Woohoo! Snow!!!

Yes, it's been snowing all morning and according to our precise calculations (our little ruler) we have about 8 inches of new snow! It's just beautiful. I wish wish wish I could go skiing, but I don't think that's the safest thing for a pregnant girl. Too bad! I'm still working with Katelyn to make sure she'll love playing in the snow. We're not there yet because she's scared of her snow pants and her boots, but we'll make it! Who knew that they're so scary? She loves watching her cousin Tyes play in the snow, loves standing at the window to watch it snow and even eating some of the new snow off the porch. Oh yeah, her favorite new trick as of today is to get a nice handful of new snow and put it down the back of daddy's shirt. She really loves that one. Wonder where she got the idea? :)

Here's a couple pictures of our beautiful yard.

Merry Christmas!

Here's a new video from the church. It's a beautiful video about Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone! :)

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Dave's birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas lights!

Here's our visit to Temple Square to see the lights. We love that our little Katelyn was able to tell us that this is a statue of Jesus.












Here are the beautiful lights of Temple Square.












Happy birthday to my sweet Dave. He's so incredible and I love him so much. As you can see, he's an amazing dad and let's Katelyn open his presents.












Here's Katelyn with one of her best friends and uncles, Chrit, and his girlfriend, the beautiful Emily. This was taken on Thanksgiving.












New stereo? Let's just say that after multiple break-ins and losing my radio twice last year, we've been hesitant to install our new one. It's nothing fancy, but Dave, Katelyn and I put it in for FHE the other night. We had a lot of fun. :) Don't tell anyone though... shhh... we want to keep this one.

Half-way there!

Can you believe that our baby is half-way here? My goodness this pregnancy has gone fast. I'm 20 weeks along and feeling even better than I was with Katelyn. It's great! And yes, we were so excited to go to our ultrasound last week! Any guesses? Okay, I'm not going to wait, but we were right...

it's a boy!!

We're so excited for Katelyn to have a little brother and couldn't be more excited to have a little mini Dave running around. So, if you have any good boy advice, feel free to send it our way. I'm assuming I can't put bows on his head... right?

Seen any elfs?

Okay, this is the funniest site! My sister-in-law introduced me to it and I made a little film with my parents, two of my brothers, and you guessed it.... little Katelyn. See if you can pick her out. It will take you to another site. I haven't figured out how to put it on our site yet.

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Halloween and weather patterns

We had so much fun going trick or treating! Our neighborhood was right out of Leave it to Beaver. All the neighbors were walking around with their kids who were of course running from house to house in their costumes with the glow of "Candy! Candy! Candy!" in their eyes. Have you ever heard or read Seinfeld's book about Halloween? I just kept thinking about it all night.

Katelyn was awfully tired, but by the end she was getting the hang of it. She'd slowly reach into the bowl of candy and surprise us by pulling out two candy bars. She got some good ones. :) (FYI, we only took one. We already felt somewhat guilty taking candy for a 1 year old that we weren't going to give it to. Well, most of it. She does like Kit Kats.)

Bell came to visit! Our friend from Thunderbird was in town so we took her up the canyon to enjoy the mountains and the leaves.









Here's the crazy part. One day I was taking pictures of Katelyn playing in the leaves






























and the next day it snowed! What could be better than your first taste of the first snow storm? Mmmm.

Fun with TP

Thanks Jen for the reminder that I need to post something again. :)

I read an article about 14 month old babies the other day that describes Katelyn perfectly. They love to move things from one place to another. Yep. That's her. Whether it's the remote, the pens or sticky notes from our room, or any combination of toys, something is being moved. I think her favorite two things are to take off the arm chair covers (I found one in my room the other day) and to spend time in the pantry, usually carrying out the bag of Fish or the Wheat Thins. Hmmm... is that what she sees us doing... hanging out in the pantry? It gives me a great opportunity to teach her how to put things away. She's doing great.

Okay, on to the pictures. First set... every kid's gotta do it. Here's her first experience with the excitement of the toilet paper roll. Let's just say that she loved it. And what better place to put the toilet paper than in her cousin's truck.