Random stuff

The Zoo for Harvey's birthday!


Butterfly play dough!

Decorating the tree!

A winter hike!


Safety first!

Holdy's birthday party! Afton was fascinated by the big mouse! She's the one with the white bow just staring...

Goofballs

Christmas GNO

Christmas Dance Performance

Bowling for Xmas

This year Brett was a little let down (to say the least) by his work Christmas Party. In past years we've gone on overnight trips, fancy dinners at Country Clubs and received nice gifts or gift cards. When he mentioned the work party was at a bowling alley this year he didn't hesitate to add that we weren't going!

Well, Judd and Tiff decided to go so we figured we'd take Afton and make the best of it. Afton LOVED it! She was excited about her green bowling shoes, excited to pick a ball, excited to roll it toward the pins and mostly excited to climb on the ball dispenser!

She even got a strike!!!

We had pizza and soda and enjoyed hanging out with family but I couldn't help but feel bad about Brett not getting a bonus. He works so hard and it was a little discouraging.



At the end there were prizes for about 6 people who had the best scores but everyone else got NOTHING! Really?

Birds

Girls Night

Keys on Main was our location for this outing. It was really entertaining and nice to hang out with friends.
This group is so much fun and we love that Melis and I are sisters and Loni, Jen, and April are sisters too! Love that Charlie Brown was playing in the background! The other TV had Rudolph!

Fun weekend with cousins!

We were so excited this year to have Dan's family come to Lehi for Thanksgiving weekend!

Afton loved spending time with her cousins and Melis and I were able to visit with Dan and Rachel!

We spent the day after Thanksgiving at the Dinosaur Museum. The kids (and adults) loved this first room so much we were there for a really long time.

Once we began to wander the kids had so much fun playing in the sand, checking out the shark and goofing off with each other.

Later that night we met at Temple Square which was unbelievably crowded.

Once we finally found each other we attempted to watch the outdoor nativity show. It was so crowded and the kids weren't interested after having looked so we headed in to see the statue of Jesus. This building was even more crowded and once we made it upstairs the kids all went straight to the railing so we grabbed them and quickly left.

By then we were all tired and burned out trying to keep track of the kids so we decided to leave.

Once we made that decision and started walking everything seemed more peaceful and fun. We had a few minutes without the crowd and enjoyed our way to the car.

We headed back to Grandma and Grandpa's for hot chocolate and home made pie Dan and the kids had prepared at some point between the Dino Museum and the Temple! Delicious!

Happy Thanksgiving

First Dance Performance

I can't believe my little girl is old enough to be on stage, dancing and waving and blowing kisses!

I was barely able to take pictures because my eyes kept tearing up. Of course it was one of those happy, sad cries. I was so proud and felt so much love along with some disbelief. Is that my little girl?

I was a nervous wreck all week wondering how I would get Afton to eat, get her hair curled, get her makeup on (wasn't excited about that and didn't really do it, she's 3!!!), and get to the South Towne Expo Center on time.

She did eat a good lunch and I bribed her to get her hair done and as I said I wasn't to keen on the idea of makeup so I skimped on that a little and did get to the Expo Center on time but was shocked at how busy it was. Apparently that Christmas Show is very popular. It took forever to park and somehow Brett and I showed up at the same time (he was at our niece's baptism which I was sad to miss) and we ended up following each other across the street to the parking lot by the Mayan and walked in together.

Once in, Afton was of course drawn to the Christmas chaos. We managed to get her to the stage where we sat with some girls in her class and they proceeded to play for 45 minutes while we waited for the show to start.

Once the show started Afton was enamored. She sat on Brett's lap watching and clapping and commenting now and then on costumes or hair.

Just before Afton's turn some older girls came to gather up her little class and took them backstage for a minute. Afton watched these older girls carefully and listened to every word.

Once all of the girls were ready they held hands and walked up the stairs and onto the stage together. Once Afton hit the stage she let go of the girl's hand and just took it all in!

She was adorable and sweet and perfect and I can't believe I stayed as composed as I did!

A quiet moment before leaving for the show.

My little sweetie and her funny (leave me alone) smiles.

Sitting for a moment before the show.

On Brett's lap watching the performance.

Backstage with the older girls!

Walking to the stage.

My little cutie!

Happy to see Dad when it was all over!