Merry Christmas!

Christmas this year was AWESOME! Mya is 2 1/2 and she really got into things. This year instead of crying when she saw Santa she happily jumped on his lap, told him in her little munchkin voice what she wanted and then thanked him for the candy cane he gave her! It was so cute, I'm gonna be honest it almost made me cry! She's getting too big too fast! 

Anywhoo we stayed here in Utah since we have both families here. We had lots of snow and Christmas day was beautiful (cold though....brrrrrrrrr) and sunny. We went and saw Elf the musical in Salt Lake City with Nick's family which was pretty good, of course never as good as the movie. Nobody can do Buddy the Elf like Will Ferrell :) We had our annual Christmas Bingo party with Nick's family which is always epic....this may be the coolest family tradition I have ever experienced!

We went on a wagon ride through some Christmas lights with my family. We also had my family's annual extended family Christmas party at the Energy Solutions Arena which is always so much fun! My Uncle is in charge of all events there and they always make the Christmas party AMAZING! Often times we get to go and walk through the Jazz locker room, Nick is a HUGE Utah Jazz fan so that's like heaven for him! 

We got to spend so much time with our families which is always our favorite. Mya's birth mom is in town for the Holidays from New York so we can't wait to see her this upcoming week! She is a part of our family and we miss her like crazy!!! Christmas this year was so great, it also brought more of the feeling that we are missing someone. We hope this upcoming year we will be able to find that someone that are hearts are longing for. We're gonna do our best to find them! We trust in our Heavenly Father and know that things will work out when they are supposed to. 

We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!! Here is our month in pictures......there's a lot :)

Hanging with my cute family minus my daddy cause he had to work :( We love these guys so much! 

I love Mya's cheeseball face! This is how she smiles for pics.....it's awesome! 

Mya got this for my mom for Christmas and was so excited to give it to her. She is such a sweet little girl! 

This was our first Christmas in our new house! This is a 9 foot tree, I've always wanted a really big tree so it was fun to finally have one! 

Mya was so excited to get all of our Christmas stuff out and put it up......almost as excited as me! 

Nick is the bomb he never complains about helping me do stuff I know he doesn't care about, like decorating for Christmas :) Such a good man, glad he's mine! 

Mya's cousin Cooper had turned 2! We had so much fun at his birthday party. There are so many little kids in my family right now it makes it really fun for Mya. We just found out that my baby brother and his wife are expecting their first baby girl in May! Hooray! 

Mya and her BFF at the Festival of Trees, we love hanging with friends! 

Mya's first time seeing Santa this year...no tears! Woot woot!

This month Nick took a day off to spend with Mya and I. Mya's favorite place to go is Kangaroo Zoo and Daddy had never been there with us before. We had a blast and it was more fun for me cause I got to play in the toys too this time! 

Yeah I think its safe to say we suck at making gingerbread houses....at least we had fun!

Going to see the lights at Temple Square in SLC is one of our favorite things to do at Christmas. It was cold but well worth it, they are always beautiful and the spirit is so strong. 

Christmas lights on a wagon with my whole family and some of Nick's too! 

This was the cutest, I walked in my room to find Nick studying for his GMAT exam with Mya watching a movie. She had put reindeer ears on both of them! Nick will do anything for his little girl! This made my whole night to see :)

Family party at Energy Solutions Arena with my extended family! All the kids are attacking Uncle Derek! He's kind of like a big kid, Mya calls him Captain Hook. Lol!

Another encounter with Santa and still no tears! 

Nick's family party! Mya's cousins that she absolutely adores....we kind of like them too! :)

This is our talent portion of the night and Mya wanted to sing jingle bells! She smiled and sang the whole time, she was pretty excited to have everyone sing with her! 

Grandma and Grandpa got her dress up clothes! In this pic can't tell who's more excited me or Mya! 

I got lots of cute clothes from Nick's parents, they are so nice! 

Nick got his beloved PS4!!!!

Here we are playing bingo Christmas Eve with Nick's fam.....they always have the most fun prizes and we all laugh and have so much fun with this every single year! 

This my friends is what Mya wanted from Santa. Her face when she opened it was so cute! She immediately said "oh I gotta tell Santa thank you, he's so nice" What a sweet heart.....I don't think Santa can say no to this little girl! 

Happy Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

My (Nick) family minus my sister Carly, her husband and their four kids. We were sad they were not here this year (they trade off every year between the two families) but we met up with them later for a movie!

Mya's birth mom sent her these awesome little moccasins for Thanksgiving. They have no traction on the bottom and the second she stepped on the carpet she slid right into the splits....it was pretty funny :) It was fun to get a package from Amy and we really wish she were here more often, she's the bomb! 

Our family loves going to movies on Thanksgiving, this year we chose Frozen. Such a great movie, can't wait to see it again!

Holidays are always a great time for us! We both have our families within 15 minutes of where we live. We always go visit both families on Thanksgiving because we want to see everyone and of course everyone wants to see miss Mya! I think now that shes around our families would rather see her than us....but who can blame them she's cute! This year Tiff's family is doing Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow so we spent most of today with my family. We went with my family to see the new Disney movie "Frozen". The movie was awesome (I highly recommend seeing it) and of course Mya had a blast, which makes it even better! Glad to have a day that is focused on being thankful and a day that we can just relax and spend time with our families!! Lucky for us we get to do it all over again tomorrow with Tiff's family.

Our family wishes you a very Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you got to rest, spend time with people you care about and eat tons of delicious food :) 

All our Love, 

Nick, Tiff & Mya

Crafting with the fam!

I love to paint and do woodcrafts! I've been doing stuff like this as long as I can remember with my cute mom. I love making gifts for people! I think I've passed my love of crafts onto Nick and Mya too. Nick may not love crafting but he loves helping me with anything that I need, he's always so sweet! Mya would paint all day every day if I let her! So we jumped when we had an opportunity to do something cute and special for a group of girls. Our little family (and my mom) got together, designed, painted, glued, drilled, and put together these cute little turkey sucker holders for the girls! My mom and I cut and sanded all the wood. Then Nick and Mya helped me do all the rest. We had so much fun! We've been making stuff like crazy for Christmas gifts and for a little gift open house that I'll be doing at our home next weekend. I would have never been able to get all of these things done without Nick.....he is the BEST! I always love it when Mya gets to paint too, she's so happy and cute when she does it. Here's a little view of what we've been making.

Watching the Jazz game while we paint!

Our dog Louie just laid on the rug in the kitchen while we painted! He obviously wanted to help out with the family projects too :) He's a weird little dude, but we love him! 

The little turkey's turned out so cute, we hope they made people happy! Mya even painted one of her own, she's a pro! 

Some Christmas trees that we made :) We love Christmas time!

My mom and I designed these this year!