Merry, Merry...

We went to Utah to be with my side of the family for Christmas, it was a blast. It's hard to be back in Sacramento so far away from family. Someday we'll live nearby.... Temple square lights, the Tabernacle and the Eichelbergers!

We also have made it a tradition where ever we go to visit places from "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" since we love that show so much. We went to Pat's BBQ is Salt Lake and we were not disappointed- so yummy!

We got to see Heidi in her show at the Hale Center Theatre- "A Christmas Carol"- she was adorable and had the best English accent out of everyone ;)
Basting out Christmas Turkey- yum!


And of course lots and lots of time with Scarlett, in her many adorable moods and outfits. (I barely took any pictures during the whole trip (dumb) so some of these I borrowed from Jylare's blog - as usual).


She laughed for the first time while sitting on Josh's lap- he feels pretty special.

as you can probably tell she wasn't put down the entire week- she had us all wrapped around her little pinky (as we should be, I think). It was a wonderful week and we are excited to go back to Connecticut for next year's Christmas (already counting down!!!).

Tahoe!!

The weekend after Thanksgiving, we went up to Tahoe with Josh's sister, her husband and their new little one Dean. We had a fabulous time at Sunny's client's condo at a resort there (heated pools, hot tubs, ice skating rink, incredible gym, ski lift and awesome sledding hill) we had so. much. fun. We watched movies, sat by the fire, slept in an amazing bed and watched the beautiful snow fall. It was a great way to start the Christmas season.

I got to hold the little guy while his mom and dad went sledding- he is to die for!

Sunny and Dean sledding- he looks happy no?

Sunny and Josh at the top of the hill...
video of Josh and me sledding- you can hear my lovely screaming and extremely loud laugh as we go down the hill and run into large twigs that almost impaled Josh. We had a blast! We were so grateful that Sunny and Rick let us come and stay with them.

Catch up

So I thought I better catch up on blogging before Christmas and New Years pictures start building up. In October we went to see the newest edition to our family - little Scarlett Jylare. We got to spend lots of quality time holding, snuggling, kissing and swooning over her every yawn and sneeze. She is to die for! We also got to see my brother bless her in church, which was very special, and totally surreal! We went to downtown Disney, the Huntington Beach Pier (ate at Ruby's) and generally just hung out and had some quality family time.

At the pier...



Seriously- this kills me...
Proud mama and daddy after the blessing at church.
Yes she is hugging me- because she LOVES me!!
HB Pier


The whole family after the blessing.


this last pic was taken by Scarlett's mama- but it is so darn cute, I had to post it. Look at that smile!!

I pretty much can't wait to see her again in a week and a half when we are all in Utah for Christmas. I don't know how I am going to make it through this last week of work before we leave. Josh's final is on Monday morning and he's done for over a month before he starts his 2nd semester. I remember how wonderful that feeling was- last final before Christmas, sigh. Who knew having a "real job" wouldn't be as fun as I thought it would. Hooray for Christmas vacation in 5 days!!!