Temper, Temper!

The following is our funniest Christmas morning story. Jacob opened a present that had a Lightning McQueen backpack in it. He thought it was cool. Allie thought it was very, very cool and attached herself to it. I knew Allie was getting a bag of her own so we had her open it. The following pictures don't quite capture the moment very well, but it's the best we have.


Jacob's Car backpack




This is Allie opening her princess bag




It's out of the box now




You can see she is upset




This picture is right before she chucks the princess bag across the room. She immediately runs over and grabs Jacob's bag and hangs on to it for the rest of the morning. I made the mistake of getting her a bag without wheels or backpack straps. She let us know she was not happy! It was SO funny!

Christmas 2008

11 Years

Friday December 19th was our anniversary. Michael and I have been married now for 11 years! It goes SO fast. We went to a movie. Seven Pounds. Neither one of us recommend it. Michael got sick from the operation scenes and I almost had to carry him to the car. Thankfully after a drink of pop he felt better and was able to get himself to the car and we went to dinner. Claim Jumper just opened here a few months ago so we went to check it out. The food was good but the restaurant was very noisy. No quiet dinner for us. We had fun going out together, it is a rare occasion. Thanks so much to Noelle for babysitting our adorable crazy kids!

My first snow!

OK I'm Ready

It's Cold!

Okay I'm done!

My toes are cold!

Christmas lights & snow!

The lights look even prettier with the snow!

Snow at our house!!!

The kids had a blast in the snow!

Allie

I love Allie's smile!

Merry Christmas!

Decorating the tree

We had a great time decorating our tree this year. Jacob had one favorite branch that he hung all of his ornaments on, and Allie takes them off faster than we can put them on!

Is it Batman? or Superman?

Jacob's favorite outfit.
Santa Claus jammies
Superman cape
Batman mask

2007-2008

Dinosaurs and an Apostle

The day after Thanksgiving we went to the Dinosaur Museum in St. George, Utah. The kids love it there. This trip was very memorable. We met Dieter F. Uchtdorf, The Second Counselor in The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Michael recognized him and said hello (I was chasing Jacob). He told Emma and Gracie "This is Elder Diederdorf" and they shook his hand. Michael then said "He works with President Hinckley" (President Hinkley passed away at the begining of the year). Michael came and asked me if I saw him and then told me what he said. He was very embarrassed. I told him that President Uchtdorf is probably used to people getting his name wrong and he felt better about that. And for the President Hinckley remark I told him that President Uchtdorf probably just thinks he is inactive.

Our very first blog!

We have decided to try blogging as a way of letting family and friends see what we are up to.