been doing the army crawl for quite a while, but on Halloween he discovered his hands and knees and hasn't looked back. He now follows us everywhere. He also loves to scrunch up his face like this and breath in and out really fast through his nose.

Yosemite

Me, McKell, and Lindsey soaking our feet in the water at Yosemite Falls.
We hiked up to Dog Lake and while there Lauren decided to get a little wet. We put Will in Lauren's backpack so the we could eat lunch and not have to hold him.

This last June we went to Yosemite with my family. So here we are: Tom, Lindsey, Jordan, Benson, Mom, Dad, Luke, McKell, Andrea, William, Lauren, and Matt. My aunt Kathleen came too but she insisted on taking the picture and not being in it. You can kind of see Half Dome in the background between my mom and Benson.

This is Lauren and Will's usual position. Can you tell who's the boss? About 3 seconds after this picture he was not smiling anymore. I have to tell Lauren about 50 times a day to get off of her brother. I'm surprised he's still alive. He's made it this far so I think he'll be alright. But I can't wait to see the day when he's big enough to get her back.

These are our cute kids Lauren and Will. Lauren will be 3 in December and Will is 7 months old. They are both excited because they both have teeth now. Will's first tooth finally broke through today. I don't know how excited I am about that but oh well. I used to be able to tell Lauren not to give Will "big people" food because he didn't have any teeth, but now she's excited because he does. Now I'll just have to say, "He can't eat that because he only has ONE tooth!"