RIP

So.. Amy neglected to post our most exciting news. Natalie is officially off the binky/pacifier. We had been talking about it and then one night last week I was studying late at school and I got a text from Amy saying she took away the binky. Natalie only cried for 5 minutes and then went to bed. The following times she went to bed she only asked for it, but didn't cry. We were expecting a lot harsher transition, but Natalie proved she is even more perfect. Personally, if she would have cried I would have given her binky back in a heartbeat Luckily Amy is the enforcer. Natalie keeps growing up it sucks!

Catching Up

We were very excited to get to St. George for the break expecting nice warm weather, but instead we were greeted by cold snowy, that's right it snowed on Christmas Even in St. George, weather. Natalie was already for it though with her cute hat.

Natalie got pink cowboy boots from my grandma, as you can tell she loved them and wouldn't take them off, she even wanted to wear them with her pajamas!

On Christmas Eve my family has a program where we sing songs, act out the Nativity and have fun. Natalie enjoyed the piano the most as you can tell. She is playing it with Grandpa above and with her cousin Josh below.

With a little prompting Natalie agreed to do her part of the program, act out the Primary Song, Once There was a Snowman, this is her melting.

Right before the night's festivities we had dinner and Natalie insisted on having all of the cups she could find, crazy girl. After we spent a week with my family in St. George and did lots of fun things, like riding horses (apparently our camera did not make it to that event) and we also got to go to the park, on the one nice weather day while we were there to play tennis and Natalie loved the slides we went up to visit Patrick's family in American Fork. The highlight of the trip for Patrick was skiing almost every day we were there. I went with him one day, we had a great trip.

Lynsey, Patrick's sister, and his Dad eating lunch during our ski break.

Patrick and I at the top of the mountain waiting to go down. While we were skiing the weather got progressively worse throughout the day, this picture is right before lunch as the sky grew darker. It got windy, but overall it was a fun, adventerous day, Natalie got to stay with Grandma and eat her favorite Cafe Rio quesadilla for lunch.

Sorry a little out of order, but this is us before we started skiing for the day.

The sweater Natalie is wearing in this picture has a funny story behind it. Patrick's sister Lynsey gave it to her over the break, the funny thing is that it was hers, she bought it at Banana Republic and accidentally dried it, the sweater shrunk enough to fit Natalie, crazy huh? Well the moral of the story is, if the sweater says don't dry it, DON'T, but we love the sweater, thanks Aunt Lynsey.

The apron Natalie is wearing came from my sister Nicole, doesn't Natalie look cute? She is so helpful in the kitchen these days and loves to cook.

Sorry this post is kind of all over the place, and more pictures to come, I can't figure out what happened to the ones of Natalie opening her kitchen and I also have some from Christmas morning, sorry it has been so long since we posted, we will try to be better.