Friday, December 29, 2023

October-December 2023 Highlights

Soccer games with Davis

Gigi loves when we come and have lunch with her.

Coloring with Theo

It was our first year getting season passes to Cornbelly's and the kids are obsessed.


Lindsey and I enjoyed a fall with lots of hiking. So excited to have them move to the area!

Lots of riding.

Andy's first choir concert!

Birthday pedicure!


Loving some sort of show at Cornbelly's




We even did a Cornbelly's date night and went to Insanity Point with Rachel and Jake.

Liv, Gigi, Violet

I got to come on the first grade field trip and had a blast!


What a great class and a great teacher. We love Mrs. Swalberg. I bet she'll be Violet's favorite teacher forever.

Crazy hair day!

I always have lots of treasures show up on my phone.

Right after I night I was telling I'm too overwhelmed and I can't handle him going on any more trips, he was invited to go pheasant hunting with Blakely in South Dakota. And yes, they flew there on a private plane. How could I say no to that? He had a blast!




Our headstand queen. She does them all day long. And she has the abs to prove it.

Cornbelly's with Avery!


Went with some neighborhood friends to Pinner's Conference!

Went to the Taylor Swift Eras Tour movie with Shawna/Monroe and Carli/Gigi/Jules.

Cutest friends

Happy Bday to Grandma Kathy (Or Kaffy, as Davis calls her)! Pumpkin pie is her favorite.

Snuck away to a John Mayer concert with Kasee

Our little artist.

Andy, post-surgery

Andy's not exactly thrilled to take pictures with me these days.

We went to a BYU football game! Our seats ended up being close to Brendan and Fordy, which was so fun.



Cutest primary kid.

Salute to Youth with the gang

Rachel and I ran the Thanksgiving Point 10K on Thanksgiving morning. It looks like that's the only Thanksgiving picture I got?!

A birthday lunch to celebrate my friend Aom

A Christmas party with Violet's friends.

I went to see our cute neighbor Mitt in A Christmas Carol with some neighbor friends.

We did breakfast with Santa at Thanksgiving Point and got to meet lots of other fun characters.





A real reindeer!



My favorite girl!

Dressing a girl is the best. I think her style is so cute.

All ready for Cameron's MCO concert!

Cameron has loved singing in Millennial Choir.

Cuties playing Trouble. Davis loves to play with friends (Trey and Clark pictured here).

Gigi and Violet dancing at our ward Christmas party.

We got to go see our talented neighbor Alexa dance in The Nutcracker as a party girl.

I'm a sucker, so we've begun a tradition where she gets to pick out a new nutcracker every year.

We love the awesome Christmas lights house in our neighborhood.

My students did a Christmas Recital at the place Gigi lives. It was so fun to play for her and her friends. She was very proud!

Davis and Theo with their cute Sounds Beginnings music class. He loved his first semester!


Max in the Christmas Sing--the 4th graders always do a fun song about Blitzen.

Cutest Davis. I think they did "Feliz Navidad" and it was adorable.

I don't remember what Violet sang, but she looks happy!

Violet and Owen Avarell were partnered up for something in school!

I got to take these three to the Curiosity Museum. We had a blast!

Our annual sugar cookie night with the Craguns and Thomases.





Kasee surprised us with this hilarious gift. It's a blanket of us when we were dressed up as Walter and Jesse from Breaking Bad back in 2013 (yes, I was pregnant).

Ready for "Santa Symphony!"





Cousin Christmas party! We had a blast.

Always the best white elephant gift exchange.


Davis and I got to hang out with Ellie.

Activity Days party at Airborne. Lucky Max!

Christmas Singers Company performance!

Gigi and Violet

Venna, Avery, and Violet. Venna's "over it" face always cracks me up.

Violet loves Miss Christy

I decided to be a fun mom this year and let Andy and Max each throw a Christmas Party. They each did a white elephant gift exchange. (Kade, Cole, Grayer, Jayden, and Jude were there.)

Davis trying out the fun game I bought for a class party.

Max's class party

Max got "cold, hard cash" from Eli at his Christmas Party. The $5 was frozen in the tupperware haha.

Cohen, Eli, Kris, and Ford were there. (Danielle was there too, but wasn't pictured.)

We got to do the Polar Express this year! My cousin Kameron booked a whole car, so we got to join in and go with all of Dale's kids and hang out with them. Andy had a soccer party so he couldn't come.


Violet hung out with my cousin Lauren's daughter Brooklyn and loved her. I'm pretty sure this influenced her naming her American Girl doll she got for Christmas "Brooklyn." :)

Uncle Dale with Max


I loved watching my kids hang out with my cousins' kids!

Me and Lauren

My cousin Ryan did this fun group shot.

We went to see windows at the Grand America as usual. I can't remember if Andy didn't come or just didn't want to be pictured? He's bowing out of a lot of things these days.



We went to see the Elf Musical with the Craguns and Thomases.

Our Christmas Eve morning movie! I kept tradition by taking a nap--I'm always so exhausted by the time Christmas Eve comes.

The Baileys invited us over to celebrate Winter Solstice.

Cute presents from Brendan and Madi.

Violet got an American Girl doll this year and is very into her and all her clothes/accessories.

We went to see Wonka and loved it!

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