Tyler and Heidi came to visit last weekend and we took Jade sledding for the first time with her cousins.
Throwing snowballs for the dog
Tamsyn and Haley
We watched Baby Einstein's "Baby Noah" over and over and afterwards all the kids wanted to make elephants out of Uncle Aaron's clay.
We've had a wonderful holiday season! We're so blessed to have family close, to live in a beautiful home, and to know the true meaning of Christmas.
We've gotten over a foot of snow in the last couple of days. Here are some pictures of our yard.
Jade got a Christmas dress from my mother in law that she looked just beautiful in.
For Christmas Eve we had had dinner with my brother-in-law's family and our kids acted out the nativity as Lohn read from Luke. Jade was the angel :)
Trying to get the kids to eat something besides cheddar cheese.
Playing dinosaurs....she needs some baby girl cousins to come play.
Giving baby Jesus "kisses"
Christmas morning...
Her favorite gift by far was her new binkies. She's pretty easy to please.
Opening her first baby doll with her new binky in her mouth.
From my last few posts it would appear that I never change my daughter out of her pjs, so while this video doesn't catch her doing anything besides looking cute, I wanted to prove that I do in fact brush her hair sometimes.
Also, I wanted to post a video from a while ago when we had our CDT reunion. This is just about the most ghetto thing I've ever done, but since I didn't have a copy of it myself, I recorded it with my camera off of Monica's facebook account. Sorry! But I wanted to share it.
Here are the stockings I just finished making (In case you're wondering why I have 4, I made one for my mother in law too).
This is sweep, and he's not actually a new friend, but he's not usually in the house. So this is new for Jade. She loves him, and she can finally put her animal sounds to good use.
Jade thinks that she can talk and she often sounds like she's saying complete sentences in her own language. This was all I could catch. Give her a second.
She's my little modern dancer. She can really roll, she just needs to work on her head-tail connection.
Our ward Christmas party was this last weekend, and it was fabulous. I'm not usually all that impressed with church parties but this was really great. I was a little skeptical when I learned we had to dress in biblical attire, but its hard to feel silly when everyone is dressed that way. Our "Bethlehem" looked very authentic (as much as it can be in a gym). The pictures don't do it justice, but I'll post them anyway.
Entering the city
I was in charge of the booth above for the kids to make ornaments.
Singing Christmas carols
Our fair haired nativity
On Tuesday, I got to see my very best childhood friend Erin for the first time in 8 years. She is playing Amber Von Tussell in the national tour of "Hairspray", and they stopped in Pocatello of all places! Erin and I met in North Carolina doing the show "Annie" when I was 7. The last time I saw her was right after my high school graduation! It was so great to see her.
THEN...(Erin is on the left, I'm in the middle-We're doing the dance from three amigo's or something)
NOW...
A couple of funny side notes:
-I couldn't see the show very well because my eyes were blurry and I didn't know why. So today I switched my contacts to the other eyes and it turns out I had them in the wrong eyes that whole day. No wonder I couldn't see driving home.
-Erin introduced me to one of the guys in the show, and afterwards I told her he looked really familiar. She told me he was in the show "You're the one that I Want" last year to find the next Danny Zuko in Grease. I totally watched that show, even though it wasn't that great.
Aaron, Jade, and I went to the mall between dinner with Erin and me going to the show by myself (sad). Tickets were $60 though so we couldn't afford two of them. I learned that I can do things on my own and find my way around in a car in the dark (kind of). Here is Jade riding the very sanitary safari car at the mall.
