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Christmas Memories

This year has been full of Christmas bliss. It has been so much fun to watch Ethan meet Santa for the "first time", feel snow for the first time, look at the christmas tree and see the Christmas lights. I hope to always remember these special moments and never ever forget the magic of Christmas.

Ethan has always been a very social little guy. In result meeting Santa was pretty easy. He looked up at him with his white beard and red suit and said "HAAA" which is Ethan's way of saying HI.

Last year my Grandma gave me one of her Christmas decorations that always was my favorite decoration for Christmas

She made these about 30 years ago out of things around the house. If you look closely you may find an old dish soap lid, a golf T, some canning lids, a playing piece from the game Sorry and many other things you may find around your home today. As a child I thought they were special. They reminded me of what the wise men would have put their frankincense and Myrrh in to give to the baby Jesus.

I think they are beautiful and I am so glad to have them as a part of my Christmas collection.

A Childhood Dream Come True

Many little girls dream of becoming a Ballerina, getting a Pony on your birthday or marring a Prince and living happily ever after. As little girl I dreamt of having my very own baby grand piano. I remember dancing as my Grandma played the theme of Sleeping Beauty on her piano. At age 10 I started piano lessons. I had a wonderful piano teacher who taught me many wonderful things about the piano.

One day I was talking with my husband (Brett) about my ambition. At the time we were living in a very small house that we had bought when we were first married. There wasn't much room for many things especially a piano. Brett said "We can get a piano when we move into our next home." A few years later we started looking for a new home. Spotted a home we wanted to buy and I started my search for my baby grand piano. We looked at a couple and decided to check out one more. It was beautiful! I was so nervous as I stroked the keys. The sound was incredible. Now the funny part was that we were not going to be able to move into our new home for another two months. Gladly the man who sold us the piano agreed to hold the piano in his home until we were able to move into our new home. My piano was the first thing we moved into our home. It was better than Christmas.

Its the most wonderful time of the year

It has officially started. Christmas music, Christmas shopping and all that's wonderful this time of year. Ethan loves it too. He stands at the patio doors and pats the glass like its a whole new world.

Happy Halloween

Saturday was filled with spooky spiders and Halloween fun. Ethan had two costumes again this year. He started the day dressed as a BYU Cougar fan for the party at aunt Lynetts house and then dressed up as a penguin for the ward Halloween party. I dressed as the tooth Fairy and Brett dressed up as the famous Indiana Jones.

Gumpa is Ethan's favorite word these days. He doesn't say Gama yet... but we are working on it.

Fun at the ZOO

We went to the Zoo on October 24th and had a great time. We met Ethan's birth mom Kirsten, Her Dad and Mariana there for a day filled with Zoo Adventure. We quickly found out that day was a busy day, for it was Trick or Treat at the Zoo day.

Costumes everywhere. We thought there were Baboons out of their cages and Lions on the run. Though we did not show up in costume, we joined the crowd and got some candy too.

We saw Lions and Tigers and Bears oh My!!! Our favorite were the babies. Baby Elephant, baby Giraffe, baby Monkeys. There were babies around every corner.

Ethan even found someone his own size to chase around.

Mischievous ??? You tell me

so today while I was otherwise occupied, I noticed my house quieter than usual. And we all know what that means. Ethan's getting into something he shouldn't. :) So I looked around the house and found this

Ethan just found out that if he stands on top of a toy it will make him taller and will allow him to reach things just out of his reach.

Am I in trouble??? Or is this little guy a mischievous genius? I have never seen a one year old with this much creativity. You tell me