Christmas time!

Christmastime was great for us this year, (besides a stupid head cold). We were able to go up to SLC the weekend before Christmas. We had a family party with Scott's family. We went with some of my family to Temple Square and we had a family dinner with them.

I haven't been to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights in years. They have the most amazing nativity scene there.
My dad took this picture so he wasn't in it. It's my mom, me, Scott, Addison, Nick and Sydney. We had so much fun with them!
Scott and Addison. Grandpa and the girls while we were waiting for Trax.
Scott built a snowman while I was at work on Christmas. We had our Christmas! I had to work until 2:30 that day so I came home, got back in my jammies and we opened presents.
Cosmo got 3 toys and he loves all of them.
This is what we got. Yes I asked and hinted for a snuggie. I am always cold so I'm excited to use it!

The best present that we got for Christmas was this little guy. Cosmo is living with us now for good. He will sit down on the floor staring at us and he just wants to cuddle, so he will fall asleep on Scott's lap. This is the 2 of them sleeping. SO CUTE!

It is so fun to have him here. He is now 4 and 1/2 and he hasn't lived with us since we were married over 2 years ago. When we lived in West Jordan, I could at least see him when I wanted and he could come and visit with me. But when we moved to Price it was really hard on me. I couldn't leave my parent's house without crying. I had that pain where it felt like my heart was breaking each time we had to leave him. We have had "visitation" for the last few months to help wean him from my parents. They love him a lot and have been so great to care for him while I couldn't. It will be a big adjustment for them to not have him there but we are excited to have him be a part of our little family. I'm sure there will many adventures to share in the future!

Tis the season for... glitter

I am afraid of spiders and I hate them to my very core. I have found that Scott feels the same way about glitter that I do about spiders. We got a Christmas card in the mail (from our neighbors next door, how funny is that!) and it was covered with glitter. They even know how much he despises glitter and they still sent it. So I opened it and he stood about 3 feet away from me and asked me to hold it open so that he could read it. I put it away but I still had glitter on my hands, so I chased him for a while threatening to wipe my hands on him. I know I'm not a very nice wife. I would be pretty upset if he did that to me with a spider. But it still cracks me up. Our poor daughters won't ever have a chance to experience glitter. Aw well!

Thanksgiving + Missouri = AWESOME!

It was so much fun to go back to Missouri for Thanksgiving. The week consisted of the following: shopping, pie night (the night before Thankgiving, my in-laws invite tons of people to their house, and everyone brings any kind of pie like chicken pot pie, shepherds pie and dessert pie and we all pig out, this is so that we get the pie in and we can gorge on regular food on Thanksgiving), Thanksgiving feast, watching movies with the kids, going on a daddy/daughter day to see "New Moon" with my SIL's and my FIL, hanging out with friends, family pictures, games, the boys playing tennis, going to the park, more eating, our niece Makayla's baptism, BYU/Utah game, celebrating Christmas since we won't all be together, catching up on sleep and spending quality time with family.

To say the least, it was a blast. I didn't want to come home. The 17 hour drive (one way) was worth it. I'm so glad that we went. Here are some pictures from our family photo shoot.

This is the whole family. Scott's aunt that took the pictures still has some touch ups to do.

These are my awesome in-laws! I sure do love them. There were lots of other pictures of them, but I LOVE this picture.

Us.

And just for fun I added this picture. This is our niece BriLynn. She was holding a rock and she stuck it in her mouth. She is such a doll!