First snow of the year

We had our first snowfall of the year. Of course, Annabelle was rearing to play outside, so we got wrapped up and had a blast, although we didn't last for too long because it was so cold.

Future stars

Annabelle has always loved dressing up and singing and dancing in them. Jillian, who loves to copy her big sister, has quickly followed Annabelle's footsteps. They love to have music on and run all over in the house in their outfits. Sorry about the sideways video.

Annabelle's ode to BYU

Annabelle loves to wear her BYU shirt and cheer on her Cougars whenever they play. She has even come up with a BYU song. Of course, if I were to record her song another at another time, it would not even sound remotely similar to this video.

Rough times, cute meories

Even in the midst of a very rough week and difficult trials, I was able to capture a few videos and pictures that remind me how blessed I am.

My new neice

Yea! My sister-in-law finally had her baby. Katianne was born Monday afternoon, just over 8 lbs. I'm so excited for my brother to be a dad. He and my sister-in-law are going to be great parents. Congratulations!

Pictures

As promised, here are some awesome pictures from Utah. I'm so grateful I got to see my parents. Here is a group picture that includes my amazing sister. She is on the highest team of the International Folk Dancers at BYU. In this picture, she is wearing her costume for her India dance. And in the following picture, my mom is sporting my sister's nose ring from her costume.



Eating some yummy pizza before game time.
In the pizza place, there was this guy walking around, offering to make balloon shapes. Annabelle requested a princess and this is what she got. Isn't that amazing? This guy was making all sorts of crazy things our of balloons. I wish I would have asked for Cosmo (BYU's cougar mascot). I saw him make one for someone else and it was absolutely amazing.

Silly kids

The other night, Michael was watching the kids as I had a meeting to go to. During the course of the evening, the following events and pictures took place.

Obviously, Annabelle is potty trained and has been since before Jillian was born. Annabelle has a habit of leaving the door open when she uses the bathroom and Jillian likes to come in and keep her company. On this particular night, Annabelle went to the bathroom and when she was done, Jillian pulled Michael into the bathroom, pointed to the toilet, and said, "potty". Michael asked if she wanted to sit on the potty and Jillian eagerly nodded yes as she began trying to pull her pants down. She had such a blast just sitting on it, Michael had to bribe her to get down by letting her flush the toilet all by herself. Unfortunately, she didn't actually do anything in the toilet, but maybe she'll be an early potty trained girl. That would be nice. Here's the picture.Later as he was putting Annabelle to bed, Michael found an inflated balloon that had once been in the shape of a mouse, but lost most of its shape. Anyway, he did a little tweaking with it and made it so he could wear it on his head. He showed Annabelle and told her he was from the future, at which point Annabelle called him "Future Dad". Now every time he wears it for fun, she calls him that, but then asks him to take it off because she doesn't like it very much.