Merry Christmas 2013

I love this time of year! Family is most important to me and it is great to have a time of year that is basically designated family time. Not only do I get to spend time with the people I love most, we get to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! He is truly the reason for the season and I am so grateful to him for all that he has blessed me with.


We spent most of the day playing. While we don't have a lot of pictures from it, we do have some great memories starting on Christmas Eve…

Kasila decided that ripping the paper was more fun than just carrying present around like she previously had been doing. Because of that, I got an early Christmas present from Ashley on Christmas Eve. Lucky for me, the new scarf matched my outfit for the evening perfectly!

Christmas morning/afternoon was spent Skyping with both sides of the family and taking the traditional Christmas nap. We had to be up early due to the 2 hour time difference between us and everyone else. 6:30am and I are not friends to those who know me and my love of sleep, even with having Kasila. (Scott has been a great husband and has been the one to get up her in the mornings. He prefers to have a happy, rested wife. ) We took our family nap around 8:30-9:00am. It was lovely. :) 

Kasila starting to unwrap her presents.

I'm pretty sure my Aunt Duie went and found the noisiest toy she could possibly find for Kasila! I'm ok with it and Kasila really likes the keyboard. She will take her pointer finger and press keys individually. I'm hoping that means that we will have a willing musician!

The evening was spent with some close friends. We enjoyed a fabulous meal and some friendly competitive rounds of "Scategories," which I won 2 of the 3 rounds.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from us to you!

The Beginnings...

…of a great family Christmas break!

So far we've played in the snow...

and created our own playground inside.

I love my family!

Snow Adventures

Visiting Momma's classroom before the school party. 

Santa's visit to the ward Christmas party… she wasn't too happy this time.

Fun times in the snow!

Waving at Dad

visiting Dad at the burn barrel

Dad's makeshift sled/ride

Fun times and Santa!

Helping out with the groceries.

Going for a ride around the living room.

Look what we got in the mail!

Checking out Santa at the Fire Department Christmas party.

Santa sticking his tongue out at Kasila.

Happy First Birthday!

We all knew that this time would come. Kasila is now 1 year old and it has be a great year! The day was all planned…we weren't going to do anything big. Just our little family hanging out. That ended up being a good thing because our little Sila ended up having a fever all day. Starting at 5am she had a 103 degree temp. We gave her Tylenol and her fever came down but later in the day we called the doctor just to be safe. She had her 1 year appointment the following Monday, so we just watched her temperature and tried to keep her comfortable. We had a lot of sickie cuddles and snuggles. Kasila did have a couple of happy moments through out the day when she seemed to be feeling much better. We let her open her presents, even though she was more interested in packing around her little presents than opening them.

Happy One Year!

Playing with her presents!

Playing with Scout!

Waiting for her cupcake.

Not quite sure what to do...

She ended up not really enjoying her cupcake. She mainly just took all the frosting off and wiped it on her tray. 

Peg + Cat

Kasila just loves the show Peg + Cat! 

She stops what she's doing even at just previews. She also is a really cute dancer :)

(make sure your volume is up if you want to be able to hear the theme song for Peg + Cat.)

Little Bookworm

Kasila reading Clifford's First Snow