Trav's Reception

Outside the SLC temple

At the Reception in NC

Being a Walrus

My brother Travis got married on the 20th in Salt Lake. We weren't able to go because the plane tickets were too expensive but from the pictures, it looks like they had a beautiful wedding. They had a reception here at Maggianos, an awesome Italian restaurant and it was a lot of fun. I was able to see my grandparents, uncle and a lot of my friends from my parents' ward. I'm so excited for Trav and Sara and I'm excited to finally have a sister-in-law on my side of the family!!

Christmas!

Phillip w/ his feetsie pajamas

With Grandpa and her new Dora Backpack

We spent Christmas with Phillip's family in Myrtle Beach. It was the first time we've done Christmas with them since we've been married so it was long overdue. Phillip has wanted some onesie pajamas for himself ever since we got married so I finally found some that were tall enough for him. Complete with feet and a butt-flap. He was so excited about them. We also gave Addison a kitchen before we left because we couldn't fit it in the car and she LOVES it. She hasn't stopped playing with it since. She loves feeding her babydolls and making me snacks. It's really cute! We also had a "2nd Christmas" with my family when my brother and new sister got back from their honeymoon, which was a lot of fun since we hadn't seen them in a long time.

The Sunday before Christmas

Just a few pictures of Addison in her Christmas dress. I took about 60 pictures and got one that was really good, plus a silly one. What an ordeal trying to get her to sit still for a picture!!

Our 5th Anniversary!

Our original wedding cake top got eaten by my brother for his birthday a few weeks after our wedding instead of getting frozen so we could eat it on our first anniversary. So Phillip had the same lady make another cake for our anniversary this year. It was so sweet! It looks pretty much exactly like our original cake. It was a big surprise! We had our ward Christmas party that night that we really wanted to go to so we celebrated the next night. We went to Olive Garden because we went there the night we got engaged and we went there on our first anniversary. Then the big surprise of the night was that Phillip took me to see Twilight. He said that he would NEVER see it just because I am so obsessed with it and I talk about it all the time but he knew that I would love it if he saw it so it was awesome!! And the best part is, is that he actually liked it!! Anyway, it was a great anniversary and I can't believe we've been married for 5 years!

Gingerbread Houses

For our Family home evening, we made Gingerbread houses. Addison loved it although she mostly just wanted to eat the candy of course. Her's is in the front and as you can see, there is no candy on it. She would put it on and then immediately take it off and eat it. It's definitely a fun tradition!

We went with some friends on a hayride through a mile long trail full of Christmas lights and it was beautiful.  Addison LOVED all of the lights and loved being on the hayride.  She got so excited, jumping up and down when new lights came on and was singing along to the Christmas songs she knew.  It was so fun to get to do something new with her and to see her get so excited about it.  We will definitely have to make this a yearly tradition!