Family Pictures.

We got our family pictures taken yesterday for our christmas cards! They turned out so cute! my favorite one is my blog header but this one is good too :)

It was mega freezing outside so we just snapped a few and left! so lucky we got some good ones!

[check out Alexei and Nicks smile..... exactly the same :)]

i am thankful for my little family.

Ladies Craft Night Crafts!

This Saturday all the Ladies on my side of the family are gettin together to do these projects that I came up with off of the one and only Pinterest! :)

one side

the other side.

I'm super excited! there's also a darling advent calendar that my little sisters will be making :)

More pics after the get together!

The Calls and Beaver Hockey

Last friday [11/11/11] was the first Beaver Hockey game of the season! The boys played the Jays [the team Nick won the championship with last season] so they're a pretty dang good team! It was a super good game. All of the boys were rusty and we lost 2-4. The beavers only have a few of the same players as last season and i think we will have a much better season this time around!

Let me just say that my Husband is an amazing goalie.... :) i'm proud to be his wife.

The Call's came down from Boise for Sami & Amber's birthday! My uncle Ben and aunt Glinda's family are some of my favorite people to be around. We always have such a good time together. Saturday night we had a birthday party for them! everyone brought pizza and i made some cupcakes for them!

These sprinkles are soo good. They're from Holland and they're so yummy!

We had such a great time with the Call's and I hope Nick and i can head up there and hang out soon! Alexei needs to meet her Grandma and Grandpa Call!

Nick started his new job today! and he LOVES IT! he had so many good things to say about it today! for example... a business iPhone in December, $7 cases of bottled mountain dew [or any pepsi product] and $.50 per mile he drives :)

He is loving it! tomorrow he has to be to work at 5 a.m. and he gets to be home by 2 to hang out with Alexei and I.....

I love him. He's the best husband in the world. He works so hard so Alexei and i can play together all day. I'm sooo happy he's finally found a job that he loves and is excited for everyday.

I'm so blessed.

Disney on ice

Thursday November 10th Nick and I took Alexei to Disney on ice! it was such a fun night. Mandi and Aaron also took Steven. We thought the kids would get pretty distracted and not really care for it, but they loved it. Alexei squeeled during the whole thing and she loved all of the lights!

Before we went there we went to California pizza kitchen!

[i guess Nick didnt get the memo to smile :)]

Alexei loves to sit in a high chair now! she likes to practice picking things up off of the table! she's getting so big!

After dinner we headed across the street to the Energy Solutions Arena for the show! This was one of the best Disney on ice shows ive been to! they started with Alice in wonderland and then Peter pan, Aladin, Lion King, Tangled, and princess and the frog.... of course im sure im forgetting one! and my favorite was at the end all of the princesses came out with their princes and danced to someday my prince will come!

Nick picked up these cool masks at the show! we also have a pumba one :)

I have lots to blog about still... 1st beaver hockey game, and the Call's coming into town!

i hope everyone had as great of a weekend as we did!

[Nick starts his new job tomorrow! Yay!]

Halloween!

We had such a fun halloween! i love this time of year.

Alexei had such a fun 1st Halloween!

On Halloween our little family went to Paces for 50 cent corn dogs, $1.00 hamburgers and $1.00 rainbow floats. This is little Lex trying a piece of fry. :)

Nick took Alexei trick or treating around the block. She loved it.

This was what Alexei wore Halloween day:) such a little cutie!

On sunday we had a family dinner at my moms house. Nick made Ti curry and there were a few other soups there that were GREAT. we carved pumpkins...Nick had the bright idea to do an upside down jack o lantern..... pretty creative right? haha

Saturday night we went to the trunk or treat with my parents ward. Alexei loved it and there were so many people commenting on how cute she was!

She was pretty worn out after the trunk or treat.

Mike and Lauren Clemmer had a fun Halloween party! we loved it! sadly i only got this picture but they had lots of fun games planned!

Alexei and I at the party.

Nick and I got to go to Tuccanos friday before the party! i had a free dinner to use up so we managed to get there ;)

This little tail gets me everytime. shes such a cute baby.

Alexei loves little tastes of chocolate and she even chewed through a snickers wrapper and got it opened.... we noticed when she looked up with Chocolate all over her face. too cute

Happy November everyone!

Lately.

A lot has been going on around this Van Komen house.... too much to keep up with my blog!

Alexei is going to be a Giraffe for Halloween! She loves her little costume so much. Nick will be taking her down the street for a little trick or treating. more pictures later :)

Alexei can now roll in circles. She starts out under her toy and ends up across the room a second later!

i dont know if you all remember back to Nick and I's first anniversary... we were stuck in the hospital... i was still pregnant with Alexei and i had a random infection so I was there the weekend before she was born.... therefore we didnt get to open our wedding cake at our one year.... so we did this past weekend. Neither of us like cake so No, we didnt eat any of it haha

Our little chica is teething. she's so fussy and never wants to go to sleep. She always ends up falling asleep sitting up.

This little beauty is what i see every morning. There is no better smile than going in her room when i hear her in the morning. She just looks at you and gives you a priceless smile. i cant even explain how much that little smile means to me.

Grizzly games are back in season!! Yay! our little family loves these things. Alexei also LOVES having a taste of all of our treats we get! shes getting so big :)

My cute little girl loves ANY bouncy toy. its so cute.

Colorado October 2011

October 7 we headed to Colorado!

Our cute family went, Mark & Julie my brother and sister in law went, Braxton Carter, Cody Bearce and Chris Choi went with us!

Alexei found her love for this toy while we were there! thank goodness Uncle Choi had one for her when she got home! she spent hours in this toy!

Choi found his love for Scratch Cards.

Yeah... he won $400 off of one scratch card!

Nick and Mark's Neices LOVED having them there! they "set appointments" and did hair and nails in Rachels Salon! this is Elvis Mark. everyone was stylin!

Saturday morning we woke up early to go to the Miner girls soccer games and it was blizzarding outside! Everyone played in the snow [except me and Julie] haha

Alexei's first time seeing snow!

She loved it! Nick gave her a little taste and she loved it!

We left the house around 2 in the afternoon cause the retirement started at 5!

We got some early dinner at Hard Rock! i wish the one in SLC was still open!

Alexei got so many compliments! There was a huge group that flew in from detroit to go to the game cause half of them were ave's fans and one of them asked to take a picture of Alexei in her Jersey. :)

Remember a few years back when we got to see Joe Sakic retire? we have now seen 2/4 retirements live! i think we'll keep the tradition going :)

Peter Forsberg speaking. not a dry eye in the whole place.

Alexei enjoying the ceremony

And then the game started!

Sadly we lost... but Ave's still have an awesome record! some how they win on the road but not at home!

after the game Alexei was beat. She had so much fun but she was so sleepy.

by far the BEST trip ive ever been on with friends! we had such a good time and everyone just enjoyed everyones company!

This will for sure happen again

[can i just say that i love my in laws! i couldnt ask for a better family to marry into!]