Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve this year was just us, so we were able to take our time with everything. Here's Jack and Ciocia working hard making uszka.

After a few dinner preperations, we visited the cementary and went for a hike.

It was such a gorgeous day!

Mom spent the whole time on the phone with grandma:)

Jack has Ada's gene for taking pictures of feet

This is how Annabelle sees me

My little rockclimber

Getting ready to sing carol's and do readings, notice Annabelle is in a dress. This lasted a very short time, she cried most of the time she was wearing it, after dinner I gave in and let her wear pants, she was quite happy after that.

One of Annabelle's favorite presents, a piano! She loves to tap it and dance to it.

The best way to wear a hat and scarf

Jack loved his legos (and everything else, too!)

Flowers

This weekend was a flower filled weekend. The Thanksgiving Point Bridal Fair was on Saturday, and with my wonderful helpers, I think we did very well - now to see how the contracts pan out.

I love how all the flowers look in just buckets. I love having flowers fill the whole house!

All created and ready to go to the show

Standing at my booth, ready to begin

This centerpiece was such a hit, with the garden roses, hydrangeas and spider mums, really was exquisite!

This bouquet of garden roses, tulips and hydrangeas is actually what a bride would like for September 1st at Sundance.

This vintage beauty has 2 kinds of garden roses, big open longstem roses, and spray roses. So amazingly fragrant also!

This spring beauty everyone loved. With the light touch of freesia, and rhonunculus. It also had garden roses, tulips and spray roses.

After the show I was able to decorate the house. We are overflowing with flowers now! This one is in Jack's room.

The vintage roses looked so amazing untied as well

I redid the centerpiece to be roses and spidermums for home - to last longer. I love this on my kitchen table!

Then I had to add what the Thanksgiving Point Florists did, it was truly an amazing presentation. These pieces, on a mirror decorated their cocktail tables.

Wow, there are no other words for this amazing wreath of hydrangeas and garden roses.

They had 2 beautiful tables set up with multiple centerpieces, it really was amazing to see!

And ribbon streamers from the top, inexpensive, but so vintage and endearing - I loved all of it!

Buddies

Jack and his girlfriends all dressed from with the wonderful costume suitcase from Santa:)

Preparing for Christmas

Since mom (Babi) now works at BYU we were able to go to the annual family Christmas Party. They had some great set ups, but it's really hard to get both kids looking at the camera and smiling at the same time:) This was our best picture of my cuties

Next we waited in line to sit on Santa's lap for 1.5 hours! Jack told him everything he wanted, and also what Annabelle wanted (supposedly a lots of snakes according to her Christmas letter) because as you see, she was quite scared of Santa) The second Santa is after Jack's Preschool program, we tried getting Tink to sit on his lap, too, she grabbed the candy cane and got out of there as fast as she could:)

My kids are a hoot:) Jack is always in costume. Annabelle HATES anything girly and pretty to wear. I was changing her clothes after she had an accident, and thought a skirt and panties would be easier for her to go potty with, well, she ripped it off with great frustration, so I put a diaper and pants on her, she stormed into Jack's room, put on not 1, but 2 pairs of his shorts, his elmo pj top and his jacket, then the monkey was finally happy because she was just like Jack:)

Jack's Christmas Recital at Center Stage Preschool

Jack on Santa's lap at the Center Stage Preschool Program

The Karate line up - the program again was great this year, loved every minute of it! It is so fun to see all the kids have learned so far, Jack did awesome:)

Karate Demonstration

Jack's Christmas List: a humtruck, like 2 scooters, a firetruck with an eagle on it

You Better Watch Out Dance

Silent Night in Sign Language

Merry Christmas Letters

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Weddings So Easy Cover Shoot

I had the wonderful opportunity to partner with Kim Bullock Photography again the other day and make this beautiful vintage winter bouquet for a covershoot of Weddings So Easy Magazine! I decided to perfectly capture the essence of winter it would be best to use soft ivory and brown hughes incorporating roses, calla lillies and scabiosa, making it modern with a touch of lime tulips and top the season off with the silver seeded eucalyptus.

Welcome Frosty

First snow this year and we proudly introduce: Frosty

She liked the snowman, but really didn't like the snow:)