Christmas

This year we spent Christmas together as a little family. We had a good time playing with all our new toys. We also had a good turkey!

Santa

We are not having much luck with Sophia liking Santa. These pictures are fun memories though! Just for fun I posted pictures of last year and this year. Last year Grandma and I took her to see Santa at the public library. They did a really good job there. I liked that Santa gave the kids a goodie bag and the library had a craft for the kids to do. This year we took her to see Santa at Albertson's, because Justin wasn't able to go see him at the library.

This year Santa remembered that Sophia is a little scared of him, so he had me sit on his lap too!

baking cookies

Last year we made chocolate chip cookies with Grandma Godfrey. This year we made it a tradition. We hardly ever make cookies so this was a special treat for Sophia. We missed you Grandma, but we hope you enjoy the pictures and video!
eating the chocolate chips

helping

Christmas dress

snow storm

Monday was the first storm this season that brought us enough snow for Sophia to play in. Notice how the grass is still poking out though. She had fun. We didn't build a snowman because the snow was too powdery. Oh, and her snow gear from last year still fits. I can't believe it.

random...

Sophia discovered that mommy's shirts make great dresses. She loves to wear dresses lately. What a girlie girl!

Spider is a fun playmate for Sophia!

pictures from Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we went to my family's house. We had a lot of fun. Some of us went to see the Twilight movie Thanksgiving night. I thought it was good. It wasn't my favorite movie ever, but it was okay. I think they did a good job casting most of the characters. A lot of them weren't how I pictured them to look, but they did a good portrayal, if that makes sense.
I went black Friday shopping with my sis-in-law. We went to Wal-Mart first, and it was soooo crazy. If I don't have to go next year, I won't. We also went to a video game store, which wasn't nearly as crazy. We went to another Thanksgiving on Friday with my mom's family. We went to my friend's wedding reception, and to my grandpa's. I had a lot of fun visiting and playing with my family. When we got back from our visit we had gained a few pounds! Ha ha!

My mom with the jello salad. It was good! I think Justin is adjusting well to these Utah jello salads.

My dad carving the turkey. It's tradition!

The food. Yummy!

Sophia is ready to eat!

Sophia with her cousin Ari the next day at breakfast. I love watching them play together, or side by side I should say. They love each other's company. They had so much fun playing in Grandma and Grandpa's basement.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving. We love our family, and we miss the ones that we couldn't be with. We are glad that this year we won't be at Primary Children's for Thanksgiving, at least not that I know of.

I am very thankful for my guitar heroes:)

pictures from the last week

This girl loves to wear her swimsuit. I've been telling her this week that her swimsuits are in the laundry or I can't find them. It has been nice to get some pictures of her in normal clothes! But then today she saw a picture of herself in one of her swimsuits and I caved. And so the cycle continues....
This one is Sophia on Sunday all dressed up. It's hard to capture just how cute she is, especially when I can't get her to look at me. I think I had a thing for the pink flower clips this past week.
Sunglasses of course! Not hers though.

Brushing her teeth. She loves to do this all by herself. She mostly just likes to suck on the toothbrush instead of brushing.

These next two I took on this perfect day for taking pictures. She was all dressed and the day was cloudy, but beautiful. Still couldn't get her to look at me though...

BYU UTAH Game

This weekend Sophia had her first non-family member babysitter. I think Wednesday or Tuesday Justin decided to try and find some tickets to the BYU vs UTAH football game. He found some on ebay. BYU got Killed! We still had fun though! It was definetly an experience going into a stadium filled with Utah fans when we were dressed in BYU gear. This was my first time going to see this match up, and Justin's second.

Both bands on the field....I thought the flag was very cool!



Look at all the red! Yikes!

Our weekend at Jessica and Jonny's wedding

At the reception back in Vermont Jessica, Jonny, and us.


Jessica and Jonny at the Boston temple

Jessica and Jonny getting ready for pictures at the temple

the Boston temple at night with plenty of mist or fog floating around

Us at the Boston temple

Justin and Jessica at the reception

crazy kitty

Couldn't forget a pic of Sophia playing in the leaves.

Our cat has been doing some really funny things already. Above is a picture of him in Sophia's crib drawer. We had put him in her room that day, so he wouldn't jump on the table while we were eating dinner. Once the door to her room was open, we didn't remember seeing him come out. We searched all over her room. All the dresser drawers were closed, but we searched them anyway. Plus under her furniture, and in her closet. Everywhere! Then finally Justin checked the drawer under her crib. Our sweet little cat had crawled in the back way and fallen asleep. We waited until he woke up to get him out.

Below is a video of him going after things on the tv.

there's a new addition to our family...it's a boy!

On Halloween Justin called to ask me if he could bring a gray kitty home for Sophia. He found it at one of the grocery stores he works at. I said I was fine with it as long as he thought it would be okay. The kitty turned out to be a black kitty after it was clean. He left the kitty home while he went to get a litter box. I was so afraid it would use the potty somewhere I didn't want him to. Thank goodness he waited for his litter box. We weren't planning on getting a pet, but it has been working out really well. He is very patient with Sophia, and very cuddly and cute. He makes Sophia laugh with his crazy antics. He reminds Justin of his favorite cat he had growing up. It died on Halloween, and we got this one on Halloween. We are naming him Spider since we got him on Halloween, and he has an hour glass mark on his nose. I think we will call him Spidee as a nick-name. It only took us three days to figure out a name....

This video is Sophia's reaction to her new pet.

Halloween

For Halloween this year Sophia was a ladybug. Last year she hated wearing her costume so much we couldn't even take her trick-0r-treating. This year my brother Shane and his wife Lorrie came to visit us. We went to the ward trunk-or-treat. It was really fun. They had a soup and chili dinner. Then games for the kids, and of course trunk-or-treating. After that we took Sophia trick-or-treating. She filled up her entire bucket, and guess who ate it? Everyone, probably mostly me. She still has a little left.

These videos are especially for the grandparents!

A collection of Sophia pics

I thought that I would post some of my favorite pics of Sophia, since she recently turned two. They are out of order, but I don't want to start over.

This one is her at 4 months.

Sophia at 2 months

Sophia at 1 1/2 months.

Sophia at 1 month

Sophia as a newborn.

8 months

9 months

7 months

Probably 6 or 7 months

4 months

23 months

21 months

18 months

1 year old-on her Birthday.

9 months