The Arritt Family

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

She Walks! & Easter

Easter was wonderful!

I'm so grateful for my Savior Jesus Christ,

His Gospel,

and my wonderful family!

Spring Break 2014

COUSINS!

The Skate Center that I went to as a child has been completely redone and enlarged.

So fun!

We loved spending time with Grandma Bell!!

We enjoyed the new Living Planet Aquarium.

Utah is so full of fun people and places- we never have enough time for everything!!

Our stop in Idaho for time with more family!

Jacy Is One!!

For Jacy's birthday we went to get her first frozen yogurt.

She loved it.

So did her brothers

She is such a fun and happy girl! We love her to pieces!

We got to continue her birthday party at Papa and Nam nam's since we were traveling for Spring Break.

She dug right into her cake

(her brothers had been really unsure about the whole cake thing when they each turned one).

We can't believe how fast that year went!

We love having this sweet girl in our family!

February 2014

Beautiful 11 month old! Still so happy!

Snow!! We were used to having lots in Cheyenne. Now we get excited with just a little bit!

Karter and his team did so well in the Oregon Battle of the Books!! They were called the Reading Champs and they won for their school and went on to the Regional Division in LaGrande where they also did very well and were seeded 3rd. So exciting!

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

December

December was great! It flew by much too fast.

This year we enjoyed watching 2 kids in the Winter Concert!

Ty was an adorable Kindergarten reindeer and loved singing the reindeer hokey pokey and also a song about snow.

I had a hard time getting pictures far away, but Karter was very handsome and did a great job singing in the 4th/5th grade concert. He's getting so old!

Then, Ty turned 6!! He is certainly not a little boy anymore.

Just recently it seems like he has gotten so smart and acts and speaks much more grown up. Sad!

He wanted a Despicable 2 cake- and also got a minion shirt and the actual movie.

Christmas was both wonderful and a little sad.

This was the first Christmas Kollan and I spent without someone from our extended families. Just our little family. It was nice and relaxing and fun, but we also missed everyone.

We were lucky to have great friends to share Christmas Eve with!! The kids came over to decorate cookies, and later we went to their house for a fun night and yummy dinner!!

Christmas morning is always full of excitement!

Jacy's first Christmas!!

She is such a sweetie and keeps on growing.

She is everywhere and getting into everything. She is so happy and fun.

I tried to catch this shot, and even though it's blurry I love it. Jacy is holding up the baby Jesus and looking at him. Precious.

Christmas means so much to me, because of our Savior. Every year I get sad at how commercialized it is, but I always enjoy the things we do with our kids to instill giving and service. I love spending time together and learning about our Savior and helping them understand there's more to life than stuff.

One night, as Ty said the family prayer, he stopped and looked at me so I opened my eyes and he whispered, "presents?" He wanted to know if it was appropriate to thank Heavenly Father for presents when we had been learning Christmas isn't about presents. I smiled and nodded.

Afterwards I made sure he understood that we can (and should) thank Heavenly Father for everything!! And Christmas can (and should) be lots of fun, and it's great to be excited about new toys! We just have to remember that there's more to life then fun and toys.