Catch-Up

Ian and I have been really bad at posting. In our defense, our internet is really slow which makes it a little frustrating. Anyways, this is a little bit of what we have been up to lately...

Madeline woke up a four o'clock in the morning Christmas morning and she was so happy and talkative. I thought kids weren't excited for Christmas until they were a little older!

Needless to say, we were a little bit less excited.

Madeline was grouchy Christmas morning because she was up half the night.

Ian got the second book in the Joseph Smith Papers series. He was happy.

Footy pajamas are the latest winter fashion. At least in the Moss home.

Emily and I both got Snuggies. I started telling Ian I wanted one as a joke, but then I decided that I really did kind of want one. They are awesome!

Madeline demanded all of the attention. She is a diva already!

Ian and I went to Seattle for the weekend for his birthday (child free!). We went to the Space Needle...

...the Experience Music Project...

...the Science Fiction Museum (not really our thing but it comes with the EMP tickets)...

...and Pike Place Market.

This was the view from our hotel.

We took this picture for Liz and Jason.

Then we came home and had our traditional german chocolate cake for Ian's birthday. He turned 27 years old!

Madeline liked birthday cake too.

Madeline now pulls herself up to the furniture and stands all the time. A couple days ago we she got brave enough to let go and stood by herself for almost ten seconds. She is going to be walking soon I think!

This is her new favorite toy. Her Great Grandma Spears gave it to her. It is a little dog that barks to the tune of Jingle Bells and then wags it's tail. It always makes her happy.

I have been wanting to try to actually do Madeline's hair. Today I was bored before church so I tried pig tails. I think they are so cute! Mom and Abby said they look like devil horns. I don't think so.

I took so many pictures of Madeline this morning. I think she got tired of it...

Here we are together.

Other things that have happened this month that we did not document with pictures...

• We went to Danielle's wedding.
• We TRIED to go to Alex's wedding. It happened to be on the one day in the year it snows here. we tried to go anyways and it took us 3 hours to drive about 25 miles. The freeway was a parking lot. Nobody here knows how to drive in the snow. It was very frustrating. Luckily we got to see them before they went back to Utah.
• We made the annual Moss/Huskey/Black Nativity movie with the usual lack of interest from most people involved. It has to be done though...it's tradition!
• For New Year's we opened a time capsule we had made with the Huskey family in 1999. I was excited to see what I put in it because I couldn't remember. All I put in was a tag from Old Navy because it was my favorite store. Lame. We also wrote little papers about what we liked, what we wanted our ten year older self to know, etc. I wrote about how much I HATED Woodland and how I didn't want to be here and to never forget my Hillsboro friends. What a brat. Now I am back here. ha.
• Madeline now has two teeth which she has figured out are nice little weapons.

I guess that is all for now!