I love my new camera!

I have been trying out stuff with the macro setting (closeup stuff). I did some action shots of Jack dancing too (in his new cute outfit, thanks Mom)

Christmas!

We spent Christmas Eve and Day and the day after at Matt's grandmother's home in Virginia. We did stockings from "Santa" in the morning which is always fun and unpredictable. We made it home Friday evening and had our own little family Christmas. It was very nice, we had a fire going in the fireplace, the kids got some pretty cool stuff, then went to bed and Matt and I finished opening our remaining gifts together. He got me the two things I wanted most this year, Mama Mia dvd and a new digital camera! I was very excited. He was happy with his Christmas also. The Nativity story was told with our little people display which was very cute and the kids even listened for the most part this year. All in all a great holiday. We still have one more Christmas to do over at KK and Baba's on Sunday evening. I love Christmastime! Can't wait to hear how everyone else's went!

30 Weeks, Christmas fun coming next...

I turned 30 weeks on Christmas day. So here I am...

more to come...but for now...

We went to our Ward Christmas party on the 13th. Had some dinner, loved the potatoes (the kind with the cornflakes on top), then each auxiliary was asked to perform something. So my Young Women's Presidency and I did our version of the 12 Days of Christmas, the 12 Days of Young Women. It was very fun, I think we did a good job.
There are other things I have pictures of but this is it for now until I get them off my camera.

the compare...

here is the pic in the same dress from july and last weekend

The Big One.

This is going to be a big post because I can't seem to ever sit down after things happen and write about them/post pictures. So here is everything from the last little while. Above, just cute pictures of Jack and Christian all dressed up to go somewhere, I can't remember. Oh, spaghetti supper? I don't know. Anyway...
Jack turned 4 on November 30th. We had a little family party where the tradition is to hide presents and the birthday boy does the hot/cold game to search them out. It was fun to watch Jack. There was also a really cool candle that spun and blossomed and played a happy birthday turn, it was pretty sweet. That night we celebrated Matt, Jack, Emily and Karen's birthdays, all November.




Then we had his party with a few friends. It was a shapes/colors party. They all seemed to have a good time. No tears, no fights, it went well. This was probably the funniest part of the party watching them try to pop all the balloons.



Geri and Me after our Presidency meeting. 26 almost 27 weeks (me) and 25 weeks (Ger).


We had our Stake Christmas Gala dance. Here are some friends at the party plus, Matt and I took a prom pic, aww.
I thought it was funny, I wore the same dress that I did to my high school reunion in July. A bit of a difference.