Lex & her Diva glasses.
Tanner & his adorable smile.
Cari even took a trip down the hill with them. You can't really see the tree they about took out on the way.
How come when dad rides the snow sinks in 3 extra inches. Overall it was a fun time to get a change from everyday things of life and enjoy time as a family.
3. One night I go to start a load of laundry and notice the water wont work. (it had been really cold) I told Mitch and he said the pipes in that room are frozen. (this has happened before - so not to worry). We start trying to thaw the pipes and keep the heater on it overnight. The next day he moves the washer out from the wall so he can put a bucket under the pipe and turn it on so when it's starts to thaw it can break through. Several hours later Mitch turns the main water off the whole house so change some valves. Then he goes to turn the water back on and asks me to stay in the back bathroom to watch the valves and makes sure they are off so when he turns the water on it doesn't go every where. The valves were off and everything was great...oh wait...not so fast. Mitch comes in the house and hears gushing...Lexie says "Dad there's water all over." I was in the back of the house and couldn't hear that when Mitch turned the main water back on the laundry room pipe had thawed and was coming out full force. Now we had an about 2 inches of water in the laundry room. All cleaned and no problems now.
We had a wonderful & very white Christmas. We are so thankful that we had such a white Christmas. Really the two weeks prior to Christmas it would not stop snowing, which was a good thing for the area but when you're one of the ones trying to "clean-up" the snow it's hard to keep up with it. Poor Mitch would plow and not have much of a break. Thankfully it stopped snowing long enough for us to take a short break and go to my parents house for Christmas Eve & Christmas Day and then head to Utah. Then the day we got back from Utah we started packing our house so that we could move. That will be another post, so back to Christmas. We did have a wonderful Christmas. All Tanner wanted for Christmas was a "tanney-tane" (candy cane). Everytime we would ask him what Santa was going to bring him, he would say "tanney tane". I would even give him optoins, cars...trucks... he would just say "tanney tane". I think because Santa gave him a candy cane when we saw him...it was just so cute. Of course out of all the thing Santa brought him the 9 inch candy cane was the first thing he noticed and picked out. 
One day at church she was asking Mitch how to spell all these things. Mitch just kept helping her spell them and then when he was done she said, "Here's what I want for Christmas and the things down here are what Tanner wants." She had written a "letter" to Santa. It was so cute. 
These are pictures from Alexa's Christmas dance performance. They did a little dance to some Nutcracker music (it brought back many memories) and then they had a special visitor. Doesn't she look graceful? :)
We promised Lex a ride on the Tram through downtown Salt Lake, So hear they are with Grandma & Grandpa. It was all Tanner had in him to stay awake for the whole ride. As you can see if you ever go downtown during a Utes game you should probably wear red!
The only way we were able to attend the game was because we have great babysitters on Temple Square. When Grandma asked Lex what they should do while we were at the game Lex Said "Oh we should have a party". She thought they should have popcorn, blow up balloons, watch movies, and play games. She is as demanding as her mother. So Grandma spoiled her and that is what they did. Thanks again Grandma and Grandpa.
Justin is doing his best to corrupt them while their young so they don't know any better. Tanner & Lex supporting the Utes. We still catch her yelling Go Utes quite often, but she likes to color things cougar blue. So we will see what she decides a few years down the road. 
I just had to post this so that everyone can see a picture that I actually smiled in, because people say I never smile in pictures so see this is just proof.
26 things that I love and/or that I am grateful for...
Minnie & Mickey Mouse Trick-or-Treating.
Fireman & Belle for a Fun Halloween Party. 
Nana surprised us the Monday before Halloween during FHE with a fun Halloween Package and the kids just loved the Dracula Teeth and Crazy Eyes.
Kids holding "their" pumpkins. They picked the pieces for their individual pumpkins.
All our Crazy pumpkins.
This is the spider Mitch carved into his pumpkin. Patterns are work great. You can see the spider best when it's lit from the inside--that's why you can't really see the pumpkin/jack-o-lantern.
All I have to say is that the kids LOVED the SPRINKLES.
This is Tanner's favorite thing in life right now, he will walk around the house all day with our mini hymn book and just sing. It is pretty funny but he has done it enough now that I have to ask him to be quiet.
Tanner really blew out his own candles.
Tanner got this big dump truck for his 2nd Birthday and his favorite thing to push in it is Alexa and Baby dolls.
Tanner at two weeks.
I think this is when Tanner was about 7 or 8 months. That's 13 rolls from ankle to ankle. He was a chunk and a dang cute one.
One day Mitch was watching the kids for a little while. When I came home I noticed something was different about Lexie. I asked her who did her hair; she said, "Dad." Mitch said, "well she just kept handing me rubber bands and I just kept putting them in her hair.
Yes...That's an X-large soda, a bowl of M&Ms, and a bag of chips. Let me explain. I was at my sister in laws house and we had treats all over the counter and we were just starting to prepare lunch. I had set Tanner up to the table because he was getting really fussy. We were getting stuff ready when I turned around and found Tanner like this. Mitch does call him a junk food junkie. NO-HONESTLY we don't eat like this all the time. It was a movie day one Friday while the kids were out for Harvest break. OOPS!!
