The one requirement we had while in Utah was to see lots and lots of our cousins. With all the fun activities that were planned, we definately got to see our fun cousins and had such a good time. Thank you everyone for always playing with us!
Two beautiful girls that became fast friends on our trip.
Izabellas favorite thing of the whole trip was Brooksy, Nanas dog. She was such a patient, sweet thing with Izabella. She let Izabella hug and love her all the time. She even let Bella feed her treats and shared them with Izabella without ever complaining. We miss you Brooksy
Something that seems to becoming a tradition is to dye our hair everytime we go to Utah. These boys love doing it and have so much fun together in the blonde club. They were so pleased with themselves and Aunt Renee does such a great job. Thanks Aunt Renee!!!
One unexpected treat we got this Christmas was to get to see our cousin Austin. He was able to come visit us the night before we left and it was such a Christmas surprize. We love you Austin and miss you Andrew. Cousins are the best!!!
Look at these cute boys!! Jake just loves his cousin Austin. They don't get to see eachother very often becuase Austin lives in Texas, so this was such a treat!!
We had a surprise visitor for Christmas Eve, but Izabella wasn't so sure about him.
Much to mom and dad's chagrin, Duncan continued to ask Santa to bring him a rabbit for Christmas even though mom kept wxplaining there was no way to get the rabbit home from Utah if Santa brought it for Christmas.
We had such a fun Christmas Eve party together with our Selph cousins. We took the kids over to a local chruch house and played games and had a pinata and had all sorts of good times together. Thanks to Uncle E and Aunt Melissa for putting together the pinata for us, the kids just loved it!!
Three fat, cute , dirty girls.
These are the two cousins that were both born within a few weeks of Izabella. She doesn't get to see them very often and it is hard to get a picture with all 3 in the same frame. They are busy girls usually running in 3 different directions. We had to contain them in the bathtub to get all 3 in a picture together.
Bella loves to read!!! She is never happier than when someone is reading a story to her, especially if it is a Dora the Explorer story.
Of course it would feel like Christmas without the chaos of a cousins nativity.Lots of work but very fun and worth the work to remember the real reason for the season.
Joseph and Mary thought they were pretty cool with Jesus the teddybear.
Izabella was an angel and thought she was pretty cool.
The Gingerbread decorating contest was fierce competition. But there were lots of winners, expecially in the 70's style,flat roofed with the Grinch on the rooftop category.
Getting ready to trim the tree with Nana!!
Dress-up is always #1 fun at Nanas house.
Nana and Izabella had a lot of fun together. They were fast friends and mom got a few days out to play with the older kids. Thanks Nana!!
5 comments:
It was so fun having you guys here. Hopefully it won't be too long before we see you again!
how much fun--you guys look like you had a blast! but i'm going to be selfish and say i wish you had been here instead :o) get it--selphish???
i'm never going to get over that...
we love you guys!!!!!!!!!!!
I was really sad to see that there was only one picture of me on your Christmas Post (and that picture wasn't even a spotlight of me, it was just an action photo). Research has shown that the more pictures of me that you put up on your blog, increases the number of comments that you get exponentially.
I guess that I'll just have to send you some pictures so you can do a "Jae Is Awesome" exclusive post. That should make your blog much more popular.
Disregard everything that I just said. It looks great and it was so fun to be with you guys for a bit!!! Hurry down to KY soon!
I absolutely loved these photos!!! Thank you for always making Austin feel special. I made sure that he and Andrew saw your blog. We love and miss you guys. Love, Sonia
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