Christmas Time Fun

I accidently delete this picture and I don't know how to put it down in the middle. So if anyone knows how to let me know. I thought it was so cute of them decorating the tree I just put it at the first.

**Cutting down the Christmas tree- Every year we go to Bear Lake to cut down our family Christmas tree. It is so much fun. This year is was FREEZING we walked a few feet off of the road and found one that we thought was just perfect. Chloe even found one that would work perfect in her room.

All bundled up looking for the perfect tree.

**Decorating the tree. Chloe was so excited for her little tree in her room. She decorated all by herself. Her favorite ornament was the Hello Kitty one that she put on the top where the star goes.

Tessa did not know what to think of the tree. She loved to play with the ornament (which were mostly too high for her to reach) and loved it when the lights were on.

**The Polar Express- My whole family made the trek to Heber City to ride on the Polar Express. If you have not done it yet with your kids I would highly recommend it. It was so much fun. It was magical for all of the kids. Tessa did not enjoy it too much but Chloe was amazed with everything. For weeks before we went she asked me questions. Everyday she would think of another question about the Polar Express. She really thought it was going to be just like the movie. I had to explain that it only went to the real North Pole on Christmas Eve. She thought the same kids on the movie would be there. I had a lot of making up to do. Chloe with her cousins, Abby and Molly.

Me and the girls

Tessa and Chloe getting ready to leave.

**Snow time fun
Chloe loves to go outside and play in the snow.

Chloe building Frosty

**Writing letters to Santa

**Drinking hot cocoa and eating candy canes. This was Tessa's first candy cane and boy did she love it!!

**Decorating and eating cookies. Tessa, Chloe, and Ellie decorating sugar cookies.

**Christmas Eve- This year we went to my parents house for Christmas Eve. We had a special visitor. As you can see Tessa did not like Santa but Chloe thought otherwise.

Chloe had a million question for Santa and was so excited to sit on his lap.

Chloe was excited to leave Santa some cookies and chocolate milk and she even wanted to leave a carrot for Rudolf.

Chloe and Tessa got this pony that Chloe named Jack for Christmas. I do not know who liked him better. Tessa screamed when she had to get off him.

There is nothing more fun for a parent than Christmas morning. We had such a fun Christmas with our little girls. Tessa was excited for her presents but she really just wanted to play with the last thing she opened. We could have bought her only one present and she would have been happy.

Chloe got this pink camera from Santa. On Christmas Day she took 250 pictures.

She also got the easel and has not stopped painting and coloring since.

Family Pictures

My very talented friend, Kaedell took these family picture for us. We LOVE how they turned out. I have to admit that I have a darling little family. THANK YOU KAEDELL!!!! We love them. Chloe- 3 1/2 years

Tessa 1 year

Happy Birthday Tessa!!!

I can't hardley believe that my baby is 1!!!! Where does time go? Tessa had such a fun birthday. We had our families over for cake and ice cream. She loved her snowman cake. She could not get enough of it. She had cake everywhere (including her ear).

Tessa we love you so much and are so gald you are part of our family. You make us so happy!!!

Where do I start???

Well I have been a big slacker lately. We have just been super busy these last couple of months. We finished our home. We are so excited to be here and loving it! Since I have not blogged for a few months I have tons to catch up. I think the last time we were in the middle of laying our rock. It did take forever but we are glad we did it and really like how it turned out. Chloe loved to come down and 'build'
She even got to pick out her own rock and put it on the house.

We had a great Halloween. Chloe dressed up as a pink Tinkerbell. She has decided that she does not like the color green, since it is a boy color. She really wanted to be Tinkerbell and she found some pink wings and made up her own costume. Tessa was a chicken. She loved her costume. She fell asleep in the stroller trick-or-treating.

The first on November Tessa had tubes put in her ears. Poor baby had 4 ear infections in October. I think they just never got better. After the tubes she has been such a different baby. She finally sleeps through the night it took 11 1/2 months but we are finally there. She started jabbering a lot more and was much more balanced. I think she has always had an earache or at least pressure in her ears. I feel so bad that I did not know but she is all better now.

She was a little droopy when she came out of it. But before she was happy and playing.

We moved in on November 13. Christopher's 30th birthday was on the 10 so we stayed there that night in our sleeping bags. Bad idea!! No one got any sleep we decided after that to wait until we got our bed here to sleep here again.

I never knew we had to much crap. We gave a lot of stuff to the D.I. I could not believe how things just grow.

The next day we went to Princesses on Ice. It was a lot of fun . Chloe was amazed with it. She wanted to dress up as Belle.

Me and Chloe at Princesses on Ice

This year for Thanksgiving we decided to go to St. George. It was the year the eat with Christopher's family and they always go to a high school rodeo in St. George. Christopher and not had dinner with them for 8 years and I have never had Thanksgiving dinner with them. This year is Jacalyn last year to rodeo so we went. I was not excited with the idea of eating out for Thanksgiving but we had a lot of fun. It was 60 degrees outside so we enjoyed playing outside.

Tessa enjoyed her Thanksgiving dinner of fruit and ice cream.

I think this was Chloe's best Thanksgiving dinner ever! It consisted of pizza, ice cream, M&M's, jelly beans, and more ice cream.

We went to the St. George Temple to look at the Christmas lights. We walked around the visitor's center and just loved it! They have such a neat visitor's center they had to kick Christopher out because they were closing. He did not want to leave. We had a great vacation and enjoyed spending time with our family.

A lot has happen since Thanksgiving. Tessa turned 1!!!! I know I can not believe it either. She is walking around like crazy and is such a happy little girl. I will post pictures later. I think this is long enough.