Lots of pictures!

So I thought I'd better catch up on things before Christmas. On November 30 Tayden Alexander turned 5!!!! I can't believe my baby is 5. We went up to my parent's house in Roy for Thanksgiving and through him a birthday party there (then one with Alex's family back in St. George, we gave him the presents from us on his actual birthday and then the following week had a friend party. I just have two words. Spoiled rotten!) But he's worth it. He got all things rocket, Star Wars or Lego related and was elated. This is a picture of us waiting for the train to Salt Lake to see the lights at Temple square on Thanksgiving night.

This is Tate and Allie with their cousin Haley.

The kids loved the train ride there, but on the way back it was so crowded and late that whatever enthusiasm they had was pretty well gone and we all just wanted to get in our freezing toes into warm beds.



The lights were beautiful except that there weren't that many. I seem to remember every tree being littered with lights when I was younger. Maybe the church is trying to go green because even though it looks it in the picture there really weren't that many lights. It was fun anyway.

Speaking of winter wonderland. We got snow in St. George. Yes that slight frosting on the grass made my kids go crazy and at 9:00 in the morning had to get dressed up in their snow gear and go out to play in it.

Sorry this picture is side ways. This is my little ballerina all ready for her first dance recital. Her two year old class (the twinkle stars) performed to "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas". Allie is so funny because she'd only started doing the dance in class a few weeks before even though she'd been doing it at home forever. I never realized she was shy until now, but when she got up on stage she put her hands on her hips and that's the way she stayed for the whole dance. It was so cute and she was so proud of herself afterward. The video, thanks to Grandpa Charlie is posted on Alex's facebook.

Oh, and I almost forgot. Last week I went to my ultra sound appointment and honestly from the day Allie was born I knew there was a boy. So naturally I thought that this baby was going to be a boy. Then the utlrasound tech. says "it's a girl!" I just started laughing. We brought the kids along because I wanted them to be part of it and see the baby in Mommy's tummy. When the tech said girl Tate just goes "oh man, it's always a girl" Which just made me laugh harder. Poor Tate has nothing but girl cousins on both sides of the family and now another sister. He admitted though, after some prompting from me, that sisters aren't so bad and he's excited for her to come. Allie understands about as much as a two year old can and seems to think the baby in my tummy is just like her baby dolls. I'll have to scan in the ultrasound pics and post them and sorry I haven't posted any belly pictures on here yet either. It's on my to do list.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!