Our last long Christmas break.

I think that one of the main perks about going to school for so long is we get to have LONG Christmas breaks!  Unfortunately this is Zach's last year in school so this was our last long break...it's okay, I think I'd rather have a steady income anyway.  :)  We started off our vacation by attending my family's Christmas party in Utah.  It was fun to be able to go since we haven't been in a couple years.  We went a little early to the party because my mom wanted my cousin to take some family pictures of us since we get together basically once a year.

 Yes, this is Declan eating snow...don't worry though, we told him not to eat yellow snow.  I guess now we need to teach him his colors.

 Mike, Tara, Gavin and Bella

 Pictures with kids are great, aren't they?!

 The great grandkids acted out the Nativity and when they were done and changing out of their costumes  Declan decided he wanted to try some of the clothes on.  My mom brought him back into the gym dressed like this...cute huh?

 He likes to growl. :)

Don't worry I'll be posting more pictures of our Christmas vacation but I decided to break up the trip a bit  into a few posts.  So to you avid readers (all 4 of you...), there will be more.

YAY!

At the beginning of December one of my best friends, Marissa, came to visit!  She was only here for 24 hours so we had to make the most of our time!  I picked her up from the airport and then we went to see Zach and Declan.  Declan was shy at first and then Marissa started to look at a photo book I made of our summer adventures and when we showed him a picture of Emery it was as if he realized how he knew Marissa!  ha ha ha.  Then we headed over to Corrine's house so she could see everyone.  We had a great dinner at Kneaders and then drove to SLC to see Temple Square.  We stayed up far too late chatting and laughing and having a great time.  It was so fun to have her here even if it was for a short visit.  We miss all of our friends in Memphis!

More lights!

Last night we made a spontaneous decision to go to see the Zoo Lights.  The lights were awesome and we got tickets for half off so that was great too!  Of course we heard a lot of "Ohh...Ahhh...WOW" from Declan.  He LOVES Christmas lights.  Plus, we got to see some of the animals.  It freaked me out just a little to see tigers staring at us at night.  

Temple Square

Last Saturday we went to see the lights at Temple Square with our friends, the Landrys.  It was a little chilly but it was beautiful and well worth it!  Declan loved all the lights.  He kept saying, "Ohhh...Ahhh...WOW!"