What in the???

So today it FINALLY snowed allowing me to truly feel the Christmas spirit.  But what to my wondering eye should appear??? Tomorrow night it's supposed to get down to -30 degrees!!!  Is that possible??  I think that's a little too close to the "north pole" feeling. :)

Today I got to shovel the driveway for the first time this year!  I'm going to get back into shape quick if this snow keeps up :)  When Chlo got home from school the girls decided to go sledding.  We had a blast!  To be honest I was more winded by climbing up the sledding hill than shoveling... Yikes! :)

This weekend was so much fun!  On Saturday my oldest nephew, Case, was able to be baptized.  What a fun experience to watch him make that step in his life.  I'm glad he's such a great example to my girls.  On Sunday Shannon and Jared blessed their new baby Nash Cecil.  So in the last month they've had 4 birthdays including one birth, a baptizm and a baby blessing - not to mention Thanksgiving...  Whew! Makes me tired just thinking about it :)  It was so much fun to catch up with family members we haven't seen for a while.  Love it!

Chloé and Carlee were great sports!  They look awesome!

The girls actually got Christmas dresses this year and I was hoping to get a fantastic picture of the three of them smiling in front of the Christmas tree - NOT!  Jaylee has a hard time with posed pictures... AS YOU CAN SEE!  Poor thing.  She did look amazing so we will be trying this again :)

Thanksgiving weekend in pictures

The girls enjoying their Thanskgiving Meal.

Jaylee and her Olives...

The family Thanksgiving setup - worked great!

Mason enjoying some "before dinner pie"  SO CUTE!

Dave and I got to meet the President of BYU - Cecil Samuelson.  What a great man!  Did you know he has 3 degrees from the U???

It is always an interesting thing to be a HUGE minority at a rivalry game!  LOVED EVERY MINUTE!

Brian and Nate showing their team spirit

Finding new ways to use the flags...

The fam - warming up for the game.

Dave and I are the only Utah fans in my family.  They're so awesome to let us come to this game with them every year.  THANKS MOM AND DAD!  Love ya!

Getting warm at halftime in the Cougar Den.

Okay, so I HAD to take this picture!  Doesn't Brian look like Tim Conway or Don Knots on Apple Dumpling Gang?  LOVE IT!

Nate showing off his flag hair.

The scoreboard right before BYU's last drive.  What a spectacular game!  Would have been better if Utah could have pulled it off - still a great "edge of your seat" game.

This week has been so great!  We've been so lucky to be able to do lots of fun things! Thanksgiving with Nelson's was such a treat!  The food was amazing as was the company!  Friday we got up and spent most of the morning Christmas shopping on line.  Dave had a ball!  I think he ended up placing around 4-5 Amazon orders...  We're almost done though - YEA!  Then we were lucky enough to be invited to go with my family to see New Moon, Yes this does make 3 times for me.  What can I say, I'm a fan.  Then Dave and I got to go to dinner and shopping a bit.  Thanks for the awesome Babysitting Madison!  You're the best!  Then today we topped the whole weekend off with a chance to see the Utah vs. BYU game LIVE!  We had fantastic seats too!  Row 20 - right smack dab in the middle of the cougar club section :)  It was so fun and, can I just say, BYU fans are AWESOME!  They were so nice and we made lots of friends.  No spitting, hitting, pushing, swearing... unlike Utah fans...  Sorry Utes, you're pretty bad!  It's going to be sad to see this Holiday close, I'm just so thankful we have another one coming!  I love spending so much time with my families!  Thanks for the fun everyone!

Girls day out

The girls sporting their red and black - Chlo and Carlee even have Vampire shirts on.  Don't you think Bonden would make a good werewolf or vampire??? :)

Posing in front of the movie poster.

We three in our decked out Twilight shirts.  Gotta love it!

We girls were able to go out and FINALLY celebrate our friend's birthdays!  The Taylor girls both had birthdays this last week so we thought it would be fun to kidnap them and go to lunch and a movie.  It was SO worth it! :)  We had a blast!  Even the Taylor girls dressed in red and black for the occasion.  Yes, we did go to New Moon.  It was just as good the second time, but I have to admit it was harder to relax and enjoy with Chlo and Carlee there - I just didn't want them to get bored and disrupt others around them.  Chlo LOVED it, Carlee... not so much.  I think it was too long for her.  Towards the end she was climbing on the chairs and jumping up and down.  We still had a great time!  We even got to enjoy JCW's for lunch.  YUMMY!  Thanks Jen, Madison, Reagan and Bonden!  We'll have to do it again soon.  What a fun way to start the long Thanksgiving weekend.

Christmas time already??

