Christmas

Christmas was SO much fun this year with Bella! Trevor and I stayed up late Christmas Eve wrapping all her presents (reminded me of my own parents), and we were just so excited for her to see them in the morning. I even had a hard time falling asleep because I was so anxious/excited to see how she'd react.

 

We spent Christmas evening at Mom and Dad Sanford's house.

Bella was such a happy little bug all day. It was a great Christmas-- so fun for us as parents to see our baby girl get so excited (and I know it's only going to get more fun!)

Sanford Christmas

We celebrated Christmas early with Trevor's family since all his siblings were going to be out of town on Christmas day. We had a delicious ham dinner with all the fixin's, opened presents, and then played with our new presents. It's been awhile since all of us have been together at once, it was fun.

We facetimed with Trevor's sister, Lessley, and her family (in Oregon) so we technically really were all together. We got to see their new dog too! Trev is just a little jealous.

The girls were hiding in the corner, going through all the hymn books

(I love their faces in that second photo-- caught in the act..)

Bella loves her cousins, and she absolutely adores Oakley. Every time Oakley even just says hi to her, she lights up and is all smiles and laughs. I think it's because Oaks is the cool older cousin-- she gave her millions of hugs.

Oakley's Christmas Program

Oakley was our little star in a cute Christmas program. I loved watching her be all excited to perform for us. She lined up before any of the kids were there and stayed on her spot-- so cute. Bella had fun running around with all the kids before the program started, and didn't understand why we had to hold her once it began. 

The babies kinda steal the show these days, so it was nice to have something dedicated to Oakley where she was in the spotlight. 

(Her belly kept showing every time she'd raise her arms up, haha. I just love her.)

Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving with Trevor's fam this year-- and Tiara was here too so she got to join us! It was nice to have my sister there. Nicole also brought her sister, and Lacey brought her sister too so there were lots of sisters there to add to the fun.

We hung out all day, ate lots of course, and watched Cars 2 after our big meal (and I made these pilgrim hat treats that we snacked on during the movie).

Weekend Highlights

Spent Friday afternoon with Steph while the girls played together. 

Every time we go to their house, I set Bella down to take my shoes off and she walks straight to the toy baskets with no hesitation. She makes herself at home, it's so funny. This time she searched through all the toys and then I saw her walking around with Woody and Buzz (one in each hand). She's been watching Toy Story lately and she totally recognized them.. it was so cute. She carried them around with her the whole time we were there. My baby is turning into a little kid more and more each day.

(don't mind the drool spot on her shirt.. she's been working on molars for months now)
When the guys got off work, we headed over to the grand opening of H&M. This is the first store ever in Utah to open, so it was craaaazy! They could only let 500 people in the store at a time due to fire code, so there was a massive line just to get in. Our friend Claudia was there and texting me updates-- she waited in line for an hour. We decided to go eat some dinner and see if the line would somehow die down. Good thing we did because when we came back, we only had to wait 7 minutes to get in. Trevor had never been so he didn't understand what all the hype was about. He was like "I expected there to be naked models or something by the way people are acting". It was even in the news. Madness (but so worth it!). We picked out more clothes for Bella than for ourselves, but that's kinda how it goes these days.

The Red Barn

We spent the afternoon at The Red Barn in Santaquin with Trevor's fam. We ate some ice cream (well, I didn't because I was too cold) before being taken on a hay ride to the pumpkin patch. (The barn has a little bakery inside with tables to sit down and lots of cute things to buy. I love the country feel of it.)

Auntie Nicole with her nieces

We brought the puppies and Hurley loved barking at the cows-- and they were scared of him! They totally backed away when he started barking. So funny to see these huge cows afraid of a little wiener dog.

Gardner Village

We went to Gardner Village with Trevor's parents to see all the Halloween decorations. They have tons of cool witch displays-- it was fun to walk around and see everything (and this year Bella could enjoy it too).

We also ate at the big restaurant there (Archibald's).. so delicious! I think it's rare to find a restaurant that's really good. I wanna go back and just get dessert there sometime because we were all too full after our meals.

It was a fun little outing and it was nice to spend some time with mom and dad Sanford.