Kids

What a year hu? We had a great year. Casey graduated from school. We had our sweet little boy, Caden. Maddy turned 4 and started preschool. And we bought a house. WOW what a year!

Caden is growing so fast. He is a big boy weighing 20 lbs . He is a happy boy just wish he would sleep but I guess that is life hu? Maddy is also growing and is so smart. She loves her little brother and loves preschool. Casey has a new job and so far likes it. I have a new house and LOVE it:) It is just what I have always dreamed of. SO life is here great. Wanted to share some fun pictures I took of the kids.

Introducing Caden Casey Hopper

Our sweet little baby boy was born August 17th. He weighed 7lbs 11 0z and was 19 inches long. He is the sweetest little boy I have ever seen. He is such a good baby. I am so blessed to now have 2 amazing healthy kids. I will post more pictures and write more about our little prince when I get more energy. But for now here are some of the pictures I took today.

Where has the summer gone?

Wow! can't believe it is August. Summer has been nice and relaxing. I am so lucky that the weather has not been that bad at all.
Wow! I really don't have that much to say I guess the pictures will tell you more about our summer. They consist of sparklers, cousins, swimming, Catching frogs. lov'n Grandma and getting ready for the new baby. Only a week and 1/2 we are so excited. Also Heath and Heidi and the kids are comming down this week and I think Lance and Jenn and their girls are comming also so that will be a ton of fun. I hope you all have had a great summer.

Baby Bump

So being a photographer, I have always wanted some cute prego pictures. I was never able to get them done with Maddy so I really wanted some with this little one. But a big problem... it is kind of hard to take pictures of yourself :) Now that I have family with me, I thought it was a great time to have a little mini session.


I love these pictures. Being pregnant is so amazing to me. Having a special baby growing inside me is such a miracle. I am so blessed to be able to be a Mom. It is the best thing in the world.

Casey was able to come up last weekend and it was great. We miss him so much and can't wait to be together in a month. We love you Dad.

Maddy and her lovely green fingernail polish. Such a funny little girl.

Easter

What a wonderful Easter once again. It all started on Sat. morning with a little Easter Egg hunt. Maddy had a blast until the end and then we had a little break down. But that is to be expected with a 3 year old. We spent the rest of the day chill'n with Tysha, so fun.
Sunday we went to church and than came home and had a mini egg hunt for Maddy. We than had Easter dinner with Nic and his family. It was a great. The only thing that would have made it better is if Casey was with us.....only one month left.
Here are some pictures of Maddy and her Easter dress. She did not want any pictures taken all she wanted to do was dance... so that is what we got, a couple mean faces and a couple dance pictures. Silly Maddy.

It is a BOY!!!

Last Wed. we found out that we are having a little boy. We are super excited and a little nervous, a boy is uncharted territory for us but could not be happier.

Most important though the doctor said that as far as she can see our little boy looks healthily.

Maddy was not too happy about the news. She wanted a little sister. When I told her he was a boy she said, "nope Mommy, try again, I want a girl not a boy" After I explained all the fun stuff we can do with a little boy she hesitantly said "ok we don't have to take him back to the store and get our money back, we can keep him." Apparently I return to much stuff, so sad that my little 3 year old knows what a refund is, he he.

Other exciting news ...... Maddy and I are now in UT with Mom and Tysha until Casey graduates. June 17 he is counting down the days. Our lease came up on our apartment and there was no since of signing a new one because they only do 12 month contracts. So I am in UT and Casey is staying with his friend in AZ. We hate being separated but this time it is only 2 months.

Sweet Tysha flew out and drove us back to UT. We spent a couple days in Vegas and had such a great time. I will post pictures later.

CATCH'N UP!

Wow! where does time go? I can't believe it is already February. Crazy Crazy !!!

In perfect Eilisa fashion I am now just getting around to posting our Christmas Pictures.

So here is a quick recap of the last 2 months....

We had an amazing Christmas, one we will never forget and made a ton of wonderful memories.
Love, Love being with family. Maddy wasn't into Christmas morning at all! She is such her mom's little girl and is not a morning person at all. It was fun watching my Niece's open their gifts and seeing their faces. Maybe next year Maddy will be a little more into it. (We can always hope :)

Maddy has been so cute lately and such a good little poser for me when I take her pictures. I wanted to share some fun ones we took at the park a couple weeks ago.

Maddy and I made some cake balls for her friends they were so fun. She was such a good little helper.

We are going to be moving into a house in a couple weeks. Our Apartment contract is up so we needed to find a place that would work with us while we are still in school. We were so blessed to find this amazing house and wonderful owners that were so sweet and understood what we were going through. They just happened to be Members and also the Husband was from Alabama and the wife was from Utah. It gets even more crazy the Husband served the same mission as Casey in Utah and they actually knew of each other. Wow what a small world hu?

So that is my unorganized recap.. Hope you all had a wonderful Valentines Day

Maddy's bathtub Masterpiece.

Maddy Christmas Morning

The Wii, So much fun.