GO UTES!!!!

I have been wanting to post this one for a while, but life has been so busy!!! We had the opportunity to attend the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and cheer on our awesome Utes!!! What a blast! It was such a great game! Victory was sweet, especially after enduring small-minded insults from the Alabama fans!!! But hey, I guess Utah doesn't suck after all!!! :) We DOMINATED that field the entire game. What a fun day!

The fam - Dave's uncle Andy and awesome family drove in from TX and met us there to bring our group total to 11 - so much fun!!!

Arriving at the airport, they even welcomed us!! You can't tell by the picture, but Daniel was definitely the most excited of all of us.

View from our seats! We had FANTASTIC seats!!!

The equestrian police to keep us crazy fans from celebrating our way onto the field!!

SCOREBOARD!!! 'Nuf said. :)

It was a good Christmas!!

Here are some quick pictures of our Christmas morning!! The kids had such a great day! The boys gift highlights included an XBOX 360 (yes, I know that everyone else has had one for years, but that doesn't make us any less excited!) Guitar Hero (this may have been a little more for me than them, although they do love it!) and Legos - always a winner! Araleigh's favorite had to be the princess dresses, a pop-up castle, and a microphone! The highlights for mom and dad: watching how excited the boys were to give to eachother - they opened eachother's presents first! Ahhhh.... :)

The night before Christmas... Christmas jammies! A fun tradition!

They just can't believe it... :)

They look like rock stars already, don't they???

They can't believe this, either, apparently!

The princesses!!! Our friends, the Snows, came for dinner, and Araleigh had so much fun playing princess with Eleanor! She wears this dress just about everyday, while watching a princess movie! When she first put it on, the first words out of her mouth were, "now I need to marry a prince!" Dave LOVED that!

Another funny story: in my attempt to prevent Araleigh from being scared of Santa, I showed her where he was at the mall and said, "look! It's Santa! He likes you! He is so nice! He is going to bring you presents on Christmas!!" She looked at him for a minute and said "he likes me?" "yes, he likes you!" I reassured her. He then saw her and smiled and waved to her and she was so excited, and for the rest of the day would remind me that "Santa likes me! He brings presents on Christmas! He's so nice!" Well when the time came to see Santa (at our church Christmas party) Araleigh was so excited to see Santa that she literally hovered around him the entire time, smiling and waving, as if to say, "hey, santa, remember me? It's your best friend Araleigh! You like me!" So I guess it worked (not that she's ever really been shy or afraid of people by any means). And she did actually ask for princesses, so I guess she was a good girl this year, cause that's all she got!