december fun!

Sorry we have been so slow in posting, here is a readers digest version of everything that we have been up... we'll start with Kate. She has been very busy taking care of our christmas tree (she loves to bang the glass ornaments together until they shatter).

She has also enjoyed lounging around in boxes...

and kitchen cupboards, what a silly girl!

Chads cute sister Amber and her family have come to Utah for Christmas, and Kate has reunited with her favorite partner in crime, her adorable cousin Avery.

Kate has also found better ways to get around... it's called slave labor. She put Anna to work pulling her around the store in her basket.

She has also mastered crazy faces! We went out to dinner for my Grandma's birthday and she played a long game of peek-a-boo with the couple that was sitting behind us. I got a really funny video of it!
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I got brave a few weeks ago and had Sydney chop off my hair! It is so easy to do and I absolutely love it!

I went to get pampered with my mom and sisters for my sweet Grandma Betty's birthday. Earlier that morning I had my first clinical rotation at a rehab center in Sandy, and I absolutely loved it! The nurse that I followed said I did a great job (thats always a good sign), and I look forward to many early morning- well not so much the early part.

Kate and I got to spend an afternoon at my cousin Chelsies house, Kate was entertained by Dakota while Chelsie and I made cute blocks for Christmas. It was a blast!

Here is another one of Kate's cute picture poses.

During the first week of December Kate and I ventured out with my friend Crystal to the Festival of Trees at the South Towne Expo Center. This was my favorite tree!

Each year the group for children with Trisomy 18 decorate a beautiful tree in memory of the children who have passed away. This was my sisters tree, and they did an awesome job on it! They usually have an angel theme, because these children truly are angels! It is a great way to comemorate their lives!
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!!

more crazy kate

Happy late Thanksgiving! Chad and I spent our evening at Wal-Mart for black friday sales and we got a new 50" plasma tv for way cheap! It was awesome!

Cute little Kate loves to put funny things on her head, this one she picked up at chad's work while we were visiting.

She has also picked up a new hobby... Driving cars!

It seems that only Grandma and Grandpa are crazy enough to let her drive though!

We visited the lights at temple square this week and Kate absolutely loved it! The weather was perfect, and the lights were amazing!

Among many of Kate's nicknames the latest, and possibly the most appropriate is Katezilla! (no explanation necessary). She has now learned to climb on the sink and brush her teeth, and also climb onto the countertops in the kitchen.

We are trying a new teaching method... garbage time out. Ha ha just kidding but it did make a good picture!