Isabella

On Dec 16th, my mom, Londyn and I got to go to St. George to be there for the birth of my brother and sister-in-law's sweet baby girl! Such a neat experience. Thanks for letting us be there Caleb and Nikki!

Nutcracker

Cody's gift to Londyn this year was tickets to see Ballet West's The Nutcracker the day after Christmas. He even made the thing above to hold the tickets. So cute! It was so fun to see it too! I had only seen the Nutcracker once when I was in middle school and it was one of very times I got to sit in the audience to watch an entire Ballet. Loved it. And of course the only pictures of us there got deleted accidently. Oh well!

Christmas

This year was my year to work Christmas. I had to work the 1pm-7pm shift (not too bad), so we went to Cody's parent's house in Park City to spend the whole weekend with them. It was a nice break. Got to go on a little date to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, did some kid-free skiing, did some skiing with both kids, and ate A LOT of good food!

This year Santa made special tage for Londyn and Jackson (well I thought them up, Cody created them, and I painted the letters with glue and added glue. Another one of my labors of love!).

It was fun because the kids had to find their letter tag to figure out which presents were theirs.

Jackson got loaded up on lots of boy thing! Blocks, tools, more tools, a mini trampoline, books and some DVDs. (Oh and skates. he told everyone he was getting skates for Christmas. No idea where he came up with it, but he got 'em- thanks Gramy!)

And Londyn got lots of fun girlie things! Tutus, dolls, barbie movies, books, markers, crayons, cup cake Lego set.....

Another great Christmas!

Here are a few of the "real" ones!

Family Pictures

On Saturday we went downtown to take some much needed family Photos.
This is just a funny one she snapped of us. I'll post the real ones soon!

Nikki's Shower

The Day after Thanksgiving we were able to have a shower for Nikki!

I should have gotten a picture of her with all her gifts, she got some cute thing! Here she is with the crib bedding.

Onesie Cookies.

The spread. It was definitely a weekend full of good food! Thanks to everyone who came! Nikki's mom was able to make it. My mom couldn't but we did SKYPE with her for a few minutes while we played a couple games.

Congrats to Caleb and Nikki. Can't wait to meet that sweet little girl! You 2 are going to be great parents!

Too cute

I took this right after her performance when we were waiting for Cody to go get the car.

Christmas Gift Show

In November, the studio Londyn dances with was invited to dance at the Christmas Gift Show at the South Town Expo Center.

She had a cute little costume and a cool hair-do. Yep, I did her hair! Not sure if I could ever do it that good again!

Here is her whole class!

Good job Girlie!

Pumpkin Carving

This year we FINALLY carved a pumkin with the kids!

Meet "Smiley".

Halloween

For Halloween this year Jackson was a Green Bay Packer and Londyn was Rainbow Dash-My Little Pony. At the beginning of October we went to the annual Halloween party at Cody's sister's mother-in-law's house. It's always a good time!

The kids had fun playing with their cousins Charlie and Carson.

This was at Londyn's class party.

And here they are trick-or-treating with some of their friends. It was so nice to have such a mild Halloween finally. Jackson didn't even wear a coat. Then we all hung out and had chili and scones afterward. Great Halloween!

Minneapolis trip

In October we tagged along with Cody to Minneapolis/St.Paul with Cody. It was a lot of fun. The kids loved our hotel and mini van. We tried to find fun things to do with the kids. We found this really cute park to play at.

We spent an entire day at th Children's Museum in Downtown St. Paul. It was awesome!!!

We also drove an hour south to visit Cody's grandma Helen in Albert Lea.

On our last day we went to the Mall of America and went on a few of the rides with the kids. We also at at this yummy restaurant called CRAVE and then Cody let me go shop at H & M for my birthday and he took the kids to the Lego store.

One last picnic

I know that winter is going to be upon us before we know it so couple days ago when it was still so nice outside the kids and I tested out my new picnic basket and had lunch in the backyard!

It was even complete with a ladybug! Good-bye nice warm weather. We will miss you...