The main reason that we went to Utah for Christmas was to see my brother Nick and Jessica get married. Here are some pictures from the wedding.
Addie, Claire and Suzy trying to stay warm while we waited outside the temple for Nick and Jessica to show up.
Cory walked into the shot right before the picture took. I love the look on his face as I am trying to wave him out of the way.
Claire and grandpa.
Nick and Jessica and their three nieces.
My siblings.
We traveled out to Utah for the week leading up to Christmas. We had a wonderful time and we want to share some of our pictures of the trip.
We went to visit my grandparents and let them see Claire again. It was good to see them, but also sad because their health is deteriorating, and my grandmother's dementia is getting worse every time we see her. Most of the time now, she has no idea who any of us are.
A nice family picture with 4 generations represented.
After my grandparent's house is Salt Lake we wanted to take Claire to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights. It was really cold so we bundled her up nice and tight. We were not able to find a parking space so my parents dropped Suzy, Claire, Addie and I off and we took a whirlwind 15 minutes run around Temple Square to see the lights. Claire seemed to enjoy the cold wind in her face more than anything else. But Temple Square at Christmas time is one of the most beautiful sights, and Suzy and I would have been disappointed it we had missed out on it.
Claire had her first real introduction to pets while we were with my parents. At first she was very afraid of Chloe, a 6-year-old toy dachshund, but over the week Claire warmed up to her, and Chloe was very gentle the entire time, what a good dog!
Claire in her new Christmas Eve pjs.
Claire enjoying some Grandma time!
Christmas morning. Claire got some great new toys that she absolutely loves.
She even got into the present opening!
Like most of the nation we have been freezing. It has been downright cold here this past week. The weather man has been predicting snow all week. Well... it finally happened Thursday night, sort of.
In reality we got a little bit of snow and a little bit of icy rain. But it was enough to totally screw up the roads here. It amazes me how totally unprepared they are here for any sort of snow or ice on the roads, although from what I hear it happens roughly once a year, sometimes more. As you can see from the pictures there was not a lot of snow, but school was cancelled and we had several people at work call in because they could not get to work because of road conditions.
I was looking back at some pictures of Claire a few months ago and I saw this picture and thought "doesn't she look just like a China doll?" She has perfect, beautiful white skin.
Fast forward to now. She is a quite a yellow girl. Granted this picture may not be the best lighting and she's against a wedding dress back drop, but I have gotten comments from the doctor and several complete strangers that she must really love eating carrots.
And while it is true that she loves to eat all things orange/yellow, she also loves to eat all things green, brown, apple/pear/banana-colored and just about any color you can throw in there. I guess she will grow out of it one day, and she is still very cute, just not my little china doll anymore.
We are going to be posting pictures of our trip to Utah very soon. I am having serious troubles with uploading, hence the reason we have been on a blogging hiatus. We recently got snow leopard on our Mac and I'm wondering if thats the source of all the trouble. Maybe I'll have to try it from our PC.
Happy 2010!
It has been a long time since we have posted. We want to wish all of you a wonderful and Merry Christmas.
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