Lovin that Italian Grandma!

For Christmas this year, Nate's Grandma flew in from Florida. She is hilarious. We had so much fun spending time with her. She is Very Italian and I love listening to her speak. I loved these pictures of her with the kids! Enjoy!

Make-up-Overs

For Christmas the only thing that Addy wanted was a make-up-over. You might be asking yourself how do you give a 3 year old a make-over? Well, leave it to Santa to make that wish come true! He got real creative and got a beautiful white vanity for the princess to sit at! We then opened a huge pink sparkling trunk full of real makeup, then to finish off the makeover experience, he brought a jewelery box full of earrings, necklaces, rings, and bracelets. We now get to enjoy gems like these full of make-over fun:

Notice the White Vanity

This is what her eyes look like most of the time

Any visitors also get make-up-overs

Bling!

Red is our favorite Choice of Lipstick

My Personal Favorite

Does anyone recommend a good make up remover?

Top Five

Happy Thanksgiving! I am so grateful for the many blessing that I have in my life. I love this time of year that we can truly remember all the things that we are grateful for. Thanksgiving has always been a fun time of year for me because not only is it Thanksgiving, but my birthday usually falls around Thanksgiving too. My Brother's birthday is the day after mine so we usually spend the whole week partying and having fun. People often ask if I like having a birthday around another holiday so to answer the question I have come up with the following:

Top Five Reasons to Have your Birthday around Thanksgiving...

5. Who doesn't want to stuff their face for days and days with Thanksgiving feast, then birthday meals, pies, ice cream, more pie, more ice cream, more thanksgiving feast....follow the pattern several times throughout the weekend.
4. Everyone is in the Partying mood.
3. Everyone is around to Party with you.
2.You can pack up and leave for a few days to go to Fiesta Texas on your birthday and enjoy getting sick on all the rides after you have eaten for hours on end. (refer to #5)
1. You can sit on Santa's lap while at Fiesta Texas and tell him all the things that you want for Christmas that you didn't get for your birthday.

So the answer is YES I love having my birthday around Thanksgiving. We had a great weekend and I can't wait to party again for Christmas!


Crazy Cowgirl
Benson was my bud on most of the rides

How can you resist this face?


Adelyn told Santa she wanted a makeover for Christmas. What child even knows what a makeover is?

Octoberishness

We had a fantastic October! It flew by with all the fun events we had going on! We went to Utah for conference and to visit family, spent some time at the Lexington in Corpus, went to a pumpkin patch, and of course carved pumpkins and trick or treated! Can't wait to see what November is like!

So You Think You Can Dance? Addy CAN!

Announcing the official debut of our very own Prima Ballerina! The long wait was finally over as Adelyn took her first steps into the dance studio on Monday morning. She was so excited she could hardly stand it. I am so excited for her, I can hardly stand it! She is taking tap and ballet and it was so adorable to watch her learn her first dance moves!

Beautiful

Yesterday was a beautiful day. We were able to go to the temple to see Nate's older brother sealed to his wife Kily and son Joshua. It was the first time that all of Nate's family (except for his youngest sister)have all been able to be in the Temple together. One of my favorite things about the gospel is knowing that we can be with our families forever. It brings me peace of mind knowing that Nate, Adelyn and Benson are mine forever! I love my family and feel so grateful to my Heavenly Father for blessing me with such wonderful parents, brothers, sisters, kids, in-laws and husband. I love you guys!

A Taste of the Baltic

Happy Summer! We have been so busy this summer...I'm going to need a vacation from all my vacationing! We had the AMAZING experience of going on a Baltic cruise. One of the perks about Nates business is that he has the chance to win trips that the companies offer as an incentive to write their products. This year was a trip to the Baltic on the Regent Seven Seas cruise ships! We were gone 10 days and had a wonderful time! We started by flying into Copenhagen Denmark. Copenhagen was probably my favorite stop of the whole trip. I have a lot of ancestors that are from Copenhagen and my grandpa also served his mission there. We were also able to see the original Carl Bloch paintings that are very popular in our church and the original statue of Christ that is found also in the Salt Lake City visitors center . We also went to Visby Sweden, St. Petersberg Russia, Helsinki Finland, Tallinn Estonia, and Stockholm Sweden. It was an amazing trip!