Thursday, December 16, 2010

Temple Square

For family home evening this week we decided to take adavantage of the nice warm weather and went to see the lights. It was so nice to have it not be freezing! I remember last year I had to go back to the car with Abi, because it was so cold and her little hands were freezing! Temple Square is such a great place, with a great spirit. Our girls love to go there and see the statue of Jesus and hear all the stories. They loved the manger, and of course seeing the temple! Abi is so into temples right now, I love it. Everywhere we go she says, "I see the temple!" Of course to her many beautiful buildings and churchs are temples too! My sister Heather and her cute family were able to meet us there for a little bit, it is so neat to see how kids love to learn about Jesus, I find it is not really even hard to teach children about Him. They want to know. Even Abi already knows who Jesus is and that he loves her. Hope all of you are enjoying the Christmas season! Next to do on my list, go to the Utes bowl game. That's Christmasy, right?

Sunday, December 12, 2010


Christmas seems to truly be in the air! I am almost done with my Christmas shopping, hooray, and the kids could not be more excited. Abi loves Santa and loves that she gets to see him all over the place, wherever we are. She doesn't quite understand the presents yet, but I 'm sure she will! Sarah and Grace have already made Santa cards and presents that are under the tree and they are anxiously awaiting for Jamie and me to take them to do their Christmas shopping, hopefully that will be soon so I can truly be done! We went to the festival of trees this year, the girls loved it! And as an added bonus we got to see my cute neice, Hadley, perform. Which the girls of course also loved. Then yesterday we had our ward Christmas breakfast. It was Polar Express themed, the kids loved it! They got to wear their p.j.'s and Santa even made a special appearance. We had just been to a Utah gymnastics meet the night before, if you were wondering about the utah utes tattoo's! We've also seen Santa at the mall, and now we just need to make sure we hit the lights at temple square, the best part about living in Salt Lake in December! Hope you all are enjoying the season too!

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Give Thanks!

We had such a good Thanksgiving. My sister was in town from Washington so my other sister offered to take pictures of the whole family. I then made her take a quick photo of us, thanks Heather! She has such a nice camera and takes such good pictures. I didn't really want to do a lot of family pictures this year, since I am prego and all. In this picture I don't really look pregnant, just like I've gained 30 pounds! But that's ok. Anyway, back to Thanksgiving. We went up to my mom's and had a delicious dinner, I think the best dinner yet! All the food was so yummy, and there were so many people! My family has gotten so big. Then we went to Jamie's parent's house. There we had round two of delicious meals. Jamie's brother is always such a good cook and loves to help prepare Thanksgiving dinner. This holiday just seems to get better every year, we truly are so blessed! I am so thankful for all of our family and friends, love you all!

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