We've had some snow over the last week so I decided to let Jackobi try out her new snow boots in it!! She had gloves on, but quickly ripped them off to feel the cold snow. She had a blast!! We're supposed to get more snow the next few days, hopefully we can bundle her up and try out that new sled!!
Jackobi's Christmas bed head!!
I thought this picture was funny, she couldn't get her Play Doh opened and kept saying 'Oh No!' She was quickly distracted with more presents!
Our Christmas morning!!
While everyone took their turn on the phone, Nate's dad helped distract Jackobi from ripping into her gifts!
Jackobi snuggling up with the puppy Brian sent home for her!
After Nate's parents, we headed out to my parents house for a few hours .... it was cute, Anna and Jackobi weren't too interested in their gifts by that point, they just wanted to play with eachother! They did manage to rip a few open though.
My dad was easily convinced by the girls to play with them rather than open presents. I'm pretty sure he's wrapped around their little fingers!
Anna opening the bowling set Jackobi got her ... I'm pretty sure these two will be quite destructive with it! Good thing it's for Uncle Justin's house!!
After going home for a much needed nap we headed into Nate's Grandpa & Grandma Christiansens for their gift exchange. It was good to see everyone, we had a great time! But we sure were glad when we finally made it home!! I'm pretty sure we were all exhausted and in bed by 9!!
We had such a wonderful Christmas!! Our day was busy, but we're so blessed to live so close to both of our families and share holidays with them!
It's so cute to watch these two together! They absolutely love one another!!
I love it that around the holidays there are so many more opportunities to get together with old friends!! Jaclyn was in Burley one night so we all decided to grab dinner! It was great to catch up with her [and Jason too!]
Thanks Jac & Cros for a fun night!!
A few weeks ago David and Makyla had an Ugly Sweater party! It was so much fun! We ate, played games, ate some more, exchanged white elephant gifts and all wore UGLY SWEATERS!! We ended up with a really fun group of people and had a blast!
All dressed pretty badly!!
Worst 3 guys sweaters! 
Don't you love our rockin' sweaters? So fun!
Jackobi loves it when Camille comes home!
Nate will look for just about any excuse to go hunting. This year he conned his brothers and dad into going into the snowy mountains on Thanksgiving day! I think they all had lots of fun (I'm sure more fun than helping with Turkey dinner!) Watch out guys, I'm sure he'll try to make this an annual tradition!
Last week I watched Anna Leigh for a day so Justin could attend his student's graduation. Boy oh boy ... these two are a HANDFUL!!!! They had so much fun together, it was fun to watch how comical they find eachother. I had to get some things done [like re-decorate my tree!! Anna thought it was just awesome to pull all the bulbs off and 'bounce' them!!!] so I stuck them both in Jackobi's crib with a bunch of toys ... it seriously occupied them for 45 minutes!
It's so fun to watch these little girl cousins grow up together. They absolutely adore one another. Jackobi calls Anna's name instantly when we walk into my parents house to see if her 'friend' is there to play too. It's cute. They give eachother lots of hugs and kisses [even though they bonk heads most times!] and run around holding hands ... so adorable! Even if they do cause mad chaos when they're together!!
Jackobi LOVES to color, I just didn't know her face was the canvas!!
Chris & Sara were down for Thanksgiving so Chris' family had a baby shower for Sara since it'll be the last time they're home [in Rupert] before the baby is born!!
YUM!! We started Thanksgiving out with Nate's family ... I forgot to put my memory chip back in my camera, so this is one of the only pictures I got from the actual day! :(
The next day we went to look at the Caring & Sharing Christmas decorations. So pretty! Jackobi loved all of the lights and colors! {can you tell by that CHEESY grin!!} It's such a fun tradition & great cause!
We usually plan it just right so that we can look at everything at the Caring & Sharing and head out just in time to watch Santa ride around the square and light up the town! It was a lot of fun! Jackobi really enjoyed watching {and waving profusely!!} to Santa -- she was dancing to the band and everything! It was very cute to watch her so excited! (we'll see how she feels about Santa when I try to get a picture of her on his lap!!)
