Sore face

When I took Chase to the doctor almost a month ago, she made the comment that he had little boy legs.  A little confused at what the difference between little boy and little girl legs where, I asked what she meant.  She clarified that his legs were covered in little bruises and scratches.  (Duh!)

Well now his face matches his legs.  He took a tumble down the stairs into our apartment onto the tile floor.  This isn't the first time, or even the second time he has fallen down stairs, it isn't even the farthest he has fallen down, but it's the first one that has done any damage.  Thankfully it isn't too bad.

 

On a funnier note, Chase loves the Billy Bob teeth that Daniel won in the white elephant contest.

Santa Clause vacations in Moab.

This is the first year that Chase really has understood and gotten to know Christmas.  We went through all things about Christmas; snow, Christmas lights, Christmas tree, twinkle stars, baby Jesus and his mommy and daddy, Santa Clause, presents etc.  He is an expert at telling you what any of these things are, but he doesn't fully understand why they are significant, including Santa Clause.  He recognizes him, but didn't really make the connection that he was the Jolly guy that brought all the toys to Grandma's on Christmas Eve.



We spent Christmas in Moab this year and stayed for church on Sunday.  Chase wasn't doing very well in church so we spent some time sitting out in the foyer talking about how to be reverent.  I was pretty frustrated with him, but suddenly a man with a white beard and white mustache came walking into the foyer.  I didn't think too much of it, but Chase let out a gasp and stated excitedly "Santa Clause!"  I knew instantly that he was referring to this guy walking right in front of us, but he pointed right at him and continued to half yell and half say, "Santa Clause", over and over again.  I was laughing in between trying to convince Chase that this was not Santa, but he stuck to his story and insisted this indeed was Santa.

Some of our Christmas fun.

Playing with my camera and the Christmas tree lights- If you can't tell, they are in the shapes of two candy canes tied together.

The big hit for Chase this year were the cycles.  He got three little toy cycles; one a "suki" cycle, one a "yama-HA" cycle, and one a "k-t-M" cycle.  He has slept with at least one of his cycles every night since getting them.  He also got a couple cycle shirts and the cycle quilt I made him. 

Chase and Porter eating their popcorn and watching a movie.  This picture is about how it went.  Chase was all about the popcorn and kept coming back for refills, and Porter was all about the movie.  He didn't finish his popcorn until after there were no refills left.

The tree the Grandma and Grandpa picked out this year was completely dried out by Christmas, so the next day they took it outside and lit it on fire.  He burst into flames immediately and it only took a few minutes for the whole tree to burn.

There have been very few years that we have had a white Christmas in Moab, but this year the snow won't melt there.  We took advantage of that by sledding most the day on Saturday.

Lights at temple square.

Living in Salt Lake has given us the opportunity to make the tradition of seeing the Christmas lights at temple square, something we only got to do a handful of times growing up.  We have enjoyed doing it every years since we have been married.  It is even responsible for putting me in labor with Chase 2 years ago.

Chase did better this year than last year, as long as he was PUSHING the stroller around instead of riding in it.  (And NOT getting his picture taken).

Enjoying Christmas time...

Some of my family was up north after dropping Drew off at the MTC, so we went to the South Town Mall to find Santa.  Sitting on Santa's lap this year went only slightly better than last year.  I put him on Santa's lap and he jumped right back off. 
But he REALLY enjoyed riding the train around the mall and the carousal.


I love this picture from my mom.

You didn't think I could do it did you?

Neither did I!  But it's all pieced together and hand quilted.  The only thing left is the binding.

The most exciting part is it's a one of a kind.

What do you think?

Sadness....

I am finding more and more that this world is FILLED with sadness.  It is impossible to escape.  This past week has brought a lot of sadness and heart ache for me and I am ready to make a change.  Since I can't escape the sadness I am working on focusing on the joy.  With sadness there is a lot of joy in this world.  This is one of my moments of joy:

Clear back for Mothers Day I received a special gift.  It came in the form of a crossword puzzle and when I finished filling it all out I was supposed to read through all the words and guess what they all had in common and then I would know my gift.  Turns out I got two tickets to Wicked in Denver.  A play I have been dyeing to see and missed my opportunity to see it in Salt Lake this year.

We dropped Chase off in Moab (again- I'm SUCH a great daughter, dropping my son off to my parents all the time), and drove to Denver.  It was a quick trip.  We went to the play, ate dinner, slept, and went and saw the temple in the morning and headed back home, but it brought a lot of joy to me.  We didn't take many pictures or I probably would have posted something about it earlier.  These are the only pictures from that trip.