Merry Christmas!

Christmas Party in Payson

Every year on the weekend before Christmas, we get to go and spend time with Papa and Nana Platt! We always look forward to the weekends we get to spend with Papa and Nana because they are filled with great food, relaxation, and religious discussion that always leave you feeling grateful for what you have. We sure missed the majority of the family! Most everyone couldn't make it this year and we really missed all of them! Hopefully everyone will make it next year! We didn't pull out the camera very often and when we did, they weren't the best pictures ever but I thought this one was adorable! Do you see the resemblence?

We were also blessed to get a gift! Daley got a new little lamb and she loves it! She also really enjoyed unwrapping the present and playing with the wrapping paper afterwards...

Denver and I got a new sign that we love! It seems like everyone we know made cute signs in relief society...whenever I was new to the ward, I'm pretty sure that ward had already made the "family signs" so I have never gotten the chance to do it. Denver and I were so excited to get our new family sign because we are getting ready to decorate a wall of family pictures and that was our missing item! And to tell you the truth...this format is my favorite out of all of them that I have seen! Thank you so much Papa and Nana! We love it!

School's Out!

Hurray! Now I only have my student teaching left and I will be done with school for a long time! Well until Denver's done with his schooling...then I'm going to start my Masters. It is such a relief to not have to do any bookwork from now on! I'm so glad to have my life back and to do all the things I love.

There has been a ton that has happened in the past couple of months. There has been a ton of traveling! It's loads of fun because Daley is such a great traveler. I put her in her car seat and she doesn't make a peep the whole way, even when I have the music blaring and singing at the top of my lungs. She still manages to sleep like a log. I'm so excited because now Denver, I, and Daley get to drive together which makes traveling even better.

We got to spend Thanksgiving at the Ranch with the Finch's! We had such a blast over Thanksgiving it was hard to come home. Daley especially loved it because she got to play with ALL of her cousins. She didn't want to take naps because she didn't want to miss anything, and we were okay with that because she was happy most of the time. We took a ton of family pictures and later went to the Rim and took more pictures!

Later we went to Cottonwood and Sedona to look at the Christmas Lights at Tlaquepaque which was fun! Then for the rest of the weekend we just sat and hung out for the rest of the weekend. Then it was time for Daley and I to go back to Thatcher and finish up my last two weeks of school. My last day of class was my birthday and lets just say it wasn't my favorite birthday. I had to be in class for one thing and Denver was three hours away for the other. I still did enjoy it because I got to talk to Denver for a couple of hours and my mom took me out to lunch and shopping, which was lots of fun! Thanks Mom!

When we got back up to Eagar, Denver took me out to Bear Wallow in Alpine. That was where we had our first official date way back in 2003! Denver and I had fun reminiscing of how it was 7 years ago and the good times we had falling in love. Thank you sweetheart for everything! You are perfect and I'm the luckiest girl EVER! ;)

Here is a little update on our sweet little one, Daley....she is 5 months old now and growing like crazy but not her hair! She still has no hair....:( Today she rolled over all by herself from her back to her tummy. She's done it a couple of times now but she gets frustrated when she can't roll back on her back. She hates tummy time haha! She is getting her little personality too. After I feed her, I'll put her up on my shoulder to burp her and she'll snuggle up to me and then lift up her head really fast and look at me. When she wakes up in the morning and sees that Denver and I are looking at her she smiles her biggest smile and curls up and giggles. It is the sweetest thing ever! She still loves baths more than ever but she hates the part where you have to get out and get dressed. Her least favorite part of the day is when she has to put her head through the neck hole and her arms into her sleeves. She cries everytime and I try to do it fast, then I'll try to do it slow and soft....nothing helps, she just doesn't like that part of getting dressed. She has a hard time falling asleep most of the time...she is a fighter! She sings sleepy songs sometimes and she spits when she gets excited! It's so cute, sometimes she'll have a war with you and she always wins. I know this is random, but it think it is kinda cool....I'm not sure how you spit at people but Denver and I do it different that each other. The air comes out beneth my tongue and the air comes out above Denver's tongue. I thought the way Denver did it was so WEIRD because I had never seen anyone do it like that. Well guess who spits like her dad? Yep! Little miss Daley! She has sooooo many mannerisms like her dad it is the cutest thing! She spits like her dad, she raises one eyebrow like her dad, she looks like her dad (mostly), ect... I could go on and on...

Well there is our little update! We will post more pictures and random stories for you because I'll have some time on my hands ;)