2009 goes out with a bang, part 2

Just before Christmas, Ben's family joined us up here in Utah. It was really fun to have (almost) everyone together again! We played games like, my favorite, The Great Dalmuti, and "Trains," as Jared called Ticket to Ride. We even got to out to see a movie thanks to some great babysitters! Harmony LOVED how her Aunt Jenn made her laugh, and would toss her to and fro! I got some cute videos of it.

Aunt Jenn making Harmony laugh!

We got to have our friend Amanda Isbell spend part of Christmas day with us, and played Trains and Great Dalmuti too! She was our inspiration to go out and see Sherlock Holmes. Thanks Amanda! Good movie! She also made a very popular dessert for us, Egg Nog cheesecake! Now I am NOT a fan of egg nog, but I must say, it was pretty dang tasty!

Amanda with Harmony

Our brother-in-law Jared "conducting" our Trains game!

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2009 goes out with a bang! Part 1

SOooooooo....December was chock full of goings on...ons...on? Anyway. I have a LOT of pictures and videos to post! So I think I'll start slow, just to get something new up and out there in the blogiverse.

First things first. Jon. Ben's little brother, Jonathan, headed out for his church Mission to Spokane, Washington. He will be gone for two years, so we wanted to make sure we got lots of hugs in there! Harmony looooooves her Uncle Jon, so here's a video of them.

Us and Elder Layton

Then- just to be different, again, I cut off a lot of my hair and then dyed it purple. Sadly, it's faded into somewhat of a dull brownish red by now, but I'll probably do it up again soon!

this one is the first day, of just the cut.

Here's the color

And. On a complete sidenote- Last Sunday, Harmony went to her first day of Nursery!! She liked it! Mostly. She especially liked the last part, including snack, songs and bubbles! Here she is popping bubbles and not wanting to leave!

HINT: Harmony's the one in the dress

temple lights

Last week was a fun week! We got to spend some time with our friends the Abraham's, and we all went up to Salt Lake City to see the Christmas lights at Temple Square! It was beautiful! And, the weather wasn't too freezing :) We went to the Festival of Lights (in Spanish Fork) together too. It was fun! All the cars drive with their lights off, realllllly slowly around a park decorated in animated wire-framed scenes. We let Harmony ride on our laps so she could actually see, and she loved loved it! Hopefully we will squeeeeeze getting a picture with Santa Claus taken tomorrow if we have time!

Here are pics from Temple Square thanks to the Abraham's!

Look what a nice friend I have-
she even bent down so I wouldn't look so short! :)