What a great Christmas!

What a wonderful time of year and a perfect Christmas. We really enjoyed being with my family and going to so many parties that we can't think straight. It was so fun to be with so much of our extended family and eat a lot of good food. The only drawback to the busy schedule was that our sweet Katelyn didn't get to sleep very early so we're way off schedule. We're hoping that with a couple days of attempting a normal napping schedule that she'll be a happy camper.

You know, as a new mom and dad, Dave and I were surprised with how fun and easy it was to spoil Katelyn for Christmas. Spoil is a relative term, but we loved shopping for little presents and things we thought she'd like. How fun for us. :)

We started out with a pajama-rama sponsored by my brother and his beautiful wife. It was a riot, complete with a pillow fight, the Smurf Christmas movie, the Chipmunk Christmas movie, pizza, and a jello salad with Smurf cut-out jello jigglers (that was Dave and my contribution :) ). What a party. Oh yeah, we also had a fun white elephant/$1 gift game. Look for the picture with Dave and my mom and their great headbands below.

Here's a few pictures of our fun week. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas celebrating the birth of our Savior like we did.

Katelyn hanging out at the Pajama-rama.












Mom stealing my new Christmas present.













Mom and Mel attacking the kids.












Watch out for Grandma kids!!












Our fancy Smurf salad. Dave cut out the jigglers himself.












My sister Shannon and I after playing our Sleigh Ride duet. We haven't played it for years, but it was a lot of fun. :)













Scott and Mel as our Mary and Joseph.



















Some of our angels.












Katelyn getting ready for her part as a shepherd.












The cast/family.












Christmas morning... what is it Katelyn? A whole bag of ponies!

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! :)

Click here

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.

Click here for the video

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.