We had a really fun and busy weekend before Christmas! On Thursday
night Trevor & Lashel came up to spend the night for the wedding the
next morning and it was so fun as always! I absolutely love when they
come stay with us! We laugh..a lot..AND I got to finally meet my
beautiful niece Kiptyn!! She is so tiny and perfect! And Koleman
entertained us with all the hilarious things he says! It was so fun to watch Koleman and Jadelyn play together
Then Friday morning we got to spend a little time with the bride to be while I did her hair, then Tom cooked us all a big breakfast, and we headed to the Mt. Timpanogos temple! (Well me and Lashel went up later with the kiddos and got there for when they came out. And it was pretty fun (not) to be driving up there and back with always at least one of the 3 kids crying in the back! haha at least we pretended it was funny:) Livin the dream!!)
Congrats to this cute couple!! I'm sad I couldn't be in to the sealing, but Tom said it was awesome and Grandpa Probst was their sealer!!
THE WHOLE FAMILY!
Now some of the professional photographer's pictures at the temple:)
I'm pretty sure Jade thought that we were giving her away for good when we gave her to Kimi for a picture! Such a sad face!
SO Dramatic!
Turns out she survived! And I guess we will keep her:)
She's looking at me like "Mom, how could you? I hope you learned your lesson."
Then after the wedding and pictures we went to the luncheon and it was delicious!
Then we drove to Delta that night for the reception and it was sooo beautiful!! Congrats Kimi! And welcome to the family Jonathon!
After the reception we went to my parents for the night. I got a little antsy and wanted Jade to have a fun new toy to play with for the weekend, so she got to open one of our presents early! And this has been her favorite toy so far! She thinks she is just so big because she can crawl to it and pull herself up to stand and play with it....it's perfect!
On Saturday we went to lunch with Trevor, Lashel, Dani, and Darren and I loved snuggling this sweet little babe:) while Jade loved playing in the corner of the booth.
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| Tom and Koleman are quite the pals! They egg each other on and keep getting funnier and louder! |
Saturday night was just lots of playing and relaxing for us all at my parents!
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| I'm in love with this picture of Tom and Jade...Loves of my life |
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Jade loved getting to play with Alyssa!! It's so weird that Jade is actually getting big/old enough to play with the older kids:)
Jadelyn also loved being serenaded by the piano for almost every meal! One of the many amenities at the Miller residence:)
She is still rocking the drool covered shirts! This girl loves to chew on anything and get that drool a flowing! But still NO TEETH YET?!?!?!
Sunday we went to church to my parents ward and I wish I had taken a
picture of how cute Jade looked in her church outfit because it was
pretty dang cute.
After church we had our Christmas dinner!!! It was soooooooooo delicious! My mom makes delicious food and it was fun to help her cook and put on this feast!! Thank you so much Mom for all the hard work, planning, and food this whole weekend!! We love you
It was actually really nice to enjoy the meal without the little ones:) they were napping:)
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| Thanks for sending me this picture Conlan!! (Miss your face in it though:)) |
When she woke up we got her changed and headed up to play at Grandma Michelle's house! And this picture of her and Sadie is the only one I took that night! Jade absolutely loves her Aunt Sadie! Jade has all the sudden been a little freaked out by people she is unfamiliar with (please be just a phase) but she is always happy to go to Sadie!! We are really going to miss her when she goes on her mission in March to Oregon!
Christmas Eve morning Tom went and played basketball with Darren, some
cousins and friends in the old high school gym and then we went up to
hang out with Grandpa Kevin for a few hours before the
party since he had to work and couldn't make it. Then we went to the Styler Christmas Eve party! This is a tradition I look forward to every year.
These two couldn't quite figure each other out:) It was so cute to watch Eliza and Jade playing
And of course Uncle Mike and the kids did the nativity scene:)
When we got back to my parent's my mom read us the Christmas story
And we played Rook and the money game again!! (I think my parent's took pity on us not winning at our fake Christmas eve party at Sharice's house!! hey I'm not complaining) And I finally won!!!!! $25......boom
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| Jade all ready for bed for her first Christmas. |
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Then we all went to bed (so Santa could come duh!)
Christmas morning was so fun and our little family definitely got spoiled!! We are so grateful for all our parents and family that give us such helpful, thoughtful gifts!
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| I don't know why but this is one of my favorite pics |
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| Modeling one of her new hooded towels that Grandma made!! She (I) love them! |
She liked helping us unwrap our gifts too!
And had to see what Alyssa got too!
Then we went to Michelle and Larry's opened some really cool gifts!! Thank you soo much!
Then finished off the day at Tom's dad's! Jade has loved all her toys from everyone!
Then we came home Christmas afternoon and even though we had a great time in Delta, it was sure nice to be home! And Tom and I have had the last week off so we have had a blast getting to spend so much time together as our little family! And we have rented a redbox almost every night, so if you need any movie recommendations, hit us up!
Jade missed the dogs as much as we did!! Thank you Brent and Jenni for checking on them!
We have been truly blessed this holiday season and it was so fun to have Jade this Christmas! We are so in love with her. Her new tricks include dancing (nodding her head to the music)/ shaking her head like she is saying no/ Holding out a big "oooooooh" when we hold her on our lap and start bouncing her so it makes a vibrato noise/ and CRAWLING UP THE STAIRS!! crap
