Snow Fort

Add this to the Snow Day fun.  Rachel and Taylor spent hours building this snow fort.

Snow Day

 

We had an official snow day on Friday.  We have had quite a storm.  These pictures are snow accumulated just on Friday.  We have had snow/rain/sleet for 5 days.  Today the sun is finally out!

Addison at Grandma's House

We are having so fun with Addison.  A few times she has escaped our watchful eye!

Christmas Cruise

Cruising in Mexico.......

Christmas Eve on the Norwegian star


Adam and Ashley in the 15 passenger van driving around Puerto Vallarta


View of our Ship from Lover's Beach


Doug snorkling at Lover's Beach in Cabo


Tanner and Morgan sitting on Santa's lap (or close by)


White Elephant gift exchange on Christmas Eve (beach towel wrapping)


Rachel and Addison visiting Santa


Zip line in Puerta Vallarta


Eating a "Shrimp Snack" at a restaurant on the beach in Matzalan


Parker and Doug with Addison on a swinging bridge in the jungle at Puerto Vallarta


Playing football in Matzalan


Rachel excited about her folded towel elephant


Addison with 2 girls from the Salvation Army children's home


Taylor in the "Van" with Addison


Sand sculpture nativity scene along the Boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta


Cathedral of Our Lady of Gaudalupe


Rachel handing out candy at the flea market


Our favorite dessert...

Decorations

We are enjoying this holiday season.
We cut a Christmas tree in the Wildcat pasture on the ranch. Morgan was the driver. Doug and Rachel were the look-out crew from the back of the truck.We found a beautiful tree. It is only about 6 feet tall, but is perfectly shaped and has a powerful smell!
Next, we put up some Christmas lights. We are trying to function without Taylor this year!
We went to the electric light parade.
We made a gingerbread house to top off the wonderful day!

Temple

Taylor was able to go to the Mt. Timpanogos temple on Friday after Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful experience.

Christmas Tree and a Roadrunner

Ok, this is quite a goofy combination. (I got the word "Goofy" from the Mtn commentator on Saturday's BYU/Wyoming football game. Did you notice how many times he said "goofy.") Anyway Saturday as I was doing the dishes, I noticed a roadrunner outside walking across our basketball court. At first I thought it was Morgan because he is so fast on the BB court..... Funny. Seriously, we all looked and sure enough it was a roadrunner. We have never seen one in our yard before.
As for the Christmas Tree. Saturday afternoon we attended a "Capitol Christmas Tree Celebration." Arizona has the honor of providing the 2009 Capitol Christmas Tree for the US Capitol. The tree is an 85' blue spruce harvested from the Apache Sitgreaves Forest south of Eagar. This is the first time a tree has been selected from an Arizona forest. Rachel's school choir sang in the program. The tree is packaged up and goes on tour across the US until it arrives in DC November 30. It was fun to see.