COOKIES!

My sister and I went to my parent's house last night to make x-mas cookies with my mom. After a yummy dinner we got to work on peanut butter kiss, snowball, choc. chip and sugar cookies. My dad ran all over the house after McKayla so that I could concentrate on my fine cookie skills..Ha..as I spoke the words "I don't think I've actually ever used my rolling pin" and rolled my mom's rolling pin over the sticky dough, my dad informed me that I might want to put flour on the pin first...oops(dangit, I was feeling so domestic recently) :-0. McKayla made her first x-mas cookie...a x-mas tree with multi-colored sprinkles...and ate a ton of cookie dough and sprinkles. She also shared the sprinkles with my parent's dog by banging on her tray so hard they would fly off onto the floor (Merry x-mas Nikkita). It was so much fun hanging out with my mom, sis, dad and Kayla and we even brought a chocolate chip cookie home for Todd.

Getting "into" the book

While reading this morning, McKayla really wanted to "get into" her books...

Happy 30th

We went to Cafe Madrid for my friend Kim's 30th birthday celebration and had a great girls night. The food was awesome and it is such a cute place! Three of us went in together and gave Kimmy her first piece of Tiffany jewelry which I think she enjoyed and was suprised with :-). When they brought out her dessert they turned down all the lights in the retaurant and played this special music while they brought out the dessert with a candle in it (definitely had the whole place looking at her). They also have a spanish tradition of taking Sangaria for 12 seconds (really, can anyone do that?!). Kim was a great sport and took a little one for one second...Go Kimmy! Happy Birthday to one of my best friends...love you girl and here's to many more!!!

Family Night

Last night we went to the SLC Temple Square to check out all the lights (I realized last week that I have walked by them every day for work for 6 years and never stopped to enjoy them). It was a little crazy b/c they had an event going on, but once we found parking it was easy to get around. McKayla was nice and bundled up and her favorite part was looking at the sheep in one display.

Bumped and Bruised

Kayla had a rough weekend...between falling off the couch and falling onto tables. She ended up with her first two real bruises (one on her temple and one on her cheek)...our poor little girl! To top it off the poor thing is also getting her first molar :-(

The bruise on her temple

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

A few lights were out for this picture, but you get the idea ;-)

with the flash off

with the flash on

New Decor

I've seen the phrases/sayings in people's houses and always thought they were cute. I finally decided to do a couple in our house. Something little, but something fun and new :-)

"Always and Forever"- Over a picture from our wedding

"All because two people fell in love" over a picture of McKayla