Welcome Beautiful Evelyn Rose Harris

This little girl has already stolen my heart. I love her so so much and she is so sweet.  She came into the world right on her due date and she came quickly! We saw her when she was born, and we also went up to see her Christmas Eve day.  Her sweet mommy and daddy are such good parents and want to do their best at doing all they can for her.  We took her on her first walk and had a great time!  Sami texts us pictures every day and I love having little updates on this girl, she is growing already!

Kendall Cousin Christmas Party

This Kendall cousin party turned out so great! Stephanie did an awesome job planning out the activities and cousin bonding.  I am going to have to get some more pictures of the activities, but you had a word scramble, a Christmas quiz and ate pizza and snacks.  The next thing was to make snowmen! Haha there were 3 teams and we picked one person to be the snowman, wrapped them in wrapping paper and cut out buttons, a nose and scarf.   Another activity was a Christmas light/decoration scavenger hunt.  We split into 3 cars and had to drive around taking pictures of different decorations on the houses, colored lights, 3 blowup decorations in one yard, anble inflata guy on the roof, Disney Themed, Charlie Brown themed, a nativity, Santa and 3 reindeer.....it was a blast!  I had Zach, Avery, and David in my car and we had a great time driving and searching.  After that we had a Disney Sing along, a movie, and Christmas Carols.  It was a good time! I sure do love my crazy family.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert

I won!  I got so excited!  In order to get tickets to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert you have to win a raffle and one day my tickets just came in the mail! So Jacob, and I, and mom and dad went out to dinner at the Blue Iguana, saw the Christmas lights and went to see the Muppets and Santino Fontana.  I loved it!  Every time one of the Muppets came on I was so excited!

Also, the penguin candy ornament was just so cute! We had a great time playing and listening to the great music getting in the Christmas season.

 

The Aquarium

 I loved the aquarium at the old location and I love it even more at the new location!  Sami got some free tickets so Mom, Dad, Jake, Sami, Matt, Grandma T, and I and Jacob went!  We had a great time looking and learning about all of the first and other creatures there. The world and nature are so incredible! I am thankful for God's creations.

 The new aquarium has funny bubble things you can go in to make you feel as though you are in their world.

 Turtle Turtle!

 The Jelly fish are my absolute favorite! I could watch them all day. I want some in my house...

The penguins were hysterical! They ran around, jumped, played & pushed each other in the water ha!

Christmas is Coming!

I was so excited to start our first married Christmas together and start new traditions.  We got a tree that was passed down from Grandma Kendall to Michelle to us, we then went to the store to pick out decorations for it.  Decorating our first tree, listening to Christmas music was the best way to start out the season.  I used my new paint set from Jacob to make homemade cards.  I am so happy to have all my firsts with Jacob.

Sami's Baby Showers

We had two really great showers for Sami and baby Evelyn (and Matt of course but he wasn't there. Everyone was so excited for baby Evelyn to come into our family that the parties were just awesome!

The Friend Shower

The food was delicious delicious!  Homemade bread and crackers with jams and fancy cheeses; mango and cranberry brie with pears. It was seriously so so good

Here are all the people that we love that made the party!  There were so many babies at the party!  It's crazy that we are all growing up and half of us has children, being grown up is weird but fun.

We all got our creative juices going.  We were able to make cute onesies for Eveyln to wear and remember all of the people that love her.

The Family Shower

Everyone pitched in to make this an amazing shower!  Homemade decorations, delicious grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup (and delicious desserts!). We also did a craft at this shower but I forgot to take pictures! But we had wood letters and covered them in bright colored papers to put the alphabet on Evelyn's wall. The Trottier's came and the Kendalls, and the Harris family. It was fun for everyone to mix and mingle.

Halloween Festivities

I have an awesome husband, and one day he said, "we are going somewhere, get in the car".  He took me to DI and also went to every Halloween/costume store within 15 minutes of this place.  We found the PERFECT stuff and we had a great time trying on stuff.  It doesn't sound like much, but it was so exciting every time we found something perfect.   Because we are being Carl and Ellie from up we went to Pop n Sweets and got soda in glass bottles with bottle caps, and colored our own bottle caps while watching UP!  It was one of the best dates we have had!  I mean look how cute he is!

Grandma Kendall's Halloween Party

Grandma's party is always fun!  We made a cool craft, painted black frame, with a creepy picture of a day coming out of the mirror.  Yummy treats and food, and of course the spider web which is fun and gets us all tangled and laughing.

Cornbelly's

Always a fun place!  Jacob loves Halloween and all the things that come with it.   We had a great time jumping on the big air pillow, but realized how old and out of shape we were when we got tired before our time was out.  Probably my favorite thing that we did was the burlap bag slide!  There was also a corn maze, tether-ball, and other games.  We then of course stayed late and went to Insanity Point (the scary parts of this place).  This was Jacob's favorite part but not particularly mine.  But I love him so I try to do scary things with him :).

Dinner Party

The Halloween dinner party at my mom's house was a huge success.  It was so fun to plan and make all the themed food and set up the table all fancy.  We planned on playing games after dinner but we all had such a great time talking that that is all we did all night.  The party consisted of:  Me, Jacob, Kate, Kye, Sami, Matt, Nate, Liz, Mckell, Stef, Sam, Whit, and Jarom along with my parents and grandparents.  What a great group of people! 

And here are Jake and Audrey and Ian's costumes!  They are awesome!