Dancing the night away

Our friends the Jacksons took us out to dinner at their yacht club on Saturday night. The food was really yummy! I ordered a beef fillet and it was seriously the best steak I've ever had in my life! I think it was even better than the one I had at Shula's. It was super tender and juicy; you could cut it with just a fork. Pete liked it too. I was generous and gave him half. We had a lot of fun sitting and chatting while eating for a couple hours. We ate rolls, crab cakes, salad, our main course and desert! We were stuffed afterward!
After dinner we all headed to the Winter Ball at the Northport civic center.

This is our awesome Korean friend Kimmie! She is one of the funniest people you'll ever talk to! She's also really skinny and makes me look like a whale standing next to her.

These are our awesome friends the Jacksons! They spoil us like crazy! We love them to pieces!

After stuffing our faces at the yacht club.

Pete's favorite move

It's a..........

GIRL!!!!! We went to my doctor's appointment today and I had an ultrasound. It was amazing! They showed us the brain, the heart, stomach, spine, leg bone and lots of other body parts. We saw the heart beating and heard it too! It's always amazing to me to hear the heart beat! She was wiggling around while they did the ultrasound. I don't think she enjoyed being pushed on and decided to push back.
It feels a lot more real now that we know what we are having and can plan better and start buying things. We went out to dinner tonight and then went to target. I had a gift card to target that one of my students gave me for Christmas. We used it to buy several girlie outfits! It was fun looking at all the baby stuff and looking at the girl clothes!
We are really excited! Here are some of the ultrasound pictures:

Lights on Temple Square

One night while we were in Utah Pete, my brother Josh and I drove up to temple square to look at the Christmas lights. Pete's mom and a bunch of his brothers and sisters met us up there. I love the lights on temple square. We did not have time to look at them last Christmas so we made sure to schedule it in this year. It was pretty cold out but not as cold as its been some of the other times I've been. We went into the visitors center and the tabernacle in between checking out the lights and nativities to keep warm.

Josh & Pete posing by the floating Nativity

The Temple

Me and Josh

Keeping warm inside the tabernacle

Pete and Josh on our way to look at the lights

By the reflection pond

About half the Jay family at the tabernacle

Christmas Break in Utah

We were in Utah for almost 3 weeks during Pete's Winter Break from school. We had a lot of fun visiting family and friends! It went by really fast and we were sad to leave our family and beautiful Utah.
We kept busy the whole time visiting with family. We went back and forth between my parents house and Pete's. We had different family and friends coming into town at different times throughout our time there. We were certainly never bored! We went to four family Christmas parties the week of Christmas. We drove to Ogden on Christmas Eve to go to my extended family Christmas party and then drove all the way down to Springville to the Jay Family Christmas Party within a couple hour period. I wish I would have taken pictures at the parties but I forgot! They played dodge ball at the Jay party at the church. (I didn't participate for obvious reasons but Pete really enjoyed it!)

We opened presents at my parents house (again forgot to take pictures) Christmas morning and then went to the Jay house in the afternoon to open presents at 3. Pete's dad had to work and got home at 3 so everyone waited to open presents until then.
Here are some pictures before the present opening began at the Jays:

Pete's sister Joni

Our nephew Emmett

Me with our nephew Luke

Four of Pete's brothers: Jared, Tim, Tom and Jeremy

Pete's mom and his sister Emily

Aaron playing the wii and Jared, Ariel and Jeremy looking on

We ate Christmas Dinner at my parent's house after opening presents at the Jays and hanging out there. My mom always makes delicious food and Christmas was no exception.



This picture isn't the best of everyone but its all I have. My mom, my aunt Katie, Josh showing his food, my dad trying to smile like Pete, and Pete.