The fireworks afterwords were another story! She really liked them at first, but the loud BANG in combination with her napless day did not mesh well!! Let's just say she waved "bye" to them and then had a melt down.... I guess we'll force the nap next year!
Sara was home for the holiday and stayed with us a couple of days, Jackobi sure loved the extra attention and made a new best friend!! It's fun to watch them play together!!
All in all, we had a great Thanksgiving weekend!! We're excited for the next month of Christmas decorating, baking, shopping and all it entails!!
Kenzie's birthday was the day before Thanksgiving, so we celebrated the weekend before!! Even thought Jackobi 'hid' in the living room the entire night, we had fun!! We've had so much fun wathing Kenzie grow up, it makes us excited for what we have to look forward to with Jackobi! Happy Birthday Kenz! We hope #7 is the best yet!
Chelsea and I have been friends for almost 14 years, I was SO excited when she and her little boy Teejin came to visit us while they were in town!! It's always good to get together with good friends & catch up! I'm so thankful for such a good friend ...
Jackobi has hit a stage lately where she LOVES babies!! Ash gave her a little Cabbage Patch baby for her 1st birthday and now she goes nowhere without it!! She love calling for her 'babee' (baby in Jackobi talk). She also has a thing for putting diapers on her stuffed toys. Mostly her teddy bears, but she's obsessed with changing their diapers and 'checking' to see if they went potty. It's pretty funny!! It's fun to watch her with her 'babies' ... she loves them, cuddles them, kisses them and tucks them under blankies and tells them 'ni-ni' (night night). She's such an affetionate little girl, it's sweet to watch her 'take care' of them.
While Sara was down the other Sara was able to make a quick trip too!! It was good to have the 3 of us all together!! Since we're all spread out over 12+ hours from eachother it doesn't happen often enough!! We had a great night full of laughs!
Isn't this one of the cutest little girls you've ever seen??!!
Once a month there's a group of girls that get together and play bunco! It's so much fun & I look forward to it each month! It's nice to get out of the house and socialize with friends (and other moms!) with no hubby's and no kids ... sometimes it keeps me sane! Tiff Jensen put together a group of fun girls, we have a blast every month!! November was my month to host ... we're missing a few girls, but here's the group! I was so excited that it worked out my sister could be here for bunco!! She had to be in SLC Friday, so it worked out perfect! -- it was fun to share with her what I do every month!
Ashley's brother Tony in in the military and came home from Korea to visit. We decided to sneak in a family picture! It was the first family picture with EVERYONE in it in 20 years! I think they turned out pretty good! 
I had a lot of fun taking them & am glad Ash always lets me put them through my bossy picture taking! :)
Nate's Grandpa Ike turned EiGhTY today!! This past weekend we had a birthday party to celebrate! Almost the ENTIRE family was there. It was nice to be able to celebrate with him! Above he's posing with the card from us, Jackobi worked pretty hard ( a good 1/2 hour) on it. She's the next Michelangelo don't you think??
While we were there Jackobi made a new friend, Kyler. They had lots of fun together playing 'Ring Around the Rosey' and running around! It was funny, Jackobi didn't want to share him with anyone! She would get mad when his little sister would come and try and sneak some of his attention! Funny!
We had a fun night celebrating Ike's birthday with him.
Bed head and all, she happily helped me clean them up. I'm glad it was one of her less destructive messes! :)
Halloween came and went and was a hit! After the initial 'I hate it' reaction, Jackobi decided she loved her costume. By the end of the night we had her trained to 'bzzzz' like a little bumble bee!
We had fun playing in the leaves at Grandpa & Grandma's
Ringing Doorbells ...
And partaking in all the goodies the holiday brings!
But super excited for her 'ladybug' friend!! (and very own pumpkin!!)
We had a great Halloween! The holidays are getting to be so much fun with Jackobi right now!! I wonder what she'll think of Santa this year?
