6 Years FLY!

Dave and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary at the end of December. It is just CrAzY that it has been 6 Years!!! Time truly does FLY when you're having fun!

We were still in Utah for our anniversary, my mom so kindly took the kids for us so we could enjoy a night out to celebrate. We went indoor skydiving at a place called iFLY. It was pretty awesome!Dave and I standing outside the chamber after our 'flying' experience.

Here is a video of what can be done in the skydiving chamber at iFLY... Dave and I did NOT look like this in the least! We were pretty much in one position for our entire iFLY experience.... but, this guy (an employee at iFLY) was amazing!!!

We also went out to dinner and a movie (Sherlock Holmes... we recommend it!).

What a great 6 years... it's been filled with adventure, joy, and most importantly LOVE! Can't wait for more!

Utah Christmas Vacation

We spent our Christmas Vacation in Utah with our families. We had a great time! Susie decorating sugar cookies with her Bestamor. Sprinkles galore!!!
Dave, Susie, and I visited my dear brother Aaron's grave on Christmas Eve. There is a peaceful feeling there. Dave said a beautiful prayer at the site, then we left a lit lantern on the headstone, and a heart ornament on the Christmas tree my parents had placed by the grave. We missed him deeply during the holiday's (as always), but my heart is just full of gratitude that he was and is my brother. Love you, Aaron.

Lennon by the tree... had to keep my eyes on this one. Oh, how he loved to UN-ornament the tree!

Christmas Eve

Sister Sadie Joy, me, and my Mamma Mia!

The cousins gathering around for the Nativity story.

Grace holding Lennon.

Susie, the wise man.

Nick, Lennon, and Christa.

Grandpa holding Lennon, Sadie and Ava.

Susie and Dave performed "Must be Santa" together. It was DARLING!
Dave dressed-up as Santa... love the square chest and SUPER curly hair! Susie didn't realize that it was her own dad....

.... Lennon didn't realize it was his own dad either! Poor guy, he was scared to death!

Christmas Morning

Lennon and Susie excited to see what Santa left under the tree!

Digging through the goods in the stockings!

Susie trying on her new fancy dress-ups.

... I think she likes her new attire! :)

Christmas Day

We spent Christmas afternoon and night at Grandma Dorothy's house.

Jak loving his new Hulk-hands!

Dorothy, Scott, Mal, and baby Siena (poor girl was sick the whole night!).

Quincy and Sus so nicely sharing their new Christmas toys. They played so well together!

Grandma Dorothy took us to a Dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point some time after Christmas. Susie loved it! Here she is posing next to her new Dino friend.

My parents hosted a New Year's Day Party for all the Grand-kids. Here are most of the Grand-kids huddled near Bestemor... they all adore her!

Pearl showing Lennon her raspberry fingers.

Lennon pushing Aaron Jr. on the trike, while Sophie tries to stop them.

Bestemor and Grandpa gave all the kids a little piggy bank to paint and decorate. The kids loved their art project! Just look at this messy fun!

After the kids piggy banks were all decorated, they played "JINGO" (Bingo with a Christmas twist) where they earned some coins to go into their piggy bank each time they filled up a row on their boards. (This picture of Susie just makes me laugh... she put these foam stickers on her face and would not take them off!)

We had a great time (as always) with our families over the Holidays... time flew by! Love to you all, from Chicago!

Santa Photo-shoot Attempt

Santa Came Early

About a week before Christmas, Santa left a note for Susie in our mail box. He told her that he was going to be passing by Chicago and that he would drop off some of her and Lennon's Christmas presents early so we wouldn't have to find a way of bringing them back home from Utah (where we would be for Christmas)..... SO thoughtful of him! :)

Susie and I left out a plate of cookies and a cup of hot chocolate for Santa, and a plate of carrots for Rudolf.

Santa left a very-nice, fixed-up, looks-like-new (but isn't) bike for Susie!

Mr. Clause worked very hard to make this bike look so great... he cleaned it, replaced the handle bars, put on streamers and a horn, and even added Dora stickers! (Wish I would have taken a "before" picture to show how drastically better it looks!) I just LOVE Mr. Clause... he's so sweet!

Lenny loved his Elmo Airplane toy!

After the presents were open I asked Susie what her favorite gift was... thinking that the answer was obvious: the bike of course! But, Susie told me that her favorite present was a little-people Princess and Carriage toy she received!... that just made me chuckle! She loved her bike, but hasn't been able to use it much with all the snow and all!

Thanks for stopping by Santa!