The Big Snowstorm

Yesterday morning Lilly and I woke up to snow. It was the first real snow I have seen since we moved here. It continued to snow a little throughout the day. They sent Gus home early from work and the plows and salt trucks were out. This is nothing compared to the storms in Idaho but out here this was BIG. There was barely enough to make a snowball. I love it. Lilly and I just had to go out and play!

Tasting the Snow
Wiping off someone's car
Finding a dead leaf

Weekend at Pop Pop's

This weekend we took a trip down to Richmond to see Grandpa Henshaw (Pop Pop) and Betty Sue. Lilly had a great time helping herself to the candy from the crystal candy bowls every chance she could get. She was even caught a few times stuffing candy into her pockets.

On Sunday, after church, we bundled up and took a walk around the farm. We visited the beagle dogs and chickens, ran wildly through the open fields, found the pond Gus was baptized in, and took lots of pictures.

Later, Aunt Patty and Amy came over for lunch. Then we packed our bags and left for home. It was a fun trip.

Lilly loved giving Pop Pop and Betty Sue hugs
Aunt Patty gave Lilly a cute monkey book

Lilly's amazing smile

Getting her mittens stuck on the thorny branches

Another amazing smile from Lilly

Christmas 2008 Part 2

After our stay in Utah we drove to Idaho to spend time with my family.

We opened MORE presents

Ate suckers at Great Grandma Arnold's house

Jumped on the trampoline for 45 minutes straight at Great Gran's house

Loved on Great-Gran

Loved on "Ga Ga"

Loved on "Granna"

Loved on"Bray"

Loved on "Jay"

Loved on the cats

Played with Cousin Chloe

Played in the massive amount of snow

Got pulled on the sled

Played with cousins

Realized that there isn't much of a height difference between these three. Berkley-almost 4 Brinley- just turned 3 Lilly- just turned 2

Gus loved riding the snowmobiles with the boys.

I also had a great time even though there is not ONE picture of me while we were there.

Christmas 2008

Well I don't even know where to start, so I'll just jump into to. We got back on Sunday from our almost 2 weeks vacation to Utah and Idaho. We had such a fun time, but we were definitely ready to come home. When we walked through our front door Lilly ran inside saying, "Nee Nee's house!" "Nee Nee's couch!" "Nee Nee's toys!" and on-and-on about everything in the house. She really missed being at home.

The airplane ride to Utah was flat out horrible. It will be a long time before I fly with Lilly again. She screamed for almost two hours. She was tired, it was late, and she just couldn't get comfortable in daddy's lap. It was not a fun 5 hours.

We stayed in Utah for the first few days of our vacation. Lilly loved playing with her long lost cousins, getting into the girls makeup, snuggling with "Ga Ga" and "Granna", watching the dog play in the snow out the window, waking up at 4 am every morning, singing karaoke, making food with Granna, playing the piano, singing songs all day long, and playing with her aunts. It was just a great time.

Lilly got into the girls mascara at least once a day

On Christmas Eve, the kids acted out the Nativity. Lilly was pretty tired but she managed to sit down for a minute so we could get some pictures. Then the kids opened their jammies.

Christmas morning Lilly loved opening all of her presents, and a few that weren't hers. Her very favorite gift was the big bag of gum from KA.