Baby Shower and Nesting

Our sweet neighbor Kayla threw us a baby shower on Sunday. It was perfect. I got a little emotional when I saw the signs on the door and then again in the party room with the other decoration. It was a good night with friends, good conversation, great dinner and dessert and games. They gave us the decorations too so I did a little nesting today...

Baby corner!

Thank you cards for the host and attendees.

The Rest of our Break

"Santa, bye bye!"

Santa came and left a present for Tom.

Here is Tom looking for the pickle on Christmas. It's right behind him. Can you see it?

We finished the advent sticker tree and got Christmas cards!

Beautiful sunsets through a dirty window..

New Years Eve pizza! And cupcakes! While watching Jurassic World. It was awesome!

 We walked around St. George's a bit and got a big yummy cinnamon roll from The Merry Baker.

The beach

Hog Island

This is the trail to get to the bridge. You may not be able to see the orange spots below but there were big crabs everywhere.

There's the island. The bridge is on the left.

Here's the beach on Hog Island. Right before we got to the beach we had to walk through clay mud with a ton of thirsty mosquitoes. Yuck.

Hippie couple from Colorado here on their boat. And crack. We got in the water with them.

Back on the bridge...

We "hiked" in our flip flops and mine were rubbing me painfully. Tom used his knife and ripped his sleeve off of his holey BYUI shirt to wrap around my foot. My hero. :)

Merry Christmas!

I asked Tom what his favorite Christmas memory is and he said it was the year he started to doubt Santa. He was about 11 or 12 and was questioning whether Santa could really know if you've been good or bad and get around in one night giving gifts to children all over the world. So Christmas Eve Tom put up a stocking for his dog, Abu. He thought he could pull a fast one on Santa and when the stocking was empty on Christmas he would know Santa wasn't real. Then on Christmas morning Abu's stocking was filled! Tom said, "There's no way he could have known Abu would have a stocking! Santa had to be real."

Tom sleeping in on Christmas morning. Nice mustache.

Merry Christmas!

Day 22, 23, 24

This break we watched all 8 Harry Potter movies. We've been having dreams with wands. At the beach yesterday we wrote baby names in the sand and played hangman. I wrote "Santa is coming" then Tom wrote "Not if you're naughty." We also started our other Christmas puzzle this week. :)


Today we worked out,

went grocery shopping (never again on Christmas Eve), got rained on coming home, went to the beach and we're having enchiladas for Christmas Eve dinner!

Merry Christmas Eve!!

19, Twenty, 21

This weekend we watched Jack Frost, had the Christmas program at church and ate delicious ice cream. Today we were poured on at the beach! Tom jumped back in the water and I stood in the resorts yoga area. Fun fun!

18

We got to sit by this Christmas tree for 2 hours while we waited in the health clinic this week...

And we got to see Star Wars last night! It was awesome.