Christmas Card

I keep up with many of you online, but don't have all your addresses to send you our Christmas card, so here it is, hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Season!

Merry Christmas

Why couldn't I get this photo in time for the Christmas card?

Temple Square

We love going to Temple Square here every Christmas and seeing the lights. But this year we did it quickly since it was COLD!

The girls were actually too warm in the stroller, but they did enjoy it . . . I think:)

If you live around here and haven't taken your kids to the "I'm a Child of God" exhibit at the Church Museum, you should check it out. Our kids could have played there for 2 more hours if we let them, and it's free! Baily was more interested in the sheep than being an angel.

Santa and Bert

How great is this, a drive up line to see Santa (whom we happen to know from our ward here). When he said the kid's names, their eyes grew huge and they thought that was pretty amazing. Oh, and his lead elf Bert was there!

Snow Angel

We've had a lot of fun in the snow that last 3 days. Taylor and I made about 50 snow angels in the yard yesterday (my job being to pull her up after she lays down, pretty sure I couldn't get up if I tried to lay down in all those clothes!).

So Thankful!

We had a great Thanksgiving having all my family visit this year. It was a lot of work, a lot of food, and a lot of fun!


Taylor makes a cute pilgrim for her preschool Thanksgiving feast, must have been tasty since she still had it all over her mouth!

Smells so good!

Grandpa telling his famous bedtime stories to the kiddies. My kids get so excited for this, they LOVE his stories!

Baily enjoyed all the attention from Grandma and Grandpa!

It was a really neat experience going through the Twin Falls Temple with my Grandma Baily. And a fun car trip chatting with my sisters and parents all the way up and back from Idaho.

The Twin Falls Temple was beautiful!
So thankful for all our family, for the Gospel, for Temples, and for good food!

Fun Weekend

A couple weeks ago, Mandy and I got to go to the the So You Think You Can Dance concert. We had a lot of fun, since we follow the show and knew all the dances. This is my idea of a great night! I also had been in Salt Lake all day for photography classes by Nicole Hill which were fabulous! It was a really fun weekend, and I have a sweet hubby to take the kids all day and night for me!
Blurry, but that's what you get with my point and shoot in a dark place far away!

Now I feel like it's winter!

I've been wishing it were still summer,
but after our little snow storm Saturday,
I finally feel like getting ready for the Holidays!

How many times do I have to explain yellow snow to this girl before she'll stop eating every bit of snow and icicles she sees! Oh well, I guess it didn't kill me!

Hmmm, this works better with a little more snow, but we had fun before it melted! I was just thrilled all the snow outfits fit from last year still!!!

Baily is in Nursery

Yes, church for us is a little more restful with Baily in nursery now. I still can't believe she's already 18 months! Time flies. She loves nursery; doesn't cry a bit when we drop her off, just when we pick her up and she has to leave:)

Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween! Since my Mom was visiting and could watch my girls, I got to help at Trevor's school party which was really fun. He was an Indian, and the girls were fairies. I had just a little fun sewing all their costumes. It's my own version of Project Runway. And we snuck in a day of nice weather, we were lucky!

If I had known Baily was going to fall on her rocking horse 2 days before Halloween and end up with a couple good blue and purple bruises, I would have made her Frankenstein!

Cousin Emma was a fairy too!Trevor at school.

Happy Halloween

I didn't think I could get more conservative in my thinking until the last 10 months came and we started cable so we had Fox News. Now I've stopped my Oprah recordings to make room for Glenn Beck, what can I say, it's in my blood:) Happy Halloween!

Happy Bday Tay!

Happy Birthday Taylor! We had a great time celebrating Taylor's birthday as a family last night at Chuck E. Cheese, she's been wanting to go there for a year now. It was lousy pizza, but a lot of fun. She's so big now. I asked if she felt different when she woke up this morning since she was 5 now, and she said, "Yes, my legs grew, my elbows grew, and I think now I'll need new clothes!" Yes, she's a little too clever sometimes:)

New York!

Jon and I got to go to New York City last week. We had a great time. It is one of my dream vacations and it was an experience. We saw West Side Story on Broadway, ate great food in tiny places, and saw some interesting people, lots of people! It was a great vacation, but after all that noise, dirt, and people, I was really glad to get back to my mountain air and green grass, and to my babies of course!
Times Square, I couldn't believe how bright and busy it was, it was like noon at 10 pm!


I had a lot of fun at "The Met" . They had on special display; Vermeer's "A Milkmaid", so that was neat to see the real thing. It's an amazing museum!
On our way to central park we found the LDS Temple, it's funny how it just rises up in the middle of the city.

We enjoyed seeing the statue of liberty and Ellis Island. We spent over 4 hours just inside the Ellis Island museum. It was amazing to hear about the stories of the immigrants that came through there.
We went to Junior's for some real New York Cheesecake. I ordered some onion rings and they came out like donuts, they were huge. They tasted ok, but the cheesecake was great!
There wasn't much to see at Ground Zero, but a big hole, amazing how big of a hole is there.

We ventured to Chinatown one morning and had Dim Sum. Pretty sure we were the only ones speaking English there. I THINK we had seafood and shrimp dumplings, and Pork potstickers. I also explored the stores and negotiated for a couple Coach purses (I'm sure they are real, right?:)
Central park was bigger and prettier than I had imagined.
After several delays on the plane trip over, and a thoroughly invigorating taxi ride to our hotel, I was just glad to be on something that wasn't moving!

Fall Hike

We went hiking this last weekend up in the mountains. It's been 80 here (until today, brrrr!) and we've really enjoyed having such a great Fall so far. The mountains were beautiful, the leaves were golden, we roasted hot dogs and smores, and I took pictures of course! It was a lot of fun!
Taylor said, " I'm Queen of the mountain!"
Baily in the sun set, love the light and lens flare in this one!
Pretty much the only shot I can get of this girl, walking away!
Mandy and Emma
The kids and I.