Happy New Year

We rang in the New Year at Evan and Kelly's house again this year. We ate some yummy ribs from Texas Roadhouse and also played a lot of games. I only got a few pics from the night but we all had a great time together.

crazy cousins

Fun in the Snow

During our Christmas vacation in Utah, we got a lot of snow! While staying at my parents house Gigi wanted to play in the snow with her Daddy....

 our little snow bunny :)

She loved throwing the snow up in the air and watching it fall down

Four Christmases

This year we got to celebrate four Christmases, and of course Gigi loved it. She got to open up too many presents!

1. Christmas in Minneapolis - Gigi opened presents from us in our temporary housing apartment in Minneapolis.

 2. Christmas with the Craw's - Gigi got to open up her presents from Grandma and Grandpa Craw and Grandma Jim

helping Grandma Jim open her present

loves for Grandma

 3. Christmas with the Mickelsen's - Gigi got to open presents from Conrad and Hailey and Grandma and Grandpa. We also had our annual reading of the nativity and it was Gigi's turn to play Mary.

cousins in the nativity

4. Christmas with the Reeder's - Gigi got to open up presents from her Reeder cousins and then they stayed a few nights at Grandma's house so we could spend more time with them.

Gigi loved her matching pajamas from Grandma

Hot tub fun with cousins!

We took these Christmas pics before Grandma Jim had to leave and go back to Arizona...

Merry Christmas!

Hope you all have a 

HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS!!

Mall of America Christmas Party

Last Saturday Adam's work threw a kids Christmas party at the Mall of America. His work had a yummy breakfast and then all the kids got to meet Santa. As you can see, Gigi was not impressed!

 She did finally warm up to Santa after he brought out the candy!

 After the breakfast, they gave everyone passes to ride all of the rides. They have an amusement park right in the middle of the mall. Gigi had fun going on the rides with her Dad...

Since I'm pregnant I couldn't ride any of the rides... I guess we'll have to come back next year!

Big Big News!

I have two exciting bits of news to share. Drumroll, please......

First is that I'm pregnant!!!

And we already found out that it's a BOY!!!

We are both so excited and couldn't be happier. My due date is April 14th.

And for the other bit of news.... We are moving, again! Adam got a new job in Minneapolis, MN so here we come midwest. Since we're moving during the week of Thanksgiving, we get to spend the holiday with our families in Utah before we head out. After years of moving up and down the west coast we are both very excited for this new adventure.

Lipstick Jungle

Yesterday while I was taking a shower I got out to find this...

Gigi experimenting with my makeup! Needless to say, she smeared an entire tube of my lipstick all over her face and almost every surface in the bathroom! I think I could be more mad at her if she wasn't so darn cute. :)

Halloween Princess

Gigi was Belle for Halloween this year and she loved her costume. When it first arrived in the mail she asked me if she could try it on. So I put it on her and she didn't want to take it off! I did a little photo shoot of Gigi in her Belle costume...

Halloween Parties

This year Gigi had a couple of Halloween parties to attend - and she couldn't wait to wear her Belle costume. The first party we went to was our ward party at the church. We had some yummy food and even a spook alley. And Gigi loved the spook alley; she went thru it four times! One of the young women who took her thru it told me that everyone was trying to scare her but she'd just turn to them and ask - "do you like my dress?"

Adam's work always throws a huge party every year for Halloween. When we first arrived they had a big candyman station and Gigi got to pick out some candy...

taking pics with the aliens in the corn

'Go Fish' with Daddy

Every year they have a reptile man. Gigi got to pet a snake, turtle, lizard and even a tarantula! Obviously she doesn't take after her mom when it comes to snakes and spiders. :)

They had a little discovery area set-up for little kids; Gigi had so much fun exploring...

Gigi's favorite was the pony ride, she loved it! As soon as it was over she started crying, she did not want to get off the pony!