BRIANHEAD and A Snowman

This last weekend we went to Brian Head with Chris& Andrea, Landon& Kristin, and Ashlyn& Kyle. We had so much fun hanging out not having to do anything. We ate, went sledding, played games, and just relaxed. It was great. The boys built a sweet snow cave, which can be seen below. Ella had soo much fun sledding. I can't believe how much she liked it. She would go down the big hill with Stewart sledding right next to her. She just had a big smile on her face and when I asked her if she liked it she just clapped her hands and laughed. She loved eating the snow off her gloves.... crazy girl. So I mostly got pictures of the girls, but they are cuter than we are anyway.

Getting all ready to go outside

It was so funny, when the snow blew in her face she covered it with her huge gloves


Check out the sweet snow cave! Check out Stewart's gloves, I made hime give me his because my hands were soooo cold.

They loved playing on the pool table and just rolling the balls back and forth




Getting ready for a race down the hill

It was a little colder the second day because it was windy so we put the neck warmer around her face. If it was snowing here you can imagine the crazy weather in Brian Head. I have never seen so much snow. And the roads getting to and from Brian Head were INSANE! I am glad we survived.

Thanks to everyone for making it such a fun trip!


So, the snow wasn't great in Brian Head for a snowman and we were sad. Who knew we would be able to build on in Las Vegas tonight. We were at Stewart's parents for the afternoon and when we got home we had so much snow by our house. We asked Ella if she wanted to build a snow man and she was so excited. When we were done building it she just kept looking at it and smiling. She just wanted to hug it and kiss it. We had a snow ball fight and I made a snow angel. Ella loves throwing snowballs, even when we throw them at her. We love this snow.

Say ChEeSe!

Ella has discovered that she can take pictures too! She found the camera the other day and then went up to Stewart and said, "cheese." She had the camera pointed right at him and wanted to take his picture. She just says, "Ella do it." Here are some of the pictures she has taken. We have to move so we get in the picture, or Stewart has to bend way down. It's pretty amusing:)

Gingerbread House

On Sunday we made a gingerbread house. Ella just wanted to eat all the candy, as you can see from her blue tongue. We don't have any after pictures because the roof fell off. But we had a great time putting it together. We LOVE Christmas time at the Christensen House:)

Better late than never....right?!?

We went to Utah for Thanksgiving this year to be with my family. My Grandma Laughter does a huge dinner every other year with my whole family. It is always great to see everyone. Thanks to everyone's hard work we had a very yummy dinner. Ella's favorite part of dinner was of course the olives. What kid doesn't love olive fingers? My Grandma has it at a church to fit our large family. The kids run around and it is just great fun. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Laughter for letting us invade their house.



We took a picture of all the great- grand kids- we had to wait for a few kids and it took a long time and Ella lost her patience.

The Friday after Thanksgiving we hung out with my Dad's side of the family. I didn't get any pictures of them....oops. We went to Salt Lake and walked around the Gateway, had dinner, and hit up the Jazz game. We had a blast at the game. The seats were at the top but I was glad because Ella just sat right next to me on the floor. Ella got right into the game. Yelling Defense and cheering. It was very cute. It was very fun. Thanks to Grandma Abate for everything.


After the game we headed over to Temple Square to check out the lights. They were of course amazing. Ella was being pretty silly since it was late but she loved the lights. She is all about Christmas this year. They turned off at 10 so we got to walk around for about 20 minutes. The weather was actually pretty nice.
We had so much fun. Thanks to all our family:) I am so grateful for each of you and all you do for our family.

Sea World.San Diego Zoo.The Beach

We went to San Diego the weekend before Thanksgiving with Stewart's family and had so much fun. Ella did great. We went in July to Sea World and Ella did sooo much better this time. I think being a little older helped. She loved the animals and chasing the birds all around the park. We went to the zoo, and Ella loved the monkeys the best. We went on a little bus tour and it was pretty funny because the guy was a bit crazy. On the tour we saw most the animals, and one elephant. Well, we saw his butt, and now if we ask Ella if she saw the elephant at the zoo she just says, "big butt." I think our little family loved the zoo the best. Ella walked most of the day, I was so impressed. They have some BIG hills in that zoo. She was such a big girl. Then the last day we hit the beach. It was a beautiful day, Ella stripped down to her diaper and ran around in the water. She was so funny. I can't believe how much she liked the water, she would run around and laugh when the waves hit her legs. So fun:) Thank you Thom and Kathryn:)




Check out the huge sleeping hippo



Grandma with the grandkids