Snow days 2

Last week was all about the snow days; schools cancelled, roads covered in ice and snow. One of the days Chad came home early from work. He took Jenna outside to make a snowman! It is the first snowman we have made since we have been married. And is possibly Chad's first ever snowman! They did a great job. After he was all put together, Jenna kept whispering into the snowmans "ear". I heard her say "I want a pink castle for Christmas"!! (This is all she has been asking for since before Thanksgiving) So, Santa/Snowman whats the difference??? Snowmen are made out of magic Christmas snow, right?!! It was really cute.
And who thought, living in the Seattle area, we would need a sled? Not us, so Chad creatively used the snow shovel (which he borrowed from his office). Looks like we will be having a white Christmas afterall! Oh and I added a pic of our Christmas lights. I realized I had forgotten to post it. All of the credit goes to Chad, he worked hard getting the lights up on the second level.

Christmas baking

I found this mom and me apron set at World Market and had to have it! It has the cutest little ruffle along the bottom and is quite festive. Jenna loves to wear hers and even wears it when we go out. So fun!

Running for cover

Here are two little videos of Chad and Jenna playing in the snow. One is what Jenna would do every time the wind came. She would stay that way until the wind was gone.

Such a wonderful daddy!

Snow Day!!

We have had very cold weather lately that brought us snow!! Our church was actually cancelled yesterday due to the icy roads and cold temperatures. Too bad we didn't find out until we arrived at the building to see the parking lot empty.

So, Chad and Jenna decided to enjoy the snow. They made a snow turtle, had snow ball fights (hitting mom with quite a few), and running for cover when the strong winds came. It was so windy that it would almost knock you over. Jenna would run into Chad's arms for protection. It was the cutest thing. I'll have to post a video of it.

Little snow bunny.

Afterward they warmed up with some hot cocoa and sat in front of the fire!

Christmas Rush Fun Run

Last Saturday I participated in my first 5k! It was in celebration of my friend Katie's 30th birthday. What a way to celebrate right?! I thought it was such a great idea and I had a lot of fun. Out of the group, two of us ran the 5k while everyone else ran the 10k. I figured I would take baby steps into this new race world, since I've never really thought of myself as a runner :) But, after Sat. I can't wait to enter another one. I loved having a goal to work toward. I suprised myself by running/jogging most of it, and I felt great afterward. Here is a before pic of us girls. It was so cold, it had snowed the night before but wasn't snowing or raining during the race thankfully.

Finishing strong. So I am no speed demon, but I beat my finishing time goal of 45 min.!


Jenna and Chad came to cheer me on. Jenna was happy the whole time until after I finished, poor thing was really cold.

Still smiling after the race. Happy Birthday Katie (#99)! I am so grateful for such wonderful friends and family, who I called on regularly for support and advice during my training. You know who you are :) love you guys!

decorating the tree

Can you tell what Jenna's favorite color is? They are the ornaments that are all clustered together :)


Putting the angel on the tree

All done. What a good lookin' tree! Every morning Jenna turns on the lights for the tree. So far we have only 1 broken ornament, she is getting better at leaving the tree alone. Oh what fun!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree...

Last weekend we went to a local tree farm to find our Christmas tree. Jenna was so excited, she would stop at every little tree and say "it's as big as me!!" She would then go on to say "but it will grow bigger and bigger as high as the sky." It was cute to listen to her talk about the different trees.

Where is Jenna? :)

While looking for our perfect tree we ran into our friends, the Tyler's. Here is Jenna with Riley. She was so excited to see her, she misses her old nursery friends.

We finally found our Christmas tree! This pic looks a little funny, Jenna is hanging/balancing on Chad's arm.

family at the tree farm

Santa was there too! Jenna was so excited to tell him what she wanted for Christmas. She got a little nervous, but managed to tell him she wanted a pink sand castle??! I don't know where the sand part came from, she has been asking for a pink castle though. In the pic above she is showing Santa the rock she found. This was as close as she would get to him.

3rd annual Gingerbread house party

Last night a group of us friends got together and decorated gingerbread houses. This is the second yr. I have participated in it, but it was the 3rd annual party. We hope to keep it going for many yrs. to come! :) This year however, a little monkey (Jenna) snuck some bites from my gingerbread house so I decided to make cookies! Turns out the girl can't get enough of gingerbread. Pictured above is the final product, a little alien looking, but oh well it was fun.
I had a great time decorating and chatting with everyone. A big thanks to Katie's parents for letting us use their house. And to Katie and Heidi for the delicious catering!

Thanksgiving Vacation

We spent Thanksgiving with my family over in Spokane. It was fun to see My sister Chelsea (she is a freshman at BYU) and my sister Lexi and her little boy Talan. I hadn't seen my little nephew since he was born! What a cutie.
Thanksgiving dinner was amazing, thanks to my Mother and Grandma. Afterward we went to the movies. Chad and my Dad went to "Transporter 3", My sisters saw "Twilight", and My mom, Grandma, Grandpa, Connor, Jenna and I saw "Bolt". We don't normally take Jenna to the movie theater, so I was curious to see what she would do. She was great, her attention was divided about 50/50 between the movie and the fact that she didn't quite weigh enough to keep her seat down. She would bounce up and down trying to make her seat stay, then it became a game! If I tried to talk to her she would Shush me and tell me to be quiet. Silly girl!
Then there was Black Friday. Last year was my first experience braving the early, long lines and I loved it. So, I was pretty excited for it this year. My Dad and my Sister Chelsea also braved it with me. We got up at 4 am to stand in line at Walmart. Side note: Always swore I would never go to Walmart the day after Thanksgiving, it was C-R-A-Z-Y!!
We had a lot of fun together though and we made a great team navigating the diff. stores and checkout lines.
Another fun event was bowling. We love to bowl(Chad is way better than I am) and have passed it on to Jenna. She had a lot of fun, even though she didn't have the bumpers, she did really good. Jenna is also a really good cheerleader :)
Here is a quick slide show of our trip.

We hope everyone enjoyed their Holiday and we look forward to seeing more family during this Christmas season!