christmas

we spent christmas in beautiful, snowy utah this year.  we had a wonderful time with family and friends.  the time went by way too fast, it always does. here are just a few pictures from the trip.

tosh, vicki and pooped out little stella.

desmond with his giant froggie grandma brown made.

grandpa brown showing desmond around the music studio.

the lights at temple square.  one of my favorite holiday traditions.

the sing-a-long at the brown family christmas party.  

playing blocks with grandma lemmon.

wagon rides with grandpa lemmon.

9 years

happy anniversary jeremy.  here's to many more years to come.  

(and thanks for the beautiful flowers)

exploring

ever since desmond has learned to walk, all that he wants to do is explore new places.  he loves to walk around just about anywhere and check out every nook and cranny.  so last week we took him up to the high museum to walk around the courtyard.  he had the time of his life and was really bummed when we made him get back in the stroller for the ride home.  

sunday best

jer took this picture yesterday and i just couldn't resist posting it.  

ornaments

i got this idea from martha.  they are made from strips of paper and actually turned out better than i thought they would.  i was going to do my whole tree with them but ended up just making about 7 and mixing other ornaments in.  so far only one has been torn to shreds by the d-man.  the rest are now hanging out of his reach.  

'tis the season

to start off, we had a lovely thanksgiving this year. dinner with the olson family and then dessert at the edens.  it was a great day filled with wonderful food and great company and somehow i didn't take a single picture.  

the day after thanksgiving we met up with the denison family at hunters christmas tree farm to pick out our tree.  it is such a cute place in a great woodsy setting.  it was really warm that day so it was a stretch to say it felt like christmas but we had fun trying.  we went on a hay ride, desmond sat on santa's lap for the first time (hence the "who the hell are you" look on his face).  it was a fun day and i love our tree.  i think it's the best looking one we've ever had.  

happy birthday dollycakes

sure love you.  

NYC

this year for my birthday jeremy gave me a weekend away.  i went and spent a long weekend in new york city and stayed with my sister holly and her hubby ty.  it was so nice to have an adult weekend without any baby anything, and i finally broke the dry spell and went to a movie in a theatre.  it had been two years!  thanks holly and ty for being fantastic hosts and thanks jeremy for holding down the fort while i was away.  it's a lot of work.  i loved every minute of the trip, it went by way too fast.  

some first words

i took this a few days before dez got sick, he is talking a lot these days and it's so fun to hear him say new words.

new president

i usually don't post anything political on this blog, but this is such a remarkable day, i just couldn't resist. i just have to say that i am so excited that barack obama won the presidency.  the speech he gave last night gave me new hope in our country and made me proud to be an american.  go barack!