UTAH

Here are some pictures of our trip to utah!!! I dont have time to post stories but i will soon so be patient. Enjoy these pictures and sorry they arent in order.
destins birdy on lexi's head
holding baby rylen
catching snowflakes
beautiful nativity at the salt lake temple (its in the water!!!)
walking in the snow
BRRRRR it was cold at the salt lake temple! doesnt she look all cute bundled up?

us outside of the salt lake temple!
our snowman

lexi and nana

building the snowman
we didnt want to make snow angels!!!

AWWWWWW ;-)

getting ready to go outside and play in the snow

my little snow tootsie!

too sleepy to open presents

our first baby doll!
almost asleep after opening presents

putting broccoli out for the reindeer because we didnt have carrots!
I DONT WANT TO WAKE UP!!!

puting cookies out for santa
pouring santa some milk!

picking cookies out for santa
helping papa read night before christmas!

listening to her "quiets"

SHE WAS DOING THIS THE WHOLE WAY TO VEGAS!!! it really started to freak me out!

this is all spencer could get of the welcome to utah sign! :-P
looking out the window

I Appreciate Everything You Do!

Mom and Dad- I love you so much. I know i have been the problem child over the years and i wish i could go back and make your life's easier by not being such a pain. I appreciate the fact that even tho i was pretty bad most of the time you stuck by me and helped me through it. I appreciate you doing everything you can to help us out! I appreciate every day that Lexi gets to spend with you. She loves you very much and i couldn't ask for a better person to help me mold my child into the beautiful intelligent little girl she is. I feel like most of the reason she is so smart and polite is because of you guys! You are a wonderful grandparents to her and amazing parents to me! I know i don't say it enough but i do love you more than anything in the world and i can thank you enough for helping me with Lexi and everything else you do for my family! I love you with all of my heart and wish i could truly express how i feel but i promise i will try harder to do so!

Natalie, Jason, Kim, Cameron and Rachel- I know i haven't been the best sister in the world but i love you guys very much. I appreciate your love and willingness to ignore my silly quirks. I love that i can be myself around you and have fun with you guys no matter if its the midnight showing of twilight or hanging out at moms house or spending the night at moms house the day before Kim got married! i love how close we are and i wouldn't change it for anything! I don't say it enough but i love you and am very grateful you guys are my sisters!! and as for you Davis boys... your just trouble! hahah jk. i love you guys and i have always felt like you were family even before you married my sisters. i love that i can joke and mess around with you guys and you play back. i love your sense of humor and that you can always make me laugh. i love you guys very much and appreciate all you do to help my family!

Lori and Anthony- I know we haven't been family very long but i do love you a lot. You have been great in laws and I'm very lucky to have you as my family. I am very to have in laws that i get along with as well as i do with your family. I am very grateful that i can call you when ever i want just to talk! I love your family very much. I love your son with everything i am and i am so grateful that you raised a very good man and i wish you could be down in AZ with us all the time to see what a wonderful father he is to Lexi. I could not have asked for a better husband!

Autumn, Destin, Michelle, Chris, Carrie, Trevor and Tessa- I am lucky to have you guys as my sister-in-laws and brother-in-laws!!! I know i haven't know you long and haven't gotten to spend much time with you but i do love you guys and appreciate you willingness to accept me as your family. I always feel very welcome and loved when we come to visit and i love that i can feel comfortable around you guys. I miss you guys very much and am so excited to come up and be able to spend time with you and the babies! I love you all very much and i want you to always remember that!

MERRY CHRISTMAS... this one makes you think!

*Twas the month before Christmas*
*When all though our land*
*Not a Christian was praying*
*Nor taking a stand.*
*See the PC Police had taken away,*
*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*
*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*
*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*
*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*
* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*
*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*
*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*
*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*
*Something was changing, something quite odd! *
*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*
*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*
*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*
* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was nowhere to be found.*
*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*
*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*
*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*
*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*
*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*
*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!*
*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*
*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*
*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*
* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*
*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*
*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*
*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*
*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*
*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*
*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holiday!*

Best Buddies

Ok so i went over to my friend Jenna's to do each others hair. (ILOVE MINE BTW) I brought Lexi along because their little girly is about the same age as her. When we got there it took Ashtyn a few minutes to warm up to her but after she did they were like best friends the whole night. Lexi loved having a little friend that she could play with. They went and got out the dress shoes and played together in Ashtyns room with all her cool toys. And then there are these pictures which are so stinkin cute i love them!!!


This one is when they were eating their suckers (which Ashtyn so kindly shared) and watching "Po" (kung fu panda)



This is them having goldfish crackers and carrying they're babies around... ADORABLE!!!



And this was after they jumped on the bed for a little while they cuddled up together and thought they were so funny!


they had so much fun that lxi crashed assoon as we got home! its nice having an excuse to go over to a friends house!!! "I have to go see jenna cuz lexi wants to go play with ashtyn." ;-) i love it.

MOTHERS

MOTHERS

Real Mothers don't eat quiche; they don't have time to make it.

Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils are probably in the sandbox.

Real Mothers often have sticky floors, filthy ovens and happy kids.

Real Mothers know that dried play dough doesn't come out of carpets.

Real Mothers don't want to know what the vacuum just sucked up.

Real Mothers sometimes ask 'Why me?' and get their answer when a little voice says, 'Because I love you best..'

Real Mothers know that a child's growth is not measured by height or years or grade...It is marked by the progression of Mommy to Mom to Mother...