Home for the Holidays, 2012

December 23rd- January 5th

We flew into Utah the day before Christmas Eve.  It's always so fun to be able to go home for the holidays.  Todd and I both get so excited when we start to see mountains and snow from the airplane!

This year, we spent Christmas Eve with my family at the Ogden Athletic Club.  Kind of a random place to spend Christmas Eve but we love it.  After the club closes for the day, my uncle always reopens it for us.  We spent the evening playing basketball, tennis, and swimming.  Then the grandkids  acted out the nativity for us.

Isn't my grandpa so cute?!

After the club, we went back to my parents house to open our new Christmas pajamas.

And my dad wanted a picture of my sister and I both being pregnant.  We're both having girls and they

will be a little over 3 months apart!  She's due a few weeks later in this picture and I'm 22 weeks.

Christmas morning- waiting on the stairs before we can go into the family room. 

Lenna and Henry make Christmas morning pretty exciting!  It was so fun watching them open all there presents!

That afternoon we headed to the Gilbert's for more gifts and dinner.

The rest of our time in Utah consisted of enjoying time with family and friends.  Here's what was documented through pictures...

Lots of skiing for Todd.  He went on a ski trip to Grand Targhee with his dad and brothers to go cat skiing.  He loved it and still talks about it today.  He also went just about every other day either to Snowbasin or somewhere in the backcountry.  

I went once when we took Lenna for her first time.  She did awesome and loved it! 

Sledding! I took Henry out just to go down a little hill in my parents yard and then all of a sudden my dad comes around the corner on the four-wheeler ready to pull us around the yard.   

Todd can never go to Utah without hiking! Even if it's a blizzard outside.  

Jazz game- Unfortunately they lost but we sat right by Ty Burrell so I was happy!  It was also good to see the Woods (Eric and I were able to live our dream of being 100 club members but will probably never happen because our spouses don't support us on that one!) and the Innes from across the court. 

Trip to Idaho to see my parent's house/cabin that they are building.  It's on the snake river so of course the boys had to go out and test how strong the ice was. 

 

City Creek and Todd's best friend, Tia.  He loves that dog!  

New Year's Eve!  We celebrated with the kids on Richmond's time (10pm Utah time).  None of us even made it to midnight!  We were all so exhausted that once the kids went to sleep, we followed soon after!

And spending lots of time with these two! 

Until next time...