Playing in the Snow

Today was Brooke's first time playing in the snow. We put her in Wes's old snowsuit from when he was her age (she isn't 2 yet and at that time, he was wearing a 4T), she was swimming in it!

All ready to go outside. Brooke's glove's don't match and one of them goes all the way up to her armpit if you put it on all the way. Poor girl.

She is so happy to be outside with "Wessie" and not inside watching him from the window. The only problem is she can't walk very well in the large snowsuit and all the snow that goes just below her knees!

She took a step trying to get to Wes at the swings and fell. I thought I would see what happens if she tried to get up by herself. Here are some of her faces she made!

First she just kind of pouted, and stuck her bottom lip out for a second. But then I think it got cold. She made a couple of dramatic noises, like little girls do.

Then she got on her knees and looked at me like "What do I do? I am confused. Help me Mom!" But I just took more pictures and that made her ever more mad.

Wes was having fun getting on the swings and twisting around laughing and telling me to take his picture. Then I looked back at Brooke and she was letting "Wessie" have it! All she was saying was..........

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH.........." and that was all! I had to laugh for just a quick second and then I helped her up and gave her a hug and fixed her "glub" so no snow would make her wrist cold. And once again she was happy. It took her a second to try and walk again.

Wes likes to make snow angels. He tried to show Brooke how it is done properly.

When he is finished, he always puts a halo on the top! Can you see it up there?

Here is Brooke's attempt at the snow angel.

Beautiful snow angel isn't it.

This Should Get You in the Holiday Spirit! (Or at least a chuckle)

My brother John made one of these with his kids in it and sent it to his wife Trachelle and Brooke wanted to watch it over and over, so I decided to make one for our family. I hope you get as big of a kick out of it as Brooklyn and I did! It cracks me up more and more each time I watch it! Maybe because they put Dave on a more femine body and me on a more masculine body. Oh well.

Happy Holidays!
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It's the FINAL Countdown....

Wes came into my room this morning worried that the snow was going to melt while he was at school today and he also needed to know how many more days until Christmas, so I got up and made two chains. One for Wes and one for Brooke. You can't see what it says, but the top link says "Santa Comes" in red and each link says "1 day until", "2 days until" and on and on in green and red (in a pattern of colors of course because that is what Wes is learning in school). Yep, we have a "kid tree"! All the delicate ornaments are on the top and the kid friendly ones are on the bottom! What do you think?!

Snow Princess with Shiny Black Shoes

Before church Sunday Brooke had on a red dress with white fuzzy trim around the wrists and collar and her shiny black shoes. But her black shoes are one size too small, so at the last minute we changed them to her shoes that fit. She wasn't so happy with our decision, so when we got home, she didn't even let me finish changing her into her play clothes before she got her shiny shoes back on and started to prance around again!

She went into the front room where the Christmas tree is and found the snow globe of the Macy's Day Parade and was so enthralled with it, I had to take some pictures. She is still only in her onsie, white tights and shiny black shoes. I couldn't pick which pictures to post, so I did most of them! They are in the order that I took them, so you can see at the end, she started to get silly with it and was doing some yoga poses around it and then sat on it and was very pleased with herself! I just let her do her thing and I tried to stay out of her way and just take her picture.

Becky's Baby Shower

Saturday was Becky's Baby Shower. It was alot of fun. She is having a girl, if you couldn't guess by all the pink going on! We had the diaper game that Geneal introduced us to, always a big hit! And had a yummy dinner and opened presents, Aunt Shirley won the Bingo game for the present game, way to go!! It is getting closer and closer to January 5th! You can do it...


Becky's PINK gifts! If she is like me, it took me a couple of days to get used to all the PINK!!!


Aunt Shirley and Aunt Sally, I thought Mom would like to see her sisters!!!


The diaper game, looking and smelling those nasty diapers. What could those chunky things be? Krackel bars? Twix, Hersheys Dark, what? Melted and smashed and gooey, gross!

"Pretty Rylie-Roo" (Cousin)

Wes & Brooke's cousin, Rylie, had a dance recital at the Festival of Trees this week that we went to watch her dance at. She is 3 1/2 and was the very best in her class! She was so "ex-scited"! She went right onto the stage and somehow ended up a couple feet in front of all the other kids! She wanted to be the one who was noticed and in the spotlight. Brooke loved every single dance and yelled and clapped at the end of each one. I kinda thought she would like it. (Wes liked it too.)





There were decorated Christmas trees that were donated that you could buy and the procedes go to the Primary Children's Hospital. They also have gingerbread houses, although someone did the Lavell Edwards Stadium and the BYU-17/UofU-10 game that we just won last weekend! Dave liked that one, so I took a picture of it. It was a fun game.

Silly Haired Girl

Brooklyn always wakes up with the best hair! She had the silliest hair this morning, it was sticking straight up. She wouldn't sit up for me to take her picture, although her hair looked exactly the same laying down and sitting up!