December Update

December has been one busy month for us. I don't know if we have been home for a whole week since Thanksgiving. We started off the month with a trip to visit my brother in Minnesota (pictured below).

Then we continued on to South Dakota to visit Kristie's Parents and their puppy Bebe, whom Savannah thoroughly enjoyed.

When we came home it seems we brought the cold weather with us and we got a lot of snow to play with. I didn't think Savannah would like having to put on her snow pants and boots all the time to play in it, but she is completely willing. Thank goodness! So on our first substantial snowfall the snow was perfect for snowmen. Here is Savannah squatting next to our little snow men. She wasn't patient enough to build really big ones.

Some kids decided it would be fun to smash our snowmen on the way home from school that day so Mitch and Savannah went out and build another miniature snowman (the snow was crunchy by this point so it was too hard to make too many).

We decided to make sugar cookies for Christmas this year since it was a family tradition of mine. Savannah was all for it. She loves anything to do with stirring or making anything we will let her. So of course she has to cut out the sugar cookies.

We were at the Moore's for Christmas this year and they decided it would be fun to rein act the nativity. The only picture of us doing this seems to be the only one I took of Savannah in her angel outfit. I thought she looked so cute. She loves to dress up.

Then came Christmas where we were finally able to open to open gifts (Savannah wanted to open her gift for two weeks since she found it under the tree). She was very good at opening her gifts this year. She didn't need any help. She even helped her dad open his. Kristie's family also made it out to Utah for New Year's so we had Christmas again when they got here.

Nelson Family New Year's Day

Painting and Sleeping

Savannah finally decided it was ok to get her fingers all dirty while finger painting. I know her eyes are closed but she wouldn't smile in the other picture.

Here is the newest of Savannah's random places to fall asleep. She first started going there as refuge from where her cousin Liam could reach her. But later after he went home she went back to the steps and fell asleep. I think she had dinner this time before she went to sleep.

The Book of Mormon

Savannah has a thing for her dad's Book of Mormon. Here is a video talking about the Book of Mormon.

Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

Another season is done for ultimate frisbee. This year I got Mitch to play with me and he played in the first four games and then he went hunting for the next four weeks. So he played a little bit. Last saturday was our season ending tournament. Our team had almost won all of our games (meaning we lost most of them by only 2 points.) We did actually win a few. So we were down in the bracket. Well we ended up winning our first three games and losing the championship game by you guessed it 2 points. It was a good game and we had fun. Here are a few pictures of a game. I am the one in the blue had and green shirt.

Halloween Pictures

Savannah wanted to be Ariel for Halloween. There was no talking her out of it once she saw it. I tried to get her to be a princess with a shorter skirt so she wouldn't trip but it didn't work. So I had to shorten the skirt a little.

We went to Hee Haws Corn Maze this year with the Moore's. They also had a petting zoo, a hay slide, other slides, a corn cannon, and more things I can't remember. This is a picture of Miranda and Savannah after they went down the 20 ft hay slide. Savannah loved it. I went down it and it was very fast.

Savannah insisted on mopping the floor. So here she is in her dress up shoes mopping the floor.

This is one of Savannah's Halloween outfits from Grandma Pat. She was just a little cheeseball. Too bad she wasn't so smiley for her 2yr pictures.

I don't want to nap anymore!

Savannah hasn't wanted to take naps lately and sometimes it is ok. But other time you can see what happens about 6pm if she doesn't take a nap. And that means mom is up till midnight trying to get someone to go to bed!


Here I was making dinner and she went in the living room and crawled up on the couch and fell asleep.
We sat down for dinner and she pulled her blanket up and it wasn't two minutes and she was asleep. We've tried waking her up but it just doesn't work with her. When she is that tired she's gone.

Here is what we have been up to

First we had Mitch's Birthday. Happy 27!

Then Savannah decided she had a pouty face. So this is it. Isn't she cute!

We tried to get her to open up the umbrella because she has so much fun with it, but instead she opened her mouth.

She is getting really good at saying cheese for the camera. Can you tell?

I wish she was this good at saying cheese when we got her two year pictures taken. She just doesn't like unfamiliar people I guess.

In this picture we went to This is the Place Heritage Park for their Haunted Village. This is a picture of Savannah while we waited in line for an hour in the cold barn.

Here Savannah, Miranda, and I are dancing ring-around-the-rosie at Miya's Wedding.

And here we all fell down.