Crafting

We have been a little busy around here.

Sorry for the lack in posts recently, but we have been working on a few crafts.

Emma's 2nd Birthday invites are finally done and ready for the mail.

Last week while Doug was traveling, Emma helped me make the rest of our Christmas ornaments.

And she was an even bigger help making a mess.

Then on Friday night we went over to my Aunt Caubbie's house.

Paul mentioned that he had an ugly Christmas sweater party to go to, but still needed a sweater.

Rose came to the rescue with a hot pink 3/4 sleeve sweater that she was planning on donating.

Only problem was that is wasn't a Christmas sweater, so Ebit and I headed to the craft store to find some fancy embellishments.

Look how fancy Paul's sweater is.

It had white fringe, gold jingle bells, glitter bows, and Caubbie added the finishing touch... a Santa belt.

I am sure Paul is regretting telling us he needed help.

Sunday

So I realize that this post is nearly a week late, but oh well.

This past Sunday we had a jam packed day.

Church

Lunch at the Krstovski home

and

Dinner at the Lewko home

Our lunch was with some great friends, the Cenderelli, Newell and Krstovski families.

Nicholas and Emma

So not only did Emma kiss Chase (several times) she also planted one on Nicholas.

These get togethers could start getting interesting when they are a little older.

I am going to have to keep my eye on my little two timing hussy.

Then we drove over to the Lewko house for dinner along with Heather and Rachel Hodgson.

We played lots,

ate lots,

opened lots of presents,

and enjoyed our cookies.

We did a lot of driving around, but it was worth it to spend some time with some of our great friends. Thank you all for a fun Sunday!

Santa

We made an attempt to visit Santa at the mall a few weeks back.

Emma must have had some bad memories from last year...

because she wanted no part of him this year.

We tried hyping him up and talking about how nice he was, but no luck, just clinging, crying and "no Santa!"

She was a bit sleepy so Douggie drove around the mall and got her to sleep.

I figured we would do one of those cute pictures where the newborn is sleeping, and Santa is making the "shhh" face. Only we would have our toddler who was all dressed up.

Wouldn't you know it, as we placed her in his arms she woke up, looked at him and screamed.

It is safe to say we traumatized her.

Every time she saw a Santa she made a fake cry sound.

She has slowly gotten more comfortable with the thought of him, so we made a special stop at the Knob Hill house tonight for the debut of Santa.

She still didn't sit on his lap, or even be in the picture alone, but we got a non crying picture with Santa.

Christmas lights

Tonight we had Papa and Ah over for dinner, then we took a little drive to look for some Christmas lights... one of my favorite Christmas activities.

1st stop the Knob Hill house.

We have already been there this year, but it is always fun to see it again.

And besides, there was a special visitor making his debut tonight.

Then we were off to the house on the corner of Richland and Wasatch.

Douggie has passed by it during the day, so he wanted to bring us to see it at night.

They were pretty fun, they had bubbles, Santa visiting and Christmas movies projected on to the garage door.

I asked Emma to kiss baby Jesus, and instead she tried to walk off with him.

Then we drove around for a bit and came across this huge beautiful tree.

Legoland

We went to Legoland today.

We had an extra free ticket, so we invited JuJu.

We tricked him and said that we were going shopping, so he was thrilled to find out that we were actually going to Legoland.

It was JuJu's 2nd trip, but the 1st trip there for Douggie, Emma and Me.

Emma didn't nap all day, so when we hit the car, she was out.

Lucky for us, Emma was right at the 34" mark.

You have to be at least 34" for most of the rides.

If she were any shorter, we might have had a few melt downs getting turned away from rides.

We had so much fun today with you JuJu.

Family pictures

Anjuli took our pictures a few weeks ago, and I am so thrilled to share them with you.

She is such an artist, and we are in love with these pictures.

Here are some of my favorites.

We did this family photo shoot as a gift for my mom's 60th birthday.

Keep an eye out in your mailboxes, because they are perfect timing for Christmas cards.

Emma was such a wiggle worm. :)