Say Cheese

Charlotte keeps bringing me the camera this week and asking me to take pictures of her with it. Then she usually smiles like this ...

Well, at least she is starting to understand that she is supposed to smile and hold still for pictures.

Snacktime with Grey

If my little hands and arms were this luscious and soft, I would probably be chewing on them all of the time too!

Pottytraining

This past week, I decided it was time to try to pottytrain Charlotte again. Well, let's just say that after two terrible, homebound days filled with tantrums and accidents on the carpet, Duke the Puppy is much closer to being pottytrained than Charlotte is.

Happy New Year ...

... or just happy. Period.

Christmas Morning

Cha-Cha's enjoyment of the patriotic ribbon gifted to her by her Mimi and a few other highlights from Christmas morning here.

Charlotte shredding on her new Barbie guitar. Unfortunately, we realized after we bought it that it plays "I'm a Barbie Girl in a Barbie World" over and over. Ugh!

Caroline has always been attracted to wealthy men, but now she has her very own "bread maker." Hardy har har!

When Dallin pulled this sweatshirt out of the box, Charlotte exclaimed, "Lifejacket!"

This was the best moment of Christmas for me and I'm so glad I got in on film. I gave Adam an iPad for Christmas, something that he wanted badly but was a total surprise to him because we had agreed to spend $100 on each other this year. Whoops! But I don't think he was mad ...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

... and the only mice that were stirring were these little rugrats.

Charlotte is really into making this cheesy, almost painful-looking grin for the camera right now.

Lovely Aunt Lolly. The huge beast behind her is her dog Silas, who is about twice the size of Charlotte. Charlotte kept calling him "Horse" and wouldn't get anywhere near him. Good call, Charlotte!

Early in the evening, the men retreated to the downstairs "man cave" for some quality bonding time over the Xbox.

Just in case this whole gig as a lawyer doesn't pan out, Adam wants to make sure he has other career options ...

My dad Steve dressed up as Santa Claus and went down the street to surprise the grandchildren of my mom's cousin, while the REAL Santa took some time out of his busy schedule to make a pit stop at Grammy's place to see Charlotte and Grey.

Lucy loved Santa so much that it was hard to tell where Santa ended and she began.

Dallin wanted to cover all of his bases just in case Santa hadn't received his letter.

Some Pre-Christmas Festivities

We spent Christmas in Utah with my family this year. Some of the festivities included a photo shoot with my mom and my dad Steve's entire family. Unfortunately, I don't think the pictures of the entire family turned out as well as this one of our individual family above. This must mean that the Laughtons are the best-looking and most photogenic of the whole Moulton-Bybee clan. Just kidding, fam!

Mom, Dad Steve, and all nine of their grandchildren.

"Wull, lemme think ..."

After the family party, Adam and I and our kids headed down to Temple Square with my brother David and my sister-in-law Sarah, my sister Caroline, my sister Ashley, and her boo Michael.

Seriously, Michael, I always make fun of you for being a model, but you are totally busting the Blue Steel here.

One of the highlights of the evening was running into one of my oldest and best friends, Amanda Armstrong Nicholas, and her husband Mike and adorable kids while we were down at Temple Square. They live in New Orleans so it was an especially weird coincidence that they happened to be there that night. (Of course, our lives have been full of coincidences, haven't they, Amanda? :))