Santa Claus is Coming to Town

On Friday night we went down to Town Center to see Santa arrive. He came into town on a horse drawn sleigh and he helped light the gigantic Christmas tree that was there. He then went into his house to greet the children (for a nomial fee of course). There was even snow. In fact I had to chuckle because I was standing on fake grass looking at a fake tree, with fake snowflakes falling on us. At least they try to create the image of a white Christmas here. I was afraid that we were going to miss the big event, but Brian did some awesome (and probably somewhat illegal) driving to get us there in time. It was a fun night, but I have to admit that I felt the festivites were a bit premature considering that it is November 15th and we haven't even celebrated Thanksgiving yet. I guess the Christmas season is just around the corner and I need to face the facts and get prepared!

Waiting for Santa to arrive

The big guy makes his appearance Leah and Annie pose at the base of the tree

Strawberry Jam

We did a chocolate fountain at a wedding on Saturday night and we had a bunch of strawberries left over, so I decided to make some freezer jam. It turned out super yummy. Maybe you can sense how good it really was by the following photos.

Needless to say they were a sticky mess and had to get in the shower. I am just glad they liked the jam so much.

One month

Lucy is one month old! I can't believe how fast the time is going by. I wish that it would slow done a bit (maybe I should just slow down a bit-yeah right). She went to her check-up today and all is well. Here are her stats:

Weight-8 lbs 13 ozs (50th percentile)
Height-21.25 inches (50th percentile)

Head-37.5 cm (50th percentile)

So she is pretty much average. I always worry about the head measurement because my kids have large noggins and the doctors always seem concerned and want to have a neurology consult done. If Brian was at the appointment they would look at his head and say, "Oh nevermind about that consult. The gigantic head seems to be genetic." Lucy will probably have to deal with this later in her life, but for now we are pleased with being average. She is getting to be more animated. These are pictures that I took of her when we got home from the doctor. She was pretty happy considering she got a shot.

Mom,

I just wanted to let you know that she was not left in her car seat for very long after we got home. I snapped some pictures and got her right out.:-)

Joy

This past weekend, my mom came for a visit. We had a fabulous time. On Friday we went and saw High School Musical 3. It was awesome. We were the only ones in the theater, which is totally the way to go when watching a movie with kids (even Lucy attended). I will even admit that I got a little emotional during the graduation scene. We missed seeing my sister on the big screen, but we enjoyed ourselves none the less. We did some shopping on Saturday and then she got to come with me to book club that night. It was a great time. We read the book Water for Elephants (which I highly recommend) and we went to the circus and saw some great acts. Sunday was the Primary program and Leah did an excellent job with her part. I was glad that my mom was here to see her perform. All in all it was a great time. In fact Annie woke up yesterday and the first thing out of her mouth was "Joy?" Usually her first word in the morning is "breakfast", so she was obviously impressed with grandma Joy. Thanks mom for coming down. It was a great weekend!

Halloween

This year we had a great Halloween. Our trunk-or-treat was super fun. Leah invited her little friends from across the street to come and they did. We passed out lots of candy and saw some great costumes. The best part of the holiday was our surprise. This year Nevada Day happened to fall on Halloween, so since Brian didn't have school we decided weeks ago that it would be fun to drive up to Ogden for the 3 day weekend and surprise our families. This was especially exciting because there were so many who hadn't met Lucy yet and they got a chance to get acquainted.

Photos of Lucy

So I took some pictures of Lucy today. They are a little on the boring side seeing as how she just lays there, so they all pretty much look the same, but I figured that the peeps in Utah wouldn't mind. I can't believe that she will be 2 weeks old tomorrow. She is super good baby and we just adore her.

I think that is almost a smile

If this had been Leah or Annie I would have told them that I was going to cut off their tongue with the scissors, but I will let this time slide

Great Harvest Bread

Many of you have heard me rave about the awesome tour that we took to Great Harvest Bread. I couldn't believe how cute it was. On Friday night there was a little Halloween party at Great Harvest Bread and we were not disappointed. There was face painting, fortune telling, candy gathering and cookie decorating.

*Just a note to let you know that the girls are not wearing their costumes that are for this year. We are still waiting on a few important minor details to be completed, so we used costumes from our ever growing collection.

Leah requested a sparkly nose and whiskers

Annie got a sparkly, pink butterfly

Decorating our cookies

More cookie decorating (Lucy is snuggled away in the black pouch)