HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY CHLOE!!!

Chloe had three celebrations for her 1st birthday ( in true Gardner family fashion)! The first party was with all her local cousins at Chuck e Cheese! We went to Aaron and Kim's house after for Pizza and Presents! She got lots of Great things! (thank you everyone!) For the second "party" we went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park to celebrate- just the four of us . On the way there we found some snow-random I know but so fun!! For the third party on her actual first birthday I made lasagna and Abe made an AWESOME Snow White cake (all by himself) and we had my mom and sister and future brother in law over! I can't believe my baby is one! She loved her birthday cakes, she was very danity but very determined. She kept dipping her little finger in and licking the frosting....then she got impatient and started grabbing handfulls , but can you blame her!

Gardner Family Christmas Party at our House!

We finally got a picture of all of us looking at the camera -Merry Christmas!!!

Noelle on the table steeling a brownie before the party!

Dedee Aaron Myra and Rachel at our Christmas Party!

Nana's gingerbread men!

Nana, Kim and Chloe singing holiday songs!

Christmas party game-the kids had to follow their own string to find their present that was tied to the end of it- they had their work cut out for them!

Christmas Stories at Casa Romantica


Chloe meeting some reindeer


I see you !


No tears from either of them-Noelle even told Santa she wanted him to make her a doll house for Christmas. Noelle was very proud of Chloe for not crying. She said "Good job Clo bo, you did it and you wasn't even scared of Santa! She learned from me!"

Merry Christmas!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Thanksgiving

Abram and Merivale Thanksgiving 2008

we weren't sure my mom would know how to work the camera! We both look doubtful!

Dani helping Chloe feel like a big kid

Chloe is giving someone the LOOK

Noelle and Macady "fought" over the jump rope all night -neither of them would give it up

Thanksgiving - The Gardner Family Thanksgiving was a blast. The food was delicious, the talent show was hilarious (Tyler and Parker did a hilarious dance to a Ric and Rachel danced in, Ric as a woman and Rachel had pillows stuffed in her clothes to give her an awsome ghetto booty, Dani wrote an amazing song about Thanksgiving talent shows of the past, Scott and Shellie sang, Noelle did her Daisy Daisy song on the piano, Chloe bonked heads and Abe, Tyler and I did a song as well) and of course it was great spending time with the family.

Manti, Utah

We made a trip to Manti a few weeks ago. Abe's mom Connie passed away. We love her and will miss her. It was good to see our family and spend time with them.

Things I want to do in Life...

Buy a house, by the beach- the last part is a must, we don’t care how long it takes.






Write a book, who knows maybe it will turn out well, maybe it won’t, but I want to give it a shot.





Go to Italy. I just want to know what it smells like. I know that is weird but I can’t imagine it. I know what it looks like I have seen pictures. I want to smell the fresh leather of the clothing stores, the 'just picked' ingredients of the aromatic food, and the scent of the land around me. I also want to know what it feels like to wake up and have the whole day ahead of me in a country where other people have walked in ancient times. I think it would be an extra challenge to see as much as I can possibly see without knowing how to communicate with the people. So maybe I should learn the language...

Learn Italian. Quickly, Potresti aiutarmi?

Sell a home- or many, but I have an obsessive love for Southern Californian Real Estate.

Make a habit of making bread. I want to know how to make every kind of bread in my own home.

Grow fruit trees, make jam. Then I will live off of homemade bread and jam. What could be better!

Learn a piece of classical music for the piano. This might include formal lessons….again.

Take my family to a beach in Australia, and I don’t want to be pregnant at the time. Who knows when that will be- I am pregnant regularly.

Unplug my Television for an entire year. Think of the possibilities such a small action could hold. Unfortunately my daughter loves Dora, like a sister. And my husband loves Sunday mornings on the couch with the T.V on, even if he is not watching it.

Start an Art Gallery- http://www.leannereinhold.blogspot.com/

The girls are getting so big!

Playing in their room!

Noelle wanted to dress up like a princess!

Oh no you didn't!

Oh yes we did!