Happy Birthday Elayna!

Aunt Elayna turned 19 on the 16th of December. We celebrated when she, Andy, and Julie all made it home safely...thank goodness! Happy Birthday Elayna!

Yes...I do HEART Santa!

Let it snow, let it snow...let it stop!

Wow! Our little corner of the country sure is getting it's fair share of winter weather. We've had snow storms for over a week now and there's still more to come. It's fun to think we'll have a white Christmas but I think Darran, and many others, are tired of shoveling. He shovels our driveway nice and clear and then a couple hours later it's covered again!

Eliza hasn't been out in the cold much but we took her out for just a few minutes to get a picture. Unfortunately, it's not very good packing snow otherwise Dad would have made her a nice big one!

Cute Friends

Eliza's friend Brea came over for a visit! They were so sweet together!

Christmas time!

The presents are starting to cover the bottom of the tree...and surprisingly they aren't ALL for Eliza. (Ok, the majority are.) She's excited!

We saw Santa at Walmart...it was free to take a picture with him, there was no line, and Eliza was in a good mood...so we thought why not? Although, she doesn't seem to enthused, but it could have been worse. Not bad for her first Santa photo!

Sleeping...again!

I promised myself I wouldn't take anymore "sleeping" pictures because we have plenty...but I couldn't resist. Darran came home from his early Sunday morning meetings and took Eliza while I got ready for church. When I came downstairs this is what I found. Both of them ready for church but not quite awake enough!

Tradition!

It's Hague tradition to have a tree decorating party when the tree goes up. Mom and Dad came over to help us decorate the tree, eat lots of food, and watch the BYU basketball game. Apparently we forgot to get an "after" picture, but I'm sure we'll get plenty of those in the next couple of weeks!

Oh, so big!

Eliza has started to roll over from this position. In my attempt to record her doing just that of course she wouldn't. So I just took a picture of her enjoying tummy time. You would think she recognizes the camera by now as many pictures we take of her, but she looks a little perplexed in this one!

Lots of laughs!

Eliza is really starting to have a personality. She is starting to laugh now too. Dad seems to be able to get her to do it quite often!

Family fun.

Eliza liked to chew on her bumbo while we all played cards. Although, she did try to help Grandma a couple of times with her hand!

Eliza and Aunt Elayna...we love you!

Eliza with Uncle Andy and Aunt Julie. Andy did a great job of putting Eliza to sleep! It was so fun to have them home...Eliza was probably getting tired of me telling her all about them so she was excited to finally meet them!
Laughing with Great Grandpa Hague!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had Thanksgiving dinner with Lori's family. Thanks to mom for yet another wonderful Thanksgiving meal. It was a nice, relaxing day with lots of eating, napping, football, and cards. We loved spending it with Great Grandpa and Grandma Hague too. We spent some time with the Moodys over the holiday too but for some reason forgot to take pictures! But we were glad to spend some time with Derek and Shantal and Dustin's family.
Dad's turn to eat...and then mom's!
Notice in both pictures Eliza preferred to stare at the food not the camera! Sorry no turkey this year...maybe next year!

Happy Birthday Darran!

Although celebrating birthdays isn't one of Darran's favorite things to do this one wasn't half bad since he had Eliza to share it with. Since his birthday was on Thanksgiving Day he and I kind of celebrated the weekend before. We went and saw Children of Eden on Friday night and then Saturday morning went out to breakfast and then watched lots of football. Then on his birthday we celebrated with turkey and all the trimmings! Another birthday, another year older!

3 months old!

We decided to get Eliza an early Christmas present...a Bumbo. We figured she could use it now instead of waiting until Christmas...and she seems to agree. She will be three months old on Sunday and LOVES to sit up but still needs a little help. She was even playing on her stomach the other night with Darran and rolled over! Most likely not on purpose but I was sad I missed it! I had just run upstairs for a second...but that's as long as it takes for her to discover something new! She is changing and growing sooo fast!

Ready to go!

All bundled up and ready to go! Although...Eliza is starting to make it known that putting on a jacket and sitting in a car seat are not on her list of favorite things to do. But she's just to darn cute in her little bear jacket!

Saturday football!

Nothing makes dad happier than watching a BYU football game win with Eliza. We think that she is their good luck charm since they've won every game she has watched in her BYU shirt. Really that only totals 3 games but we'll help BYU out any way we can!

Fall is here...

