Christmas in Utah

We had such a wonderful holiday. It was so much fun spending time with family and friends; I love catching up with everyone. Kenslee loved her second Christmas and had such a great time playing in the snow. We found one thing out about Kens, she is a little party animal. She was having a blast at all of the parties. Here are a few pictures of Christmas and the parties.
First snow storm, Kenslee was loving it!


My mom and I created this amazing Gingerbread house (thanks to Costco).

Kenslee and her FAVORITE puppy dog, SASSY!
And the parties begin...
Ju, Brack, and Kens
Kens and Emma
She really has an arm, I think she might have a future in Baseball...she was actually giving it a little, sweet tap.

The "Ugly Sweater" Christmas Party!
Kenslee and Caroline having a blast together!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Kenslee in her Christmas dress...she is such a cheese ball, but so stinken cute!

Her second Christmas Dress

We went to Willard Bay to see the lights. They have horses that will pull you around to look at the lights, but when it is freezing (like it was) the car with heat was a better option.
Playing in the SNOW!!
Our first attempt to making a snowman
Our second and much bigger snowman!
Sledding...weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
As you can see in that picture, Kens was getting sprayed by the snow. At the time she was having fun until they veered off of the track. She ended up with a white mask that was an inch thick. She was not happy after this and was a little weary of going down another big hill. These are her rosy cheeks after we wiped off her snow mask and cheered her up.



I love the holidays and we had such a great time. I have mixed emotions about the weather. I am missing the snow, but WOW it sure is nice here in Texas. I am glad that I could go to Utah to get my snow fix, I can't wait until next year!

We have been elfed

Yes...I just couldn't resist! I know you have probably seen a lot of these, sorry.
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1495503961

Santa comes early in Texas

We are going to Utah for the holidays and we are very excited. Since it is hard to take all of the Christmas presents with us, especially the big ones, we decided to do an early Christmas for Kenslee. She is a lucky girl because Santa comes to see her twice in one year. She loved all of her presents and we can't wait for the "real" Christmas morning.Some friends and I took the kids to see the movie "Ratatouille", it is a cute show. It may have been a little long and deep for the kids but they had fun. It was Kenslee's first time going to the movie theater and she loved it. We do let her watch movies, but I don't know why this is her first time at the theater. We will have to take her more often, she thought it was great!

A Crib...FINALLY

So it has been almost 2 years and poor Kenslee has been stuck in her Pack n' Play. It worked great for the first little while, but now I would say that she has out grown it. It was kind of our only option in Boston since space was an issue in our 2 bedroom apartment. Now we have finally purchased a crib for our 2 year old baby. It is big and spacious, and looks really nice in her bedroom. It makes me anxious to paint her room and make it like the nursery that I wasn't able to give her. We have actually had this crib for almost 2 weeks and Kens hasn't been able to sleep in it. We put her in and realized that she can already pull herself up and almost flip over the edge. She is 34 1/2 inches tall and you aren't suppose to keep them in a crib after they are 35 inches. I don't know if I am a crazy mom but I am not ready for my little baby to be in a toddler bed. I like her being trapped at night. So we tried to solve this problem and got a "crib tent". We were so excited because Kens would have the big spacious bed but still be trapped. The crib tent said that it fits ALL cribs--but I guess our crib isn't included in their definition of "all," because it sure didn't fit. We have finally accepted the fact that we are going to have to turn to the toddler bed. We will start this after the holidays, so not just yet. Sorry Kens, a few more weeks being crunched!
Let me out!I think she will really miss the Pack n' Play.I do need to paint so that it doesn't say "Ashley Elizabeth" on the wall above her bed

Bain Holiday Bash

This weekend was the big work Christmas party. I was pretty excited because I got to buy a fun "dressy cocktail" dress and I always love having yummy food for free. The place that they had it was very "sassy", if you have ever been in a hotel Zaza, it had that same feel. We were a little disappointed because instead of having tables and seating, it was all finger foods and you just found a chair where ever you could. It felt like a longer happy hour where you had to dress nice. They had a band which was fun. It was pretty entertaining watching some of the drinkers, and a BYU student that was showing off his smooth moves (they weren't really that smooth, he could move his feet mighty fast). My favorite part of the entire night was the photo booth. We would have done it all night if there wasn't a man keeping watch. We got some fun pictures!

Billy's company had a Children's Christmas Party today. They had Santa there to get pictures with him, arts and crafts and pizza. Kenslee was so excited, she couldn't wait to go to Daddy's work and see Santa. On the drive to the party I kept giving Kens a pep talk about how nice Santa is and how if she sits on his lap he will give her a candy cane. I think it worked because she sat on his lap but she would not look at him. It was really funny because he would talk to her and she wouldn't turn her head she would just look at him really quickly out of the corner of her eye. Then after a little bit it seemed like she went to her happy place, because she was in a daze and would not snap out of it until we took her off of Santa's lap. She was very happy that she got a candy cane from him.

We have done a few other fun Christmas activities. We made Gingerbread men with some friends and went to a Christmas Parade. I have never been to a Christmas parade, but it was very odd because it was 80 degrees that day so it didn't feel like Christmas.

Just a little R and R!

Happy Face

Kenslee is a pro at the "Happy Face", when you say this to her she gives the cutest smiles. We were having fun with the camera during some down time.
This picture is so cute, she put her head on my shoulder to pose, I absolutely love it. Once I looked at the pictures, I got the biggest smile when I noticed she was looking up at me and her eyes were crossed. I love my little girl to PIECES! Before this picture I told her to do a funny face, and this is what we got.She kept trying to get in this picnic basket, so I finally decided to just put her in. She liked it for a second until she started to tip. Kens is such a little helper, she loves to help me with everything. She even helps point out my blemishes. The other day I was talking to her while she ate breakfast and she looked at my forehead and pointed to a zit. She had this very sad face and said, "ohhh... its(zit)". She made me lean in so she could kiss it better. It would be great if that kiss would make them disappear. A few seconds later she pointed one out on my chin (that I didn't even know I had). She pointed to it and said, "baby its". Thanks to her I am more aware of my beautiful zits! She is always making us laugh!