So much fun!

We are having a lot of fun this Christmas vacation! For Christmas we got together with Brad's family. It's always fun to get together with them! We ate lots of good food, played games, relaxed, visited, and a lot of people (including Brad) got to hit the slopes. It was so beautiful up there. I love trees covered in snow!

For Christmas Eve all the kids acted out the nativity. Aleah just wanted to hug baby Jesus.

As always, Aleah had so much fun with her cousins! Aleah is a little blurry in this picture, but I love it because it shows her rolling her tongue and being silly.

This is what Santa left for Aleah. She loves it! She thinks that it is so funny when the balls start flying all over the place.

Christmas morning was great. Here we are in our new pj's.

Here's a couple of cute pictures of Aleah playing with her cousins.

The other day we went out to play in the snow. Don't you think that her little teeth are so cute?

She loved riding around in her sleigh!

Merry Christmas!

Every year I decide that this is going to be the year the I send out a Christmas card. Well, I'm getting closer! This has been a very fun year for us! We have been on some really fun vacations. We have enjoyed spending time with our sweet Aleah and watching her grow! We are so thankful for the birth of our Savior! We are also thankful for our family and friends.

HO HO HO!

Every year since I was a baby my Grandma Stone has had a Christmas party and Santa always comes. It is the same Santa every time so he is pretty much family to me. He is really funny and loving. He knows everything about us and it is always fun to see him each year. When I was little I was always amazed at how he knew everything about me!

When he first gets to the party he comes running in shaking his bells and saying Ho Ho Ho, very loudly. So the week leading up to this party I thought that it would be a good thing to prepare Aleah for the loudness of his entry. Throughout the day I would just start yelling Ho Ho Ho! At first it startled her a little, but toward the end of the week she would join in with her own Ho Ho Ho. So cute! She did really good at the party. She didn't like the feel of his beard, but other than that she was fine. I guess my preparation payed off.

This is most of the family. There was only a few people missing that night. What a fun time. My grandma is so wonderful! I'm thankful that we can get together as a family!

ONE!

It's amazing how that happens! I can't believe that it has been one year since our sweet baby was born! What a blessing and a pure joy she has been in our lives! It might just be my crazy hormones, but it makes me cry every time I think about the fact that I am actually a mom and now I have a one year old. My life has changed so much in the last year and I love it! She is such a sweet girl. I love how she can make me laugh with the silly things she does. I love how she dances to the music (I've been trying to get it on video). I love watching her figure things out. I love her cute cute smile. Every day I find more things that I love about her. I love being a mom and just enjoying my sweet girl!

For her birthday we spent the evening with family. It was a very fun party. Aleah loved the singing!

She is a very clean eater and so it was was fun to watch her delicately pick off some frosting and eat it.

She did so good with her presents. Brad would get it started and then she would gently tear off the paper. She is such a girl!

She had fun. She would give the dolls and stuffed animals a kiss. It was so sweet!
She is now crawling all over the place and about to start walking I'm sure. She had her one year check up and is doing great! We bought her a new car seat, but it looks like we will not be switching her until about the time her little brother gets here. She is still too little, which is good for my hopes that she will enjoy gymnastics like I did! She has four teeth and two more one the way. She is just growing up so fast! So happy birthday to Aleah!

I didn't think it would happen!

I really didn't think that Aleah would crawl. She has shown NO interest in it. She loves walking and so I thought that she would just go straight to walking. Well, everyone told me that it would happen and Aleah proved me wrong! Yay, I'm so happy for her!

We are thankful for family!

The past two weeks have been busy, but tons of fun! First we went down to St. George to celebrate Brad's Dad's birthday! It was a surprise party and he was totally surprised. We had a wonderful dinner. We had some funny skits. Aleah stole the show during our skit, it was so funny! We also got to watch some old videos. It was a great party and so much fun to be around family! I love watching Aleah play with her cousins! We forgot our camera so we didn't get any pictures.

Aleah has now decided that she likes to walk (not by herself yet). Before if I stood her up she would not move her feet. Now it seems like all she wants to do is walk around. She is getting so fast that it's hard to keep up with her sometimes. It is so cute to watch her. She looks so grown-up. So if you have two spare fingers and a rested back, come on over! Between her wanting to walk and my ever expanding belly, I think my back is about broken!

For Thanksgiving we had a big sleepover party at my parents house. It was great! We did a lot of baking and a lot of eating. Yumm! We played some games and of course guitar hero and the new super mario, which is a lot of fun. While we were baking Aleah had a great time playing with the dishes and the cupboard.

She also had fun playing with her cousin in the indoor sandbox that we made. At first she kept saying, "AH OH!", but then she learned that it was ok to be messy. She is so cute, anytime anyone drops something on the floor she says, "AH OH!"

I am so thankful for the wonderful family that I am a part of! I really had a great Thanksgiving!

We got our tree up, decorated, and the house decorated in record time this year! I love having our house decorated for Christmas, it creates such a warm happy feeling. I'm thankful for our Savior Jesus Christ and I'm excited to celebrate this Christmas season!