Temple square!

Okay, you can't have Christmas in Utah with out a visit to Temple Square! This year it was so fun, we had some friends go with us and the kids loved it. Thanks sherry & Abe for coming along! You guys are awesome!

We went to our favorite Mexican restaurant, The Blue Iguana! It's amazing. Especially the "Burrito Grande" Jon always gets. If you finish the whole thing, you get free dessert!

A Christmas Star!

This Christmas, we decided to start a new tradition. We are making our own star for our Christmas tree! Jon is very creative when it comes to these things, I think that comes from having his big family. He is very -think outside of the box- type! I wish I had that in me, but since I don't...I'll leave it to him! Well the best part was how excited the kids were about it, they ate it up!

They both got to help and it was definitely a "hands on" activity. Hanna loves to get dirty, Hunter...not so much!

Again...I apologize for Hanna not having any clothes on but if you have little ones... you know how that is a MUST!

our paper mache genius!


I was good for something. I thought of where to hang it to dry!


Yay! The final product. It looks pretty good!


Yeah, this is just Hanna & I being crazy!

A Thanksgiving away from the Hustle & Bustle!

The beautiful artwork of a 2 & 4 yr. old! They had a ton of fun making tissue paper turkeys! We had to do some kind of craft before Thanksgiving...it actually gets me in the spirit more than them I'm sure!
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This year we went up to out families cabin in the Uintahs for Thanksgiving. It was amazing! We were a little worried what it would be like with it being so cold and having the pipes exosed to the 20 degree weather at night, but it all worked out and was such a blast! We all ate way too much of course, but it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without eating too much right?

Shelby, mom & me!

Grandpa, Shelby, Grandma Forman & Jon taking care of the turkey carving!

My dad brought an erector set to put together and Hunter & Jon both loved it!

Just goofing around! Shelby & I were being crazy and the kids decided to join!

Hunter followed his older cousins around everywhere! Thanks Clayton & Trent for being such good sports!


Hanna kept trying on Grandma's reading glasses! They're pretty cute woutldn't you say?

Dad & Kelsee! It was so fun to be together for the whole weekend!

Thanks fam!

At nights at the cabin, right before the sun goes down, is the best time to see the deer.

We go for a ride over the main road and look through the aspens trying to find them. This is a picture while riding in the truck of the snow outside!!! So cozy!

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We had a bunch of friends over the other night and they brought their kids! It is so fun to see old friends after a long time and especially when they have such darling kids! We were playing games and we come downstairs to find this:


They pulled out the bed, got blankets for themselves and turned on a show! It was about 10:30pm so they were all so sleepy. What good kids to just do that by themselves! Well I don't know, if my children know how to do that by themselves...what is that saying about me?!!! Oh well, they're self-reliant right?