Anders at 6 Months Old

Anders 6 Month Stats

Height: Almost 26 inches 31%
Weight: 15.1 lbs 8%
Head: 17.5 inches (?), 44.5cm 61%

At 6 months, Anders started sitting! He loved laying on his back and playing with his toes and would admire his hands quite often. I love this age because Anders would be completely content sitting up and watching everyone and everything around him. Still such a calm, lovable baby! When he got his 6 months shots, he got a big lump in his thigh from them. It has now been 5 months (I am updating this way late) and he STILL has it! The pediatrician said not to worry and that he would probably have it for awhile. Last week, some puss even came out of it and got me a little worried. Here is to hoping that it will go away!

Abe is 35!!

Norah at 5 years old

It's crazy to think that Norah is already 5 years old. The time flies too quickly. I told Norah that she is not allowed to lose any teeth, because that means that she is getting older and is growing up!

Norah at 5:

- Has a heart of GOLD. She has a lot of compassion and is the sweetest little thing. If she sees someone around her that needs or wants something, she will give up whatever she has in a heart beat.
-Very caring and thoughtful
-Asks very deep and detailed questions
-Gets along with everyone and plays really well with both Adeline and Meika.
-Is a peacemaker
-Has some spunk in her
-She is a pretty good eater and some of her favorites are: carrots dipped in ranch dressing, mushrooms, shrimp, frozen gogurts, chocolate milk… she has lots of favorites and isn't too picky :)
-Loves riding her two wheeler and is extremely fast.
-She is a natural athlete
-Has a sense of humor
-Has gotten really social lately and wants to be around kids and play with friends
-Learned how to pump on the swing (at 5 1/2)
-Talks about Germany all the time and how much she misses it. She misses her friends, her teachers, the market and bagels and beans

We love our little Norah! She is a kid that everyone (kids and adults) want to be around and get to know her. She can be super sassy, but is also very sensitive and cuddly!

Utah after Christmas

The day after Christmas Grandma Dofi took my mom, Sierra, Amanda, me and all our girls to the Nutcracker and then we walked over to admire the candy windows. I have such great childhood memories of doing those exact things. I love that my kids got to experience them!






The week was spent hanging out with my sisters and all the kids. I hadn't seen them in such a long time! We wouldn't have driven back to Utah again since we were just there for Thanksgiving, but I insisted because I was dying to hang out with my sisters and their kiddos. Plus, I needed to meet Indie!


Norah's birthday/New Years Eve was a blast. I wanted Norah to have a real birthday party and feel special. She wanted to have it at the Kamas Rec Center, so that's what we did. I reserved the party room and we did pizza, cake and swimming. It was perfect because she had all her cousins and grandparents from both sides. I'm pretty sure that I took a handful more pictures, but now that I have procrastinated blogging, I have no idea where all my pictures are!!




New Years Eve was pretty cute. We had a nice dinner and the kids even got to sit at a fancy little table with candles and their own sparkling cider. My mom also got some party supplies for the kids and we celebrated early with them and watched footage of a the Times Square ball dropping from a past year.






2014 was a good year. We had some fun trips, the birth of little Anders, lots of visitors and our move to the States. It was a pretty busy one, but lots of memories were made!

The cherry on top from our trip to Utah was that some of our closest friends from Germany were in town for the Holidays. We met up with them at Cafe Rio one night and spent hours talking and hanging out. Earlier that day, we spent the afternoon at Meghan's house and all of us roommates were able to catch up and hang out. It's crazy how much we have grown!

Christmas 2014

We were so excited to be in our new house before Christmas time. I have to admit that it was stressful though trying to get unpacked, decorated for Christmas and do festivities with the kids. Considering the circumstances, we did pretty well getting ready for Christmas. We were able to go to the zoo and see the Christmas lights, see Santa, go see a couple houses with dancing Christmas lights to music, get a Christmas tree, make treats for the neighbors and make gingerbread houses. I was going to skip on the Gingerbread houses since it is so time consuming making the gingerbread, cutting the houses, frosting and decorating them… but Abe talked me in to doing it.










Girls santa wish lists:

Adeline- camera, easy bake mixer
Norah- Princess pumpkin dog
Meika- Elsa doll

Meika was SO afraid of Santa and refused to go and see him. I bought cute Christmas outfits for the kids and my intent was to get them all dressed up and go get pictures with Santa. While at Abe's work Christmas party at Bass Pro Shops, we stumbled upon a Santa there. Abe was by himself with Meika and got her to go and sit with Santa by herself by telling her that if she wanted her beloved Elsa doll, she had to personally ask him. Of course all the other kids then wanted to see Santa, so I figured we would get our Santa picture and visit over with while we were there.



We ended up celebrating Christmas a day early because a big storm was coming in on Christmas day and we were planning on driving to Utah right after the kids opened their presents. I'm so glad we did, because we would not have made it home on Christmas because the freeway ended up shutting down! So on Christmas Eve morning we had Christmas morning, drove to Utah and made it to my Grandma Jeanne's house for her Christmas Eve celebration and surprised everyone because they thought we would be arriving the next day. Christmas evening was spent at my Grandma Dofi's house for her annual Christmas dinner and production. We hadn't been to that since Adeline was a toddler, so it was fun to take part in that. I still hadn't met Sierra's "baby" Indie and they also showed up at my Grandma's that night.

Anders 5 Month Basket Pictures