St. Patrick's at the Pearsons'

Dallin (2), Laura (3) & Emily (4) getting ready for their St. Patrick's Day lunch at our house on Saturday.

I love Laura and Emily's eyes in this one. 

We had a visit from Leprechaun Cousins Annie and Hannah!  

What we didn't have pictures of (sadly): cute baby Louisa, who was so good and easy to please.  She was sleeping for two hours of our babysitting time.  She likes to be swaddled with her left arm in the blanket and the right arm out so suck her thumb.

The Price/Pearson cousins played (and bickered over) forts, read books, had a pancake breakfast, a healthy lunch, reorganized the play room, left Jared's Legos alone (yay!) and talked a lot with Aunt Kathryn.  Then Lindsay went on a run with me so we could get our exercise in for the day.  It was a rare time with NO RAIN during our run.  Very nice.  It made me think of when Krystle and I would go running together early in the morning in our BYU days.  I'll always be glad we did that because school is such a busy time of life, we wouldn't have seen much of each other if we hadn't!  Sisters and sister-in-laws are great running partners.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

CFP conqueror!

After conquering a battery of monster tests, Tom is an official Certified Financial Planner (CFP).  Yeah, he's kind of a big deal in these parts.  I'm proud of him!

First Steps!

She is almost 17 months old now but "noodle legs" is starting to take an interest in walking!

Yesterday Baby Elise took her first steps! She took 3 shaky steps towards Nathan last night. We were so excited and tried to encourage her but then she thought cheering was for falling down.   Yay!

*she is "noodle legs" because even as a little baby she would never straighten out her legs or try to stand with help, she would pull her feet up if you made them touch the ground.