Oh yeah... she can crawl :)

So I totally forgot to post this! McRae starting CRAWLING at seven months and one week.

Since then, she can now climb the stairs, give slobbery open mouth kisses, wave and stand alone for about 15 seconds. more pics to come...

Merry Christmas!

We spent Christmas in GEORGIA! Despite not having a "white" Christmas, we enjoyed being in the south with family!

Sunday before Christmas Mom and I shopping! This is one of my favorite pictures of us! One of our Christmas Eve traditions is gingerbread house competition. This year we enjoyed the contest with the Nickel family.

This is the boys. They won.

Here are the girls. Second place....

McRae was LOVING unwrapping presents. However, as most babies do, she was only interested in the paper...

Our little family Christmas morning.

All the kids in our new p.j.s. on Christmas morning. (another christmas eve tradition)

Decorating sugar cookies!

About to leave for the airport to go home :(

me and my brothers whom I LOVE!!

We had such a great, relaxing vacation! thank you to MOM and POP for the GREAT food, entertainment and awesome gifts! I have so many more fun pictures but couldn't add them ALL! We can't wait for the fam to come out HERE to see us in APRIL :)

Ladies and Gentlement...

WE HAVE A COLLEGE GRADUATE!

Jace Mecham

Bachelor of Science

Technology Management

Building Construction and Construction Management Emphasis

The night of Jace's LAST final we went to dinner to celebrate!

At Utah Valley University they only hold the graduation ceremony once a year in April. We look forward to seeing Jace "walk" later on this year!

ALMOST here...

only FOUR more days until my JACE is a COLLEGE GRADUATE!

let the count down begin :)

Thanksgiving in V-TOWN!

We spent this Thanksgiving in Vernal with Jace's family. We had a day FULL of delicious food and GREAT company!

McRae and Grandpa

Our Family

McRae going for the FUDGE

COUSINS! :)

Saturday after Thanksgiving we had a HUGE family Christmas party with over 80 people! Nancy and Amy were in charge and it was WONDERFUL! The decorations were awesome! The food was delicious and even SANTA made an appearance :)

Us with Grandma Merkley Jace and McRae with SANTA! LOVING the candy cane playing cards with Papa

Nancy and I :) Thanksgiving break was so much fun. It was great to get away! This Thanksgiving I have a LOT to be thankful for:

my sweet baby girl.the gospel.my FAMILY.my great husband.his job.our little apartment.the temple.cold weather.football.FRIENDS.yummy food.relief society.card games.laughing.our cars.jesus christ.the heater.jaces education.

A Quarter of a Century!

mCrae and papa

all of us at fuddruckers! ty, jace, landon BFFs :) jace and his half frosted birthday cake ;)

Sunday November 22nd Jace turns 25!

Here is what I love about J. Love :)

25. his dilligence

24. he is a hard worker

23. his love for the Savior

22. his passion for his two girls

21. his sense of humor :)

20. his incredible good looks

19. his love for football

18. the sound of his laugh

17. his willingness to please others

16. he is smart

15. his handyman skills

14. he is a GREAT dad

13. he is responsible

12.he thinks im beautiful

11. he watches my shows with me

10. his positive attitude

9. he is ALMOST a college graduate :)

8. when he plays with my hair

7. he makes sure that i am happy

6. his example to the young men

5. he is trustworthy

4. his gorgeous green eyes

3. his willingness to try new things

2. when he winks at me

1. he can sing GREAT and play the guitar

Happy Birthday my LOVE!

You are my everything!

Family Pics!

Photography by Noelle! I LOVE these pictures and I love NOELLE! She is so talented! She is not only a GREAT photographer, but one of the sweetest people I've ever met! Feel free to check out her blog at photographybynoelle.blogspot.com!

Lollipop Lollipop, Oh Lolli Lolli

McRae's 1st sucker! and she LOVED every second of it!

Down, Set, Hike!

marci and mCrae all bundled up mCrae and her new hat from grandma mecham!

the team!

Jace's flag football team made it to the top EIGHT in the BYU intermural league. Here are just a few pics from the season!

BOO!

mCraes 1st halloween!

at the marina

Trick or Treat :) Jace caught a fish ;)

Halloween weekend we went to ELko to visit SEAN GRACE and GAVIN :) Jace served with Sean in Georgia, I grew up with Grace and Gavin and McRae are just two months apart. We had so much fun hanging out with them in their beautiful brand new house! We went to marina and picniced and fed ducks while the boys fished. Halloween night we took the babies trick or treating to a few houses! We had to DRAG the dads along... but it was fun! We had a GREAT weekend and we love us some SMITHS : )