LA Temple Christmas Lights

First of all, how cool is the new Visitor Center! It has all the latest technology, everything's touch screen and very user friendly and they have that cute little area for the kids. I love, love, love it, if you haven't been, go! When Kelsey saw this statue of the Savior she immediately pointed to it and said "That's Jesus, mommy" and then had to tell everyone else in the room who it was.

We went into this room where you can hear the different apostles testimonies and I started crying. I told Evan I wasn't even listening to what he was saying but I felt the spirit so strongly that I couldn't help it. It was amazing. :)

We decided to drive there a couple Sundays ago to look at the Christmas light display they do every year. It was so beautiful (unfortunately we didn't take our camera so we only got these few shots from Evan's phone) and Kelsey had a blast running around with all the other kiddies that were there. Seriously, if you want to take your kids to a free light display then LDS Temples are the way to go! Kelsey still talks about the Christmas lights, I'll be excited to go to take her to the St. George temple this week (where mommy and daddy were married) to see their's! And, I'll take better pictures this time. :)

This reminds me of a funny story. While living in Vegas, this girl that I went to school with said, "My boyfriend and I were driving around town and we came across this HUGE mormon church in N.Vegas...I bet most of the mormons in town don't even know its there!" Ha.

There's Kelsey again trying to help her face smile.

My Pretty, Ugly Christmas Tree

I'm kinda embarassed to even post these pics cause our Christmas tree is pretty sad. Kelsey is still the tazmanian devil and just destroys everything (hence already losing 3 ornaments from her destructive ways). So, if you notice behind her the tree is bare and above are a sprinkling of very odd and random ornaments.
I have all my moms old ornaments which is kinda fun for me because they are all the ones I grew up with. But, my dream is to have that pretty tree with the ribbons on it and everything matches (like the ones you see in decor magazines). I'm sure that is a ways down the road when my kids don't want to sit in the tree and break all the ornaments. Oh hum.
Oh and I love my little village that I inherited from my mom too. (Can you tell that I try to take artsy fartsy photos, but my camera SUCKS so they don't really turn out).

I tell Kelsey to smile and she thinks she needs to help her face everytime...silly.

Brooklyn's 3 Months!

Our sweet little Brooklyn turned 3 months on Monday. It's going by so fast I can't even believe it, I feel like I just brought her home. She is currently 12 lbs. She is already a daddy's girl, as soon as he comes home she just talks up a storm to him. She loves constant movement and always being held...yay!
She's overall a great baby, I get lucky in the baby dept, so far.
Btw, this is my favorite outfit of hers. Its so frilly and girly I wish I had one in my size :).

Breakfast with Santa

Just a collage of randoms from the breakfast with Santa at our ward last Saturday, Landon being Landon and Kelsey being Kelsey.

All I Want For Christmas is...

Jill and I took the kids to the grove to get a picture with Santa and go see the new movie Tangled, which was awesome. It was Kelsey's 3rd time on Santa's lap (still no picture of her crying with Santa). I've been showing her movies and tv shows with Santa prepping her for the big meet, I think she might be understanding what this is all about. She just had this look of shock on her face the whole time, we could not get her to smile! Brooklyn was just hanging out on Santa's lap, I think I could have left her there and she would be content (Santa, can I please leave one of my kids with you, that's all I'm asking.)
Tangled is super cute, Kelsey's first movie on the big screen and she was super good and sat there the whole time. Brooklyn didn't do too bad either. I always psych myself out for the first and was pleasantly suprised that I too could enjoy the movie.
Also ran into Mario Lopez, no big deal. He looks like a chic with all that makeup on....eeeehhhhh.
It was very hard for me not to partake in any shopping while we were there. Simply because my toddler would not allow me to enter into any store without a tantrum (Evan must have put her up to this.) I have to say that she is getting a little easier to manage in public, and hopefully I wont be eating my words.
Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas 2010

I am so excited for Christmas, its my absolute favorite time of year. We've never done Christmas cards before and I always regret it once we get friends and families. So, it was a bit stressful mostly cause Kelsey is a toddler and her attention span is 2 minutes. But, they ended up turning out. I love the picture of the girls together and the classic Kelsey picture bottom left. She is so silly, I love it.
Merry Christmas!

Happy 4th Anniversary

Our 4th Anniversary this year was on Thanksgiving Day, lucky us. Happy Anniversary babe, even though we haven't had a chance to celebrate yet...this is your year and you are planning something....right?!!
I'm so grateful to be married to someone who hold the priesthood and who is so good to me. I'm really blessed to have such an amazing husband, father and best friend. I love you babe and can't wait for many more years to come :) love you!!!!
I love this photo it captures the happiness of that day!
11-25-06

Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving we spent it in Santa Barbara, as usual, the only difference was it was the first time at Grandma's house without her :(. But I'm excited to see her at Christmas. Holly pretty much cooked everything, myself and her mom-in-law brought a couple sides. It turned out really relaxing and low key...no craziness in the kitchen ;). Holly decorated the table really simple but cute and all the food was soooo delicious. She made my favorite pies, Pumpkin Chiffon mmmmmm yummy (good thing I told her to make 2, cause then I pretty much ate one to myself, so much for losing weight during the holidays).
The next day we took our leftovers with us to the Santa Barbara Zoo, Kelsey had tons of fun seeing the animals. I love that zoo, so quaint and beautiful.
And a couple photo ops with Brooklyn and Logan, they are so cute together.
Brooklyn has turned out to be so similar to Kelsey as a baby, she is so smiley. I like that I have really smiley babies! :) Must be cause mom and dad are so happy (cheesy, I know).
Justin, you made it on my blog, arent you happy :). Even I made it on my own blog. Don't you love when you are always the one taking pics but are never in the photos. I made someone take a pic of me with Kels and Logan (oh and my dang diet coke made it in the pic too).