Bring on the Festivities!

Well to be completely honest the Christmas festivities began the last week of November when my mom took Brecken and I to David Archuleta's Christmas concert. It was amazing! I love his Christmas CD. It was on repeat at my house the whole month of December!

Then of course it was off to the tree lot. Kate was such a good helper in picking out the tree!

Special thanks to Brecky for stopping by to help us take a picture for our Christmas card. It turned out really good! I wish I knew how to upload it on the blog but I have no idea how!
Kate's first experience with Santa was at the ward Christmas party and it didn't go so well! But she did like the candy cane he gave her.

Her second time meeting Santa didn't go any better. This time was at the Perry's annual Santa party.

Still very skeptical....

New Christmas jammies! Yeah!
It was my turn this year to host the annual friends Christmas party. Considering we had 18 people my mom let me swap houses with her. I hosted the party at her house and she took care of Kate at mine. It was so nice to visit without any kids.... that is a rare occasion these days.A few days before Christmas we had a Chapman adult Christmas party at the Ivorys where we exchanged our homemade gifts. Rachael and Frank had me and my mom and they put together all of our favorite recipes into three huge binders categorized and everything! I am so excited!

I had Frank and Ty had Greg and we plant Amaryllis bulbs in a pot for their offices. They turned out really cute but of course I didn't get a picture.

November Recap

Well here I am.....It's the beginning of January and I am updating for November. That goes to show what our last two months have been like: CRAZY! Even though I am excited for Christmas I don't want to skip all the fun things we did in November.

It all started with SYTYCD! I LOVED this season! I think since Kate was sick during this season I would always look forward to it every week to take my mind off of our issues. So when Megan said they had extra tickets I couldn't let the opportunity pass.

Next we had Thanksgiving with the Perrys. All of Ty's family was in town from AZ so we had a FULL house and ALOT of babies. Kate wasn't feeling that well but we still had a lot of fun!


Then last but DEFINITELY not least, Ty got to baptize his cute neice Hadley and confirm her a member of the church. What a special day that was. Let's just say I was one proud wife and aunt!

nine months

LOVE HER!
(She's actually closer to ten months. She is going to be one before we know it!)

HaPpY hAlLoWeEn!!!

We had such a busy Halloween this year. On Thursday we went to Crestview's parade to see Kate's cousins. She was quite skepical of all the crazy kids. We then went and visited a vampire in her classroom....

and Alice in her classroom.... We tried to see the 50s waitress but she had already changed.

On Friday Megan and Annie threw their annual halloween party. This is the first time Ty and I have been able to go. (yeah for not being in the news business this year and having Friday nights off!)
The two bugs: Tessa and Kate

Kate and her other BFF Taycie

The whole gang!

"The swine Flu", his nurse (he wanted me to be a "naughty nurse" but I definitely can't pull that off!) and our sweet bumble bee!

GO UTES!!!

On Saturday we thought "oh it is such a nice day we should go to the U game with Poppy, MeMe and Brecken!" Boy were we wrong! As we were walking from our car to the game we got caught in an absolute downpour!!!! So Brecken, Kate and I went to lunch at Red Rock instead. Once we finished our lunch we called Me Me and decided we would go back for the fourth quarter now that the sun had come out. It was a close game and went into overtime. We got the best of both worlds..... lunch in the warm, dry restaurant AND got to watch the intense exciting ending of the game! What a great day! Kate was actually pretty excited about the rain. She was squealing the whole time as we RAN back to the car!

If you know Kate at all you know she doesn't just fall asleep on her own. Brecken and I were laughing so hard though as we were walking back to the car after the game cause she just COULDN'T keep her eyelids open for one more second.

But don't worry she still had her churro in one hand and her lip gloss in the other. She's got her priorities straight!

Halloween Recital

On Friday I had a little Halloween recital for my young piano students. After taking the summer off with Katherine getting sick, I knew I needed to plan something that would motivate the kids again and give them something to look forward to. They all learned spooky and fun Halloween songs, perfected them, memorized them and performed them beautifully! I am so proud of them! Everyone looked so cute in their costumes! Then to add to the excitement we played some GHOST bingo, musical tombstones and had donuts and rootbeer. Now we have to get busy on our Christmas songs and Federation!

My future pianist! She loved seeing all the kids in their costumes!

St. George girls trip

So last minute us girls decided we needed to go on a much needed girls trip. Priscila, Meg, Brook and I left the men behind and headed down to Megan's mom's house in St. George. It was a little chaos at times with three babies but it must have been a success considering Priscila is still planning on having children in the future! It was so nice to just hang out at the pool in ninety degree weather and chat the day away. Of course we were there for three days and I didn't get ONE shot of the adults! The little girls just stole all of our attention! Thanks again Meg for inviting us!

GO YANKEES!!!!

Sorry Al and Jane,

but GO YANKEES!!!!

p.s. this will probably be the only time you will ever see Katherine in blue jammies..... I know she looks like a boy.

Conference Weekend

Over conference weekend Brecken was nannying the two youngest Ivorys so we decided to get the Summerhayes and head up to the cabin. It was so beautiful up there with all the colorful leaves!