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Christmas Preview!

We were blessed to have an amazing Christmas this year. It flew by and I still can't believe it's over. The girls were so excited that Santa remembered them and haven't paused for two seconds in their playing. We are enjoying a little vacation with cousins and grandparents and sadly Running Man had to go back to work. :(

Here's a little preview of all of the Christmas fun! (I'm borrowing a computer and can't figure out how to fix the red eye...so just pretend it's not there)!

More to come later!

The very important letters to santa. I was so proud of Banana for sounding out and writing (most) of her leter! She's getting so big.

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the Holiday Season!

Christmas Goodies!

I am not a craft blogger, but I still LOVE to create. These are a few of the projects I have been working on this month! After Christmas I'll post some of the other ones, but now I need to get back to finishing the rest of my Christmas list. Hopefully (maybe), everything will get done in time. :)

We have never had stockings of our own because every Christmas of our married lives has been spent traveling. This year I decided it was finally time! It's my first attempt at making them and I was excited how they turned out! Now that I know what I'm doing I can't wait to add a little more to them next year!

Let The Countdown Begin!

Here are just a few of the fun things we have been up to lately!

The girls' favorite thing to do right now is to grab a book and sit by the tree and read! No book in this pic, but they wanted to show off the shirts I made for them. I love how excited they get about the small things. It makes my life so much fun!

One of the things we missed while living in Iowa was going to see the lights at Temple Square, and taking a carriage ride around downtown Salt Lake. It had rained/hailed all day so we were pretty worried that it was going to be a bust, but...the skies cleared up just in time and the weather was pretty gorgeous! We didn't freeze to death and it was such an amazing night!
Thanks Grandpa and Grandpa T. for letting us have this experience!

They also took us to a Voice Mail concert, which was a first for our fam. The girls LOVE their music and being at their concert made me a huge fan as well! They are so entertaining and it was fun to be able to go back up to Logan again. We'll take any excuse to get up there. We {heart} that city!
I didn't get any pic of the concert, but this is one of the girls waiting (not so) patiently for Running Man to get off of work so we could leave!

Another HUGE blessing of living in Utah is being able to go to the Norton Christmas Party. It has been a tradition since before I was born, and is a wonderful highlight of Christmas's past and present! Em had told us several times that there was no way she would sit on Santa's lap so we didn't push it. And what did she do when it was her turn? Run and give him a HUGE hug and climbed right up on his lap. My dad got the good pics (which I am waiting for), because I was in too much shock to snap any. :)
We were also very grateful that they both asked Santa for the things they have been talking about all season. Phew!

The girls also go to take part in the Nativity for the first time. Banana was thrilled to be Mary, and Em was even more thrilled to be the Donkey! It was such a great night and we are so grateful for Grandma Norton for keeping the tradition alive and for the love she has for all of us!

Now...I need to stop distracting myself and get back to my to-do list that I was supposed to finish two weeks ago!!

For Your Listening Pleasure!

She was supposed to be sleeping... :)