SLC Trip

We've wanted for years to take the kids to the Temple Square lights. We have a couple friends that have felt the same way so we all decided to made it happen this year.

An attempt at a group picture of the kids... 

 We went to the new City Creek Mall first. It was so beautiful. It's outdoor but covered in the winter. I loved it..not so much the stores but just the whole atmosphere.

 Kaitlyn was so cute with Grant :)

 After the mall we went and swam for a while and came back to temple square that night. It was not how I remember as a kid! I had all these hopes of giving the kids a spiritual experience that would change their view of Christmas forever. We'll have to go back for that experience another time haha. There were a zillion people there, we could hardly move. It was all we had just to not loose anyone. It was raining yet freezing cold. The kids had umbrellas and kept poking people or getting their umbrellas stuck in people's scarfs, etc.. The building were all so full we couldn't go in any. We definitely need to go back! It's was beautiful though, and we will never forget it :)

 There's a hotel we've been wanting to stay in that has an indoor water park. It was awesome!! The kids (and adults) love it. We for sure want to go back there also.

 I'm so grateful for good friends. We had such a fun weekend!

Christmas 2012

Christmas!! Such a long-awaited holiday that goes by way too fast.

We put up the tree on a beautiful sunny warm day... we didn't really get a bunch of snow until just a few days before Christmas. It would have been weird to not have a white Christmas.

This year our annual Davies Christmas Eve breakfast was at my uncle's church building. It was nice to have all the room and see everyone.

My grandma asked me to be over the nativity this year. Thankfully my mom's primary had some awesome backdrops and costumes we got to borrow. It turned out really cute.

Christmas Eve dinner at my parents'. They let them open 1 present that night.

 Hallie and Janessa got new pj's and the boys got slippers. 

Christmas morning! Andrew set up the GoPro to take a picture every 5 minutes or so. It was fun to watch the floor get more and more covered. Andrew's parents skyped with us the whole time. It was like they were there!

 

 We then headed to my parents for more fun and breakfast.

 Then off to grandma and grandpa Lord's for dinner and another nativity.

 Fun, busy day....

Misc. November

A few random November events....

I actually have a couple pictures from my birthday this year. Hallie made me this cute candle sugar cookie at my parents on Sunday...

 ...and Doug and Marcie surprised me with cupcakes from Cocoa Bean (my favorite!).

 Grant and his love for anything 'yighting mateen'...

 Ty, G, and a couple friends playing light sabers.

 Don't ask me how spiderman and batman got into my house...

 The sweeter side of Tyson. Such a good boy. He is reading so well.

 More boys and their toys...

 I think it's Josh jumping over Andrew-

 Janessa started basketball season again. It's Feburary as I'm typing this and she is still playing every Saturday! I love watching our kids play any sport. She does a great job.

 Hallie and Malarie had a piano recital of Christmas songs. Her teacher had them do duets also this year which was really neat. I'm so proud of her for sticking with it even when she sometimes doesn't want to...

 We had a neighbor friend in town for Thanksgiving so we had a girls' night. Don't ask me how/why I manage to close my eyes in every picture... I'm so grateful to have such fun neighbor friends.

 The mother/daughter activity for Activity Days was an 80's theme party. Ness and I had so much fun!

And above is my favorite picture for the season....! Man, I love them.

Thanksgiving in Boise

We spent Thanksgiving in Boise this year. This is the only time that Andrew gets 4 days of work off so this has become a yearly tradition. We love seeing everyone!

We also did the annual train ride to North Pole. So fun!

 We thought it was our turn to stay in a hotel this time so everyone else could stay in the house. The kids thought it was great swimming every day!

 On Saturday the boys took Tyson's Traxxis to an indoor race track while the girls met with friends for lunch and shopping.

 We took Great Grandma her Christmas presents. She turned 90 this month!

 Andrew took his helmet so he could ride Kenny's bike.

 Our our way out of town we had lunch at this cute little pizza place downtown...

...Then we stopped at the most adorable candy cottage.

Grant fell asleep as soon as we hit the road with his ring pop in his mouth :)