The Polson Family

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Cousin Crazyness!

Cousin Kathryn came to visit us this last weekend. Guess I missed out on the photo shoot!!! Work it!!!

Rise and Shout, The Cougars Are Out!!!

A few weeks ago, we got an email telling us that the BYU Men's Volleyball team would be in town to take on the UC Irvine Anteaters (stinks to be them). Anyway, Jason and I thought it would be fun to be able to take the girls to a BYU function, just to let the brainwashing begin! Jason had just been in Provo the week before and had picked up shirts for the girls, so they were set. Travis, Liz and Kaitlyn can up to join in the fun, which began with dinner at Cafe Rio!

There really was more people at the game than just us. Actually, BYU had a great crowd, probably 3/4 of the people there were BYU fans.

The girls were trying to retrieve balls during warmup.....with no luck.

Future Cougar!!!

Girl's Night Out!

In the beginning of January was my good friend Luisa birthday and to celebrate the girls had a Girl's Night Out to the nail salon. I decided that I would let Emily join in the fun. She was a little hesitant at first and declined the spa pedicure (crazy girl) but she was excited to have her nails and toenails done. The women at the salon were so good to her, two working on her at one time. I think she really loved it!

Our Cute Toes!!!

Jason has an awesome little tradition on Valentine's Day. He has always gotten me flowers, but ever since the girls were born, they get a minature version of my flower arrangement. They love it so much. We're very lucky girls!
Lauren is in a little preschool class once a week and for Valentines they got to have a little party. She was so excited! She thought she was pretty big to be able to pick out Valentine's just like Emily. It was so much fun, her favorite part being the candy.

Passing out Valentines!

Emily's Valentine's Day celebration was a little sad. I can't even explain to you how excited she was for her pre-school party. She had her Valentines done a week before the party and everyday counted down. So, the morning of her party arrives and at about 5 am she got sick. I wanted to cry, she threw-up and looked up and said "Can I still go to my party?" It broke my heart. But her cute teachers sent home all her art projects for the day and a friend brought her Valentine box with all her cards home to her. In the end it was salvaged and she survived!
For our actual Valentine's Day, we went down to Deborah's and had a wonderful dinner with both my sister's and their families (and of course I took no pictures!)

Lost and Found!

I just thought this was so cute! The girls had lost something under the couch, and with a little assistance, daddy came to the rescue!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

New hope...

So I've nearly given up on my blog many, many times, the latest being this month. But the other night, Jason and I were looking back at some of our first posts and realized how many fun memories we had recorded on this blog. Someday, of course, I hope to take it to book form (since I am the world worst scrapebooker) but for now I realized I need to keep making an attempt to record our memories. So....the blog has new hope (and some new posts).

Seattle!

Our family's most favorite thing when we visit home is our trip to downtown Seattle. It always goes something like this; fish n' chips at the famous Ivar's resturant (really the only time we eat fish), feeding the seagulls our extra french fries (they weren't too hungry this year) and then getting on the ferry to take a ride on the beautiful Puget Sound. This adventure is only made better by having lots of fun cousins to go with.

Some of the girl cousins on the ferry. Look how beautfful our weather was!! Amazing!

Daddy and Lauren

The whole crew!

Lauren and Emily really wanted their picture with this bear. Emily is giving her very best (and quite convincing) scared look.

Lake House and Family Pictures!

We got a chance to go out and stay a night at Jason's parents lakehouse. It was so amazing. The weather was perfect our entire trip but out at the lake was so beautiful. The house just gets more and more amazing everytime we go. It is the perfect getaway!

We attempted to get some family pictures after church on one of the Sundays! The kids weren't really feeling it and we didn't come away with much.

This is exactly how it felt trying to get pictures!

This is really the only one that turned out and of course with our new additions, Lauren's baby (and Emily's princess shoes!)

Christmas!!!

So once again, I did a bad job of taking pictures Christmas morning but that is probably because we were having such a great time. We opened presents at Jason's parents first and then continued the festivities over at my parents. The girls were thoroughly spoiled and loved it. We had so much family home this Christmas, it was so wonderful to spend time with all of them.