Best Buddies

Aubrey and Addy are best buddies.

They love to hug each other and give each other kisses.
Addy will call for Aubrey when she goes to bed and wave "night-night" to her.
She's pretty tough too - Aubrey loves to wrestle with her.

In the mornings, after breakfast, they just love to sit and watch Sesame Street and Curious George in their pajamas and blankets.

Cuddling up in their "gin-gins" (blankies).

Rylan just happened to snap this picture of Addy. It's not the best pic1ture, but I thought it was so funny and indicative of Addy's character! She is so funny!

Here they are again on the couch watching Tinkerbell.
When Addy smiles big, her nose scrunches up and it's so cute.

Mesmerized by movies.
It's either Mulan or Tinkerbell, or more recently, The Polar Express.

Aubrey and Addy holding hands on a walk in the park.

We tried to feed the ducks, but Addy ate the bread!

Here is their other buddy - cousin Justice. Justice loves to play with Aubrey and Addy.
Addy had just eaten some ice cream and is looking for more, while Justice poses and smiles.

Aubrey and Justice have so much fun together. They love to play in the mud, watch movies, eat snacks, play with blocks, and tell each other stories. Justice even taught Aubrey how to pee in the grass (thanks, Justice!) :)

It is so nice to have some many of her cousins near by. Not only is it nice to see them often, but they really all do have fun and get along fairly well with one another.

Aubrey's First haircut

Aubrey was in desperate need for a haircut. Molly dug out the cutting shears and gave Aubrey her first haircut.

Actually, I think she did a great job!!!
Aubrey loved her new hair cut and she looks like such a cute little girl!

Temple Square Arizona Reunion

Molly got a surprise phone call and found out that her Mission President and his wife were going to be in town and wanted to gather with some of their missionaries that lived here in AZ. It is always a pleasure to meet with mission companions and senior couples.

Here are the Senior couples and a few of the Sisters that served on Temple Square with President and Sister Crouch.

Molly and her long-lost companion Hannah. Thanks for showing up!!! It was so good to catch up with you!!!

Molly talking with President and Sister Crouch. Always a pleasure to catch up!

Since When Was Halloween After Thanksgiving!?!?!

Okay, so Rylan totally messed up on organizing our blog chronologically. Actually, we're trying to get our blog a little more up to date. Molly has been swamped with vinyl orders, Rylan has been swamped with taking 8 credits for medical school pre-requisites, working full time and cutting Molly's wood products, and of course, the girls need some love and attention. Needless to say, the blog got behind.

So this is Halloween...

We had a pretty quiet night. We wanted to be in our neighborhood to be supportive, but everyone left. I think we had one kid come by...yes, that is correct...
ONE,
UNO,
1 KID.

It was still nice. Addy walked up and down the sidewalk all night and Aubrey was with her cousins and relatives at Andrea's family haunted house. She had a blast. Aubrey is still quite into Mulan and Tinkerbell. You might have thought that Mulan was a fairy.

Princess Aubrey aka "Princess Mulan"

"I'm Aubrey Chan...hai ya!!!"

This is Aubrey and Addy: "Mulan and best her friend - her horse!"

I think Addy was too hot in the horse costume, so it didn't stay on for very long.
Aubrey loved putting on the eye make up and wanted to dress up as Mulan for days afterwards.

"Mulan" and her "horse" at Grammy and Papa's house.

Molly's Craftiness

Molly has become super crafty. After an entire year, we almost have our little home business paid off! Yeah!!! Here is a peek at some of her projects that she has been working on this season. They were a great success.

This board is a stocking board and has been quite popular. I guess there probably aren't a whole lot of mantles here in the desert. It was fun to do, but we were finding that there weren't enough spaces on our original boards for the entire family, so this is one of our bigger family boards.

Molly also came up with this great design for family pictures - they are a little different than your typical family picture frame.

This is Aubrey's Dream board. This was a lot of fun putting together and Aubrey loves it. There is some tin underneath so the flowers are actually magnets!

Here is another picture frame with customization text available.

This is a customized frame that Molly had designed - the cool thing is that we routed the back in a way that the frame can be turned 90 degrees and hung in any direction!

If anyone is interested in some of her products, customization, or in learning more about what Molly does and would like to see more of her projects, feel free to contact her at molly@signsbydesignllc.com
We hope to have our website up and running by the beginning of the year!

Thanksgiving

Here is Iron Chef Rylan making his famous Chinese "Fire bird" Turkey. It was super SUPER yummy!!! He also made some sticky rice stuffing that was SOOOO tasty - especially after being cooked with the Fire Bird. Everyone had an absolute feast at Molly's parent's place. I was so excited and didn't eat all day so I could enjoy the dinner, but was completely stuffed after one plate. The good thing is we had lots of left overs. We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!