All about Eden...

So 2 posts in 2 days! Yay me!! Ok so Eden is just growing up so much. I can't tell you how much I love this little girl. She is smart, so sweet, compassionate, funny, affectionate...I could go on and on! She is now 21 months old...wow! I just feel so blessed to have such a special spirit in our family. Sometimes she'll just run up to me and give me the biggest hug! When she can tell I'm a little sad, she touches my face and says, "mommy sad?" and she'll act sad and just hug me. What a sensitive girl huh? I need that with Christian for a husband...haha! Love you sweetie! She talks ALL the time and is starting to really talk, like in sentences! I don't always understand what she's saying but for the most part we can have full on conversations!! She LOVES mickey mouse, and anything disney really! She loves to watch movies (mostly disney ones) Her favorites right now are Cars (she calls it vroom vroom), Ratatouille (yes she loves Remmy the Rat) and Meet the Robinsons (she calls this one Lewis). She loves to color, play with bubbles, read books and dance to 80s music with mommy! She loves to play pretend, she is always the mommy when she plays with her dolls! She's such a good big sister to Ella. One of the first things she asks for in the morning is for Ella! She is always trying to hug and kiss her. When Ella is crying, she tries to give her her binky or rock her chair to comfort her! She'll sometimes give Ella her precious blanky when Ella's really upset! She understands pretty much everything and amazes Christian and I with the things she learns from just watching us or what she sees in her books or her shows! She's so good about sharing her time with Ella! She never makes a scene when I have to tend to the baby. I just couldn't have asked for a better first baby! I get emotional sometimes thinking about her because she's just growing up so fast. She truly is my best friend and I wouldn't want to spend the day with anyone else but her!




So I have to do a little bragging...my sister hand sewed Eden and Ella's christmas dresses. Yes she made these dresses! Without a pattern I might add. THey were so beautiful. Not a seam showing anywhere, fit them PERFECTLY. I couldn't have bought better dresses for them! She's amazing! She's starting up her own little boutique in the near future so look forward to seeing more of her really cute stuff. If anyone is interested in having a dress made, just let me know!
So I just have to say that I do not know how I got so lucky in my life! Look at my 2 beautiful daughters! What a lucky mom I am! They both have such sweet personalities. They make it so easy to be a mom. I am just so so thankful to my Heavenly Father for sending these 2 little one's to me!

All About Ella...

Well Ella is now 13 weeks old! I cannot believe how fast time has flown by with her! At her last Dr.'s Appt she weighed 11 and a half pounds and she's starting to get some chubby cheeks and thighs!! She smiles and coos and loves to watch her sister do anything! She can sit in her bumbo all by herself and loves it! She's just so fun to have in our house! We love her so much and are so happy she's here!!


Already loving Mickey Mouse!! We start them early!!!

Ring in the New Year!

With the holidays over and things starting to wind down and get back to normal, I can't help but be a little bit sad! This Christmas was so much fun being here in utah! Christan has tons of family here and so we were able to have lots of family parties and get togethers! I am just so lucky that I married into such an amazing family! I just love spending time with them! Christmas was SO much fun with Eden this year! She was so excited to open all her presents and she just rbougth so much joy to all of us this season. She is growing up to be such a sweet, loving, funny little girl! I just love her so much! Ella is growing up too fast! SHe is smiling so much and starting to giggle! She is so much fun and we love having her in our home! Christian and I got to spend New Year's Eve ALONE this year, thanks mom and dad! It's so nice having them so close and so willing to watch the girls for us! We had a much needed, relaxing night! We even slept in until 10 AM!!! We took Eden sledding for her first time and it was so much fun! She loved it so much! It was so cute to watch her just laugh the whole way down!
I am so excited for this new year and can't wait to see what it brings us! One of my resolutions this year is to run a half marathon!!!! I am really excited. I have never done anything like this and so I am really looking forward to working at it! I hope everyone had a great holiday and that you're as excited as we are for this new year!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! We hope all of you have had a wonderful, happy holiday! What an awesome time of year! We have had such an amazing Christmas. I have felt closer to my Savior this Christmas than ever before. I am so lucky to have married such and amazing man with such an awesome family! We have 2 beautiful girls that bring us so much joy! I have SO much to be grateful for in my life and I owe it all to Jesus Christ. I love him so much. I love all of you and hope and pray that this holiday has brought you as much joy as it has to us! Merry Christmas!

Santa, Snow and Smiles!!!

I just LOVE christmas time! We've been able to do lots of fun things this holiday season! We took the girls to go and see Santa at the mall! It was so fun, the Santa they had was so good! He kept telling Eden you're so pretty! I love you! It was so cute! She wasn't too sure about sitting on Santa's lap all by herself so Mommy had to sit with her! But she warmed right up to him and gave him a hug after we were done! Ella didn't cry at all!! Haha! She didn't even know what was going on! AFter Santa we took Savvy and Eden on a train ride!! They LOVED it! It was such a cute set up they had at the mall! How fun that they do that for kids!! We also got our first real snow this weekend!! It's snowed but hasn't really stuck and it did this weekend! Eden would look out the window and yell, snow snow! It was so cute! So her daddy took her out to play in it this morning and we had such a fun time! Eden is just at the funnest age! We love finding things she loves to do! And...Ella smiled yesterday for the first time!!!! It was so cute! I love it when they start to smile and realize who you are and start making cute noises!! I took a video and actually figured out a way to post it one here!!! YAY!!! And Eden has just been loving her little sister these days! It's so much fun having 2 little girls! I just love our little family right now!!!! Well I hope you all are having a great holiday season!

It's Christmas Time!!!!

Well it is a huge tradition in my family to all be together and decorate the christmas tree, so I wanted to start that with our little family! We weren't even going to get a tree because we just didn't have the room in our house but my so sweet hubby made room and surprised me with our very own tree!!! I was SO SO happy! Eden LOVES that tree too! We had so much fun puuting up the decorations and dancing to the christmas music in the background! Every year my parents get us a new decoration and this year they got our ornaments in HAWAII!!! So we had the cutest little hawaiian santas to put up on the tree. It was seriously the funnest night! Thank baby for making it possible! Love you and I love our family or 4!!! Crazy!!! I hope everyone is having a great holiday season!!!!

What a blessing!

Well today we blessed our little one, Ella Margaret Rodee. Not only was our family and many close friends able to be there, but Christian gave a beautiful blessing. I am so blessed to have a worthy priesthood holder as my husband. It's such a miracle for our family to be sealed for eternity. THank you Christian for being an amazing father and making it possible for us to be together forever. I feel so lucky to have two beautiful girls. Ella, today on your blessing day I just want you to know how much I love you. You have brought so much more joy to this family. I cannot wait to see the young woman you become. You are such a light to us. You are so loved. Thank you for coming to our family! I want you to always remember that your father and I are always here for you and we will always love you.