December & Christmas 2010

December has been a blur...

BUT

We did enjoy our first big SNOW fall - Laex helped me shovel and then we built a snowman! We got about 6-8 inches of snow overnight - Laex was IN HEAVEN!
















































We had many evenings of Christmas Stories or Christmas Movies with Popcorn -Christmas Vacation is a MUST :)
We got an early Christmas Present - the Wii and had a blast bowling, bowling and bowling - Laex loves it and usually kicks our butts :)
























































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We were finally able to S L O W down and enjoy the Holidays in Vernal! We had a great time!

We arrived in Vernal on Thursday, enjoyed a yummy turkey dinner with Mom, Kenz, Grams and Gramps, Trev, Ramey, Taite & Avi --We missed Elder Hoopes & our Dad who was out in the snow working :(

Thursday night we had fun opening our stocking gifts - A tradition Mom started, we each buy a gift for each others stockings and write a nice note to go with it - we then open them either Christmas eve or this year, the day before, so that the stockings are empty for Santa!



















































































Friday we enjoyed the day playing lots of fun games and hanging out! We spent our Christmas Eve at Aunt Jenny's Annual Christmas Eve Party with yummy food and a fun Gift Exchange Game!




































Saturday Laex had a BLAST as he realized he'd been good enough that Santa came :) --It was the first year he really got into it and he was so excited! He opened his & Loa's presents! Then we spent the rest of the day jammin out on the wii, playing games and enjoying the kids as they went from one toy to the next! We had lots of yummy finger foods, we grazed, played, rested, played and grazed some more :) AND we got to enjoy our LAST phone call from Elder Hoopes, he'll be home in exactly 5 weeks, we can't wait!! And we ended the day with a trip to visit Grams and Gramps. (YES! we ROCKED Just dance - it was a riot . ALSO, as a side note, Laex really thinks he's buzz lightyear so when he got "wings" he was ecstatic!)







































































































































Sunday we got to go to church with Grammie and Papa and then enjoyed our last evening in Vernal.

Monday we got up, packed the car to the brim and had a nice trip home --when we arrived out house was only Forty degrees, with the heater not running :( Luckily LeGrand was able to mess with it a bit and get it going - so the heater, along with the gas log running we got the house heated up! We were happy to have warmth!

We had such a nice holiday, we're happy to be home, have the decorations put away and be able to relax

Turkey Day!

This year we stepped out-of-the-box and hit Little America for Thanksgiving dinner! It was SO nice that none of us had to Cook or Clean but it did feel a bit weird that there were no left-overs.

We enjoyed ourselves so much it may become a tradition!






















































































































































We finished off the day with a serious shopping trip that started at 9 pm in line at Toys R Us and ended at about 3 am at home buying everything I needed online :) I heart Black Friday excitement!

Blizzard 2010

LeGrand insisted that I document the "BLIZZARD" of 2010 - it was expected to hit two days before Thanksgiving (Tuesday Nov. 23rd) around 5pm - the hype was crazy!

People were let off work early, all the colleges closed early, Schools around the Wasatch front canceled all activities after 4 pm, people were lined up at Costco trying to "get prepared" all so that everyone could get home before the biggest storm of the past ten years hit.

I got this text from LeGrand around 1:30 that day: "if you have time please fill up the MDX. this storm is supposed to be ugly. also we need ice cream" LOL-Priorities!


HERE'S the result...

a little wind blowing around some "fluff" (LeGrand's words)

7.5 months

This is a bit late - as have been all of my posts lately - BUT, here's some awesome stuff about our amazing little lady at her 7 1/2 month mark!

She had one tooth and another on the way so we've had some rough nights (the "other" one is now here - hopefully it will get better!)

She not only sits up but is ALL.OVER.THE.PLACE --no "official" crawling YET - just scoots herself around!

She'll eat her baby food but would MUCH rather have "REAL" food - this is daddy's fault, he thinks she needs to try every.thing.
















She is so fun! --almost EIGHT months old --WHEN did that happen??