More pictures of making Cars

Making cars...

When we are in Utah we got together with Uncle Stan and family to decorate cake cars (instead of gingerbread houses this year). Its a Christmas tradition in Steve's family. I should have posted these much earlier.... better late than never!

Cafe Rio + Friends = Fun

We always get the Cafe Rio Crew together for at least one trip for good food and laughs every time we come home to Utah. So, here are some pictures. Theres Mark and Rachael and their new baby, Justin and Ashlee and Makella, and Michelle, Rick, and Ryan...Oh and their new baby too! We were missing Emily, Shawn, and Chloe this trip. Don't worry they made the next one!

Ice Storm in December

We were out of power for 3 days in December. The three days right before we flew to Utah for Christmas. This made it a little difficult to pack, celebrate our Christmas at home, eat, sleep (it was very cold!), and shower! Here are some pictures I took of the icy trees.

A brief Update

So I thought I would write an update on our lives this new year! We are back in PA and we are very happy to be back. We had a good time and now its nice to be back in our own beds at night! Theres not a whole lot new with us. I am watching a little girl named Kate a few days a week. She is a beautiful little girl, her mom went back to work as a nurse at the med center and she is my friend. I love Kate so much, we feel lucky to watch her! Other than that I am still working a couple of days a week at Banana Republic. I love working there as most of you already know!

Our Prophet has recently passed away. Gordon B. Hinckley was the President and Prophet and passed on on January 28th. He was a marvelous man and the only Prophet I have known as a member of the Church. I feel much gratitude for his service to the members of the church and the world. I find it a little difficult to think of another prophet, but I'm sure when a new prophet is called it will feel right.

Bennett is loving Preschool, his teacher Bryn is teaching again next year...HIP HIP HOORAY! I will post a picture of him with his face painted as a clown and a bow tie on. They learned about the circus this week.

I really love my calling in the Primary. I feel really blessed to serve with such a wonderful presidency. I work with amazing women. It helps that they all have a good sense of humor too!

Other than that life is great, we are all healthy and happy! I will post some pictures from the last month, both here and in SLC.

Pictures of Christmas in Washington

We had snow, snow, snow!!! Grandma Donna loves hanging out with Bennett and we love to be here. We have had so much fun. Bennett actually took the picture of me and Grandma! And the Snowman was courtsey of Grandma Donna too.

The Holidays

I wish I had a picture to post, but I don't. Our family has been in Salt Lake with Grandma and Family for the last two weeks! We have had a blast. We got here a week before Christmas and have had a blast. A party almost every night with a movie and treats. We had a wonderful Christmas and Bennett got tons of toys! We feel so lucky to have spend Christmas here in good old Salt Lake City, with the snow and all. We had a wonderful candle lit dinner on Christmas eve and then Grandma, Grandpa, Olivia, Andrew, Steven, Bennett and Myself all went out caroling to the neighbors. I really loved it and so did Bennett, he thought it was Halloween all over again....running to the next house before we finished our carol, the only one we sang was "We wish you a merry Christmas!" We had a great night and then had a wonderful Christmas day too. We have been seeing friends, eating Cafe Rio, and hanging out with all of Steve's Family. New Year's Eve was a blast too, we had a big party and Steven's cousins came over and we ate, played board games, watched movies, and played pool on the new pool table that Santa brought Andrew. We are all pretty tired! We got tickets to Desert Star Play house for Christmas from Jenny and Steve, so did Ashley and Justin (Steve's Brother and Wife) So we went tonight and it was so fun! I just thought it was about time for an update! Steven is going home tomorrow - school starts on Thursday! And Bennett and I are headed to see Grandma Donna in Washington!