Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was so much fun! This is a picture of Daci and I in front of the tree that morning.

Rick and Daci

We went over to Rick's Grandma Jean's house. Rick put Daci in this old bike and rode her around. She LOVED it!

Then we went to visit Grandma Jean's sister in the nursing home

Then we went back to his Grandma's house to visit for a while longer.

Grandma Jean with Eleni

Then we went over to my mom's house for our traditional Chicken Noodle Soup Christmas Eve dinner, frosting cookies for Santa, and opening our Christmas Eve presents. Daci got really into frosting her cookies. She loved it!

She also loved eating them after she frosted them :)

Dawson

My dad

My mom, who always frosts hers to perfection!

Rick

More Daci

I had to prove that I frosted too :)

Daci was pretty hopped up on sugar when we were done frosting!

Getting ready to open her Christmas Eve present

Ripping into it

Before I got her dressed in her new pj's

Her new pj's and elmo slippers

She also got a new blanket. She is such a blanket girl. She takes it wherever she goes so her other one that I got for her just 6 months ago is pretty nasty now.

Reading her new book

Rick took her back up to the Roberts house to put her to bed and I stayed behind to make sure that Santa brought her her presents :)

When we got back to the Roberts house we had fun hanging out with Rick's parents, Sophie, and Carly and Micah. Fred made a scrumptious cheesecake!

Penny worked on Sophie's new stocking. And Carly, Sophie and I painted our nails red and tried on makeup :) So much fun!

It was such a great Christmas Eve!

The Week before Christmas

We went to The Roberts Family Christmas Party out in South Jordan. This is a picture of Rick's mom and sisters: Carly, Sophie, and Penny

This is Carly's husband, Micah, and her daughter, Eleni. Eleni has this new funny face she has been trying out. So cute!


Rick and I at the party. I was really tired that night, if you can't tell :)

We had a Chevalier (my high school drill team) reunion while I was there. Everyone wasn't able to make it but it was so fun to see the girls that could! I LOVE these girls! We have had some fun memories :)

One of my all-time best buds. Love ya, Trish!

My amazing coach, Nikki. She is awesome!

One morning we woke up to a blanket of snow over EVERYTHING! It was kinda exciting because up until that point I had only had one snowstorm. We had some snowfall in Chicago a few days before I left for Utah and then we hadn't had any significant snowfall until this day. We took Daci outside in the same snow suit we put her in last year (It was Rick's from when he was two years old!) She had a lot of fun at first but after about a half an hour her fingers were frozen (we didn't have any gloves for her) and started to hurt. Rick had her help him plow the driveway and then he built a snowman for her!

The Roberts have some GORGEOUS scrub oak in their backyard. We love to take pictures out there. Isn't it cool?

Playing in the snow with daddy. I found some adult gloves and tried to put them on her, they didn't last long :)

Rick made a goofy snowboarding snowman, complete with goggles, a helmet, and posts for arms!

The next day we put the tree up at Rick's house. Penny works as a school teacher so she hadn't had time to put it up until the day before Christmas Eve. We were glad she waited though because Daci had a blast putting the ornaments on the tree :)

Rick kept lifting her up to the high branches to put ornaments on them. She loved it!

Rick working on the tall branches, he also put the angel on the tree.

After the ornaments were on, we put the presents under the tree. Daci was really excited about that!

After the tree was done, Rick and Daci had some rough and tumble fun. She loves to tickle him and she also loves it when he gives her airplane rides.

Up Tomorrow: Christmas Eve and Christmas!