Christmas

T'was the week before Christmas, as we headed out, to see our family up north... Okay enough of that, it would take me all night to rhyme this whole thing!

We got to go visit Chris' family in Idaho the week before Christmas,

we love going to visit our Idaho family...

Especially Dempsey

Especially Dempsey when they close the freeway down creating a 3 hour delay

So needless to say the drive up was rather stressful, and we were all happy to arrive!

Every year growing up my amazing mother made each of her seven daughters matching Christmas dresses. So I decided to make (or to attempt) Dempsey's Christmas dress.

Let's just say I barely finished it, (mostly thanks to my mom) and in the process I learned how much I took for granted our Christmas dresses every year. I remember going to sleep everynight through the months of Nov. thru Dec. listening to the hum of my mom's sewing machine. My amazing mother dear gave so much hard work and sacrifice so that we could all have new Christmas (and Easter) dresses. This might not sound like alot, but after making 1 Christmas dress, I am so filled of gratitude for my mom, and all she did for me growing up

I Love you mom.

So this is a picture of the finished product. Sorry it's kinda blurry

I took about 400 pictures in Idaho but their all on my mother-in-law's camera so

when I get them I'll post some.
We came home Christmas Eve

Dempsey loved Christmas morning, she loved her toys, it was so cute to watch her play with them. She loved eating the wrapping paper too!

We are so blessed to have such wonderful family

and friends to share the holiday with. We have so much many wonderful blessings.

We are so grateful for the gospel

and for our Savior, Jesus Christ.


Merry Christmas!

Sweet Caroline

Friday Night,
my sweetie pie surprised me with tickets to my DREAM concert!
The one and only Neil Diamond.....
And it was, hands down, the best concert I've ever been to
Even though we were the youngest people in the Delta Center,
and even though the man is like 80 years old,
and even though we were at the very tip top, with a birds eye view......
It was amazing!
When we first got there and saw that the place was totally packed and Chris was like, " I can't believe how many people are here." But after it was over it was easy to see why. He can still shake it (while playing his guitar!). It was two hours of all his hits, and some newbies, but it flew by way too fast. Heaven. I'm so lucky to have such a thoughful husband. He takes care of me.

It's That time of Year........

.....FAMILY picture time that is. They always stress me out so much!!! We found an awesome photographer, Ashlee Raubach; whom I highly recommend. {Beautiful Girl}

This was me comforting Dempsey right after she fell off a chair onto the ground. What kind of mother puts her daughter on a chair when she know the daughter can't sit on a chair by herself, and will try to crawl off, thus falling off onto the rocky ground? All for the sake of a cute picture....priorities.




They turned out pretty cute
I'm pretty glad their over with
Dempsey looked really pretty even though she wouldn't smile