Temple Square

We were adventurous and took the trax to Temple Square!

We had a good time! 

Riding the trax TO Temple Square was crazy! 

 It was so jam-packed with people!

Temple Square was fun and festive and just perfect.

And then riding back on the trax was a lot more relaxing and fun

...not so crowded!

Another one of Alexa's funny faces (she has so many, I love it)

You will notice Alexa is posing in all the pictures she is in on the post! :)

mmmm...nothing like hot chocoloate...

Thank you Ty

for making this outing happen

...definitely a future tradition for our family!

Thanksgiving to Christmas

Alexa came home from her "Thanksgiving Feast" Preschool party

wearing this cute little bonnet...

That she didn't take off ALL DAY...

so we ended up QUICKLY making up two more

so that She and Karli could "match"

(Karli didn't want to be left out of all the fun!)

Here are our two little pilgrim cuties!

We then headed down to not so sunny St. George

to spend THANKSGIVING with Ty's family!

We had such a good time 

that we, unfortunately, didn't take any pictures with our camera...

So just imagine a cute home with no furniture taken over by the Shelley clan! :)

We brought air mattresses, camping chairs, folding chairs, and folding tables!

The weather was pretty cold, but that didn't stop us from enjoying a yummy Thanksgiving feast, hiking, walking, biking, playing games, watching movies, and chatting together!

It was pretty great!

We came home and jumped right into Christmas!

We put up our Christmas tree, decorated the home,

and turned on our (FIRST EVER) Christmas lights!

And this week has been turned into "painting the basement" week!

Turning the "creative" greenish-reddish paint job of the previous owner of our home

to something much much lighter!

Oh, I can't wait!

I went to a R.S. Christmas Breakfast this morning,

and came home to our little girls painting away with their dad!

Karli is napping now, but Alexa isn't giving up

...she is having the best time helping Ty :)

making yarn ornaments

I love looking for little craft ideas to do with my kids on The Crafty Crow blog, and we found this fun idea we tried (because we had all the right things laying around--yarn, balloons, glue, etc)!

Instructions are found here at The Magic Onions.

 I would definitely do a few things differently next time around, but the girls had a blast and are so happy with how they turned out.

hint: make sure balloons are small enough that they are round, thicker yarn looks better, and we would probably use glitter glue next time instead of just glitter...but we used the resources we had.

HAVE FUN WITH IT!