Dance Dance Dance

Today I went to the Dickens Festival at the Utah State Fairgrounds to see my cute little niece Reagan dance. It so was much fun to watch the whole show and Reagan did so awesome!!!

I am so proud of her!! 

Here's a little video I took at the show. 

She is the cute little one all the way to the right.

french toast, family, and santa.

Tonight we had a blast! We met up with some family and headed to kneaders for all you can eat french toast and a santa visit. Now, going into this, we knew Brooklynn wasn't going to sit on Santa's lap. I wasn't even going to try. I mean, we walked past Santa at the mall and she about lost her mind running the opposite direction. So when Santa made his grand entrance I was not surprised that she kept telling me she wanted to go home. 

We all ate our yummy french toast. Mrs. Claus had made her way around talk to people and we decided to get in line to see Santa. As we got closer I decided I would just talk to her about it. Tell her how she can ask Santa for a toy that she wanted. That really got her attention. We got to the front and she actually sat on his lap!! And told him what she wanted for Christmas!! We were completely SHOCKED!! It was amazing!! We snapped a few shots on my phone throughout the night because I totally didn't bring my camera because I was sure she wouldn't even get close to Santa. So we made due with what we had.

It turned out to be a fun filled night with yummy food, awesome family, and Brooklynn first good Santa experience! 

happiness.

 Yesterday evening Brooklynn and I packed our stuff and headed out to West Jordan to pick up my sister in law Courtney, then headed straight to the airport to pick up my mother in law.

Now let me tell you something awesome.. SHE IS HERE TO STAY! And soon my father in law will be here also! He is with Curtis right now driving all of their stuff from Georgia! 

We are BEYOND excited that they are moving here! 

So last night after we picked grandma up from the airport we grabbed dinner at Chili's and then had a little sleep over at Courtney's. We stayed up pretty late just talking and catching up. So happy that they are here to stay!! 

YAY for grandma and grandpa Duty living in Utah!!

december.

Can I just say that I am so happy that it is December?? I seriously love Christmas time so much. And it is really the only time I love the cold Utah weather. It just makes sense at Christmas. It makes me happy. Things have been pretty low key around here. We've been spending our days at the park mostly. We also checked out this new outdoors store called Sheels and Brooklynn had a blast running around the store taking picture with all the animal statues. 

We also got our family photos taken.. Let me tell you something. Brooklynn is such a good kid! I'm telling you, 95% of the time she is sweet, and she shares, and she's loving, and so smart. BUT, when it comes to this kind of stuff she HATES it. She will not pose worth anything. It is always a constant struggle and that's exactly what it was. A struggle! But we made it through and thankfully Dana was so great to be so patient with her! I'll post more photos her when I get them back but there's one down there of my cute girl! 

Happy beginning of December, hope it doesn't go by too fast!

Thankful

Today I have been so Thankful for so many things. I wish I could remember to be this Thankful everyday. 

I am so thankful for my Parents and my siblings. I am beyond blessed to have been adopted into this amazing family. I couldn't have asked for a better one!

I am thankful for my sibling in-laws (on both sides). I am so thankful that my siblings married such awesome people and that my husband has the most incredible siblings! 

I am thankful for my niece and all my six nephews! They are pretty much the coolest kids and are the best cousins to Brooklynn.

I am thankful for my mother and father in law. I love that they treat me as if I were their own! I am so blessed that they are as wonderful as they are!

I am thankful for ALL of my grandparents! Best. Grandparents. Ever.

I am thankful for my husband Curtis. Who is such a hard worker and takes care of Brooklynn and me. He is the love of my life and I don't know where I would be without him.

I am thankful for my PERFECT daughter, Brooklynn who makes me smile everyday. Who keeps my on my toes and makes my life so sunny and bright.

I am thankful for my health. This is something that I take advantage of and that I need to pay more attention too.

I am thankful for The LDS Church and for the person it has made me.

I am thankful for all of my amazing friends. (You know who you are)

I am thankful for my life.

I am thankful for much much more.

Today was amazing. It started off at my sister-in-law Courtney's with an amazing thanksgiving lunch and walk to the park. Then to my Grandma's house for games and dessert. It's been so much fun having my parents in town. It was a great day!

loving this warmer weather..

It has been oddly warm for this late in November, but we have been taking advantage of it. It is so much fun to see Brooklynn growing and learning how to do more and more on her own at the park. 

Although if I'm going to be completely honest with you, parks freak me out!! They are so dangerous! They are so high, and they have so many little openings, basically sending my anxiety through the roof! I know as a child I too was all about these kind of parks and as Brooklynn gets older she will be too but man, they are scary!

But for now my little girl sticks to the smaller parts of the playground and I'm okay with that! She absolutely loves it!

hittin' the slopes...

No, not me.. But today we headed up to snowbird to get Curtis' ski pass. It's been a few years since he had a ski pass since he had to have surgery on his knee.

He is beyond excited to get back out there and ski 3 times a week (or maybe more).

It was fun taking the drive up the canyon to get the pass.

lately...

I know it's been forever again but I'm going to try once again to get back into blogging again.

So here's what's been going on lately.

Brooklynn is still the cutest little girl in the world..

She turned 2 year old...

We went to the pumpkin patch and rode a pony...

Brooklynn was the cutest little owl for Halloween..

She got her fingernails and toenails painted..

Did I mention I have the cutest little girl????

But sometimes she gets grumpy when she doesn't get what she wants..

I am loving putting Brooklynn in all of her cute winter clothes..

We went to a Christmas tree lighting before Thanksgiving.. and it was awesome!

My grandpa has been in the hospital and now is in a rest home trying to recover so we've been visiting him a lot..

This is the sweetest photo ever.. I love my grandparents..

This definitely happened.. and it was awesome.. definitely the best Twilight movie ever.. I want to see it again and again... 

Well, that pretty much sums up the last little bit.. 

I'll be back!! 

remember that time my husband wrestled a pig?

Hey there, I know it's been forever. But I'm back again and with an awesome video.

This is a video of my husband and two other guys wrestling a pig in mud trying to get it in a barrel.

There were 5 teams and they got third by getting it in the barrel in 15 seconds.

The winning team got it in the barrel in 5 seconds!! Crazy!!

But anyway. Here is the video of his team.

sorry about my screaming. ha

family!!

This past sunday Curtis, Brooklynn and I headed down to visit some of his family that lives down in Grand Prairie. I was very excited to meet more of the amazing people that make up Curtis' side of the family. I am beyond blessed to have married into such fabulous family!!!

We all had so much fun! One reason I am sad to leave Texas is that it will be so long before we get to see all the wonderful people who live here!!