Wednesday, January 21, 2009

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.














5 comments:

Shelly said...

Amy, I'm so glad you found my blog! It sounds like you guys are doing really well out in Michigan. How old is Natalie? She really is adorable. Anyway, keep in touch and if you're ever in UT long enough to do another Freshman Roomie reunion (and if we can get Kelli to stay in one place for long enough and Jenna here from Texas...)then it'd be fun to get together.

Kaitlin said...

looks like you had a great time. i'm so jealous you got to go skiing--that would have been nice. natalie looks adorable, as always.:)

Chemene said...

I'm so jealous you got to go skiing. I miss the mountains while living out here. It's just not the same without them.

Chris said...

It's about time we see another post on the blog. Sheesh! oh, and remember that the seat cushions ARE NOT scotch guarded yet. So don't wipe the pasta sauce on them!

Erin said...

Loved the update, guys!! So I'm pretty sad that we missed your visit out to Utah...man...how are we going to make this work?! San Francisco...Wisconsin...and hometowns in different states... We gotta see you guys sometime!! Be brainstorming. We'll make it work. :)