Happy Birthday Sweet Claire

Claires first Year from Sarisker on Vimeo.

Christmas Events

1- Christmas Eve- the girls opened new matching PJ's. Livie loves them- and has worn them 3 nights in a row! New pj's is a Cristmas tradition.
2- Liv got new bubble bath from Santa. She said "I think I am stinky. I need a bath!" All she really wanted was to try out her new bubbles! She made Claire beards, hats, and "tails" with her bubbles!
3- We finally got a sled. With all our snow and our hill behind our house it was about time!
4- Christmas Eve we made cookies and put them out for Santa. We even put out a carrot for the rein deer.

Polar Express

Above:Awaiting Santa (they were VERY excited he had come on the train!)
Below: Talking to an elf and Mrs. Clause

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Grandparents with all the Grand kids in front of the train

We went to the "Polar Express" a few weeks back with Grandma and Papa and cousins Jill and Camille. The girls (Olivia and Jillian) LOVED it. They took a train ride (a very slow ride I might add) to see the North Pole. Santa came aboard the train and handed out bells. We had cocoa and cookies as treats. The ride was a little on the long side (1 1/2 hours) but the girls enjoyed themselves. Jillian even sang on the microphone Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for all the passengers aboard!

Baby Luke has Arrived!

Francisco and Emily welcomed baby Luke Javier Darquea this morning at 5:02 am.
Emma's water broke at 3:00 am and by the time she got to the hospital she had Luke with just 4 pushes! There was no time for an epidural! If you go natural that is the best way to do it- FAST! Luke is SO darling and tiny! He grunts a lot. What a sweet sweet little man. We can't wait to baby- sit!!

Luke from Sarisker on Vimeo.

Luke getting a diaper change- not ideal for video but the most awake you'll see from a newborn!

Christmas Cards

Well- the Christmas cards are out.. If you did not recieve one it is because I either don't have your address, or it is not current! So- e-mail me at Sarahthy5@yahoo.com if you didn't get one! We don't want ANY one left out.. so really, e-mail me.
On a side note I was VERY upset at how DARK the darn photo Christmas card was. The picture just got SO dark when it was printed. I was mad, but didn't care TOO much to re-print, and I sent them anyway!!
Merry Christmas everyone!

All I want for Christmas is...

A Christmas Dress!

Now that she has one I'm not sure what Santa should bring! If you are going to have a Christmas dress you have to wear it to church and parties BEFORE Christmas, right!? Anyway- it really is all she wants for Christmas!

Although she drives me nuts...

She also makes me smile. I'll take the bad as long as I get the good too!

she was modeling the 'secretary' skirt I made her this morning.

She decorated the Christmas tree before we got to it!

Lights at Temple Square

We saw the lights at temple square in SLC last Saturday. They were beautiful. It was chilly, but not too bad. It is nice living so close to these touristy type things!

Pictures with Grandma

My parents came out for Thanksgiving. How nice of them to drive 15 hours to see us! Anyway- my mom wanted some pictures with her favorite grandbabies! These are a few of my favorites.

Grateful

I love my Claire -bear. She makes me smile, even when I am crabby. I can't help but be in a better mood when she flashes me one of her grins! What a sweet pea!

Gotta Love

Nakey Babies after Bath Time!

Emmas baby Shower

Lanettes husband Shaun crocheted those cute little hats!

Liv's favorite part of the whole shower- getting to keep the balloons after!

We had Em's baby shower this last Saturday. A huge snow storm blew in that day, after a few weeks of BEAUTIFUL weather. The party turned out good. I am not the best party thrower- my parties aren't very lively. Hmm, I will need to work on that!

Pre-School

Olivia is loving her pre-school. The kids get along pretty well. They love to play games together, and on this occasion we made popcorn for snack time. Who knew kids would just LOVE plain popcorn with just a pinch of salt? They thought it was so exciting and fun to watch it pop. Yesterday we went on a field trip to the Bean Museum at BYU. They have lots of dead stuffed animals. Lovely, ey? Our favorite part was when we got to see a LIVE turtle and snake. Okay- so not the snake, but the turtles were cute!

Go Cougars!

We went to our first basketball game of the season. With both girls! They actually did pretty great. If only Liv could get over her fear of different pottys then we'd be set!

Claires Twin

This is one of our neighbors Gretchen- I think she looks so much like Claire! She is about 5-6 months older, but she still looks so similar!