Darran was really excited to use his leaf blower today. I had to admit I had my doubts of how necessary that really would be, but he proved me wrong and got a substantial amount of our neighbor's leaves in a pile. So we decided to take some pictures of Eliza in her first leaf pile...she would even grab a couple of the leaves to hold on to. Unfortunately, we can't really tell how much she liked it since we couldn't quite get a smile from her.

A few words...

Eliza has an opinion...of what we're not sure, but she likes to make her voice known. And when we have "conversations" she is always sure to fit in a little fist sucking too! We're just praying that doesn't turn into thumb sucking!

Soooo snuggly...

Darran accuses me of snuggling too much...I'm guilty (and he's jealous). She's just too irresistible! And he takes advantage of snuggle moments when he can too!

Smiley faces!

We caught a couple of Eliza's cute smiley faces before taking her out of her car seat when we got home from church today. We just can't get enough of her sweet smiles...they light up our world!

Fun with the train!

On Friday night we watched our favorite little neighbors Bailey and Mason. At Bailey's request Darran was put in charge of making a "big" train track. Every year he gets an addition to his train set (thanks to his role model Jarom!) so he's always excited for an excuse to play. In fact, he's already asking what part he will be getting this Christmas. So here is a picture of their hard work (Eliza did a good job of directing from her swing). That's one awesome train track

Ode to Halloween

3 little Moodys enjoy Halloween night.
It’s Eliza’s first one, oh what a fright!
A pumpkin she would be with little socks and matching hat.
She even got some candy, which just makes her parents fat!
Between a ghost and pumpkin she sits a little while,
As the trick-or-treaters pass and add to their candy pile.
Some pieces she would eat, if she had some teeth to chew.
But instead she laughs at dad as he tries to scare her...BOO!
Happy Halloween!

Blowing Bubbles

Eliza has become quite a drooler and bubble blower. Usually a picture doesn't do justice but this one comes awfully close!

Family pictures

I thought I would post some of the pictures we had taken with Eliza when she was 6 weeks old. Now that she is 10 weeks I feel like she looks and acts so much older! Time is going by way too fast!!!

Aunt Audrey's visit!

Aunt Audrey came to visit us! She braved the weather and left sunny Arizona to stay with us from Wednesday night to Sunday morning. We had a really great time with her.
She introduced Eliza to her first music video. Not sure that's the most appropriate thing for a 2 month old to watch! But we're hoping she just liked it so much because of the music and flashing lights!

Thursday

We decided to carve pumpkins while Audrey was here!
Hague tradition has always been to line up our finished pumpkins on the stairs and sit next to them for a picture...so here we are. Eliza even had a pumpkin...that she can have year round!
Aunt Audrey and Eliza.
Our finished pumpkins were placed outside. Here they are in the light...
...and the dark. Hopefully they will last until Halloween!

Friday

Friday night we had a bonfire at Grandma and Grandpa's house. It was perfect weather! Eliza got to experience her first fire for a little while.
We roasted marshmallows and made smores...yummy!
Grandma even watched Eliza earlier in the day so that Audrey and I could sneak away to the movies. We had to laugh though because we couldn't have picked a more traumatic first movie after giving birth for me to see. We saw The Duchess (which I DO NOT recommend to anyone, that's why I will spoil part of it). The Duchess had an affair and had to give her baby daughter away. So naturally I was balling as this was happening. Audrey is used to that...she knows what a cry baby I am during sad movies. But the worst part was as they were walking away from her with the baby she stops them and says "tell him her name is Eliza!" I'm pretty sure I let out an audible sob in the theater and Audrey was seriously wondering why she agreed to go to the movies with me!

Saturday

We decided to take advantage of the beautiful fall weather after listening to the BYU game. We were in good moods after a successful win! So we grabbed some Subway and headed to Columbia River Park. Eliza experienced her first picnic...though she slept through part of it!
Eliza cheered on Grandpa, Audrey, and Dad as they skipped rocks. I joined in later but I believe that's when she started to cry because she saw how pathetic mom was at skipping rocks!
Andy and Dallin...you now have more competition...Darran was making it a challenge for Dad!
Columbia Park really is picturesque. After our walk we went home to have dinner with Great Grandpa and Grandma Hague after their temple session. We had a nice dinner and visit with them.
We then had to end the night with some "friendly" competition. We played girls against boys beach volleyball on the Wii. Audrey and I won...so then they had to challenge us to a different game. We tried our hand at curling of all games and ended up really liking it! Audrey and I decided to "let the boys win" at the last minute!
Thanks for visiting Aunt Audrey! We had a great time and we love you so much!!!!