Georgia Trip

We left for Georgia the day after Christmas and got back on January 6th. It was such a wonderful trip seeing Andys side of the family and some of his friends. Here is some highlights of our trip:

1. Dinner at his uncle Tim and aunt Vans house, all his cousins were there, his bro, wife and kids and 3 of us girls are pregnant with boys. Always nice to talk with his extremely nice southern family (all with southern accents). I didn't get a group shot, but we did get the immediate family picture. Alyeska had a great time playing with her cousins Sage and Lacey and she met her baby cousin Kylee for the first time. She loves babies.

2. We then went to Andy's Mema's house and uncle Davids for lunch. Alyeska got a Georgia Tech bib and cute small radio flyer wagon. Mema was thrilled that Alyeska could say her name.

3. Andy's brother Josh and his wife Cami celebrated their 5th anniversary so we got to play with their kids while they went out. Mimi and Pop loved having their 3 grandkids all at once.

4. Andy surprised me with a baby moon that he had planned before our trip. Mimi and Pop watched Alyeska for the night and we went to this beautiful place called Calliway Gardens. Andy remembers family bike rides there over spring break when he was a kid. We went threw some of the green houses which were decorated for Christmas, we went to a butterfly green house as well which was so cool. In the evening we went to the best light display called Fantasy lights which took close to an hour to drive through with animated lights and music to go along with the displays. We stayed in a cottage with a warm fire and watched TV and relaxed. The next morning we had a breakfast buffet. We also drove to Alabama, a state I have never been to. We went to the highest point, which is one of Andy's adventurous goals in life (he's been to 9 highest points in the US so far). It was a wonderful baby moon before our baby boy comes along. Andy is always full of surprises. I love this man!

5. We went to Baby Land General which is the hospital where cabbage patch dolls are born. Alyeska loves babies right now and the hospital is so cute and animated she didn't want to leave.

6. Uncle Tim and Aunt Van let us stay at their HUGE beautiful cabin in the mountains. We just relaxed by the fire, played pool and games and envied the king size beds. Pop went out on the Kayak in January the next morning.

7. Lacey's 2nd birthday was so much fun. They had it at her grandparents church with inflatables and a princess theme. Lacey got a jeep for her birthday which they taped the gas pedal down and let it fly... both girls hated to get off.  Alyeska can't get enough of the inflatables. Happy 2nd birthday Lacey :)

Every time we go to Georgia it is relaxing and full of adventures with a combo of seeing family and friends. I feel like I have the best in-laws a girl could ask for. Steve and Trisha provide all of our meals and make sure we are so comfortable and having fun. They also babysit and let us use their car if we want to get out. Thanks mimi and pop you two are awesome parents :)

Christmas with the family

Here's some pictures with the family on Christmas day. We missed having Brittany, Tony, Terran, and Belle joining in the celebration. We as usual had enough food to feed the whole family for a week. It was lots of fun!

1st time on skis

It snowed on Christmas Eve so we put Alyeska on skis on Christmas day for the first time (20 months old) Her snow boots barely fit these skis if you take a good look at the picture. She was a little hesitant and was of course more interested in eating snow. My cute little blue marshmallow :) Baby clothes sizes are weird sometimes... this snowsuit is 6-9 months.

It continued to snow a ton the day after Christmas when we were on our way to Georgia. We were blessed to have our friend John and our neighbor keep our driveway clear. We came back two weeks later to a beautiful white Ogden City.

Awkward Christmas Photos

Its that time again for our traditional awkward Christmas family photos. Love it!
We also went to go see Santa twice this year. Once in North Ogden and another time on 25th street Christmas village. Alyeska hated it both times :)

Thanksgiving surprise

We decided not to find out the sex of our baby until Thanksgiving just for fun, so about a month ago at our targeted ultra sound we had the doctor print off the picture and put it in an envelope for us and our family to open on thanksgiving day. Well it's a boy!!! We are so excited! We think we can see some of Andy features in him from the ultra sound. So excited for this little guy to come into this world. We have about 3 more months of baking.

Trick-or-Treat

I love making memories with my baby girl. I always loved dressing up and now I get to dress her up. I was a little sad I didn't dress up but we weren't going anywhere so I didn't want to put the energy into it.

  We just went trick-or-treating on our street. I was excited to do this to meet some of the neighbors we haven't met yet. Alyeska was a little apprehensive on the first two houses but then she understood the concept that -hey we knock and these people give me something that I can put in this bag here... then she loved it. She would take out her candy and give it to daddy (she loves to share).  I don't think she even knew it was candy, however she has little experience with that stuff. She also loved that people kept coming to our door in costumes. We got a lot more trick-or-treaters then at our Washington Terrace house which is surprising because we live on a hill. We got about 40 kids for my future reference. It was the warmest Halloween I remember which is hilarious because we had 7 inches of snow last week. Andy and I could have probably left our jackets at home, of course we left shortly before 6 p.m. She was tuckered out enough to sleep in until 9 am when I decided to wake her up :)