It's been far too long, I know.

Warning, a ton of pictures to follow...And sadly, I can't even post my pictures from Christmas yet, because I have to catch up on some others first. We've had a fun month since I last wrote. First there was our trip to Utah for Thanksgiving. It was very nice except for the part where the kids were sick for most of it. Acutally they were in pretty good spirits for having such nasty coughs. They loved spending time with Papa Ted and Grandma Nette. Here's a picture of them singing songs with grandma before bed.

If I didn't have at least one picture that I took of me and someone else everyone would go into shock-so here's me and daddy.

This is my dad's mom, Grandma Betty. She tried to get a picture with both kids, but Hunter just wouldn't have it.

I better throw in a picture with my grandpa Jim. Did I mention that my camera actually has a function for taking your own picture? How perfect for me. We even got to see half of my brother Evan's family over the holiday. His wife, Jess and two of their kids (the boys) were down in Utah too. This is Hailey and Hayden having a little light saber fun.The day after Thanksgiving (hours after Ben and my dad camped out at walmart to get a new TV) we went up to visit with Ben's family-his sister and her six boys as well as his brother and his 2 kids). It was a lot of fun and I'm glad my dad was a trooper and let me drag him along as well. Hailey had so much fun playing with her cousin Tyran who is just a week older than her.
Here's a picture of them and then one of Mark, Lisa and Benjamin.

Hunter was freezing, but we had a very difficult time removing him from this great truck they had.The next day I dropped Benjamin and Hailey off in American Fork with the famliy again so he could have an afternoon playing soccer with the boys. (none of thos pictures are close enough to be interesting...)

In addition to getting lots of time to spend with family, we were lucky enough to get some visits in with some good friends. We had fun visiting Claudia and the kids (sorry the visit was so short-hope we didn't make anyone sick). Here's Hailey and Madison-they used to love playing together when we lived across the street. Too bad I couldn't get Jex and Hunter to cooperate for a photo op.

We also got to visit my friend Adrienne (who I used to work with back at the library) and her husband Dustin and their cute kids Audrey and Kaleb. It was so cute how she and Hailey ran off and played together after just meeting.

So I called Adrienne up beforehand and said, "don't forget to wear your black shirt and Khakis for Twin Day"-good thing she didn't mess it up for me. Seriously though, Adrienne is so cute.

The girls looking beautiful.

The boys-probably about to cause some trouble.Here we are the day grandma and grandpa kicked us out and sent us home. What a fun trip!

The flight home was a little tough with the extra two hours of nothing due to mechanical problems and a 45 minute taxi on the runway before we got off the plane. I love this picture because I have about 5 others exactly like it, I kept asking them to smile and open there eyes and they did the opposite.

Looks like this is going to be another set of catch-up posts...come back for more soon!