Wow...

Yesterday was quite the whirlwind day. We started the day picking up my brother Matt from the airport. He's been in Argentina for 2 years.









Caydence was only 9 months old when he left, not even crawling. She sure has changed a lot.

I unfortunately don't have a picture of the whole group, you'll have to check out Nicki's blog for that, and notice that we're all wearing Matt's jumbo shirts :)

Then we hit up in-n-out for lunch and visited some family on the way home.

Then a quick nap for cranky Caydence (and maybe me as well) and it was time for Christmas/birthday! We've been waiting for him to get home to have Christmas (this was his 3rd Christmas on his mission). And his birthday was the 22nd, so we celebrated that as well.

After an amazing dinner we were spoiled with an amazing Christmas, and it was so fun to watch Caydence opening her gifts! She was so excited!



She is obsessed with the movie Cars, so pretty much everything she got was Cars related.



Or princess :). She was in heaven.

Then we switched back to birthday and had cake, and it was so late! The day flew by. It was so fun and so great to see Matt again!

-Tarin

He's home!!

-Tarin

The sixth date of Christmas

We spent Christmas Eve with Danny's family and packed the evening with fun! We started at the Galivan Center for some ice skating.





Then we had an amazing dinner at the Macaroni Grill and took in the lights at temple square.






And we finished the night at Danny's parents' house for some hot chocolate an presents. Here's all the cousins in their new jammies.


-Tarin

The fifth date of Christmas

We went to the annual sing-a-long at the ESA.


It was fun, and you get free Jazz tickets, free Bees tickets, and a bunch of other discounts. We sing Christmas carols, and John Schmidt played as well. It was a good way to get in the Christmas spirit.

-Tarin

Christmas dress

My attempt to take pictures in a horribly lit room with a phone...





It's too bad because she was so cute!

-Tarin

The fourth date of Christmas

Last night we were lucky enough to see the Motab Christmas concert. Unfortunately we didn't get tickets to the conference center, but fortunately they had an overflow theater at the visitor's center that we got tickets to. It would have been SO much better in the conference center, but we were still so glad we got to see it!

Unfortunately I don't think we are going to make it to 12 dates this year because we have all been sick (Danny even has bronchitis) and we've just been so focused on Matt coming home from his mission. Oh well, we still have fun on however many dates we go on.


P.S. Danny's parents were so nice and took Caydence for the night so we could go to the concert. They are so fun, they took her to play in the snow and she loved it! But all of her snow clothes are about 16x's too big!

-Tarin

The third date of Christmas

Tonight we went to Paige's annual Christmas ice show. It's always so fun to watch and listen to the Christmas music. She had her first solo this year and she did great!

-Tarin