The girls and I showing off our new ornaments

Chlo got a talking Scooby Doo

Carlee got a "like mother like daughter purse"

Jaylee got a group of singing dogs

I got a Minnie Mouse kissing Mickey

Dave got a Wolverine but he's the one taking the picture :)

My three most spectacular girls! :)

The girls got really good at putting the hangers on the bulbs - I got several new ones this year!

The tree.

Several weeks ago I promised the girls we could set up our Christmas tree today since we were planning on being out of town next week for Thanksgiving.  Plans changed and so now we're going to be home - this meant we could do our normal tradition of doing the tree the day after Thanksgiving.  I'm really not one to skip holidays.  The girls were LIVID!  So, as promised the girls helped me set up our tree.  Thanks to my most amazingly fun Christmas decorating classes, I think my tree looks better this year than it ever has!  Thanks Amber!  Of coarse the girls hung most of the stuff and I still have tons of "kid" type things - but I think it turned out cute - minus the part of running out of lights and garland by the time I got to the bottom of the tree... oops :)  It was so fun to spend this time with the girls and to watch Jaylee's face as the whole thing went together.  I love Christmas!

OCD

OBSESSIVE CULLEN DISORDER

Yes, we were the dorks posing in front of the cardboard cutouts after the show...

I love girls nights out :)

The dumb cutout kept falling over - I had to make sure he stayed standing up for the picture... :)

Yea, think I'm an Edward fan... Don't I look like I'm like 17??? (at least acting that way) :)

This movie TOTALLY gets two thumbs up - LOVED the ending too!  PERFECT :)

Yes, this would describe me pretty well.  I am a HUGE Twilight fan and have been for several years - I actually wanted to name Jaylee "Isabella"... Yea, obviously that wasn't agreed on :)  Anyway, my girls have the most amazing dentist ever!  It's Dr. Hans Peterson of Lehi Pediatric dentistry.  My girls actually LOVE going to his office... They ask when they can go to the dentist again.  That is a miracle in and of itself.  Not only is he a great dentist, he also lets me put my Shindyz bows in his office.  It definitly helps me!  Dr. Hans takes great care of my kids, but last night he decided to take care of us moms.  He rented out a whole theater and let us watch New Moon at 5:30!!!  Yes, that means 6 1/2 hours BEFORE the midnight release!  Oh happy day!  I was so excited to be able to go and take my BFF Mindy.  I've been getting ready for this for a few weeks - I got a vampire shirt, vampire charm bracelet, vampire necklace, even had my VERY TALENTED AWESOME friend Robyn do my crazy gorgeous makeup!  It was so nice to have a night out doing exactly what I would have done if I could have done anything - good friends, good movie, and even good food!  After enjoying the show, which by the was is SPECTACULAR, we went to Olive Garden.  Mindy and I got a few funny looks seeing as we had lightened our faces to make them pale and put on some sparkle - not to mention or dark eye makeup and crazy wild hair styles.  Overall it was one of the funnest nights I've had!  Thanks Dave for being so amazing and coming home early so I could go!
Until June 20th... :)

Jaylee and her Fleecey

Jaylee and her Fleece cape.

Dave having to replace the fleece cape after it fell down.

Jaylee enjoying her fleece cape on the floor while watching the snow fall.

Jaylee is in love with her little fleece blanket.  She can actually say the word "fleecey".  It's so cute!  One problem we have is this is the ONLY blanket that will comfort her or that she will fall asleep with.  The other night I put her to bed with her super girl fleece and she cried until it was replaced with the giraffe one...  Time to go find some more giraffe fleece to have a backup :)   Last week Dave put her fleece on her like a cape and she LOVED it!  She thought it was so much fun to walk around the house that way.  Every time it would fall off she'd run to Dave to have him fix it for her.  She's walk with her cape over to the window - plop down and watch the snow.  Glad you have something you love Jaye! :)

My little snow bunnies.

Jaylee enjoying her first snow - that she remembers :)

I took the girls to the dinosaur museum and they had a blast!

Enjoying taking a ride on the dinosaurs.

After all the drama this week we were excited to take a day to play!  I took Carlee and Jaylee to the Dinosaur museum.  It was fun to go and just take our own time.  The girls LOVED it!  It was also fun to wake up this morning to a thin blanket of snow.  The girls ran into my room this morning freaking out that it was snowing.  Carlee said she LOVED it and wanted the snow to stay forever - Chlo said she wishes it would blizzard.  Wonder how long those feelings will last :)

*As a side note- Jaylee has learned a new word.  Along with Fleece, pretty, happy, horse, puppy, Mitzy, NO, mom, dad, Lo (her version of Chlo), mama and papa and Heazy, she's now added Becca!  My SIL was so excied!  I was looking at Becca's blog and showing Jaylee her picture - she actually said her name after I did!  Now she runs into the study saying , Betta, Betta...  SO CUTE!  Her first word was officially Heazy, which is my sister!  Must be something pretty fantastic about Aunts :)