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.