I will be forever catching up!!

Ok, time to get back on the blogger mobile! Lately even thinking about blogging overwhelms me, but we have so many pictures and our life has changed so much, that I know I would regret not documenting it and keeping track. To briefly go through the past year basically, here are a few pictures of the holidays last year... now that we are about to celebrate the same ones this year! THANKSGIVING 2011

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving last year. Blake's little brother Tyler has just returned from a 2 year LDS mission in Brazil a few weeks prior. It was fun to be together as a family again and to have him home. His sweetheart, Moryah, had written him his whole mission, and I can't remember now if they were engaged by this time or not, but they were married less than a month later, Dec. 20! So that was our excitement last year at this time!

Maylee and Grandma were so surprised that they matched and they didn't even call each other! 

 TY & MORYAH'S WEDDING

Ty and Moryah got married Dec. 20, 2011. He returned home from his mission Nov. 19, 2011! It's all good though, because we love Moryah and were all hoping that she wouldn't find someone else while he was on his mission. They met the summer after their senior year at a Stake Trek Youth Conference, and had been dating ever since. So I think with the mission, it was over three years. They were married in the Draper temple, it turned out beautifully despite how fast they had to pull it all together!

Tyler never really proposed to Moryah, so that was the joke at the temple... it was her first time receiving the ring! So he made the proposal official after they were already sealed for time and all eternity!

We remembered at the end of the reception that we still needed to get a picture with the newly weds... unfortunately, most of the decorations were already taken down at that point so you can't see how beautiful it was. 

My favorite picture of Maylee from the night

One of my favs from the day. 

CHRISTMAS 2011

This was our first Christmas that we woke up to Santa coming in our own home! It was so fun! OUr yearly traditions include spending Christmas Eve with one of our families and then Christmas day with the other. This year we celebrated Christmas Eve with my family, and Christmas day with Blake's. With both of our families Christmas Eve is the big night of the two. We always reenact Luke 2 with the kids, and have a big dinner, usually stake (with Blake's family it is always stake on Christmas Eve). My family started the tradition when we were kids to open all of our family presents on Christmas Eve, and then wake up to Santa Christmas morning. We love that tradition! So we always spend a couple of hours on Christmas Eve doing our gift exchange at the end of the night. No matter who we are with though, Christmas is always a special time full of family and love. 

We made them sit at the top of the stairs and take pictures before they could go down and see if Santa came :)

I love that face! I can still hear the sound coming out of it as he saw all those superhero costumes just for him!

Maylee got everything she'd need to be a good mommy... and then basically everything she'd need to be a princess too! She was hilarious because everything was so awesome and exciting for her! As you can tell by her reaction to her very own lotion!

Merry Christmas!!!