Winner!

Olivia colored a turkey for a contest. No- she is not a winner... Because the people you are supposed to turn it into didn't want it! The young teenagers at Hogi Yogi were unaware that they were supposed to take it when we brought it in. Instead they gave Liv a free cookie and said we could keep the drawing. We wanted to win! How will we win if she can't turn it in!? Oh-well- maybe we will get it into another Hogi Yogi that knows what they are doing!

Yes- she colored it all by herself! Pretty good if you ask me!

Bath Time in the Sink

trying to climb out!

Typical

"OLIVIA! PUT YOUR SISTER DOWN!"

Happy Halloween!

wicked witch of the west and Dorothy walking hand in hand! Notice the full moon!

Toto and Dorothy

We had a great Halloween! The weather was perfect! Just the day before it was snowing/raining so we got so lucky that it was warm! Liv got to go trick-or treating and loved it (for about 1/2 hour) After that Emma and Francisco came over we had dinner, made caramel apples and watched 'The Forgotten' It was a fun evening!

Pumpkins and snow

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For F.H.E. we did pumpkin carving. Olivia would have nothing to do with "the yucky messy stuff" inside the pumpkin! So- she painted hers. She does love to draw and paint, so for her it worked out well. Today it snowed! We can't believe winter is practically here. Crazy!

Baby Luke

Well- I started a game thing to guess when my sisters baby will come. No one has really played though- so I thought I should put it on my blog too! Go HERE to play. In case you need to enter a "game name" it is 'LukeDarquea'. Emma- you should put it on your blog too!

Lost

Today we went on our first pre-scool field trip to Cornbellys. It was also a first for getting lost. Olivia was playing on a train thing with friends. The next thing I know I can't find her. Unfortunately for me- there is a GINORMOUS corn maze just a hop skip and a jump from where we were playing. So- off I go into the very large corn maze- meant to get people LOST! I was frantic. I prayed a lot. Finally I ran into a guy that said he had heard something on the intercom about a lost girl. I ran to the entrance of the place. There she was. Not scared, just bored. I am still not sure what happened.. how she got lost or who found her. I am just SOOO thankful this is a story that I can say "remember when.." rather then being on Oprah as the mom who lost her daughter.
I hated every minute of this incident. I love my little Livie too much to lose her. Oh- on a side note the whole ordeal lasted about 15 minutes (I think,, maybe it was 20? It felt like forever!)

Family Photos

I took some family photos for our friends this evening. They are such a cute family. I had to put some pics up for them to see so they didn't have to wait too long to see at least a few!

Claires stats (10 month)

So- here are Claires 10 month stats even though she is still only 9 1/2 months old...
Head: 17.5 inches (59%)
Weight: 18 lbs (31%)
Length: 28.5 inches (74%)

Claire can...
-Eat like a cow. She LOVES to eat. She is eating real solids now like cracker and bananas- and learning SO fast. She is starting to get a little blocked up from it. Any suggestions?
-She crawls like crazy
-I think she is sleeping through the night again (I haven't been turning the monitor on)
-She loves to see sister... Livie ALWAYS makes her smile (and makes her cry the most too!)
-Although she saves her smiles, she is pretty content most of the time
-She drools constantly and I have to change her bib 2x a day because it gets soaked
-She says lots of jibberish but I'm not sure if any means much yet

What a fun Girl!

This is what you find when a 3 year old gets into your night-stand. My glasses and journal (she KNOWS it is MY "coloring book" but she chooses to ignore that!

puddle jumping... she had fun!

Olivia slept in her bed ALL by herself all night long to get this pretty polish in the morning! Yea! Go Livie!!

Trying to catch the quirks

Today Olivia and I tirelessly tried to get Claire to smile for a picture. Not just ANY smiling picture, but one of her latest smiles. She scrunches her nose and smiles with all she has. It is SOO cute. We could not get her to do it even after trying for an hour. She is so solemn. Her smiles are genuine- she doesn't smile for just anything! We will get it soon enough though! Also- she has a tounge thing she has been doing lately. That also I will try to catch on film ;)

Here are the looks Claire gave us..

Here is an ALMOST smile that I wanted to catch. It is not nearly as cute as the real thing though. This was a half smile!

(on a side note I accidently shot all pictures with an ISO of 1600 therefore they have a lot of noise (graininess) but I kinda like the old fashioned look of it!)