Anniversary Weekend

When Dawn and I got married five years ago we never were able to go on a honeymoon (she doesn't know that my honeymoon has been the entire first five years of our marriage...bonus points!). We had planned on going on a small vacation on our 5th year anniversary to some place tropical and very relaxing. Plans always change (work and such) so we weren't able to make a tropical vacation. Instead we hit my office Christmas party, stayed the night in SLC, came home the next day to see the kids and then went to Eden for a relaxing night. It was great, massive amounts of snow and ice hit Utah so we had slow cruising but made it to the Lodge on Saturday afternoon. I think we were the only people in the entire hotel so we were able to play pool at the hotel pool table and take Scrabble back to our room for some intense board gaming. Although some would say that a tropical vacation would have been better, this weekend was right up our alley and was fantastic. We packed up bright and early Sunday morning to make it to church and almost didn't make it because of some big wrecks on the way home. Here are some pics of the getaway.

This was our photography tripod that we used for our self portraits...very innovative!

Emma's First Christmas Concert

Emma had her first Christmas Concert the other day. There were 8 three and four year olds singing Christmas songs to all of us. They sang Hark, The Herald Angles Sing, Joy to the World, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and the following poem;

Christmas presents remind me

that animals gave Jesus their manger

and Mary gave Jesus her love

and shephards gave Jesus their praises

and wisemen gave Jesus their gold

but most of all

Christmas reminds me

that our Father in Heaven

gave us Jesus, The Best Present Of All!

It's amazing what young children can comprehend. Merry Christmas everybody!

Winter Wonderland

The snow has descended upon us again bringing cold temps and tons of snow. We got about 6-inches yesterday and are expecting more this weekend. Our families in Montana have gotten loads of snow, wind, and sub zero temps. The kids were able to get out and play in the snow immediately. A quick trip to Target for new sleds and they were ready to go. Nathan's doing much better this year, only falling down every two minutes instead of every 30 seconds. Come and enjoy the snow if you get a chance.

5 Year Anniversary

On December 6th Lucas and I celebrated our 5 Year Anniversary!

Colossians 3:12-17
"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."

Communion and Prayer

Our Crew
We thank God for our marriage, our friendship and our family!

Momma's Birthday

November 25th was Dawn's birthday. We spent the evening hanging out, having fun and eating the best german chocolate cake...ever. We took about 15 photos of the kids and Dawn but they just wanted to make funny faces the whole time. Here's one of them both semi-smiling.

Happy Birthday Dawn!