December 2011

Wow!  I can NOT believe that I have 6 MONTHS of pictures to upload to the blog. 

Anyway...let's just get started....

...December of 2011!

Hannah asleep in her carseat, not out of the ordinary, but she has a piece of dough in her hand that the waiter at Macaroni Grill gave her and she would not let go of it, she loved it!  She fell asleep with it in her hand.  

The Beilozer's invited us to an Ugly sweater Christmas Party!  It was hilarious and so much fun!  Looking back at these pictures makes me really homesick!  Especially because today I talked to a person from the Lorain area today and have been thinking about my Ohio peeps all day...

Yep...that's right...I made that fudge!  YUM.

"I saw Mommy kissing Santa Clause...underneath the Mistletoe..."

Hilarious Minute-to-Win-It Games!

Shooting Cans with Rubber bands.

Trying to make a pedometer hit a certain number by head banging.

I can't even remember what the name of this was or what they were doing!

Stacking Dice on a popsicle stick.

Picking up paper bags with teeth without using hands. 

Stacking cookies on forehead.

Stacking pop cans and taking them across the room???

 ^^^^^Oh by the way...Can you guess who won the Ugliest Sweater? ;) ^^^^^

I have no idea.

Pulling all the tissues out of the box in a minute...by the far the most hilarious, and amazingly ridiculous thing I've ever seen!

We had to say goodbye to our friend the Davenports who moved away! :(  We miss you guys!

Eating Donuts and Hot Cocoa with Daddy...

Playing in wrapping paper...

Then crazy happened...we ended up in a whirlwind of a move!  We left on the 9th of December for vacation to see our families and ended up finding out a day or two into the trip that we were for sure moving to Utah!  I didn't even know what to do!  I ended up staying in Idaho while Connel went back for our stuff in Ohio.  I didn't even get to say goodbye, but in a way I feel like we had a few "memorable times" with everyone before we left.  We will go back to visit someday I know, but still.

Ohio is a long way away!  We miss you all!

On our trip home for Cody and Chelsey's wedding and Christmas Celebration, we got to get together with the Yates!  We love our friends!

We went to a light show at a shopping area and saw Santa, and heard a Violinist play awesome music, the kids had a fun time dancing together to the music!

We then went up to Carly's house and met up with Connel's family.  We got to finally meet Chelsey in person and go to Tepanyaki, a Japanese Steackhouse where they grill right in front of you...so fun!

Sorry Chelsey, this is for initiation purposes!  ;) Love ya!

After that we went back to the house and exchanged Christmas gifts, Hannah had a fun time passing out the presents and helping everyone open theirs!

Then we had the special experience of going to the temple with Carly for her endowments!  It was really neat to have the whole family there!  (In the meantime, Hannah had a nice evening out with our friend Suzy to dinner (McD's) and shopping and bought a Hello Kitty purse).

After that we all headed up to Nyssa and then to the Twin Falls Temple to join in Cody and Chelsey's Wedding.  However, I will put most of those pictures in a different post, because there is a TON!  It was beautiful and super fun to be a part of!

Grandma and Grandpa Petterson.

After all the festivities with Connel's family, we traveled to Idaho Falls to spend Christmas with my family.  We had lots of fun making some Christmas cookies with Grandma and our cousins!

Hannah and Colette discovered my makeup and we discovered them after we noticed that it had been quiet upstairs for a little while...

 We had a Hill family get together at my Aunt and Uncle's house!  (Typical pictures of people trying to hide and thinking why are you taking my picture!?)

Ashley had some fun games ready for the littlest littles to play with...  Aren't they adorable??

We got together with our friends the Monks and the Lounsburys and went to breakfast!

We did lots and lots of baking with Grandma.

Uncle Greg trying peek as usual! (He's so sneaky...Tattletale the Mouse never even had a clue!)

Grandpa reading the annual Poochy the Pup story!  I haven't heard my Dad tell this in years!

Adrian is totally into it.

Hannah in her new Jammies!

He couldn't sleep without it...

Waking up Christmas Morning to find her fun new dolly and stroller!

Helping Grandpa "cook" breakfast crepes and strawberries for breakfast.

He caught it too!

Helping Grandpa pass out the gifts.

After Christmas Day, we went to the I.F. Museum with our Cousins and played in the Children's area and saw the Nativity and Gingerbread House Displays. 

It was so fun to be in Utah, Idaho and Oregon and see our families, and we are sooo glad that we live in Utah and get to see them more often now!  We know they are too! ;)