Merry Christmas!!!

Christmas day was wonderful! We had a fun time opening presents and being together. It was so much fun to have my parents with us. It was also neat to be able to go to Sacrament meeting on Christmas! The music and Spirit there was beautiful. We took it easy and just enjoyed playing with all our new toys and gadgets.

I forgot to mention in earlier posts that between Addison's birthday and Christmas Tyler and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary. We had a great time getting away for a few days while my parents were gracious enough to watch the kiddos. I am so grateful to be married to my best friend. He is such a strength and comfort to me. Thank you Mom and Dad for watching the kids so we could spend some time kid-free! :) We truly enjoyed it!

Christmas Eve Day

We had a great time this year in our own home for a change. We decided that we needed to start/continue on traditions and one of those is having Christmas at our home. All other Christmases but one we have woken up in somebody else's home and we decided that we wanted to be home for a change. :) Christmas Eve Day was a lot of fun. We played games, ate good food (we did our big Christmas dinner a day early with yummy ham and trimmings), Addison mailed her letter to Santa (I forgot to have her mail it early, good thing it's day delivery to the North Pole!). We also enjoyed the evening watching the First presidency Christmas Message that we missed earlier in the month. After that Addison dressed as "Mary" and her baby doll dressed as "Jesus" with Clark as the "shepherd" reenacted the manger scene as I read from the scriptures. I don't think I have ever seen Addison be so sweet and soft with her baby doll. It was so special. Clark got a sheep stuck on his foot... it was pretty funny. Addison and Clark then got to open a present from Mom and Dad (a tradition from Tyler's family that he wanted to carry on). They both got to open a present and both presents were for both of them... if that makes any sense... After that Addison sprinkled reindeer food outside and put a cookie and carrots out for Santa and his reindeer. It took Addison a little while to calm down enough to finally fall asleep, but Clark was out fairly quick after a busy day. More on Christmas to come....

Happy Birthday Addison!

Our sweet little girl is now three years old! She is growing up so fast. Some of Addison's favorite things to do are pretending, reading, anything to do with art (coloring, painting, gluing, cutting, glitter, etc), going for walks and lots more. She is the cutest puppy or kitty you have ever seen and we just love having her as part of our forever family. She wanted a princess party this year so she got it! Grandma with red hair (my mom) made the beautiful Barbie princess cake for her party on the 17th and I made the boring :) 9X13 cake for her actual birthday on the 18th. We had a fun game of pin the crown on the princess which Tyler made and a lovely pinata compliments of Grandma again. We had lots of family come. Thank you for making it special and being there everyone that could! We love you all. Addison is also enjoying the many gifts and fun things she received. We love you Addison!!!