...and feeling a little stressed out. i haven't done ANY christmas shopping and haven't done cards yet. oh well. it will get done eventually. i've been listening to lots of christmas music lately. my new favorite is this. downloaded it from itunes after hearing it on another blog. love it! we decorated our tree over the weekend. will try and post photos tomorrow.
...in south texas! the girls were so totally excited when they looked out the window this evening and saw snow! we drove all the way to utah hoping to see snow and who knew we would find it in our own backyard a few weeks later! crazy. i'm sure it will all be melted by morning, so we are enjoying it while we can!
avery didn't want to come outside! she said it was too cold. here's the little snowman the girls made.
it was so nice to spend thanksgiving with dan's family in utah. we don't get to see them very often. we spent the week hanging out, enjoying lots of yummy food and pies, playing games and watching movies. the weather was beautiful and we spent lots of time at parks and playing outside. here's a few pics from thanksgiving day.
the girls and grandma deedee
the girls and their great-grandparents
here's everyone together, minus tracy and jerel. (grace is taking the picture and calvin was sleeping)
sweet little calvin and amelia. they are only a few months apart.
friday night we went to see the lights on temple square. so beautiful. i'm really glad we had a chance to do that. my brothers who are at byu even got to join us that evening.
the girls knees were stained from playing in piles of leaves all afternoon!
we had such a great time visiting with all the family in utah!
on the drive up to utah, we decided to spend the night in moab so we could explore arches the next day. we only got to spend a few hours there so we stopped by again on the way home. the girls had a blast hiking on the trails, especially avery. after hiking to the top of an arch, avery yelled out excitedly "i climb mountain!!"
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delicate arch
when avery got tired towards the end. click to see larger :)
this cool rock structure was outside of moab. taken at sunset.
we finally made it home. the drive home was rough because both dan and kyla were sick with a nasty stomach bug. but we had a wonderful thanksgiving in utah! i have lots to post, but first i need to do about 5 loads of laundry and get some rest!
this morning the girls and i made these cute little pinecone turkeys with pom-poms and pipe cleaners. elayna got home from school and wanted to make one too. i can't believe thanksgiving is next week! we are super busy getting ready for our trip to utah! any good ideas on how to keep 3 kids happy during long trip cross country?
check out my new yellow rain boots i got on clearance at target! these will come in handy with all the yucky rainy weather
we spent the afternoon reading lots of books and playing outside in our boots :)
from halloween.
kyla loved wearing her princess dress.
and this little bumble bee was so into trick or treating this year. she totally understood it and had so much fun. we were out for a whole hour and she never got tired until the very end when her pumpkin was too heavy to carry.
she is just so adorable! so glad we could come see her this past weekend.
and this sweet girl turned 2!
cousins
i downloaded a data recovery program and was able to recover almost all my files and photos! what a relief. so it wasn't as big of a loss as i thought. thanks for all the comments and suggestions!
we have a tradition where we carve pumpkins the monday before halloween. we have donuts and hot chocolate and listen to all of our favorite halloween music.
the girls cleaned out the pumpkin. kyla chose to use a spoon and not get her hands messy.
the final product
