Wedding/Reception Recap

    So my twin brother got married on the 29th. It was pretty fun seeing him with his fiancee (at the time) and then see them get married and sealed for eternity. It was super nice remembering when Jared and I got married oh so long ago.

    As I wrote in the post when Aubrey got sick, we went up Thursday and stayed with an aunt and uncle and my parents :)

    They got married in the Bountiful Temple because Alicia has a brother who is serving a mission in the Salt Lake area (I guess). His mission president said the brother could attend the sealing if it was at a temple in his current area. Which happened to be the Bountiful Temple!

    Pictures outside the temple were good. My face was frozen and poor Aubrey was sick so we had to take pictures quickly on my side of the family and Jared ran her indoors. Pictures lasted forever though. I complained when getting my wedding pictures done too, so I'll never be happy :)

    I know we got some good pictures and after the trip to the InstaCare for Aubrey, we went back to Cale and Tash's (my aunt and uncle we were staying with were also hosting the reception). The decorations were put up in advance so everything was easy :) Food was brought including the amazing groom's cake I got to make as a wedding present!!

    The photographer came and took some more pictures, which was fun. He got some fun pictures of Aubrey! And he made a funny comment about how I look like Katie Holmes...

    I think the after party was pretty hilarious! Ben and James were going crazy on the ping pong table! Jared and I joined in for a game of Around the World or something. Ben and James decided to play Pink Belly or something. Essentially, the person who loses has to lift up his shirt and the winner gets to hit the ball at his belly. If he misses, he doesn't get a re-shot. 

    Talking with Ben, James, Jared, my parents and Cale and Tash were hilarious! Things should not be repeated...

    Anyhow, the wedding was great, the reception was fun and things turned out pretty well!!

Head Start

    So we have wrapped presents under the tree and Aubrey is getting a head start on them. If we aren't paying attention, she'll go for a present and start tearing or grabbing at it. 

    To entertain her, we give her paper and things to tear and ball up. She now thinks that any paper on the floor is hers and she wants it :)

    But it is so funny when we wrapped our presents. I had to wrap the presents I got on the bed while she played on the floor. She would have jumped at the scissors and paper!

    We are so excited for our first Christmas together! We're going to put the presents we got each other under the tree on Christmas Eve and we are doing to do some fun things for food. 

    Christmas Eve will be snacks and appetizers, Christmas morning will be a yummy breakfast and Christmas dinner will be ham and other dinner-type things. 

    We've been going through most of our Christmas movies, either our own or on YouTube. We are a big fan of YouTube these days because they have movies we don't. Every now and then we find a movie on Netflix, but that doesn't happen all that often. 

    But here is a little Christmas happiness! Merry Christmas everyone!

Santa Claus!

    We went to see Santa Claus last night! And it was so funny!

    It's a classic Christmas photo to see babies sitting in Santa's lap crying. I have a few pictures like that and they are pretty funny. 

    A friend suggested the Santa inside Menchies at The Avenue on Upper Roswell. She said he was just inside the door and we could take our own pictures (rather than waiting in a huge line to see Santa at the mall and having to pay for a photo). 

    I anticipated Aubrey staring at Santa for a few seconds before crying. I know my daughter pretty well!

    This is how the trip went:

She looked at Santa, suspiciously...

Still hadn't decided how she felt about Santa yet...

She decided she felt like crying :)

    There was more looking back at Santa and crying, but these 3 photos capture the experience :)

She tolerated Santa when I held her next to him

    Of course, after we left Santa she was all cute in her stroller! Overall, I thought it was a great trip! I owe a huge Thank You to the friend who suggested this Santa to me! 

    Santa gave Aubrey a little candy cane. Within the hour she had broken it and somehow got through the plastic to suck on the actual candy. I guess she's ok with peppermint because she would have kept sucking on the candy if I hadn't taken it from her.