Welcome Home Uncle Blake!

My brother Blake spent two years on a mission in the Albequerque, New Mexico Mission. He came home on December 7th. Although the kids could hardly remember him, we had been showing them pictures and they were so excited to see him. It's nice to have the whole family together again.

Christmas Card Pictures

These are the Christmas Pictures that I took for the Christmas Cards that I was not on the ball enough to get mailed this year! I took some to the family I saw and got so busy the two weeks before Christmas that it just didn't happen. However, I appreciated the cards I did get and hopefully next year I will get them out to our friends.

Utah Adventure

Case and Daddy In front of the Draper Temple
In Front of the Draper Temple

Playing in the fountain
Looking Up at the Salt Lake Temple
At the top of the church office building
On the steps of the Salt Lake Temple
Lunch on Temple SquareWalking onto the temple grounds

We decided to take a trip to Utah as a family in early December. We don't travel anywhere besides the Grandpa's and Grandma's very often, so this was so fun for us. We were able to visit our good friends Anthony and April and his parents which was so nice and then Bryan's cousin Brad and his wife Kera. Besides having to change our alternator on the trip and a few other setbacks, it was great. We visited a lot of temples and took pictures of them and the kids were so excited to see the "Big Temple" or the Salt Lake Temple. It's been awhile since I was able to walk around and enjoy the Salt Lake Temple, and I just can't believe the beauty of it. It is beautiful from every single angle. I love the little details, from the doorknobs to clouds, suns, moons, and stars carved into it. The missionaries on the grounds were so kind to us and let us go to the top of the church office building to take pictures from up there. The kids loved the elevator and had fun stomping in the snow at the top of the building. I thought they would be a little more impressed with the view but Case was mostly excited that he could see a garbage truck from clear up there. Haha. He has good eyes! I was so excited with the pictures from our trip and loved feeling the peace on the different temple grounds. You can see the pictures of the temples on my Design Blog.

Trip To Grace

We went to visit Grandpa and Grandma Williams' for Thanksgiving and Case got to do his most FAVORITE thing in the world- Ride the tractor with Grandpa Crae. It's so nice to go there and enjoy the outdoors and open spaces.

More Snow Fun!

The kids couldn't get enough of the snow, so the next time they were ready to play in it again.

Just Cousins

My brother's kids, Ryan and Nori came for a visit and Kate and Nori had a great time together. We made "Princess" Headbands and I to catch some cute pictures of them. The window in the background is an old bathroom window from my great Grandmother's House. I love it!

First Real Snowfall of the Year

The kids were super excited when the snow came down hard in November. I was busy working on things inside and the kids said they wanted to go outside and catch the snow on their tongues. It was so sweet that we bundled up and went out. Later that day, we built a snowman and the kids were so excited to suprise Daddy with it.