It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

The house is all lit up...


The tree is decorated...


The presents are wrapped...



And its still snowing...

Now we are just anxiously waiting for Jesse and Colton to safely make it home so we can all be together for Christmas...Even if it is a day late for us this year! :)
We have everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas!!!

Oregon

The day after I finished my finals for the semester I flew out to Oregon to spend a few days with Ashlee, Justin and Rylee. The first two days I was there Ashlee had to work all day and Justin was right in the middle of finals week and was studying like crazy. That left me to watch Rylee...I'm sure no one is surprised to hear I didn't mind that one bit! :)

It was really cold while I was there so I got her all bundled up to go for a walk to get the mail...I think it was good preparation for her for Utah weather!
For some reason Rylee was very into my ipod. The first day I was there she saw it sitting on the table grabbed it and tried to stick the headphone right into her ear where it should go. I was pretty impressed she knew exactly what to do with it. She loved snuggling on the couch with me listening to Christmas songs!

Friday was Ash's day off of work so we had a full day planned! We got up early and headed to see one of the famous covered bridges. It was really cool to see and really pretty with the frozen river behind it.

Later in the afternoon we were finally off to shopping at the outlets that we had been waiting for all week! Not only did we find lots of good stuff but they also had some really fun Christmas decorations.

They even had a Santa house that we got to see Santa in.

Thanks you so much for everything Wards!! I had so much fun visiting and hanging out with you guys and hope I can again soon!!!

Thanksgiving

We hope everyone had a happy and yummy Thanksgiving...We sure did! Jesse and Colton couldn't come home because they both had to work on Thanksgiving or the day after so we went to them instead. We even convinced grandma and grandpa Pulsipher to go with us this time and I think they even had fun with us! It sure was fun to have them come along!

Because there were so many of us we just went out to lunch on Thanksgiving day to make things easier. After lunch Jesse had to go to work and the rest of us went to the city park and enjoyed the warm sunshine for a couple hours! Then we went to the movie Blind Side...It was so good!

About 7:00 we were finally ready for round 2 for some of the yummy pies grandma Reeder had picked up for everyone.

We had a fun weekend just hanging out and doing a little shopping. We even got Jesse's Christmas tree set up in their apartment for them!

The best news of the day...

1 more week!!!!!!

...until school is done for the semester and I head to Oregon to see the Wards yay!!!

Halloween

I am really not a huge fan of Halloween and dressing up so I was not planning on dressing up for school the day before Halloween...Well Natalee and Kayd didn't go for that. They said I was not fun if I didn't dress up for all the kids I work with. We had to go through every costume box we could find the night before to find a costume for me to wear. They finally convinced me to be a pirate.
Natalee was even nice enough to come take pictures of me and Debbie at school.

Me and my mom were both sick all weekend so Halloween was not too exciting at our house this year. Me and Kayd did decide on Halloween day that we at least should carve our pumpkins that we grew in our garden all summer long. I think they turned out pretty good :)Tonight and tomorrow night is the fashion show at BATC my mom puts on every year so me and Kayd went to show her support her tonight! Here are the only good pictures I got of Tiny for ya Colt...Good job Tiny!

Hogle Zoo

I was sad that I couldn't go with the rest of my family to St. George this weekend to see Jesse and Colton, so I was excited when I got invited to go to Hogle Zoo! The Wise family, whose kids I babysit, and my cousins the Snyders were taking advantage of UEA break and wanted me to go with them. I think everyone had a really fun day, I know I did!
We are on our way!
Carson insisted on studying his map almost the whole time we were at the zoo...I think he almost liked it better than the animals :)
As you can see all of the kids favorite part was climbing and playing on all of the animal figures throughout the zoo! They especially loved the giant elephant that sprayed water out of its trunk!
My favorite animal we saw was the elephants, especially the little baby elephant! It was so cute and small!
Hungry Payton, Sara and Sadie waiting for their lunch!

We got to see the penguins...
And the zebras...And the giraffes!

The baby giraffe was also very cute...almost as cute as the baby elephant!

Thanks for letting me go with you guys! I had lots of fun!!